Skip to main content

Joel Liu's Library tagged no_tag →  View Popular, Search in Google

Apr
26
2012


  •  Fuuuuuu.... I can't even leave it at that. I look at so many amazing people in the Ruby, Javascript, and other communities that actually are amazing and I feel like I haven't done anything. But even so, looking back at the 366 days of the last year, what I did was, well... amazing.
Apr
8
2012

  • One of the most fascinating documents we came across was the BPD's subpoena of Philip Markoff's Facebook information. It's interesting for a number of reasons -- for one thing, Facebook has been pretty tight-lipped about the subpoena process, even refusing to acknowledge how many subpoenas they've served. Social-networking data is a contested part of a complicated legal ecosystem -- in some cases, courts have found that such data is protected by the Stored Communications Act.
Mar
20
2012

  • And like any startup you’re bound to run into a few setbacks in the beginning and this venture was no different. In a bittersweet twist, one of the designers was offered a position at Apple while the other was headhunted from both Google and Facebook. This was a pretty big concern for me, 2/3 of the core team were offered positions at some of the biggest and most innovative companies in the world. Both have pledged their allegiance to this startup however I will keep you updated with any negotiations or activity.
Mar
17
2012

  • In other words, the transitive closure of a graph is a graph which contains an edge (u,v) whenever there is a directed path from u to v.

     

    graph_transitive_closure

     

    As already mentioned, SQL has historically been unable [3] to express recursive functions needed to maintain the transitive closure of a graph without an auxiliary table. There are many solutions to solve this problem with a temporary table (some even elegant [2]), but I still haven't found one to do it dynamically.

Mar
7
2012

  • An internal team of 5 need to keep up with the news articles, public opinion and rapidly evolving technology to formulate a business plan to address these changes. The content will be links, articles, and some statistics that might be best shown in a spreadsheet or a graph.

    A SharePoint Wiki is possible, but unfortunately requires a learning curve (and an opinion shift about Sharepoint due to a poor implementation). Is there something else out there we can use? Evernote public folder?
  • I use Atlassian Confluence at work to create, gather and share knowledge. I used this tool to create and share information about a product that has 30 sales people and hundreds of consultants all over the world. There is practically no learning curve. Anyone can edit it and search works well.

    The beauty of Confluence is the simplicity. There is a create-page button, an edit button and a save button.

    Like Christoph Richter said, if all 5 members are in the same location, printing physical documents and posting them to a wall near the workspace works remarkably well.
  • 3 more annotation(s)...
Feb
26
2012

  • It's an over-generalization, but the message it conveys is accurate. The minority will contribute, more will share, and majority will read. In reviews on retail sites you will find anywhere from 1% up to 30% of customers who buy will write a review. In contrast. on Wikipedia, it's less than 1% that write content. Regardless of the veracity of the stat, the point to take away is that knowing it's a minority who will contribute and share -- and knowing those numbers don't have to be this low in every case -- you should build strategies to bring those numbers up, and create participation where the content created is valuable to the 90% of readers. BTW...I'd assert the 90% number is wrong too because you have to assume contributors and sharers read this content as well. 100%.
  • I believe that Bradley Horowitz first popularized this back in 2006: http://blog.elatable.com/2006/02...

    He presented the following diagram, using the example of Yahoo Groups:


    I had always thought it was based on hard data from Groups, but re-reading it now I'm unsure if it is his impression or hard statistical data.
  • 2 more annotation(s)...
Oct
12
2009

  • "If you can't figure out how to organize your material, try this: Write down ideas in random order, then sort them".

    I wish they taught me to do this before the 5-paragraph essay format. The latter of which is a useless exercise that has almost no application in real-life writing.

    -----

  • He says:

    Popper’s principle implies: (1) Your guesses and opinions have to be testable. They have to say what will not happen. Beware of vague predictions that are compatible with any outcome!

    But that is Popper's view as to the demarcation of science. Popper was not of the view that science is the only realm of legitimate knowledge. And it's in conflict with:

    If all knowledge depends on physical measurement, then not only do you lose truth, beauty, and love, you also lose mathematics, logic, and even epistemology!

    -----

Feb
8
2012

RT @Dwchinese 王立军问题可能影响薄熙来仕途: http://t.co/Fu7LafpS

www.dw.de/...0,,15725943,00.html
- Preview

Feb
3
2012

  • As for what’s mentioned in the blurb, that seems to be an Aero Radio Balistique.

     

    Here is someone on YouTube with a failed engineering experiment of some of the work that would lead to developing a replica:

  • How could someone who was an actual engineer be so obscure and forgotten to the point that even Wikipedia — which contains just about everything — doesn’t even have an entry for him?

