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I've had success using the self-service tier from Ably.com, which is Their client libraries handled most of the edge-cases that I would have had to worry about using SQS or a messa…

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Blue Mesa Health | Head of Engineering, Machine Learning Engineer, Full-Stack Javascript Engineer | New York, NY or Vancouver, BC, Canada or REMOTE | Full Time with VISA possibilit…

Blue Mesa Health | Software Developer | Vancouver, Canada or Remote | Full Time | REMOTE, http://www.bluemesahealth.com/ Blue Mesa Health is preventing type 2 diabetes by deliverin…

The author does mention the etymology of 'person' in an earlier article, so they appear to be aware of it. "'Person,' by the way, has a neat etymology. It comes from the Latin pers…

I put together a quick-and-dirty excel plot of the data: http://imgur.com/uyFkjSB It's plotting the relative speedup of each router's benchmark vs the slowest benchmark on that dat…

Ask and ye shall receive. http://unbounce.com/content-marketing/checklist-12-things-yo... Doubly interesting since it's both an example of what they do to attract followers and a g…

You've got your causality in the wrong direction. They have a Twitter base of 25k followers because they provide something useful. Multiple times per day. With original content twi…

That's exactly what I've been wondering about enabling two factor authentication for something I use as often as email. Apparently you can print a series of one-time use verificati…

Both Eric Ries and Steve Blank are actual entrepreneurs who have tried on multiple occasions and have both success and failure in their experience. Eric Ries founded CatalystRecrui…

The Canadian appeals court has actually created precedent for an an economically 'dependent contractor'. That contractors may run their own business and meet many of the independen…

It's referring to the anecdote of Vlasic, a pickle manufacturer, and it's woes of being a supplier to Wal-Mart. Basically, Wal-Mart negotiated hard with Vlasic to provide gallon(!)…

The charcoal background made me think of Geckoboard ( http://www.geckoboard.com/ ), but that's more of a dashboard metrics visualizer than a task list.

For many customers the issue is not features, it's pain avoidance. If you do just one thing, but better/easier/faster than the established competitor then you can approach customer…