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Freakonomics

Freakonomics » The 100 Rules for Being an Entrepreneur

James Altucher's cross-posted list of roughly 80 numbered "rules" for entrepreneurs, drawn from his own startups and from advising about 50 companies. He defines entrepreneurship as solving the challenges in your life, not necessarily founding a big company. The advice leans toward practical, contrarian moves: get a customer before you launch, be profitable early, avoid raising money or hiring, call a service a product, go the extra mile for customers, sell your first company quickly, and skip PR firms in favor of blogging. Alongside this runs a recurring emphasis on sleep, exercise, emotional health, and a blunt warning not to kill yourself, since the process is often miserable. The tone is irreverent and anecdotal, with some questionable asides about employees and parties.

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net.tutsplus.com

An In Depth Guide to mod_rewrite for Apache | Nettuts+

A Nettuts+ tutorial that tries to make Apache's mod_rewrite less intimidating by explaining how .htaccess rules are processed: each RewriteRule runs in order on the URL path (minus the leading slash), passes its modified result to the next rule, and only applies its substitution if all attached RewriteConds pass. It stresses a debugging workflow of building rules and conditions one at a time and testing at each step, and covers how to confirm the module is enabled. Worked examples include friendly user/profile URLs, stripping www, blocking or replacing hotlinked images, a custom 404 via file tests, and wrapping everything in an IfModule block for safety.

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the Guardian

Eyewitness: National cherry blossom festival | World news | The Guardian

A single Guardian Eyewitness photograph shows cherry blossom trees in full bloom around the Tidal Basin in Washington, DC, shot by Jewel Samad for AFP/Getty Images. The caption supplies the only real content: the trees descend from 3,000 saplings that Tokyo's mayor gave the city in 1912 as a symbol of US-Japanese friendship. There is no argument or reporting beyond that, so it is worth keeping only for the image and the brief gift history.

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Panabee

Panabee: Name Generator

This is a feed page, not a single article: a Panabee-style stream of short investing blurbs running from early 2025 to September 2026, interleaved with "AI Headshots" sponsored ads. It mixes corporate news digests (Corteva's Vylor spin-off, CoreWeave's $3B convertible, Oracle's cloud growth against negative free cash flow, Grab's $1.49B Atome stake, a run of buyback authorizations and CHMP/FDA drug decisions), "Is X a Buy?" bull-versus-bear summaries from mid-2026, and older SWOT, moat and tariff pieces on names like Nvidia's CUDA, Meta, Coinbase and 23andMe. If you saved it for one item, such as the Nvidia revenue-versus-GPU-shipments rebuttal or the AI buildout versus telecom bust comparison, the page itself gives only one-paragraph teasers, so you'd need to find the original posts.

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Joel on Software

Can Your Programming Language Do This? - Joel on Software

Joel Spolsky's argument for first-class functions starts from a simple refactoring, extracting duplicated code into a function, and pushes it further: passing functions as arguments, writing them anonymously inline, and abstracting loops into `map` and `reduce`. His claim is that once looping itself is abstracted away, the implementation can be swapped for a parallel one, which is the idea behind Google's MapReduce, and all the old code gets faster without changes. He uses this to criticize languages like Java (functors, "Kingdom of Nouns"), C (awkward function pointers) and the CS curricula that teach only Java, arguing the best environments let you work at many levels of abstraction.

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Readability

The Greatest — www.nytimes.com — Readability

What was saved appears to be an index or archive page from a general-interest blog, not a single article. It lists a dozen unrelated posts by Lynn Martelli from mid-September 2026, with only a headline and a one-line teaser for each: a Mr Fog vape buying guide, a Houston rideshare accident law firm, automation and workers' comp rates, PPC budgeting, Dutch IPTV versus cable, UX color contrast, Virginia Beach auto repair, guest posting marketplaces, TV dashboards, and oral surgery referrals. Nothing here argues a single point, so if you meant to keep one specific piece, you'll need to reopen the link and save that post's own page.

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www.trirand.com

jQuery Grid Plugin

These are release notes for several versions of the Guriddo jqGrid JavaScript data-grid library, led by 5.9.0, which replaces the eval/new Function-based local data engine and the loadState parsing so the grid can run under a Content Security Policy (with a new nonce option), and rewrites virtual scroll to support variable row heights. The older posts record the path there: 5.8.9 rebuilt frozen columns and rows with sticky positioning and added clipboard and Excel-export functions, 5.8.7 added many options and fixes, 5.8.5 was a small bug-fix release, and 5.8.4 added an IndexedDB driver for large local data plus a batch of accessibility fixes. Worth keeping as a changelog reference for deciding when to upgrade, especially for CSP compatibility and accessibility work.

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glyphish.com

Glyphish – Great icons for great iPhone & iPad applications

This is the product page for Glyphish, an icon library by Joseph Wain made for iOS tab bars, toolbars, nav bars and table rows, though it also works for Android, web and print. Each set ships as PNGs at @2x and @3x for Retina screens, plus SVG, PDF, and master PSD/AI/Sketch files with vector layers so you can recolor or output custom sizes. A free 50-icon sample is available under a Creative Commons Attribution license, while the paid full sets need no attribution and can be used in unlimited projects.

