January 2011
17 posts
"go get it"
“Startups are a huge amount of work. If you have a successful startup, you will most likely need to give up many of the “softer” things in life. You won’t be able to date as much. You won’t take long vacations. In fact you might find yourself working almost every day of the year. Your family and friends will complain that they never see you. Even if you don’t mean to blow everything off,...
What part of Instapaper’s infrastructure are you most proud of?
The bookmarklet has a mechanism to save pages from sites that require logins for full content, such as the Wall Street Journal and Harper’s, by sending a copy of the page’s HTML from the customer’s browser to the server. It’s like automating the “Save as…” menu item: if you have your own account for these sites and can see the...
“The good quarterbacks, they know they’re going to get hit. They know there’s going to be pain, but it’s not the pain they’re afraid of. It’s the consequences of getting hit, what might happen, whether you fumble or throw an interception. With the great quarterbacks, there is zero fear of failure. They are 100 percent dialed in on success, whatever the next great thing that can happen. The next...
Nick: I already made a javascript bookmarklet that hacks my favorite art site to do it
except to tell you what site that is would reveal something about me
Me: deviantart is quirky enough for that type of thing ot work
haha, i don't judge
perv
Nick: haha
ok it's furaffinity.net
Me: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Nick: D:!
Me: oh god i clicked that then remembered i'm working in a starbucks today
and can't risk it
BACK BUTTON!!!
Nick: haha