May 2012
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March 2012
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February 2012
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What I've Learned About Smart People. →
tmac721:
“Smart people are different. If they don’t understand something, they’ll ask questions …”
jasonkincaid.net: “There are, broadly speaking,... →
jasonkincaid:
“There are, broadly speaking, two types of drinkers. There is the man whom we all know, stupid, unimaginative, whose brain is bitten numbly by numb maggots; who walks generously with wide-spread, tentative legs, falls frequently in the gutter, and who sees, in the extremity of his ecstasy,…
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it...”
– Steve Jobs
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication”
– Leonardo da Vinci
Erasing Memories Forever
A long, yet fascinating article by Wired on memories and emotions.
The chemistry of the brain is in constant flux, with the typical neural protein lasting anywhere from two weeks to a few months before it breaks down or gets reabsorbed. How then do some of our memories seem to last forever? It’s as if they are sturdier than the mind itself. Scientists have narrowed down the list of molecules...
The Talent Economy
Intriguing post by Francisco Dao of Pando Daily on the effects the Fairchild Eight have had on changing the economics of innovation. This was especially interesting to me after having watched the documentary Something Ventured this week.
In almost every part of the world, if you don’t have access to bank loans (which typically require collateral) or wealthy family connections, it is extremely...
“You have to re-earn your customers’ business every day, or someone will take...”
– Mark Cuban
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“Never follow your dreams. Follow your effort. It’s not about what you can dream...”
– Mark Cuban via http://www.freakonomics.com/2012/02/03/never-follow-your-dreams-mark-cuban-answers-your-questions/
December 2011
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November 2011
5 posts
VoiceConnect
VoiceConnect is my entry to LinkedIn’s Veteran’s Hackday 2011.
VoiceConnect is an iPad application to allow disabled veterans to use social media. The application uses speech recognition so the user can accomplish the same tasks that normally require touch. VoiceConnect can also read to the user through text-to-speech capabilities built into the application.
VoiceConnect ...
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
– Alan Kay
Faith No More
parislemon:
My sources are very good. Unfortunately, they apparently do not have very good taste.
As I noted a couple days ago, Google was about to launch a native Gmail app for iOS. It came this morning. Unfortunately, while I had been told it was “pretty fantastic”, the app that got released is anything but. As a result, Google quickly became the laughing stock of the Internet for a few hours...
Memsic 2125, Arduino, and Processing
The other day I picked up a Parallax Memsic 2125 dual-axis accelerometer from Radio Shack to use with my Arduino. There was a great write up on the Arduino website about how to use the accelerometer, but after getting it working I wanted to take it a step further and see if I could get it to work with Processing (a simple language for creating interactive programs quickly). Here is a quick write...
October 2011
5 posts
Steve Jobs on Startups
daslee:
“I hate it when people call themselves ‘entrepreneurs’ when what they’re really trying to do is launch a startup and then sell or go public, so they can cash in and move on. They’re unwilling to do the work it takes to build a real company, which is the hardest work in business.”
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“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve...”
– Steve Jobs
September 2011
1 post
a blog by pud: F***ing Sue Me →
pudjam666:
So,
It was 1998 and the dot-com boom was in full effect. I was making websites as a 22 year old freelance programmer in NYC. I charged my first client $1,400. My second client paid $5,400. The next paid $24,000. I remember the exact amounts — they were the largest checks I’d seen up til that…
August 2011
7 posts
WatchCoolest bulldog ever?
July 2011
8 posts
Xcode automatic build numbers
Here is a short Run-Script for Xcode. Automatically increments the build number, as well as saving the build date. You need to add a BuildNumber and BuildDate row to your Info.plist file before building. This is a modified version of this script.
buildPlist=${INFOPLIST_FILE}
BuildNumber=$(/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Print BuildNumber" $buildPlist)
BuildNumber=$(($BuildNumber +...
WatchTime-lapse Open 60 build.
Side note: I was surprised by their heavy use of plywood. Maybe the boat I’m building (pictures soon) will be more competitive than I imagined.
June 2011
3 posts
WatchParade at Culver
May 2011
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