February 2012
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Strata Conference
adamlaiacano:
I’ll be here at the strata conference all week. If you’re intersted in talking about data projects at tumblr, come say hello! Hit me up on twitter @adamlaiacano.
And, of course, we’re hiring engineers and data scientists.
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Tommypom reblogging you is the new About page.
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Philadelphia
It’s been almost nine years since I graduated from college and moved away from Philly, but I still love the city and put this together 8/1/09 when some friends were going and looking for tips. I’ve forwarded it a bunch of times since but it makes much more sense here.
SEE AND DO:
If you want to take a few hours just walking through the city, I’d recommend walking from...
The Funk
bijan:
This morning I saw an interesting post on Hacker News - I’ve Lost Enthusiasm For My Startup.
This happens from time to time and it can come for a variety of places. The founder isnt’ happy with the culture. Or the product isn’t taking off as quickly as they had hoped. Or they are fearful of failure. Or there is something else going on in their personal life that has impacted their work...
“Every time I read an article about conservatives being “pro- life” I am reminded...”
– The ‘Safe, Legal, Rare’ Illusion - NYTimes.com
YES.
(via golden-notebook)
cdixon tumblr: Warren Buffet on gold as an... →
cdixon:
The second major category of investments involves assets that will never produce anything, but that are purchased in the buyer’s hope that someone else – who also knows that the assets will be forever unproductive – will pay more for them in the future. Tulips, of all things, briefly became a…
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Kickstarter Expects to Provide More Funding Than... →
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A New Policy Against Self-Harm Blogs
staff:
One of the great things about Tumblr is that people use it for just about every conceivable kind of expression. People being people, though, that means that Tumblr sometimes gets used for things that are just wrong. We are deeply committed to supporting and defending our users’ freedom of speech, but we do draw some limits. As a company, we’ve decided that some specific kinds of content...
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“I wrote the headline in reference to the tone of the column and not to Jeremy...”
– Anthony Federico
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The tit of his penis
shitmystudentswrite:
It was at the Jewish barmitsfa that a young boy gets circumscribed, which means having the tit of his penis cut off ritualistically speaking.
Kids.
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“Mr. Costolo pointed to Glennz Tees, an online T-shirt retailer that was part of...”
– Twitter Opens Up Self-Serve Ad Platform to 10,000 Small Businesses on AdAge.
Link to Glennz Tees
(via pieratt)
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High Scalability: Tumblr Architecture - 15 Billion... →
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tommy's tenacious tumblr: What I've Learned About... →
tmac721:
Going to Harvard means I have the very unique opportunity to be around a lot of smart people. Now, when I say “smart people,” I don’t mean that guy who always wins trivia night. I mean, blazingly intelligent individuals who are regarded as the pre-eminent scholars in their field.
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The man who hand-draws mathematical fractals →
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“Prior to November 4, 2008, the California Constitution guaranteed the right to...”
– Judge Reinhardt, Ninth Circuit Prop. 8 decision, via Nate Silver.
“A young man wrote to Mozart and said, “Herr Mozart, I am thinking of writing...”
– This reminds me of the best entrepreneurs I have met!
Malkavian Quotes
(via roelofbotha)
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“[I]n 1931, the American League made a series of rules changes which impacted the...”
– Babe Ruth was born today in 1895. He was the greatest hitter of all time — and he was better than you think.
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Pumped.
“12. Depeche Mode songs are always much slower than you remember them being, and...”
– How to play music for a party
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