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Oct 9

“There’s a very strong culture of building mini-apps and Hubot scripts if it helps with automation. There’s two reasons for why we push hard on this. The first is most obvious: you’re letting a scripted process save you time so you can focus on doing real work. The second is more subtle: automation reduces institutional knowledge. Institutional knowledge leads to a minority group inside of the company retaining answers. That forces new employees to bother those few in order to make impactful changes. It becomes a very verbal, synchronous process, which we try to avoid.” Scaling GitHub’s Employees

Oct 7

“Amazon can give away the razor because they’re already in the business of selling blades. The other guys don’t even have blades to sell.” John Gruber (via walpaper)

(via peterwknox)

“The homogenization of eBay is a sad thing. Original arts and crafts have been replaced by the art of crafty merchants selling the same stuff from drop-shipping companies as everybody else.” Why eBay Will Never Be Great Again - DailyFinance (via iamdanw)

Oct 3

Rule of thumb?

The best part of a mainstream publications’ website is the “blogs” section, because it’s where smart writers are actually allowed to do their thing, not churn out listicles starting with prime numbers or commodity content slightly tweaked from Press Association or Reuters feeds.

(Caveat: sites that are solely problogs and have no MSM/old media affiliation may shove such churnalism wherever they can. This rule does not always apply.).

Sep 28

(via 6 Habits of Highly Annoying Public Speakers | Cracked.com)

Sep 25

“Assange’s method throughout has been to conflate the cause with the man and by so doing try to make himself above question.” Separating the man from the cause « Heather Brooke (via iamdanw)

Sep 21

Mailchimp is clever.

Sep 14

(via brilliantology)

Sep 13

Grantimatter says:

The Big Bosses - the world’s 10 biggest employers.
#10, HonHai… that’s the company that owns Foxconn, where iPhones come from. The rest of them I think you can figure out. [via The Economist.]

vruz adds:

Ceci n’est pas socialisme.

Sep 10

“Some clinicians and scientists criticize giving genes frivolous, whimsical, or quirky names, calling it inappropriate that patients with ‘a serious illness or disability are told that they or their child have a mutation in a gene such as Sonic hedgehog’.” Sonic hedgehog - Wikipedia

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