Steve Yegge’s taken his writing up a notch. It feels a bit like this is leading up to his leaving Google. Lean Startups. I’ve always been a big proponent of Deming style management – and at Digg my often repeated mantra was “smaller, sooner, more certain.” More than that I used to tell Kevin various [...]
Entries from October 2008
A Couple of Good Links
October 30th, 2008 · No Comments
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Top Digg Unpromoted Stories 2008-10-18 to 2008-10-25
October 28th, 2008 · No Comments
Diggs User 345 klhammy Memo To Palin: Fruit Fly Research Led To Advances In Autism 315 maanaamana Ten other things Sarah Palin may think the VP does. 307 d2002 I Apologize For Spreading Bad Plain "Polar Bear" Article 305 mrMunchies Funky New Google Analytics Features! 297 brianayers Political Radar: Biden to Supporters: OBAMA WILL BE [...]
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Moving!
October 26th, 2008 · No Comments
I’ve been using Mosso to host my email and this blog for the last year or so, but I severely dislike the lack of a shell, and the CPU cycle based pricing they introduced a while back pretty well removed any reason to stay there. So today I took the plunge and signed up for [...]
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Expedia is Insane, I tell you! Insane! Just Look at Our Prices!
October 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
One of the cool benefits of working at Travelpod/TripAdvisor/Expedia/ItsComplicated is the discounts we get. At the top of the list so far is the hotels.com discount, which can run anywhere from 15-30% off hotels.com’s already-low prices. But we also get a regular assortment of emails from HR about new and cool discounts. The last few [...]
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Great Company Looking for Perl Hackers and More
October 21st, 2008 · No Comments
craiglist.org Somehow I think they’d be happy to hire remote.
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Top Digg Unpromoted Stories 2008-10-11 to 2008-10-18
October 21st, 2008 · No Comments
Diggs User 435 YeahMan Misconceptions of Obama fuel Republican campaign 428 DefendThyself Obama’s Plan Is To, You Know, Spread The Wealth Around 364 nihil 2006 McCain letter demanded Fannie/Freddie action 321 naderventura Demonstration On Wall Street 311 DiggMikeyDigg John McCain Needs Alzheimers Screening? 309 vick3ii Obama voted present on Fannie/Freddie reform 300 badwithcomputer McCain in [...]
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Death
October 18th, 2008 · No Comments
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Death, originally uploaded by ojbyrne. This was a diorama about an invasion of Quebec by the US during the Revolutionary War. It said something like “If one of these invasions had [...]
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Small Panes
October 17th, 2008 · No Comments
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Small Panes, originally uploaded by ojbyrne.
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Between
October 15th, 2008 · No Comments
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Between, originally uploaded by ojbyrne.
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Top Digg Unpromoted Stories 2008-10-04 to 2008-10-11
October 14th, 2008 · No Comments
Diggs User 369 Ageroth Betty White calls Sarah Palin a "Crazy Bitch" 368 rjwusa Obama’s Deep Ties To Mortgage Meltdown -Obama’s Corruption 350 Charlotte_Web ACORN voter fruad rampant — in at least 15 states! 343 buckeye343 CNN: Obama/Ayers Connection Investigative Report 328 Cararan New Fuel-Injection Shock Treatment Increases Mileage 326 LeviTheSmith Stop posting pictures of [...]
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