May 2013
18 posts
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Dictionary of Numbers →
Dictionary of Numbers is an award-winning Google Chrome extension that tries to make sense of numbers you encounter on the web by giving you a description of that number in human terms. Because “8 million people” means nothing, but “population of New York City” means everything.
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WatchBilly Idol
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“So I think that life is sort of like a drumbeat. It has a rhythm and sometimes...”
– Steven Soderbergh
“The other thing I tell young filmmakers is when you get going and you try to get...”
– Steven Soderbergh
April 2013
14 posts
“Google is a ‘library’ or an ‘archive’ in the same way...”
– Jason Scott
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“Despite the geographic derivation of most ZIP codes, the codes themselves do not...”
– ZIP code - Wikipedia
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“On diving watches, the rotating bezel used to measure dive time contains a...”
– Fail-safe - Wikipedia
“One recipe for Internet success seems to be this: Start at the bottom, at the...”
– Bitcoin May Be the Global Economy’s Last Safe Haven by Paul Ford
“Procrastinators tend to be people who have, for whatever reason, developed to...”
– Procrastination Is Not Laziness by David Cain
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March 2013
4 posts
“I recently wrote a friend to ask if he wanted to do something this week, and he...”
– The ‘Busy’ Trap by Tim Kreider
“The problem is that deluded managers expect unreasonable returns from their...”
– B- environment merits B- effort, David Heinemeier Hansson
Andrew Mason:
After four and a half intense and wonderful years as CEO of Groupon, I’ve decided that I’d like to spend more time with my family. Just kidding - I was fired today. If you’re wondering why… you haven’t been paying attention. From controversial metrics in our S1 to our material weakness to two quarters of missing our own expectations and a stock price...
February 2013
8 posts
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Someone please explain to me how, in a building where
no new units are coming up for rent, but
none of the available units are being rented
…the monthly prices on the empty apartments have been going up by $110 a day, every day, since last week?
“It is a false and foolish but widespread misconception that “innovation” goes...”
– John Gruber, Innovation Through Simplicity
“A human is a system for converting dust billions of years ago into dust billions...”
– Steroids – xkcd
January 2013
7 posts
Watch“In your free time, you can write all the stories you want.”
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“In 1951, [John] Cage visited the anechoic chamber at Harvard University. An...”
– 4′33″ – Wikipedia
“The psychochemical-warfare program was a small part of the over-all research,...”
– Inside the U.S. Military’s Chemical-Weapons Tests: The New Yorker 