March 2012
13 posts
Brooklyn Beta →
brooklynbeta.org
It’s a 12-week program in the summer leading up to the conference. We invest $25,000 in your company for a 6% stake, and we give you a lot more help along the way.
Brooklyn Beta / Summer Camp is going the Y Combinator route! This sounds like a great program!
Vibrating Tattoo Patented By Nokia Alerts Users When Phone Rings →
huffingtonpost.com
Finnish mobile phone developer Nokia has filed for a patent on a magnetic, vibrating tattoo or badge that alerts users when their phones are ringing… The device could take different forms, including a visible tattoo, label or badge, that could be set to emit different vibration patterns — much like customized ringtones — to distinguish between different callers, according to the report.
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“Company was looking for a ninja developer, so I showed up but they didn’t even notice me.”
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Ludvig Lindblom, via Whitney Hess on Twitter
I once wrote this to someone who posted for a “rockstar engineering assassin”:
I come across job postings that ask for “rockstar” or “ninja/assassin” engineers pretty frequently, and I’ve never quite understood the appeal of the analogy. Do you really want a diva on your team who craves limelight, will likely be passe in a few years, and destroys hotel rooms? Or someone who dresses in all black, operates stealthily, and perhaps a bit dishonorably?
What you really want is an A-Team: a group of professionals who seem to do it for money, but are really doing it because it’s right. I’m building such a team at the moment for S7 Labs, which is a sort of hybrid consultant / incubator lab. Our goal is to serve as technology partners to a wide variety of startups. Even if this isn’t something that sounds interesting for ————.com, it might be worth it for us to meet and chat as small business owners. I have 10 years of experience in software startups, and am always happy to talk shop.
I did not get the job.
JS1k, 1k demo submission [1071] →
js1k.com
Nifty heart particle effect. The entire JS1k thing reminds me of the demo scene in the 90’s.
Stephen Wolfram Blog : The Personal Analytics of My Life →
blog.stephenwolfram.com
Wolfram plots and analyzes an incredible amount of personal data about his life.
“Clear thought, clear word.”
—This is my new mantra. Note the contrapositive: unclear words equal unclear thought.
Cadence & Slang →
cadence.cc
Looks like a good read. I’m bookmarking this for later.
