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ok, this is pretty fun - Chad Dickerson

I had never used the Automator -- this is useful. - Chad Dickerson

I had never used the Automator -- this is useful. - Chad Dickerson

:-) - Chad Dickerson

about our image resizing piece: "180 resizes/second, done locally (not on EC2), with much fine-tuning. This is how engineering battles are won." - Chad Dickerson

:-) - Chad Dickerson

about our image resizing piece: "180 resizes/second, done locally (not on EC2), with much fine-tuning. This is how engineering battles are won." - Chad Dickerson

beautiful use of HTML5 - Chad Dickerson

beautiful use of HTML5 - Chad Dickerson

Cool. :-) - Chad Dickerson

Cool. :-) - Chad Dickerson

'The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which "people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it." The unskilled therefore suffer from illusory superiority, rating their own ability as above average, much higher than it actually is, while the highly skilled underrate their abilities, suffering from illusory inferiority. This leads to the perverse situation in which less competent people rate their own ability higher than more competent people." - Chad Dickerson

'The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which "people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it." The unskilled therefore suffer from illusory superiority, rating their own ability as above average, much higher than it actually is, while the highly skilled underrate their abilities, suffering from illusory inferiority. This leads to the perverse situation in which less competent people rate their own ability higher than more competent people." - Chad Dickerson

story in London Telegraph about Etsy - Chad Dickerson

story in London Telegraph about Etsy - Chad Dickerson

Panel I'll be on - Chad Dickerson

Panel I'll be on - Chad Dickerson

Post about the visit by Fred Brooks at Etsy. Awesome. - Chad Dickerson

Post about the visit by Fred Brooks at Etsy. Awesome. - Chad Dickerson

worth reading - Chad Dickerson

Fascinating. . . . - Chad Dickerson

danah's talk at SXSW - Chad Dickerson

MongoDB supports two-dimensional geospatial indexes. It is designed with location based queries in mind, such as "find me the closest N items to my location." It can also be used efficiently to add a filter such as "find me the closest N museums to my location." - Chad Dickerson

PHP library for accessing the Etsy API. - Chad Dickerson

Paul Hammond's screenshot program - Chad Dickerson

First person account of Facebook's bootcamp program for new engineers -- nice. - Chad Dickerson

"If you have done your homework and find that your web servers are cpu-bound, you are already using an opcode cache like APC and your Callgrind callgraph shows you that the PHP executor is a significant bottleneck, then HipHop PHP is definitely something you should be looking at." - Chad Dickerson

useful plugin - Chad Dickerson

Lots of good stuff here. - Chad Dickerson

"We have come a long way from our roots in a Harvard dorm room, when Facebook was only available at some colleges and run on a single server. Now with more than 350 million people worldwide and our service and business continuing to grow, we must constantly scale our technical infrastructure to meet the demand and deliver you a fast, reliable experience. An important step along the way is to build a custom data center so that we can design it to meet our unique needs." - Chad Dickerson