Insightful comment by Google's Marissa Mayer
Instant feedback enables a faster learning curve. She mentioned digital photography and Wikipedia as examples of how instant gratification helps drive people to become expert users faster. "If you have each transaction take less time, you have expert users more satisfied. You want lots of small and fast interactions if speed is important," she added.
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I have posted a small article on my website about how a startup can scale up with MySQL. This article is derived from an impromptu talk that I did in BarCamp Bangalore 5.
Hopefully you will find it useful.
I am not sure when I got into this phase of my life. I was taking things passively and letting life pass me by, instead of making life happen.
This moment sounds an end to this phase. Things are not "Not my problem." anymore.
Time right now is :Fri Apr 11 03:27:48 PDT 2008
After a long time, I tackled under-documented php code and I came out victorious after wrangling with it for 2 nights (around 4 hours of work each night).
Joomla! is the cms I use to run my site and it has proven to be good software. There is a good collection of Joomla extensions, but quite a lot of the extensions are under dubious licenses and don't do all the work I want. Hence the need to get a clue on how to make joomla extensions.
Full many a gem of purest ray serene
The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen
And waste its fragrance in the desert air
Nothing teaches us more about life than death itself. Journalist Beate Lakotta and photographer Walter Schels asked 24 terminally ill people if they could accompany them during their last weeks and days. From these vigils came a series of insightful descriptions and photographic portraits taken before and after death.
This sombre series of portraits taken of people before and after they had died is a challenging and poignant study. The work by German photographer Walter Schels and his partner Beate Lakotta, who recorded interviews with the subjects in their final days, reveals much about dying - and living
Link: Life before death
I had to do some fiddling around with putting unicode characters in html text. Basically, I wanted to put the √ and ✗ characters in the html doc I was prepearing. I found these links useful
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