Nothing In, Nothing Out
High quality intellectual output comes from high-quality intellectual input. People who don’t consume ideas tend not to have any. And if they do have some,…
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You Made it to the Belly Button
Anyone who wishes to make advances in a particular intellectual area have essentially two options: Be an uber-deathgod-genius like Newton or Einstein, or: Learn everything…
Pimping Linode | Daniel Miessler
I don’t like salesishness, so let’s be clear about two things: I’m trying to get this site to where it can support itself by referral…
Standard Deviations Explained | Daniel Miessler
If you read a lot but aren’t much into math you’ve probably heard the term standard deviation being tossed around, but didn’t know what it…
I Just Dumped Whos.amung.us and Chartbeat for Woopra
Something about realtime web analytics is just cool to me. I think it’s the idea of visualizing the interactions with distant objects. Well, people in…
A List of Different Case Types
CapitalizationWriting the first letter of a word in uppercase, and the rest of the letters in lowercase. Title CaseAll words are capitalized, except non-initial articles…
The Goal of SocialTech is to Broadcast You as a Personal Stimuli Frequency
Jun 4, 2010 I’ve written before about how SocialTech’s main purpose is to present each of us as an API, and I want to expand…
Ideas Suck: A Tale of Lust vs Love
Ideas suck. Ideas are everywhere and pop into our heads all of the time. Ideas are not the inspirational spark that ignites us into becoming…
Is it becoming cool to not capitalize story titles?
While reading certain publications recently I’ve been paying a bit more attention to the typography and capitalization. The main thing I’ve been noticing is that…
Just Implemented Memcached | Daniel Miessler
So I just implemented memcached. It’s basically a system that uses hash tables to serve content directly from memory rather than from disk. It’s used…
Percentages of Hitting a Given Number Using x Number of d6’s
My buddies and I are doing a Harn campaign right now and one of the mechanics involves accruing stat “checks” over time. Every five stat…
Modern Science on Self-Control, and 4 Things You Can Do Immediately to Improve It
Image from scientificamerican.com Scientists are now discovering that self-control is a precious, finite resource that can be raised and lowered by a number of factors…