June 2012
“So what happened? Why has New York become so welcoming to tourists, so gently...”
– Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York
May 2012
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“On top of the rendered pages, we asynchronously bootstrap a new modular...”
– Twitter Engineering: Improving performance on twitter.com
“Sendak. Normal and strange. Tender and cynical. Wild and wise. All at once....”
– Alec Baldwin: Rest in Peace, Maurice Sendak
“I don’t know if you know who I am,” I said, as if such a thing...”
– Alec Baldwin: Rest in Peace, Maurice Sendak
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Wow…finally something reminiscent of...
“But the Knicks in the playoffs? Oh, boy. They have lost thirteen straight...”
– Knicks, Heat, and Hero Ball : The New Yorker
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the secret guild of silicon valley
The #hipster conundrum.
medriscoll:
A couple of weeks ago, I was drinking beer in San Francisco with friends when someone quipped:
“You have too many hipsters, you won’t scale like that. Hire some fat guys who know C++.”
It’s funny, but it got me thinking. Who are the “fat guys who know C++”, or as someone else put it, “the guys with neckbeards, who keep Google’s servers running”? And...
“What’s most interesting about BigQuery is the fact that it provides...”
– Google’s New BigQuery Commoditizes Big Data Analytics
“Google’s BigQuery is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for working with...”
– Google’s New BigQuery Commoditizes Big Data Analytics
“And the challenge of building a great mobile experience isn’t solved by...”
– Why Mobile Content Is So Hard to Get Right
“I would comb the streets of Park Slope to get a girl. If I broke up with one...”
– Chris Rock Used To Hook Up With Park Slope Chicks
