August 2010
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July 2010
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The Mountain Goats - No Children (Live)
I’m...
Hops & Chops migrating to a new location on...
hopsandchops:
You’ll now find Hops and Chops at:
Auto Battery (next to Po Dogs)
1009 E Union St (map)
Seattle, WA 98122
We’re moving Hops & Chops to Auto Battery, a new bar even closer to my house than Linda’s. Besides a change of scenery, Auto Battery also has a couple shuffleboard tables (the value of games at bars can not be overstated in my book), so it is bound to be a...
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Slides from Mongo Seattle →
Mongo Seattle was fantastic, I learned a lot about MongoDB, and met a bunch of awesome people. If you’re interested in MongoDB, and the conference comes to your town, you should definitely attend.
Hopefully I also taught folks a thing or two, or at least notched down their fear levels about using MongoDB in production, with my talk about TeachStreet’s Mongo-powered teacher metrics...
“You are not going to improve Hemingway by adding video snippets.”
– Jeff Bezos (via TechCrunch) (via swindsor)
I just pre-ordered a Wi-Fi Kindle.
I originally wrote off the Kindle device as nice but not necessary. Maybe for the heavy reader, but not for me. When the iPad came out, I was certain it was a nail in the Kindle’s coffin. But as much as I like...
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5 Lessons Learned While at TeachStreet.com
josephsunga:
Today will be my 2 year anniversary at TeachStreet. I don’t really pay attention to these milestones, but a couple of my friends reminded me. I have to admit, this has been one of the quickest 2 years of my life. A lot of things have happened, and I wanted to share 5 important lessons I’ve learned during my time here:
1. Make moves, son! You got to make it happen. If you want to...
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In Defense of Rock Stars
caterpillarcowboy:
yossilanger:
So tired of job listings looking for “rock stars.” Rock stars show up six hours late, start drinking at 11, punch lawyers, and sleep with the account managers. Why would you want to hire one?
Cowboy Coders are usually not worth the price.
While rock stars often have bad habits like throwing TVs out the window, and demanding absolutely no brown...
STP Day #2
I forgot how much hillier the second half of the STP is!
It was a little rough at times, but I was able to keep close to the same average speed as yesterday and made it into Portland this afternoon just as the sun came out.
Relaxing in a comfy hotel bed here tonight before heading home in the morning (in a car).
STP Day #1
The first day of the STP (Seattle to Portland bike ride) was fantastic.
I was a little worried as I haven’t really trained as much as I wanted, but the weather was perfect — cool and overcast with a little sun in the afternoon, and I made it through the day without any crashes or flats. I probably averaged a little less that 15mph, which isn’t great, but I’m happy with...
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The Avett Brothers - Spanish Pipedream (John Prine...
“The Skin Horse had lived longer in the nursery than any of the others. He was so...”
– The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
I know I heard this story many times as as child, but I just read it again last night and this passage struck a chord with me.
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WatchLook who decided to try walking for the first time!
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Mongo Seattle - July 27th, 2010 →
The fine folks at 10gen are bringing their MongoDB conference to Seattle, and I’ll be speaking there!
I’ll be presenting a case study on TeachStreet’s MongoDB-powered analytics dashboard, and how we illustrate value to our customers using real-time visit and lead metrics. If you’re in Seattle and into this sort of thing, you should come. It looks like it will be a great...
