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1. Brett Slatkin ()'s status on Tuesday, 05-Feb-2013 13:55:00 EST Brett Slatkin

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   The day has come to delete my old Foursquare account. I never use it. I was also tired of their constant marketing emails. Check out this one from the New Year, especially the title. It's veiled as a privacy policy update, but it's really a marketing email. I can't opt out, probably because they consider this a "service update". So that's two deleted accounts this year, Instagram being the othe…
2. Brett Slatkin ()'s status on Monday, 04-Feb-2013 00:33:00 EST Brett Slatkin

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   Most cohort analysis I've seen models traffic as a constant stream, like a physics test assumes there isn't friction: Totally unrealistic
3. Brett Slatkin ()'s status on Monday, 04-Feb-2013 00:22:00 EST Brett Slatkin

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   The main problem with email is when you send a message people might reply.
4. Brett Slatkin ()'s status on Monday, 28-Jan-2013 20:05:00 EST Brett Slatkin

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   -moz-column-break-* and -webkit-column-break-* behave completely differently. Multi-column is unusable without these.
5. Brett Slatkin ()'s status on Sunday, 27-Jan-2013 16:12:00 EST Brett Slatkin

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   It is ridiculously easy to refactor Go I've written Go in the past, but not enough to understand its nuances or appreciate its design tradeoffs. Over the holiday I hacked quite a bit on a project in Go. I discovered a profound outcome of Go's support for static type checking and duck typing: It is ridiculously easy to refactor Go. This wasn't obvious to me until I experienced it myself. My proj…
6. Brett Slatkin ()'s status on Saturday, 26-Jan-2013 18:53:00 EST Brett Slatkin

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   I love to learn. I hate being taught.

   
7. Brett Slatkin ()'s status on Saturday, 26-Jan-2013 13:26:00 EST Brett Slatkin

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   Which Site Seal do People Trust the Most?
   
   Results are here, researched using Google Consumer Surveys.
   
   
8. Brett Slatkin ()'s status on Saturday, 26-Jan-2013 04:09:00 EST Brett Slatkin

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   Behold! The infinite dict.
   

   >>> def a(): b = lambda: defaultdict(b); return b()
   >>> x = a(); x[1][2][3] = 'Infinity!'; print dumps(x)
   {"1": {"2": {"3": "infinity!"}}}
   

   Defining B in A prevents renames of A from breaking dictionaries made with B.
   
   prior art
9. Brett Slatkin ()'s status on Friday, 25-Jan-2013 16:05:00 EST Brett Slatkin

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   Vine as an echo of '07.
10. Brett Slatkin ()'s status on Friday, 25-Jan-2013 01:06:00 EST Brett Slatkin

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    Mentioned "porntipsguzzardo" to someone, in context. Reaction: Crickets & Are you a crazy person?
11. Brett Slatkin ()'s status on Friday, 25-Jan-2013 00:34:00 EST Brett Slatkin

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    Imported this list of startup/company engineering blogs into Reader. Need more feeds!
12. Brett Slatkin ()'s status on Thursday, 24-Jan-2013 21:19:00 EST Brett Slatkin

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    On March 5th I will lose all productivity and forward momentum.
    
13. Brett Slatkin ()'s status on Thursday, 24-Jan-2013 00:52:00 EST Brett Slatkin

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    MapReduce on App Engine is rad because I can redeploy my code mid-flight to fix bugs and dilute whales, even with hundreds of mappers!
14. Brett Slatkin ()'s status on Wednesday, 23-Jan-2013 22:59:00 EST Brett Slatkin

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    Math is hard, even for calculators (sometimes).
    
15. Brett Slatkin ()'s status on Wednesday, 23-Jan-2013 04:20:00 EST Brett Slatkin

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    Two updates to Quilla, my email short-link site: 1. Anonymous submissions People who want to contact you will only need to fill in a captcha to send you an email. This is easier and also means you can use Quilla for anonymous tips. Before, people had to log in with their Google account to email you. Now that's optional and off by default. 2. Anonymous email reflector Similar to how cragislist…
16. Brett Slatkin ()'s status on Tuesday, 22-Jan-2013 18:42:00 EST Brett Slatkin

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    404 page of the day.
    
17. Brett Slatkin ()'s status on Monday, 21-Jan-2013 17:18:00 EST Brett Slatkin

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    Explicitly Registered® phrases repeated in docs make me wary. It's In Bad Form™
18. Brett Slatkin ()'s status on Thursday, 17-Jan-2013 21:29:00 EST Brett Slatkin

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    "Commit then flip" An Ode to Continuous Deployment From tip, ship. Ship: from tip. To ship from tip! To ship from tip! I do not like to ship from tip. Do you like to commit then flip? I do not like to ship from tip. I do not like to commit then flip. Would you like to here or there? I would not like to here or there. I would not like to anywhere. I do not like to commit then flip. I do not…
19. Brett Slatkin ()'s status on Tuesday, 15-Jan-2013 00:34:00 EST Brett Slatkin

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    Peeve: "Oh my god, you have the same birthday as so and so!" It happens every day! Think of 25 people you know (living or dead), lower bound: You (1) Your significant other (1) Your parents (4) Their parents (grands) (8) The family pet (1) Your combined siblings (2) And aunts and uncles (4) Their children (cousins) (8) Friends from high school you still know (5) Friends from college you actual…
20. Brett Slatkin ()'s status on Monday, 14-Jan-2013 02:01:00 EST Brett Slatkin

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    Why is Map Reduce faster? -- A practical example of data joins Joining data with Map Reduce is the fastest, most scalable way to generate reports. Generating reports is a vital part of any product. Reports show how you're meeting the needs of your users. Reports tell you how much money you owe or are earning. Even PageRank is just a report of the best content. But generating reports at scale, o…

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