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Techrotica: Tailgating Y Combinator

Tue, 07 May 2013 11:19:19 -0700

Two days before my YC interview I was in Atlantic City hacking the slot machines at the Taj Mahal. It was my friend’s bachelorette party. Since I couldn’t get out of it and the pack of girls I was with wouldn’t let me play blackjack, I figured I could at least nickel and dime the casino.

Seven…

engrsh: Someone got the whole tourism hotel thing...

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 20:26:02 -0800

engrsh:

Someone got the whole tourism hotel thing backwards.

There’s pretty simple explanations for most of these on this blog. In this case, notice that the chinese characters are reversed as well. It’s not hard to imagine having experienced signs written in all directions all your life, one would be surprised that english speakers have difficulty reading backwards, and correspondingly one might put up the english sign in the same direction as the chinese one and assume everything is okay.

Frankly the amusing part isn’t the “engrish” but that english speakers can’t read multiple directions :)

vimux - Simple, extensible vim integration with tmux

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 15:53:24 -0700

vimux - Simple, extensible vim integration with tmux:

thechangelog:

You may recall Josh gushing about tslime on Episode 0.7.3. While tslime makes it easy to send input from Vim to a tmux session, Ben Mills wanted a bit more, so he created Vimux. Vimux gives you a tmux pane in which to execute commands, all without losing focus in vim.

Commands can easily be set up in your .vimrc to do common tasks:
" Prompt for a command to run
map rp :PromptVimTmuxCommand

" Run last command executed by RunVimTmuxCommand
map rl :RunLastVimTmuxCommand

" Inspect runner pane
map ri :InspectVimTmuxRunner

" Close all other tmux panes in current window
map rx :CloseVimTmuxPanes

" Interrupt any command running in the runner pane
map rs :InterruptVimTmuxRunner
Check out Ben’s introductory blog post for background and how they’re using Vim and tmux at Braintree (which I highly recommend for payment processing by the way).

wemux - multi-user terminal multiplexing for party pair programming based on tmux

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 15:52:41 -0700

wemux - multi-user terminal multiplexing for party pair programming based on tmux:

thechangelog:

We just can’t shut up about the joys of tmux, especially for remote pairing. Matt Furden aims to make it even easier to set up a secure multi-user environment with wemux. Wemux sets up an SSH server and tmux sessions for three use cases:

Mirror Mode gives clients (another SSH user on your machine) read-only access to the session, allowing them to see you work, or

Pair Mode allows the client and yourself to work in the same terminal (shared cursor)

Rogue Mode allows the client to pair or work independently in another window (separate cursors) in the same tmux session.

Wemux can be installed via Homebrew and provides a command line interface with a host of options, for listing and joining servers, kicking users, and more:
$ wemux list
Currently active wemux servers:
  1. project-x
  2. rails
  3. wemux    <- current server
Check the README for advanced installation and usage.

wearethedigitalkids: Today, I hosted a training for our...

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 18:20:52 -0700

wearethedigitalkids:

Today, I hosted a training for our Shanghai office on how to frame up a presentation for clients. Here’s a bit of the chat we had.

By the way, Ali (Gee) referenced in the deck, is our brilliant planning director.

Also, all of the photos are borrowed. Most are linked here.

For the curious and lost on context, that’s deck definition #11 http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=deck&defid=1353942

"Someday perhaps I will go around carrying only a book, a change of clothes, a pen, a water bottle, a..."

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 19:08:11 -0700

“Someday perhaps I will go around carrying only a book, a change of clothes, a pen, a water bottle, a folding umbrella, and a little capsule that turns into my livelihood when opened. Rollable hi-res screen and keyboard, tiny computer the size of a cell phone or smaller but as light as a pen, with high-speed satellite connectivity anywhere on the globe. In this world, my sleeping bag, pad and windproof hammock weigh only a pound put together. For half of the year I travel the world, alone and with companions, with a small bag slung over my shoulder like Kwai Chang Caine. We sleep outdoors, travel on trains, and a few days of the week sit some place cozy and create beautiful software or solve interesting problems that improve the world.”

- Max Shron answers the question “What would be your dream setup?” (via viafrank)

Made with Paper

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 11:42:54 -0700

Made with Paper

Olaf predicted idiocracy too

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 10:46:25 -0700

Olaf predicted idiocracy too:

Contraception had produced not only a decline of population but also a tendency of the more intelligent strains in the population to breed less than the dullards and half-wits.

Made with Paper

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 13:43:32 -0700

Made with Paper

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 13:42:21 -0700

Made with Paper

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 23:37:14 -0700

Made with Paper

“Walk on water (Liquid Mountaineering)” on...

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 01:26:21 -0700

“Walk on water (Liquid Mountaineering)” on http://shel.tv/GHc4tA via @joi

Ok. Now I like blurring less because I’m getting better...

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:02:41 -0700

Ok. Now I like blurring less because I’m getting better screenshots …. hmm … how to decide when to blur … … a puzzle.

I like it blurred like this. Makes the noise less noisy.

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:43:07 -0700

I like it blurred like this. Makes the noise less noisy.

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=408774232471805...

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:10:17 -0700

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=408774232471805&id=100000176944455

http://www.kmov.com/news/national/US-seeks-to-contain-damage-from-Afghan-shooting-142301585.html?fb_comment_id=fbc_10150735892789973_23278329_10150736105624973#f1a1217178

Multiple screens of screenshots! I’ve got taking a lot of...

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 19:25:00 -0800

Multiple screens of screenshots! I’ve got taking a lot of fast screenshots of tweets … and this is another idea for an interface, like twitter iPad. http://ec2-107-22-78-158.compute-1.amazonaws.com:4000 may or may not be running this.

http://jsfiddle.net/proksoup/tqjU2/ Fiddling around with what a...

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:05:36 -0800

http://jsfiddle.net/proksoup/tqjU2/

Fiddling around with what a simple url api might consist of …

Screenshots, screenshots everywhere, but not a usable pixel in...

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 17:54:08 -0800

Screenshots, screenshots everywhere, but not a usable pixel in sight.

So phantomjs is awesome. casper as well, but it looks like phantom solo flavor will be choice for the next few ideas.

JavaScript appears to be the major weakness of the QT rendering process. Gonna have to see if we can think of a way to avoid that problem or make it not one.

Streamified Blog: The State of Streamified - 1.0.0 and Beyond

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:20:16 -0800

Streamified Blog: The State of Streamified - 1.0.0 and Beyond:

streamified:

Streamified began as a one-person operation with a vision for what could be. However, it quickly became clear that no one person can be artist, designer, coder and more all wrapped into one. Any good app must, by the very scope of the idea, be the result of more than one person. As we grew, the…

I question what design by committee really means in this sense. I can’t argue with results though, that app is very impressive.

Kicks the pants out of anything I’ve ever done.

“Solve only your own problem” http://shel.tv/wwr4TQ...

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 12:11:29 -0800

“Solve only your own problem” http://shel.tv/wwr4TQ via @kroc_camen