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matt

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matt··on Metrics and Hiring
Great post. Would also be interested in seeing a breakdown of school strength across the referrals. And did you count Stanford as Ivy League? :)
matt··on Scaling lessons learned at Dropbox, part 1
Nice, love the idea of running with extra load to predict breaking points.
matt··on Make Use Of The 21 Spare iPads You Have Laying Around
Wow, that's really cool. How big of a screen did it end up being (curious about both inches and pixels)?
matt··on Making Chrome better on iOS
According to Apple's documentation, "The UIPasteboard class enables an application to share data within the application or with another application using system-wide or application-specific pasteboards." http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#DOCUMENTATION/UIKit/...

For a couple examples: OpenUDID and SecureUDID use UIPasteboard.

matt··on Making Chrome better on iOS
What about Google building this into the Chrome app?

When you launch the app for the first time, it could ask "Do you want to open URLs in Chrome by default in Chrome-enabled apps?", and make it possible to change this in Chrome's settings menu.

This setting could then be stored in a UIPasteboard named something like com.google.chrome.default, and apps that want to implement the functionality suggested in the original post would just look in this pasteboard for the current setting.

matt··on App Academy: Free nine week iOS course
This is great. Especially with services like Parse out there, I could see how a sufficiently motivated/creative person could start from zero programming experience and become a skilled iOS developer in the course of a summer.
matt··on 6 Line EventMachine Bugfix = 2x faster GC, 13x requests/sec
Those of us who work with Joe can vouch for that :)
matt··on Hot and Heavy: About NBA Shooting
More details on the research here: http://web.me.com/sandy1729/sportsmetricians_consulting/Hot_...
matt··on ASK HN: Google account disabled. Oh what to do?
Ugh, just happened to me too. IMAP still works for what it's worth..
matt··on Stormpulse showered with tips.
Make it rain.
matt··on IPhone Touch Events in JavaScript
Great presentation last night at the JS meetup!
matt··on Lecturefinder. Indexing college and academic grade lectures and presentations.
Really looks like an ad.
matt··on Facebook Users Are Fans of Entertainment
Here's the real question -- when will Facebook let me customize my profile with a Tila Tequila themed background?
matt··on What's your definition of 'winning'?
That's one way of looking at it, but I'd bet a lot of other people see it differently. All depends on your goals in life...
matt··on SF JavaScript Meetup - lots of hackers, YC people, JS experts
Yup: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Crockford

Which YC companies have been doing cool JS stuff? Any of them going?

matt··on Startup brings free wifi to SF
btw, meraki injects their own search box at the top of all html pages when you use their wifi. didn't see that mentioned anywhere in the article...
matt··on Random startup tip #1: Picking a name
Fake meaning what? Doostang is just a ridiculous name regardless, but it might have served Google well to see if 'googe' had any other connotations (whether or not they're in Merriam/Webster) before putting it in a logo.
matt··on Amazon's S3, pay by the byte storage.
Yeah, S3 has been great for Jamglue -- we use it for both media storage and streaming. You can't beat the price, it's been reliable enough, and we've saved a lot of time by not having to worry about redundancy and scaling.
matt··on Tech's younger generation leans on Web 2.0 for love
Launch party circuit, eh?
matt··on [dead]
>> “I came to the conclusion that $500,000 was the new $5 million,” said Michael Maples Jr., an entrepreneur who created a $15 million venture fund aimed at investing in companies that required little capital. Pfft. $18k is the new $500k.