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March 31, 2012
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Why are you still deploying overnight? | Brian Crescimanno
10/17/2011 – Welcome Hacker News folks! There’s some discussion happening in the comments; but, as always, the better conversation is on the article page on Hacker News itself. "3:00 am Deployment? Why Not?" That was the Facebook status of a former co-worker about a week ago. I happened to be awake…
March 30, 2012
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An Oral History of the Rise and Fall (and Rise) of “The Dana Carvey Show”: Movies + TV: GQ
TV Teats Out: An Oral History of the Rise and Fall (and Rise) of "The Dana Carvey Show" Steve Carell. Stephen Colbert. Louis C.K. Charlie Kaufman. Robert Smigel. Some of comedy’s greatest minds got one of their biggest breaks on the short-lived but much-loved "The Dana Carvey Show." Fifteen years…
March 29, 2012
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Crash Dev: Freemium + Adverse Selection (a.k.a., The “Groucho Marx” Problem)
You’re about to be redirected The blog that used to be here is now at http://www.crashdev.com/2011/10/freemium-adverse-selection-aka-groucho.html. Do you wish to be redirected? This blog is not hosted by Blogger and has not been checked for spam, viruses and other forms of malware. Yes No
March 28, 2012
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Is Mormonism a cult? Who cares? It’s their weird and sinister beliefs we should be worried about. – Slate Magazine
Mitt Romney Photograph by Stephen Brashear/Getty Images. I have no clear idea whether Pastor Robert Jeffress is correct in referring to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, more colloquially known as the Mormons, as “ a cult. ” There do seem to be one or two points of similarity. The…
March 27, 2012
March 26, 2012
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Cancer Screenings Are a Gamble – NYTimes.com
Hanover, N.H. EARLY October brought two developments in the world of cancer screening: the beginning of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, with its calls for regular mammograms for women, and a new recommendation from the United States Preventive Services Task Force that healthy men not undergo…
March 25, 2012
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Wind Power Without the Blades: Big Pics : Discovery News
Atelier DNA, Dario Nunez-Ameni Noise from wind turbine blades, inadvertent bat and bird kills and even the way wind turbines look have made installing them anything but a breeze. New York design firm Atelier DNA has an alternative concept that ditches blades in favor of stalks. Resembling thin…
March 24, 2012
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The Better Angels of Our Nature — By Steven Pinker — Book Review – NYTimes.com
Brian Rea It is unusual for the subtitle of a book to undersell it, but Steven Pinker’s “Better Angels of Our Nature” tells us much more than why violence has declined. Pinker, a professor of psychology at Harvard who first became widely known as the author of “The Language Instinct,” addresses some…
March 23, 2012
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The Depression – If Only Things Were That Good – NYTimes.com
Karen Bleier/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images David Leonhardt is The New York Times Washington bureau chief. UNDERNEATH the misery of the Great Depression, the United States economy was quietly making enormous strides during the 1930s. Television and nylon stockings were invented. Refrigerators…
March 22, 2012
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» Your Funnel is a Finite State Machine | StartupNorth
Editor’s note : This is a cross post by Joseph Fung ( LinkedIn , @ josephfung ), the CEO of TribeHR (@ tribehr ). Joseph has recently raised $1MM from David Skok (@ bostonVC ) at Matrix Partners in Boston, MA. He is building and automating the SaaS metrics for TribeHR. He has a unique engineering…
March 21, 2012
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One Simple Question to Unlock Unbeatable Marketing: Clayton Christensen Interview | Inc.com
Clayton Christensen is someone I greatly admire. He is the expert on disruptive innovation. His expertise on this topic was first outlined in his book, The Innovator’s Dilemma . He is currently a Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and founder of Innosight Institute ,…
March 20, 2012
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Steven Pinker: Why Violence Is Vanishing – WSJ.com
On the day this article appears, you will read about a shocking act of violence. Somewhere in the world there will be a terrorist bombing, a senseless murder, a bloody insurrection. It’s impossible to learn about these catastrophes without thinking, "What is the world coming to?" With all its wars,…
March 19, 2012
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Alex Pappademas on the DC Comics Reboot – Grantland
T he most enduring fantasy character in the world of superhero comics is the New Reader. The myth of the New Reader goes like this: Somewhere out there, there are supposedly these people who don’t currently read comics, but don’t have anything in particular against them, either. And (supposedly)…
March 18, 2012
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Drive: An Illustrated Response | The Hairpin
“Drive”: An Illustrated Response by Lisa Hanawalt I like Ryan Gosling. I liked him in The Notebook, Half Nelson, Lars and the Real Girl , and Google Image Search. And driving around LA at night while listening to pop music is my favorite thing on Earth, so seeing Drive was a no-brainer. WARNING:…
March 17, 2012
March 16, 2012
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The Blog : The Future of the Book : Sam Harris
