September 2009
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You're the smartest guy in the room, but please... →
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I just deleted 1121 text messages from my iPhone. ...
… everything on the phone is way faster now. It was getting to the point where even the ‘Slide to unlock’ thing was freezing. Deleting all those text messages seems to have sped things up nicely. -1 for Apple not having a ‘delete all text messages’ button. Stupid.
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http://God is a Bit of a Dick.com/ →
gondaba: in case you had any doubts.
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One of biggest lessons from the MessageSling... →
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“In May, the CEO of Intuit, Brad Smith, approached me about a meeting, saying he...”
– Aaron Patzer in http://www.inc.com/articles/2009/09/mint-qa.html Aaron Patzer is awesome, and full of shit. If you are raising VC money, you dont “haven’t thought about” getting acquired. You’ve thought about every possible exit, every possible acquirer, and about 3 times... 
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What I love and hate about tumblr
The move of this blog over to tumblr was pretty impressive. A slick XML API made it simple to import all my old posts over. The lack of comments made me finally go take a harder look at integrating disqus, which I’m thankful for. The whole idea of disqus rocks. The public designs are trendy, and the templating system allows for complete control over the style. And something that at...
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A change of heart
After a few months of trying to maintain this blog, something has become incredibly apparent: it’s a lot easier to build on the shoulders of others than to start from scratch. My entire professional life is based on that fact. I use a framework called Rails on top of a programming language called Ruby along with a Javascript framework called Prototype to build websites which I test in...