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Storytelling on Twitter in the first person is filled with suspense, at least in this case. His Tweets are filled with the two basic building blocks of great storytelling, even if …

I tend to alternate between two schedules for a week or more at a time: 12-2AM: Life is busy and I've lost track of time but I am always in bed by 2AM. 10PM (ish): My body is in tu…

Audio feed of what's going on: http://www.radioreference.com/apps/audio/?feedId=705

I could have used this last week when I hosed my box running the Lucid Lynx upgrade from 8.04 (I lost networking). I can easily justify $5/month to not have to waste my time rebuil…

Fluther is now hiring a software engineer and an operations engineer: http://fluther.theresumator.com/apply/ We'll give a free iPad to anyone who refers someone to us that we hire.…

Alright good job Apple. Now when can I have Google Voice without jailbreaking?

NoSQL/NoREL is a tradeoff of features for performance. If you don't need certain features and you can make the trade and need the extra performance than it can make sense for some …

Fluther ( http://fluther.com/ ) is hiring an operations engineer: http://fluther.theresumator.com/apply/fy2tOt/ We're building something brand new, incredibly challenging, and very…

On the subject of "don't get informal before the formal interview but I'm nervous unless it's informal", why not use two people and clearly delineate their purposes to the intervie…

I'm sorry about that. We get a lot of spam comments so I was constantly checking the Wordpress page to approve comments. For some reason a HUGE chunk of them didn't show up until j…

Our designer ( http://www.davidcole.me/ ) is awesome. We'll let him know you love it!

That's the sense I get—that they are laying the framework for more advanced database functionality like sharding.

How well would you say you know South? I felt that way at first but once I got to know South I found it to be much better than custom queries.

I'm excited for that but what I really meant was split/sharded databases, something you need at scale (which Fluther doesn't need...yet). Correct me if I'm wrong but the upcoming m…

This advice feels wrong but it reminds of what Jason Fried said at this year's startup school, which I feel is better advice anyways. [I'm probably butchering it but one of the gis…

We should have said you need to be able to work from our SF offices.

Personally I find a single text file + Dropbox both simple and all I need. I always know where to look and I can reorganize however I want. If I'm looking for a registration code o…

http://chartbeat.com/ I can't describe in words how awesome this service is for just $10/month.

Keep the 24" monitor, you can use it as a second display on the iMac.

Early internal feedback on Gmail: "I would like it to search my email, not just yours" — Paul Buchheit's talk "It's like we're married, but we're not fucking." — Some startup found…