John Hurliman

Blake Masters: Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 2 Notes Essay

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 13:45:48 -0700

Blake Masters: Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 2 Notes Essay:

Here are my class notes, typed in essay form, from Class 2 of CS183: Startup. Errors, omissions, and/or poor phrasing are my own. Credit for good substance and wording is Peter’s entirely.

CS183: Startup—Notes Essay—April 4—Party Like It’s 1999?

I. Late to the Party

History is driven…

Ryan Dahl: The Software Stack and Latency

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:55:16 -0800

Ryan Dahl: The Software Stack and Latency:

antirobotrobot:

I love this Scale of the Universe graphic. It allows you to compare the sizes of objects in the universe from atoms to galaxies. I got to thinking about how different professions work with objects at different scales and how these professions use very different tools. A particle physicist’s tool…

I had completely forgotten about this until I was digging...

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:45:34 -0800

I had completely forgotten about this until I was digging through an old external hard drive today. A photo I shot and uploaded to one of those stock photograph websites was used as cover art for an R.E.M. tour CD. Random, but neat.

Cull TV + Azealia Banks

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:09:36 -0700

Cull TV + Azealia Banks:

thebangersbiz:

We turned on cull.tv in the office about a month back and the first video we saw introduced us to Azealia Banks (it was the 212 video, for some reason now offline). We fell in love, so we booked her for our CMJ afterparty at Westway last Fri night and she tore shit up. Her performance…

Cull: Two node.js libraries: node-mysql-simple and node-phpass

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:45:24 -0700

Cull: Two node.js libraries: node-mysql-simple and node-phpass:

culltv:

As previously promised, here are the first two libraries Cull has released to the public.

node-mysql-simple

This library sits on top of the excellent MySQL driver by Felix Geisendörfer and generic-pool by James Cooper, providing easy to use methods for inserting and retrieving…

Cull: Crawling, Culling, and Machine Learning in JavaScript

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:44:53 -0700

Cull: Crawling, Culling, and Machine Learning in JavaScript:

culltv:

This is the first technical post about Cull TV. We started with a simple question last year that had no apparent answer. “Why do I have to choose between the dead simple experience of turning on the television (and finding nothing interesting), or hunt and peck scavenging through mountains of…