March 2012
20 posts
February 2012
26 posts
The Forgotten Founder: YouSendIt’s Khalid Shaikh →
Ranjith Kumaran didn’t found YouSendIt on his own, though. Another man, one whom YouSendIt doesn’t like to talk about, wrote the original code, built the first servers by hand, and served as the first president. His name is Khalid Shaikh, and he’s 34. He was a computer-engineering student at McGill University and a former intern at Microsoft, and he once worked at Hewlett-Packard and Intel....
Verrita Nichole Tormand
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First person to go through her man’s telephone while he’s sleeping.
Mitt Romney and the car industry: A Detroiter in... →
What’s amazing to me is that Mitt Romney seems like a combination of the worst aspects of Al Gore and John Kerry. Stretching the truth & exaggerating, seeming to change his position daily, being wooden/mechanical and unlikable, and being filthy rich, out of touch, & part of a political dynasty. He can’t even be the moderate that he really is in that party.
So Mr Romney must...
Some Generalizing about Specializing →
Even though Khoi Vinh is specifically talking about designers and IAs here, this is exactly the same reason that I don’t want to get pigeonholed as a front-end developer, rather than just a developer.
Now, things have swung around the other way. The technology remains complex, of course, but it’s been successfully abstracted enough that it’s once again possible for a single person to...
What is Debt? – An Interview with Economic... →
Maybe we should listen to the anthropologist here:
Since antiquity the worst-case scenario that everyone felt would lead to total social breakdown was a major debt crisis; ordinary people would become so indebted to the top one or two percent of the population that they would start selling family members into slavery, or eventually, even themselves.
Well, what happened this time around?...
Gordon "Gopher" Davies
littleknownblackhistoryfacts:
First person to break out into a sprint simply because everyone else was running.
Janet Miles-Quarry
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First person to tell someone they play too much.
Fortune Finance: Hedge Funds, Markets, Mergers &... →
So difficult to know who to listen to with investing for the future. You hear something different every time,
Investing is often described as the process of laying out money now in the expectation of receiving more money in the future. At Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA) we take a more demanding approach, defining investing as the transfer to others of purchasing power now with the reasoned...
Herschel "Junior" Jansen, Jr.
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First person to inquire as to what’s crackalackin’.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog... →
It’s funny how much your perspective informs things. When I read the New York Mag article that Taibibi is referring to, it didn’t even cross my mind that he was trying to be sympathetic to the bankers, because the whole time I was thinking “Good, I’m glad things are getting back to some semblance of normalcy. I guess Obama’s financial regulations worked more than I...
Munson Archie
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First person to yell “awww sookie sookie nah!”
The End of Wall Street As They Knew It →
I was somewhat down on the president because it seemed like the financial rules didn’t have any real effect. Guess I may be wrong.
But for now, the strictures that are holding the banks back now are tighter than any since the thirties. And those laws kept banking reliably risk-free and dull until the deregulation mania of the eighties and nineties unleashed finance. The system is being...
Slate - Dismal Scientist - March 20, 1997 →
Why, then, the outrage of my correspondents? Why does the image of an Indonesian sewing sneakers for 60 cents an hour evoke so much more feeling than the image of another Indonesian earning the equivalent of 30 cents an hour trying to feed his family on a tiny plot of land—or of a Filipino scavenging on a garbage heap?
The main answer, I think, is a sort of fastidiousness. Unlike the...
Timmy "Too Hype" Benson
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First person to get a party started right, and also quickly.
