Re: Aug 10 by choonkeat

Does Your Language Shape How You Think? - NYTimes.com

When your language routinely obliges you to specify certain types of information, it forces you to be attentive to certain details in the world and to certain aspects of experience that speakers of other languages may not be required to think about all the time. And since such habits of speech are cultivated from the earliest age, it is only natural that they can settle into habits of mind that go beyond language itself, affecting your experiences, perceptions, associations, feelings, memories and orientation in the world. ^{link »}

Dowling | Duncan – Dowling Duncan redesign the US bank notes

The majority of people hand over notes vertically when making purchases. All machines accept notes vertically. Therefore a vertical note makes more sense. ^{link »}

Buzz by Robert Scoble

>>>> Hi Robert, >>>> I've read your stories over the years, but I really enjoyed seeing you >>>> emerge from the Apple store with the first iPad a few weeks ago. That was >>>> such fun. Which leads me to the reason for this email. I was inspired by >>>> your iPad enthusiasm and I always enjoy your perspective... So we're hoping >>>> you'll take an early look at a new product we're building. The product is at >>>> the intersection of two things you know intimately - the iPad and social >>>> media. Our very short closed beta testing will start May 7. We're only >>>> asking a few people on the outside to take a look and we're hoping you'd be >>>> willing to be one of those people. >>>> >>>> We are in downtown Palo Alto, is there any chance we could bring you in >>>> early and show you what we're building (under NDA until launch)? We are huge >>>> fans and we'd be grateful for your time. >>>> >>>> What do you think? >>>> Kindest regards, >>>> Marci ^{link »}

Ten Ways to Screw Up an On-Site Interview

“Where do you want to be in five years?” “Your boss, dumb shit!” ^{link »}

Buzz Kill : LOL: The Life of Leo

No one noticed. Not even me. ^{link »}

It makes me feel like everything I’ve posted over the past four years on Twitter, Jaiku, Friendfeed, Plurk, Pownce, and, yes, Google Buzz, has been an immense waste of time. I was shouting into a vast echo chamber where no one could hear me because they were too busy shouting themselves. All this time I’ve been pumping content into the void like some chatterbox Onan. How humiliating. How demoralizing. ^{link »}

Ryan Freitas - 35 Lessons in 35 Years

Quite the firestorm : On a New Road

Google came to us with their thoughts on cellphones, one of their core principles was making the platform free to handset providers. They had very weak notions of interoperability ^{link »}

mostly they wanted to disrupt Apple's trajectory, and Apple's expected entry into advertising ^{link »}

MailChimp's Project Omnivore: Declassified | MailChimp Email Marketing Blog

After we knew our algorithm was pretty close to what we wanted, we converted the process to a giant Hadoop Map/Reduce program running on a cluster of Amazon EC2 servers for about 20 days to get the final results for the first version. Smaller optimization processes still run continuously to test new ideas and refine the model. ^{link »}

Unlike static rules or blacklist-based methods of detecting spam, all of the major Omnivore systems are learning algorithms that keep up with changing user behavior without losing their predictive power. ^{link »}

How I Made Money Spamming Twitter with Contextual Book Suggestions - Charles Hooper

Two and a half days later I had a working prototype that could generate a book recommendation from a given tweet ^{link »}

Four months later and I had generated over $7,000 in sales for Amazon with over $400 commission for myself . ^{link »}

N92 - Google Search

The Road to Passenger 3: Technology Preview 3 – Closing the gap between development and production & rethinking the word “easy” – Phusion Corporate Blog

Developing Rubygems with RVM and Bundler

When I grab the source for a random rubygem from github and want to run its tests or test drive it, I use RVM and Bundler to create a sandbox so I don’t pollute the gems used by other Ruby projects on my box ^{link »}