Writers, artists, and public intellectuals are nearing some sort of precipice: Their audiences increasingly expect digital content to be free. Jaron Lanier has written and spoken about this issue with great sagacity. You can purchase his book here , which most of you will not do, or you can watch…
March 15, 2012
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Why Cyberbullying Rhetoric Misses the Mark – NYTimes.com
THE suicide of Jamey Rodemeyer, the 14-year-old boy from western New York who killed himself last Sunday after being tormented by his classmates for being gay, is appalling. His story is a classic case of bullying: he was aggressively and repeatedly victimized. Horrific episodes like this have…
March 14, 2012
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Log base 2: The placebo defect
Sunday, September 25, 2011 The placebo defect Suppose a clinical trial randomizes 100 patients to receive an experimental drug in the form of pills and an equal number of patients to receive identical pills except that they contain no active ingredient, that is, placebo. The results of the trial are…
March 13, 2012
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In Memory of Troy Davis | Being Wrong
I was driven to post this in memory of Troy Davis — and also in anger, in sadness, in intellectual disgust and moral horror. Davis, who was black, was executed just after 11:00 last night for the 1989 murder of white police officer Mark MacPhail. That execution took place despite massive…
March 12, 2012
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A Long Day at ‘The Office’ with Mindy Kaling – NYTimes.com
In the last few months, Twitter followers of the writer and actress Mindy Kaling have been treated to these observations : “re: kombucha, at its best, it tastes like drinking delicious wine coolers with phlegm in it. At its worst, phlegm.” “At this point there must be some teenagers who think Brian…
March 11, 2012
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Mindy Kaling: “Flick Chicks” : The New Yorker
Credit Illustration by Kirsten Ulve A few years ago, I sat down for a meeting with some executives at a movie studio that I will call Thinkscope Visioncloud. Thinkscope Visioncloud had put out several of my favorite movies, and they wanted to see if I had any feature ideas. I was very excited. I…
March 10, 2012
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It’s TV, but not as we knew it – FT.com
When I was growing up in the 1970s, the lowliest form of cultural consumption was to stay home and watch television. All other art forms, any other art forms, were fine. To have made the effort to leave the house, travel to a temple of culture and see a performance or exhibition was proof of a…
March 9, 2012
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Stephen Marche on Toronto, the worst sports city in the world – Grantland
T his past summer, ESPN The Magazine , in its annual ranking of sports franchises, identified Toronto as the worst city for sports in North America . Inevitably, the assessment provoked a fury of denial. Brian Burke, the Toronto Maple Leafs’ president and general manager (and probably the best…
March 8, 2012
March 7, 2012
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Innovation Starvation | World Policy Institute
THE JOURNAL Fall 2016 Read past issues SUBSCRIBE WORLD POLICY ON AIR World Policy Journal is proud to share our revived weekly podcast, World Policy On Air, featuring former Newsweek On Air host David Alpern and West Wing Reports founder Paul Brandus. Click here to subscribe on iTunes! WEEKLY…
March 6, 2012
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RIM, Maker of BlackBerry, Debates Its Target Market for PlayBook Tablet – WSJ.com
As Research In Motion Ltd. executives prepared early this year for the launch of their first tablet, the PlayBook, one big question loomed: Who was the device for? Some executives, like RIM’s technical visionary and co-chief executive Mike Lazaridis, saw the gadget as an extension of the BlackBerry,…
March 5, 2012
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I watched every Steven Soderbergh movie. – By Dan Kois – Slate Magazine
Matt Damon in Contagion On Nov. 5, 1988, the aspiring director Steven Soderbergh stood in line at the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood for a screening of his favorite film. He was still editing his first feature, Sex, Lies, and Videotape and had just barely made the Nov. 1 deadline to submit a rough cut…
March 4, 2012
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Why Reed Hastings should be applauded for Netflix split – Term Sheet
By now you’ve probably heard that Netflix NFLX is splitting its business into two parts: Its digital streaming business (retains the name Netflix) and its DVD mailing business, which was its original business (to be called Qwikster). If you haven’t read Reed’s explanation of this split make sure you…
March 3, 2012
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Outbreaks, media scares, and the parrot panic of 1930 : The New Yorker
The media fueled fears of a parrot-fever pandemic; then the story went into reverse. Credit Illustration by Laurent Cilluffo On December 14, 1929, during a holiday shopping season darkened by the greatest stock-market crash in American history, Simon S. Martin bought a parrot for his wife, Lillian,…
March 2, 2012
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How to Really Save the Economy – NYTimes.com
Robert Barro is a professor of economics at Harvard University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. Cambridge, Mass. THE United States is in the third year of a grand experiment by the Obama administration to revive the economy through enormous borrowing and spending by the government,…