This started as a reply to a reddit poster claiming a USA-Turkey match in 2010 was “the highest attended soccer match ever” According to this the attendance was 55,407. Nice, but not the highest ever for soccer.http://www.ussoccer.com/news/mens-national-team/2010/05/turkey-game-report.aspx But not the larget for soccer that I can find. Portugal played the USA at RFK during the …
Why you don’t want to host your own video if you can avoid it. Please, just save yourself a headache, and host your video on YouTube, Vimeo, or some other third party service. They employ some very clever people who’ve solved all the problems with embedding video. From: Embedding HTML5 video is still pretty hard …
This past weekend, my colleague and friend Sandy Smith participated in Election Hackathon 2012 (read his take of the hackathon). We built our first public Musketeers.me product, Candidata.me. This was my first hackathon, and it was exciting and exhausting to bring something to life in little more than 24 hours. Our idea combined a number of …
I came across Dan Crow’s insights into startups and older workers this morning, and I couldn’t stop myself from nodding in agreement through out the article. Part of it, surely, is that I am now closer to 40 than 30. But everything he says about the value of spending time with family, the pointlessness of …
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Carl Erickson observes that a small, boutique team of developers can be massively more productive than a larger team. To complete projects of 100,000 equivalent source lines of code (a measure of the size of the project) they found the large teams took 8.92 months, and the small teams took 9.12 months. In other words, …
Anyone who can work in two in-context Monty Python references deserves to be read. By the way, while Wall Street may be responsible for bad things, it is Wall Street who financed putting a million miles of fiber optic cables crisscrossing continents and under oceans. It is Wall Street that financed the thousands of cell …
Startups today are almost half the size than they were a decade ago. It seems that a lot of the collaborative tools that have emerged over the last year help productivity so you can do more work with less employees. And I don’t think its just true for startups, I know at work we’re doing …
If crazy people would just stop doing insane things, then maybe we wouldn’t use them to refer to crazy stuff. From Nobody’s Business: Poor, Misunderstood Leatherface. The National Alliance on Mental Illness, or NAMI, is unhappy with pop-culture depictions of psychopaths and serial killers.
The MASR today ltalks to Coach Nowak, Eskandarian, and Bryan Namoff about United’s season so far. As a fan, you have to be happy with the best start ever, and being in 2nd place this early should pay off later in the season, barring a devastating losing streak. They also discuss Moreno’s form, which after …
DC United season assesment and thoughts on Jaime Moreno Read More »