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Chronos is airbnb's replacement for cron. It is a distributed and fault-tolerant scheduler which runs on top of mesos. It's a framework and supports custom mesos executors as well as the default command executor. Thus by default, Chronos executes SH (on most systems BASH) scripts. Chronos can be used to interact with systems such as Hadoop (incl. EMR), even if the mesos slaves on which...

Four Colorado startups about to break into the big time.

Nice slides from a book by the founder of LinkedIn, offering career advice.

A short story about how Elon Musk hires employees these days.

An argument that companies in the United States should focus on value, not profits. The slide that shows profits are up and wages are down is disappointing.

An article about creating a mobile website.

An article about building a mobile-specific website. The author's mobile website currently looks like this:

An article about how to build a mobile website, including CSS and JavaScript stuff.

A page that shows how people in Alaska pronounce a large variety of words, and the phrases they use.

Here's To The Crazy Ones (Apple ad, narrated by Steve Jobs):

This original ad was narrated by Steve Jobs, but he decided that he didn't want to use his voice in the commercial, and Richard Dreyfus ended up narrating the commercial that actually...

Last week we had a lot of fun coming up with our vision for the next Mac operating system, OS X Lion-O. We then turned to our amazing readers and asked you guys to dream up the the perfect mascot for the next version of OS X.

We had a ton of readers submit their entries to our new Flickr Group, and the results were amazing. We’ve selected five winners who will get a free copy of...

Charge your Nexus 4 wirelessly with this Qi inductive charger. Its angled surface provides easy visibility of your phone while charging. This elegant device was designed specifically for your Nexus 4 -- no clunky add-ons or accessories needed.

From the article I linked to:

1. You admire a character for trying more than for their successes.
2. You gotta keep in mind what’s interesting to you as an audience, not what’s fun to do as a writer. They can be very different.
3. Trying for theme is important, but you won’t see what the story is actually about til you’re at the end of it. Now...

The purple portion of the graphic, above, represents income from Microsoft Office. The green portion represents income from Microsoft Windows. Microsoft’s problem is that both of those cash cows are located, almost exclusively, on desktop and notebook PCs and PCs are in decline both in actual and in relative terms.

The reason normal people got wives and kids and hobbies, whatever. That’s because they don’t got that one thing that hits them that hard and that true. I got music, you got this. The thing you think about all the time, the thing that keeps you south of normal. Yeah, makes us great, makes us the best. All we miss out on is everything else.

I haven't used this Drupal "Table of Contents" module yet, but it looks like what I want, which is a Wikipedia-style ToC on some of my larger tutorial pages.

In his highly anticipated annual shareholder letter, published Friday, famed investor Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. went straight to the bad news. Despite Berkshire (US:BRK.A) (US:BRK.B) achieving a $24.1 billion net gain for shareholders and the conglomerate’s book-value rising 14.4% in 2012, he deemed it a “subpar” performance.

“For the ninth time...

Five tips for startup founders from startup founders.

1. Haste makes waste. Slow down when it comes to key decisions.
2. Do everything.
3. People are your biggest assets.
4. It's all about the user, stupid.
5. Be prepared to fail.