Wanna Solve Impossible Problems? Find Ways to Fail Quicker | Co.Design -
Great story about solving challenging problems by reframing them … now to apply to some of my own.
Dear Sriracha Rooster Sauce - The Oatmeal
Monopoly Killer: Perfect German Board Game Redefines Genre
I’m about to get this game for the office, I have a sneaking suspicion the crew will love it. Here’s more about it on wikipedia.
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tedr:
Word on the street is that there’s a second market auction going on right now valuing FB at $60b, so add 20% to each parties holdings.
Also noteworthy was the response to this fact. “$60 billion? I remember when eBay was worth $60 billion…”
gbattle sez:
This distribution is way off. How do I know? Where is their series A lead investor, Accel?
a.out: The Best Debugging Story I've Ever Heard -
Back in the early 80’s, my dad worked at Storage Technology, a now-defunct corporate entity that made tape drives and pneumatic systems to drive these tapes at high speeds – for that period of time.
(Used under license from Laughing Squid. The original is available here.)
They had
hackedengineered the tape drives such that you could have one central drive – the ‘A’ drive – connected to seven other ‘B’ drives, and a small operating system on some RAM attached to the A drive would delegate the reading and writing of data across all of the B drives.
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Stuck standing still (Taken with instagram)
Girl Talk - All Day by Hypetrak
(Source: hypetrak.com)
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