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Entries from October 2008

A Couple of Good Links

October 30th, 2008 · No Comments

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 [...]

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Top Digg Unpromoted Stories 2008-10-18 to 2008-10-25

October 28th, 2008 · No Comments

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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 TESTED B

294
openthink
Best Dear John Ltr You’ll See Today. Size & McCain Do Matter

291
noupsell
Vietnam Veterans Against McCain

286
Sh0rtstak
Not [...]

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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 2008 Sounds A Lot Like Bush in 2004 on Taxes

291
ritubpant
20 jQuery Plugins for Unforgettable User Experience

290
sungoddess808
Carving Your Way To The Elections

287
beingray
Barack Obama [...]

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Death

October 18th, 2008 · No Comments

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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 been successful, Canada would be [...]

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Small Panes

October 17th, 2008 · No Comments

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Small Panes, originally uploaded by ojbyrne.

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Between

October 15th, 2008 · No Comments

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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 Digg comments.

318
neblucas
CNN Finds Extensive Ties Between Barack Obama and Ayers

316
mklopez
Diggs Recent Bans and the Limits of Crowdsourcing

306
bonitatortuga
Open Letter [...]

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