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tools.dynamicdrive.com

復縁love

Steedicons

保存されたのは単独の記事ではなく、日本語のスピリチュアル・恋愛系ブログの一覧ページで、「おまじない・スピリチュアル」と「復縁 How to」の二つのカテゴリから十数本の抜粋が並んでいます。前者はオラクルカードのおすすめデッキやランキング、タロットとの違いの解説、復縁や愛されるための「効果絶大」とうたう待ち受け画像など、後者は男友達との付き合い方、キスフレの心理、いくつになってもモテる女性の特徴といった恋愛相談的な内容です。どの項目も本文は冒頭だけで、特定の主張や報道は読み取れないため、何か一つの記事を残したかったのなら、元のサイトで個別記事を開き直す必要があります。

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pieratt.tumblr.com

Varsity Bookmarking In Praise of Quitting Your Job

A personal email to a friend considering quitting, arguing that for creative people work is as personal as music or painting, and that it only functions with real ownership, meaning the power to change things, fail, and learn rather than answer to committees, approvals, and constant compromise. The writer draws on a six-year pattern of enthusiasm turning to depression within months at nearly every job, and the self-loathing that followed, and reframes it as a mismatch rather than a character flaw: the same traits that make him fail in constrained roles make him excel when he owns a project. The closing claim is that staying in the wrong role wastes talent and hurts both the person and the employer, and that the culture hasn't yet caught up with this.

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Gist

Some slight modifications to the codeigniter profiler to dynamically display session vars, and to add EXPLAIN to all queries. — Gist

A modified version of CodeIgniter's core Profiler.php, shared as a gist, that makes the debug output more useful for database tuning. It adds a session-data section listing every `$_SESSION` key and value, and runs MySQL `EXPLAIN` on each SELECT query, showing select type, table, key usage, row estimates and extra info in a table beneath the query and its timing. The rest of the profiler (benchmarks, GET/POST, URI, memory, controller info) is restyled with custom table markup, and the code has some rough edges, such as the escaping of `<` being overwritten by the `>` replacement on the next line.

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Gist

A quick assets file to give you control over header and footer templates with codeigniter. Not fully documented (yet) but should be relatively easy to figure out how to get access from your controller to tpl.view files. — Gist

A CodeIgniter library, shared as a code gist, called Assets that lets controllers register page-level resources (external and inline scripts for head or body, CSS links, meta tags, and page titles) and then output them from header and footer template views. Each add method stores its data in PHP globals, and matching render methods echo the script, link and title markup using paths and a site title loaded from an `assets` config file. The author admits it's barely documented, and the code has rough edges: the CSS path is hardcoded, and the private helper methods reference `$CI` incorrectly.

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screencasts.org

Bloomberg.com

This Tech Bubble Is Different - BusinessWeek

The saved page is Bloomberg Businessweek's homepage or section index, not a single article, so there is no one argument to recover. It's a snapshot of mid-September 2026 headlines, with the lead story on Marco Rubio as Trump's loyal global envoy, even where that contradicts his past beliefs. Other pieces listed include Pangram's AI-detection tool, silicosis lawsuits over artificial-stone countertops, Fender's copyright fight over the Stratocaster's shape, and a gambler's relapse via Kalshi. If you meant to keep one of these, you'll need to re-save from that story's own link.

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www.nytimes.com

Corner Office - The 5 Habits of Highly Effective C.E.O.’s - NYTimes.com

Adam Bryant, drawing on his Corner Office interviews with more than 70 CEOs, argues that five learnable traits separate people who rise to the top from equally smart, hardworking peers: passionate curiosity, battle-hardened confidence (owning and bouncing back from adversity), team smarts, a simple mind-set, and fearlessness. He fills out each with executives' own words, such as Ballmer asking for the conclusion before the slide deck, Mulally on learning from everyone, and Burns on shaking up things that aren't broken. He frames the traits as matters of attitude, habit and discipline rather than genetics, and as what CEOs probe for when hiring.

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Joel on Software

Camels and Rubber Duckies - Joel on Software

Joel Spolsky's walkthrough of software pricing starts with textbook economics: a downward-sloping demand curve, sunk versus incremental costs, and a profit-maximizing price ($220 in his made-up example), then shows how segmenting customers by willingness to pay, from coupons and airline Saturday-night rules to Home/Pro editions, could nearly double profit by capturing consumer surplus. He then undercuts it. Segmentation breeds resentment and gaming, site licenses and "call for a quote" pricing hand the best customers the best deals, and no one can actually measure a demand curve because focus groups lie and price itself signals quality. The most useful practical argument is that cheap software ($10–$1000) works as an investment in grassroots adoption, while the $1000–$75,000 range is a dead zone because enterprise sales costs swallow the margin, and his conclusion is that pricing remains largely a mystery.

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www.in-the-attic.co.uk

(500) http://www.in-the-attic.co.uk/2010/08/02/codeigniter-google-maps-library-using-google-maps-api-version-3/

Announcement of a CodeIgniter library wrapping Google Maps API v3, built on a lightly modified copy of the php-google-map-api project's code and packaged as GMap.php plus JSMin.php (a 19.9kb zip). It reuses the geocode_cache table from the author's earlier v2 wrapper, and the post gives the SQL for it. A short walkthrough shows loading the library, setting the map type, adding a marker by address or coordinates, and passing the header JS, onload, map and sidebar output to a template view, with example scripts and further tutorials promised later (posted August 2010).

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