The Insider News

betashop[^]:

On October 27, 2010 I wrote a blog post about the “57 Things I Learned Founding 3 Tech Companies.” This past week while I was in Tokyo for meetings with potential partners for Fab, I was invited to participate in a panel discussion on startups. The discussion quickly turned to those 57 things. Amazing. Thousands of miles away and two years later, people still want to talk about those 57 things! As the questions came in, I realized that my 2010 list was great for what I had learned as of 2 years ago, but it also was in desperate need of an update to include what I’ve learned more recently, especially as we’ve pivoted from fabulis to Fab in 2011 and then scaled Fab to more than 7.5 million registered users, 7500 supplier partners, 600 team members, and a run-rate of more than $150M in sales in just 15 months.

SciGuy[^]:

Something very, very interesting is happening with Voyager 1, the human probe that’s the very farthest from Earth. New data from the spacecraft, which I will discuss below, indicate Voyager 1 may have exited the solar system for good. If true, this would mark a truly historic moment for the human race — sending a spacecraft beyond the edge of our home solar system.

All this[^]:

I find it really hard to watch baseball nowadays because the game moves so slowly, but I do still like to look at statistics and standings. The standings in Yahoo! Sports include a figure that was uncommon when I was a kid: the teams’ run differential, the difference their runs scored and runs given up. I decided to see how well a team’s run differential predicts its final record.

Greg's Cool [Insert Clever Name] of the Day[^]:

Sometimes Visual Studio will show an assembly reference path incorrectly when inspecting the properties. Example: the reference path might show /projecta/bin when in actual fact the path is ../packages/something. Also if Visual Studio is unable to find an assembly reference it will display the path as "". Accurate References will parse the Solution and its Project to show you the actual assembly path.

Badass JavaScript[^]:

Basically, Doppio is a project to get Java running in the browser without plugins. It includes an implementation of the Java Virtual Machine (VM), as well as an in browser compiler and bytecode disassembler. It is still a work in progress and performance obviously needs improvement before it is ready to be used in production.

readevalprintlove[^]:

ReadEvalPrintλove.org is a site devoted to Lisp advocacy. Herein you will find curated information, links, tutorials, videos, images and other sundreys related to various Lisp implementations.

Proton[^]:

Proton is a declarative multitouch framework that allows developers to specify gestures as regular expressions of touch event symbols. Proton converts the touch events outputted by multitouch hardware into a stream of touch event symbols that encode the touch action (down, move, and up), touch ID (e.g., first touch, second touch, etc.) and custom touch attributes (e.g., touch hit-target, touch direction, etc.). Developers describe multitouch gestures as regular expressions of these symbols, which Proton matches against the touch event stream.

Jacob Gorban[^]:

For the past several weeks I’ve been focusing my efforts on learning how to approach software architecture. Despite my experience in developing several applications, I wanted to read and learn more about this to do a better job in the future, for our upcoming project. My goal was to extract relevant pieces of knowledge with the final goal of producing one sheet of paper with the most important points. I wanted to stick it onto the wall behind my screen, so that I could refer to it with only a glance. It had to have the most important questions that I should ask myself before committing to anything important during software design.