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This "when no one is watching you" insight made me think of GaryVee vs. Tom Crush 5am phone call:

http://garyvaynerchuk.com/post/455059045/i-was-pranked-at-5-...

Andrew, it looks like the audio feed in iTunes is stuck. I've been itching to hear the latest episodes.

Configurable settings are like diamonds and herpes - they are forever.

Too bad they cancelled their 30 day lowest price guarantee http://consumerist.com/2008/09/amazon-ends-post-order-price-...

Based on how blatant these "leaks" are getting, I'd say that Apple PR cooked this leeway into the NDA to elevate buzz.

Another example from 24 director of photography: http://twitter.com/rodneykiwi/status/8243364709

Everyone is saying "it's awesome - we are on board" but not much beyond that.

Anybody else see a bit of irony in having Fake Steve Jobs interview Bezos about iSlate vs. Kindle?

Most excited about the new router - doing subdomain and custom domain support is a hack in Rails 2.3

This works even cooler when you want to minify your code:

MyLongClassName = function() {};

function(_c) { _c.prototype.method1 = ...; _c.prototype.method2 = ...; }(MyLongClassName);

This allows something like YUI compressor to shorten _c local variable for every method definition, rather than store "MyLongClassName" for each one.

Not sure why everyone thinks that Starbucks is taking this step from a position of weakness. As far as business is concerned, I think it's a good strategic move for them to explore this growth channel regardless of their brand's strength. Many other companies have a successful strategy involving both private label and branded products.

Amazon Shoes Category vs Endless.com (vs Zappos.com)

Essentials Baking Co. vs Trader Joe's bread (in Seattle)

and the madhouse always blocks the sidewalk because street performers choose that storefront as a primo spot

Twitter's revenue plan: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8369459.stm http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/pda/2009/nov/20/twitter...

Huge respect for CEOs that regularly visit the front lines. Apparently Bezos swears by it.

http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-jeff-bezos-work...

What's the protocol on telling your child "I raised and treated you like a dog"? Do you have to wait until they're 18?

Side projects! I always try to incorporate promising new platforms/technologies into new side projects both as a way to learn and as a way to test the technology.

You won't use everything you play with, but over time, your toolset and skill will grow and you'll be able to deliver better and more unique solutions that will get you noticed. Capitalize on that by doing a brown bag or by helping other teams when they follow the scent of success. Rinse/Repeat. In 7-8 years, everyone will know that you're indispensable.

1 page print version: http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/printmember/bez0int-1

RAID helps if disk is the bottleneck. If it's the network (EBS is network attached), then you're SOL and should probably try a bigger instance instead and hope fewer people share that physical host.

Yep. Every developer/company that attaches itself to a larger platform (Apple Appstore, Facebook, etc) needs to ask "What would I do in the future if I were <platform company>?" and then build a strategy to account for that.

Company-sponsored platforms are self-interested moving targets just like everything else in business.

Just something to think about when you're coding iFartVille 3000.

Amazing - I thought of Hans as well, but a different movie - Gladiator.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFpZPZ_g4Hw#t=2m30s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvTT29cavKo

I thought the outcome of CISC vs RISC battle has shown that best performance comes from simpler/faster CPUs with smarter software, not vice versa.

Loss of data after 6 months did not seem that bad after I read that Amazon shuts down your MySQL (RDS) instance every week for up to 4 hours "for maintenance"

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2009/10/introducing-rds-the-amazo...

Edit: wording fix

As JVM gets closer to being the de-facto VM for running any language (Jython, jRuby, Scala, Java, etc), the possibility of higher performance by running the VM "closer to metal" is quite exciting. I commend Sun on pushing JVM beyond just Java.

A few reasons off the top of my head where subdomains make sense: 1. Letting users override subdomain with a custom domain (ala Posterous) 2. White-labeling (esp. in combination with #1) 3. SEO - last I researched, Google sees virtual hosts on same IP as separate entities, so if your clients use a custom domain and you have a "Powered by" backlink, you'll get some SEO juice

Can you give more details on how many blogs you've contacted? How many covered you? How did you phrase your email to make it interesting to the bloggers?

Edit: Also, how you computed readership numbers for a blog?

Direct link to whole 30 min interview: http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-innovation-20...

A better question would be, for those of you who implement OpenID, Facebook Connect, etc. What's the customer percent breakdown against doing it the old fashioned (email & password) way?

Hmm...do Tumblr, and now Posterous, qualify as niche site builders? or maybe Shopify?

From all such site builder examples out there, the more successful ones seem to nail down the underlying problem first (publishing, e-commerce, etc), and then enhance it with customization - not the other way around.

Nobel Committee could not resist after seeing all of this accomplishments: http://www.hulu.com/watch/99945/saturday-night-live-obama-ad...

summary: brain fails to garbage collect reference cycles

+1 for version control.

1) Do it because it will give you a huge piece of mind (backup & history)

2) Do it because you can code review (git diff) the whole feature before committing it, rather than doing it one line at a time and hoping you'll achieve stability in the future.