Me Hungy: Archive

Issues trying to increase EBS root disk size

I was running out of space on my EC2-hosted system and Eric Hammond’s instructions for increasing the size of the root disk offered a fantastically simple solution: just run 2 commands from the EC2 tools and I’ll be all set. Except it didn’t work for me. A little googling made it clear that this worked for others, but it was a total mystery what was different in my case. After...

Dec 19th

RIM is in trouble - A case study in customer... →

An analysis of RIM’s predicament, making the case that the Blackberry market share started shifting over 2 years ago, but this was masked by good top-line results, largely from users upgrading their phones to new models introduced in 2009. This is the classic death spiral where the company is on the wrong side of a market shift, and he proposes two remedies: 1) stabilize your existing market...

Dec 12th

Awesome big wave video →

Dec 12th

Why does Quora use MySQL as the data store rather... →

Just came across this old question, where Adam D’Angelo (Quora founder, ex-CTO of Facebook) argues for MySQL. He goes on to ask about MongoDB at Foursquare, which was ironically answered 5 months later in a post-mortem by the MongoDB creator on the now infamous Foursquare crash.

Nov 13th

Hide yo kids, wife, and husband from this costume. →

For $39.99, you can be Antoine Dodson. Hide yo money!

Oct 27th

The Social Network = Lord of the Rings? →

Maureen Dowd - Lord of the Internet Rings - NYTimes.com

Oct 11th

Permalink to my TechZulu interview →

Sep 3rd

Watch

Interviewed today on TechZulu Live today by Amanda Coolong, who is super cool for making it fun and easy. Thanks Efren, for inviting me on the show, I had a blast. Permalink: http://www.techzulu.com/ceo-to-cto-when-to-take-money-and-more-on-tzlive-with-william-chow.html

Aug 27th

Do I build a phone app, or a mobile web site? →

This presentation has a simple breakdown of the pros/cons between going native vs going html5.

Aug 21st

Jul 19th

May 30th

Everything about this picture says "I'm an A-hole" →

Look closely…even the license plate and parking spot.

Apr 20th

Flesh eating robots. No joke. →

The inventor, Robert Finkelstein, at least says that it eats ”mostly vegetarian”.

Feb 9th

FAIL!: Newegg hosed me

WTF #1: NewEgg offers a combo/discount where you can get this HP server along with a pair DIMMs…which is fine and dandy if it weren’t for the fact that you wind up with 3 DIMMs total, for a computer that only accepts them in 1/2/4 configurations. WTF #2: Ok, fine. So I head off to Fry’s to pick up another DIMM (by the way, no one there knows a damn thing about memory). So, I...

Jan 27th

Jobs in science are the lowest paid. →

“Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.” — Albert Einstein

Dec 14th

Dec 8th

Dec 6th

Programmer search engine by StackOverflow →

Leverage StackOverflow’s reputation system to find programming talent.

Dec 5th

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Awesome vid: NPH as ‘Frosty the Inappropriate Snowman’

Dec 4th

Sarah Palin quotes John Wooden...but not the... →

HuffPo reports that the quote was apparently just lifted from The Quote Garden, where it was also coincidentally attributed incorrectly to the Coach (but since fixed).

Dec 2nd

Woohoo! Dweebs are projecting 19 inches of snow... →

So get your quadruple-reverse-cambered magneto-traction poly-resin-fiber-composite board waxed and ready for the upcoming El Nino pow.

Dec 2nd

Anyone out there a Google Voice user?

If so, can you send me an invite? Here’s how. I would very much appreciate it and love you long time.

Nov 19th

Clay Shirky: reboot the local bookstore. →

This quote sums up the problem: In the current case, the spread of electronic commerce for everything from music to groceries is part of the increase in empty store fronts on shopping streets, leaving a series of Citi branches, ATT outlets, and Starbucks that repeat at regular intervals, like scenery in a Hanna-Barbera cartoon.

Nov 18th

More vids of Way Lake bouldering

Came across more footage (from Alex Savage) of Way Lake bouldering. More beta for the Halloween weekend! Sending Wave Catcher: And here is a link to another video, this time of Chumscrubber:

Oct 22nd

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Balls-out send of Luminance, a V11 highball in Bishop, first sent by our buddy Shawn Diamond.

Oct 20th

Sep 27th

Stupid startup quote of the day

This BBC article on renewed interest in VC/startups is classic startup baloney: “Graffiti clean up is a $12bn (£7.25bn) a year industry and if we can disrupt just 10% of the market we will be a game changer,” said Mr Kralik. In case you are wondering, his company makes an iphone app for reporting graffiti and potholes…and it almost won the TechCrunch50 top prize. Baloney!

Sep 18th

Sep 9th

Sweet Tweets: Shit My Dad Says →

Just a snippet of the last three I saw: “You know, sometimes it’s nice having you around. But now ain’t one of those times. Now gimmie the remote we’re not watching this bullshit.”about 3 hours ago from web “Your mother rented this film, What Happens In Vegas. I thought it was going to be non-fiction, but it’s fiction, and it’s about some...

Aug 29th

Penn & Teller picked for TechCrunch50 →

Maybe it’s related to Penn’s patent for a special spa “enhanced” for a female user.

Aug 15th

Aug 10th

Every engineering manager should read this Paul... →

“Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule” explains how meetings can kill the productivity of the very people you are trying to manage.

Jul 27th

Is McCain dogging on Kissinger? [from Nick Carr's... →

From Nick Carr’s blog: In reviewing John McCain’s vigorous tweet stream, Rachman observes that “some of the senator’s tweets make him sound like a peasant.” He quotes one: “Meeting with Dr Kissinger – the smartest man in the world.” But a commenter on this post points out that this is awfully close to this joke: In the early '70s, Richard Nixon, Spiro Agnew, Henry...

Jul 9th

John Bachar 1957-2009 →

Jul 6th

Jul 2nd

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Beautiful time-lapse video of the Sierras, near Bishop.

Jun 16th

Holy teabagging, Batman: Bruno drops deez nutz on... →

Jun 1st

Party drink: Redbull and Cocaine →

May 28th

May 18th

May 16th

Twatterific: Dan Baum's entry and exit at the New... →

Is it really the ne plus ultra for a writer? Hellz yes:

May 15th

SocialScope Beta: Anyone got an invite? →

The Boy Genius write-up makes me want it.

May 14th

Kanye Vision: SEE why it's awesome to be him →

May 13th

Best site ever!: Look at this fucking hipster →

May 9th

Apr 24th

Apr 16th

Must-read for anyone who cares about the economy.

Simon Johnson crafts a compelling case in The Atlantic magazine for how and why the current bailout (TARP/PPIP) is a policy that has been tried time-and-again in the past, and fails every time. Perhaps more importantly, he explains why so many countries keep making this same mistake and what tough medicine is always ultimately needed to fix things. A whole generation of policy makers has been...

Apr 7th

Apr 6th

Pepsi rebranding leverages the Theory of...

Pepsi is spending a crapload to rebrand itself, and this document from their ad men shows how powerful their new message will be: [from Gawker]

Apr 3rd