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Short-lived staging environments (eg, a temporary clone of a production environment) certainly have a place, such as when making architectural changes, but these kinds of changes a…

I've found it interesting how many people in the Bay Area, particularly veterans of the 90s boom, discount a lot of the ideas pushed by GitHub and 37signals. Anedotally, one of the…

Also, from a Kauffman Foundation report: "The average and median age of U.S.-born tech founders [of companies that have more than $1 million in sales, twenty or more employees, and…

"The average and median age of U.S.-born tech founders [of companies that have more than $1 million in sales, twenty or more employees, and company branches with fifty or more empl…

FWIW, having read through this book, I highly recommend it for anyone interested in learning Go. It provides a good, clear introduction to the language and is very easy to digest.

Parts of this post are premised the "influencer" marketing model, but there is at least some research indicating that it might not be as powerful as generally assumed. For example:…

Quoting Phil Plait's very early speculation ( http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/02/15/breaking... ): "It appears to split, so I’m guessing the main mass split there. Th…

Two more good videos (high quality, trail/train detail, booms, etc): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDqYclzto7k http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ozSq3yEm3g

Engine Yard is more like opinionated configuration management. It allocates and configures EC2 instances that you can log into like normal. The software stack is HAProxy, nginx, un…

This sounds very similar to what I've heard from people who have actually worked with Jobs, as well as the Steve Jobs described by Ken Segall in Insanely Simple http://www.amazon.c…

Regarding #3, when practicing Vipassana as taught by Goenka, you do indeed start with anapana, both in the courses (the first 3 1/2 days are only focusing on breath) and in daily p…

Agreed that it takes determination to continue, but I've managed to do the 1 hour morning and evening sittings for stretches, including a year or so while working full time and goi…

IMO, JSTOR isn't directly to blame. They are operating within a broken system, and it seems like they are doing what they can. Academic publishing is what needs a serious overhaul.…

Regarding what any of this means for other content paywalls, note this section from Post Industrial Journalism: Adapting to the Present ( http://towcenter.org/research/post-industr…

"the problem is that most people don't like browsing the internet on a phone or even a tablet" The analytics on every site I've had access to in the past couple years suggest other…

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