November 2011
17 posts
Watch“You can’t ask for a gift. Sometimes we do buy things and there is a gift in there. It’s because we paid a certain amount, but what we got back was larger than what we paid. It’s that gap in between the two that becomes the gift.”
Do Things the Long, Hard, Stupid Way
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Thanks, Facebook...
This is an example of Facebook caring more about their own interests—growing the “social graph”— than what is in the best interest of their users.
The tricky part is that this Smart List explanation message only displays when you attempt to add someone to a Smart List from your News Feed, not from elsewhere within Facebook. My apologies to anyone who received a...
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“Pretend for a moment that you’re working as a front-end developer. (If you’re...”
– Ethan Marcotte in Responsive Web Design
“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26...”
– Michael Jordan (via igrigorik)
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Never listen to music alone again.
Drinkify is a clever idea. It was also made in 24hrs.
What APIs, tools or kit did you use?
The Echo Nest (http://the.echonest.com)
List of terms/genres that describe an artist
Audio summaries of top tracks (are their songs slow or fast, etc)
Last.fm (http://last.fm/api)
Artist and album images
Artist name spelling corrections
List of most-played tracks per artist
Proprietary Drinkify...
Steve Jobs’s Real Genius : The New Yorker →
gregmelander:
Malcolm Gladwell reviews Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs. It suggests that Jobs was much more of a tweaker than an originator. He suggests that Jobs’ genius was making something better, not necessarily new.
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The Startup Identity (Crisis)
Why do so many startups feel the need to call themselves the “(established company x)” of “(new market y)”? For example, the “Netflix for nachos” or “Pinterest for ping pong players” - don’t even think about stealing those two ideas.
This relationship may aid in creating an initial understanding, but ultimately could serve as a mental crutch...
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The Midnight Oil
Getting a good chunk of work/design/reading/web exploring done between 9/10pm and 12am used to be a major part of my daily routine. My 20% time, as I tell my wife. It is the time of day when I can really focus, almost as if I need my mind and body to be running a half-speed in order to get in a good zone.
After I finished my year-long daily photo project, which often had me up editing images and...
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Two Cameras Saved and Lessons Learned
I thought my two favorite cameras, the Canon 5d Mark II (the big one) and the iPhone 4 (the connected one) were both broken and in need of repair. I was bummed - no more shots of our 17 month old (even on Halloween) or Instagrams until they were fixed, which I assumed would be costly.
Last night I was able to fix both. At risk of totally outing myself as a novice at life, here is how I did it:
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