Scraps
Things I’ve collected – some for reference, some for interest, some just to increase the signal on.
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Originally Published here. Cloud Costs Every Programmer Should Know Back of the napkin math to estimate what your deployments will cost as you’re building them. In 2002, Peter Norvig published a list of timings for common computer operations like reading from disk. Later, these were memorialized as latency numbers every programmer should know. In 2023, with cloud resources…
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This was originally just a link I posted in 2007, but I got curious and dug the original list out of the wayback machine during this site refresh. I have no idea how many of these are still in existence, but cool list. Original Link: http://www.tzunami.com/No-More-Harddrive.php Enterprise CM Cloud
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from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_as_a_service#Types PaaS is derived from software as a service (SaaS), and is situated in cloud computing between SaaS and infrastructure as a service (IaaS). SaaS is software hosted in the cloud so that it does not take up hard drive space on the computers of users. IaaS provides virtual hardware from a provider with adjustable scalability. With IaaS,…
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Cleaning up, and thought I’ll just throw these here. Likely has dead links. Definitely slightly embarrassing. Online shops Automated Tax Compliance Software – Avalara Hype LottieFiles – Free animation files build for Lottie, Bodymovin HypeDocks » Resources Monthly topics – Tumult Forums design 1944mustang color theme by nathaniel – Adobe Color CC Color Trends +…
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A table for referencing the unicode for special symbols to get fancy with the icons when theming. It’s liberated from : https://macbiblioblog.blogspot.com/2005/05/special-key-symbols.html Symbol Description Unicode Hex Reference ⎋ Escape U+238B ⇥ Tab forward U+21E5 ⇤ Tab back U+21E4 ⇪ Capslock U+21EA ⇧ Shift U+21E7 ⌃ Control U+2303 ⌥ Option (Alt, Alternative) U+2325 Apple symbol…
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Here’s an insightful slideshow from an analyst at Kleiner Perkins on internet and mobile industry trends, ad revenue and penetration of markets. Worth clicking through to see where the trends and growth are. Also, TechCrunch has some good commentary on it here.KPCB Internet Trends 2012
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Interesting idea. Even has playing cards, and of course, an app. Might have to check out the app. Reshared post from +Adam Pash Rejection Therapy is a game and a really cool idea for fixing your fear of rejection http://lifehacker.com/5888637/rejection-therapy-the-game-you-win-by-actively-seeking-out-rejection Embedded Link Rejection Therapy: The Game You Win by Actively Seeking Out RejectionFear of rejection is…
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Archived: Nice way to ensure you’re showing the proper amount of skin on the interwebs… Reshared post from +Mike Elgan What have you agreed to? This site will show you. If you use Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, DropBox, Linkedin, Flickr or Instagram, you’ve agreed to allow a lot of companies to do things inside your…
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I’d love to get some real HTML5 & CSS skills someday. This looks like a good resource. Embedded Link The Shapes of CSS CSS-Tricks Example. Back Home More Demos. via Ad Packs. The Shapes of CSS. All of the below use only a single HTML element. Any kind of CSS goes, as long as it’s…
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Great metric for measuring the quality of content- how many times was saved to “ReadItLater” a bookmarking alternative web service. Reshared post from +Gina Trapani Very proud of Team +Lifehacker for filling 9 of the top 10 most-saved author spots in ReadItLater’s 2011 breakdown. I was happily surprised to show up at #6, even though…