March 2010
14 posts
Watchsoupsoup:
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Is this the greatest prank of all time? A fraternity put up “Event Parking” signs outside a Glenn Beck rally (festival of uninformed hate), then had the 53 cars that parked on their site towed. I fully support this kind of fratty behavior, particularly when directed against the willfully ignorant.
(via Gawker, which wants to act a fool about embeds, and thusly, must get...
AppStoreHQ is Hiring! →
AppStoreHQ is hiring. We’re looking for someone who can play a “senior engineer” role (for some definition of senior and engineer). We’re very flexible on all sorts of things, as long as you’re awesome.
My 10 Coding Commandments
Thou shalt not optimize until absolutely necessary.
Thou shalt ruthlessly delete code at any available opportunity.
Thou shalt use the right tool for the job.
Thou shalt abstract when necessary, but ONLY when necessary.
Thou shalt stand on the shoulders of giants.
Thou shalt never become religious.
Thou shalt test.
Thou shalt launch early and often.
Thou shalt always be...
New York Home Staging →
Getting Google to spider my uncle’s new web site.
Looking for mobile web app developers...
I really believe in mobile web apps. We’re supporting that belief at AppStoreHQ. But there’s a whole lot more we could be doing than just adding these apps to our site.
I’d like to learn more from these mobile web app developers: how you’re approaching development, payments, marketing, distribution, etc. As a developer myself, I have some ideas and theories, but following...
One quick thought on health care reform
Personally, I’m thinking of health care reform like a startup. Yesterday, the founders secured the vision, team, and seed funding. Over the next couple years, the startup will work towards launching.
But neither of those things constitute a successful startup. A successful startup is all about what happens after launching. Will the government execute well? Will citizens love the product?...
Interactive tour of the Los Angeles Marathon route →
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You like to run? You like to run a lot?
Or maybe you just want to live vicariously through others. In any case, check out the interactive tour of this year’s L.A. Marathon route. This year’s course stretches from Echo Park all the way to the sea.
Awesome use of Google Street View (check out the San Vicente part where you really feel strange heading the wrong way down the road).
AppStoreHQ Blog: Now text a download link directly... →
Today we’re releasing a small, but important and extremely useful (and oft requested) feature. Previously, if you clicked the Download button for an iPhone or mobile web app, you’d be taken to iTunes or the actual mobile web app. This works well when your phone is plugged in and able to…
Just released my first use of Twilio’s API. It’s a simple feature — put in your...
“Many founders starting out worry too much about ___ startup they saw in...”
– To egg your competitors or not to egg, that is the question - garry’s posterous (via giantrobotlasers)
AppStoreHQ Blog: Android app search comes to the... →
We just got into the Android app discovery business in a big way - here’s the “official” story on what we’re up to…
Leading iPhone app search engine AppStoreHQ announces full-store Android app search + discovery platform for consumers and publishers
Seattle, WA - Tuesday March 16, 2010 -…
We launched Android support! And it’s great! Now we cover all iPhone, Android, and mobile...
Market Cap Per Employee
AAPL is now worth >$200B, along with only (I think) XOM, MSFT, BRK, and WMT. So those are the biggest companies, but how do they stack up on a per employee basis?
AAPL: $202b / 34,300 = $5.9M/e
WMT: $207b / 2,100,000 = $98,600/e
MSFT: $252b / 93,000 = $2.7M/e
XOM: $315b / 80,700 = $3.9M/e
AMZN: $57b / 24,300 = $2.3M/e
BRK.A: $203b / 222,000 = $914,000/e
Facebook (reported): $10b / 1,200...