     

    Here is the full page on which the blurb appears:

Jan
20
2012

  • and weekends. Since I think the idea does have the potential to turn into a successful venture, I want to go ahead and solve the ownership/payment issue now before it becomes an issue. I'm leaning towards splitting ownership
Jan
10
2012

  • I've been writing software for almost 10 years now and decided that 2011 was the year I started writing iOS apps. I've been a fan of Apple products for a while and dabbled with iPhone development when the tools and the App Store first came out, but nothing so serious to the point of releasing an app. That all changed this year.
    • My wife and I are in the network marketing business. We are independent distributors for Premier Designs High Fashion Jewelry, so I know the challenges the distributors face on a day to day basis.
    • I have family members in the direct sales industry, so that would give me a beta tester base that would be willing to help me test.
    • People who would purchase the app are business people, therefore my app would be a business expense. People are more willing to lay down a few bucks when they know they can write it off on their taxes.
Jan
7
2012

  • Trello is new kind of development project for Fog Creek. It’s 100% hosted; there will never be an “installed software” version of Trello. That allowed us to modernize many aspects of our development process; I am happy to announce that there is absolutely no Visual Basic code involved in any part of Trello. What’s next, flying cars?
Dec
24
2011

  • 根据Strategy Analytics的数据，今年第三季度，全球智能手机销售总额为22.4亿美元，而英特尔该季度营收为147亿美元。然而根据IHS iSuppli的估计，明年智能手机的销售量将同比增长32%，而PC处理器市场的增长率则不会很高。
  • 　　在Palm，贝尔曾领导团队开发了Palm Pre和Palm Pixi。在Palm去年被惠普(微博)收购之后，贝尔和其他多名高管一样从公司辞职。在此之前，他曾供职苹果16年时间，参与了iMac、iPhone和Apple TV的开发。一名熟悉贝尔的业内人士表示，贝尔的优势在于他了解如何设计及开发手机，并将手机推向市场。他知道如何使各个部分协同工作，例如软件和硬件，他不会仅仅专注于芯片。
  • 2 more annotation(s)...
Dec
16
2011

  • ranging from making sure a web address is responding to http requests to ensuring a port is sending the
  • powerful feature-set, allowing extreme flexibility in configuration and execution.  Starting with the private
  • 1 more annotation(s)...

    • however, I really should be an entrepreneur; given time, I will be successful; I just don't know the best way to go about it;
    • importantly, I am not based in Silicon Valley, or, for that matter, connected to the startup scene anywhere, since I'm still a lonely corporate drone;

  • It's a wild guess, but I imagine it covers 90% of the western world's potential entrepreneurs. After all, the default for smart people is to do a degree and then end up working in a bank, law firm, consulting company, etc. So most smart people end up working in large corporations. And yet most smart people would be able to run their own business if they knew how.

      

    What's the default case for a transition from this set of assumptions to "entrepreneur"?

  • 3 more annotation(s)...

  • Today, business success depends on the presence of a well-designed, engaging experience, and the new MFA in Interaction Design program explores the strategic role of interaction design in shaping everyday life.

      

    As one of the only graduate-level degrees dedicated to interaction design in the United States, this program trains students to research, analyze, prototype, and design concepts in their business, social, and cultural contexts. 

         
    <!-- /end .content -->  
     
    • In the span of a click: Prachi Pundeer
       

      December 13, 2011

       
      Each week, Interaction Design’s Social Media Officer Cooper Smith will curate a story from the incoming first-year class. This week’s post comes from Prachi Pundeer.
       
           
    •  
       

  • The point is not to get caught up in buzzword titles nor to challenge the role of design consultants or founders with engineering backgrounds, but to highlight the emerging opportunity for founders with design expertise from trained to self-taught backgrounds. It makes sense that a prerequisite for a tech company is to have a founder with technical skills. The same heuristic should hold true if you want to consistently ship well designed products like Pinterest, AirBnB and Path. Why not have a co-founder with design skills who champions the user experience?

     

  • Clearly every designer isn’t meant to be a founder and probably shouldn’t be, (especially as some believe we’re spreading talent thin across too many little “me too” startups but that’s a whole other discussion). To be clear, we don’t mean “designer as the prima donna pixel-pusher” that you might be picturing. We also don’t mean “designer as the I Took One Class Called UX Fundamentals In Business School.” We mean an honest-to-goodness, experienced, craft-driven, product-focused, reflective practitioner who has learned to design by designing, who views design as a way of thinking about solving hard problems and is capable of building usable products with more than just beautiful aesthetics.[3] The word ‘design’ is so loaded nowadays and hope that our Designer Founders info cards will begin to clarify the impact of designers with various backgrounds in the context of early stage tech startups. Modern design entrepreneurship has been around since at least the late nineteenth century spurred by William Morris’ Arts and Crafts workshops, Elbert Hubbard and his Roycrofters along with the Weiner Werkstatte, Deustche Werbund, and Bauhaus movements to name a few. [4] Today, we’re studying a movement by designer founders behind venture backed startups who have the potential for meaningful impact via tech products, not just beautiful chairs.
  • 1 more annotation(s)...

  • I want to create a Google Chrome Extension who can change the URL default Search Engine ? I can do it by using the option of Google Chrome but i would like to do it with code.

      

    Hope someone can provide me some help..

  • But if there is no way to do that, what do you think to take the url each time i change web page and if they are'nt www. http. or .com,... Then i make my search on yahoo for example ?

      

    You think it's possible ?

1 - 20 of 1403 Next › Last »
Showing 20▼ items per page

Selected Tags

Related Tags

Diigo is about better ways to research, share and collaborate on information. Learn more »

Join Diigo
Move to top