So it turns out this:
elb-configure-healthcheck prod-lb —healthy-threshold 2 —interval 30 —target “http:80/index.php” —timeout 15 —unhealthy-threshold 5
and this:
RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto} !https
RewriteRule !/status https://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R]
are not compatible…
So once a year you decide you’re going to lose weight, get in shape and finally learn to speak Italian? fuck that.
Here’s what you need to do. Write down some things you NEED to get done. READ that list to yourself EVERY DAY. If anything on that list is still on that list in a year then YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG.
Pursue. Attack. Destroy. Repeat.
Here is your homework: Do something dangerous that makes you uncomfortable. No, do something that scares the fuck out of you. Check back in with me when that’s done.
To all the non-believers:
unlike what you’ve been taught by your television, it is necessary to alter the world in order to have lived in it. If you fail to change the course of history at all then no action you ever took meant anything. if that doesn’t bother you then you are already dead.
if you don’t know the shape or size of the dent you will make in the universe then hurl yourself at it with all your might and do the most destructive, violent, creative thing you can think of.
if you make a big enough impression in the universe, others will see it and want to make their own. if you fail to make any impression, continue hurling yourself into it until you succeed.
if you hit it hard enough you might just get lucky and blow the whole fucking thing up.
in all cases the most common mode of failure it INACTION. when presented with choices, choosing naught is immediate failure.
choose a course and attack it with FEROCITY. pursue it with every sinew of strength you can muster. let no obstacle deter you. nothing else matters.
do something that makes you hate yourself for not doing it better. fuck being comfortable.
JUST FUCKING DO SOMETHING.
CAN’T WAIT.
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I’ve been doing location and mobile stuff for a while - for more than 10 years now. So the fact that there are 15 million people on Foursquare is a big deal. We get more users in half a day than Dodgeball had in its entire existence. So, I don’t really pay much attention to those studies.
If you look at the Forrester studies for Twitter three years ago, it’s like, “This isn’t interesting. There’s 1 percent of people tweeting what they had for lunch.” I’m sure they nailed their research story, but it didn’t turn out to be true.
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People that do research reports are like that friend you have that bets on sports and never wins. You have no fucking idea how or why they continue to do the same losing thing over and over again but they do. And the best part is they are always confident that at sometime in the future they will be right.
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For a long time it’s been status quo for companies to have a “jobs” or “careers” page on their website.
Sometimes it’s something hideous like a link to some outsourced portal that will suck the life out of you the moment you try to search for an opening in one of their 117 global offices (Looking at you, multinational defense contractors…).
At small companies, though, it’s usually just a list of a few job openings that may or may not still be open depending on how busy the person with access to the content has been lately.
Startups
And then there is this new wave of catchy, compelling and soulful attempts to sell the visitor on the corporate culture. This movement isn’t new but it’s become ever more fervent and creative.
Take, for example, the infamous Hipster campaign to give a year supply of PBR as a referral bonus.
Good Examples
When I took a job at CoffeeCup Software my interest was due in no small measure to their creativity and humor. It was clear from the “About Us” page that they took pride in their little company and enjoyed working together. Once I started there I realized quickly that their culture was real and I quickly assimilated.
Similarly, the Twilio jobs page has evolved and now shows their own strong company culture and unique brand of personality and humor.
Having worked there I can tell you that their strong company culture is one of their biggest success factors. More about that in another post maybe…
Another good example I saw today is the Wordpress Engine team. Lots of emphasis on fitting in and being at home.
They’re clearly looking for the right person instead of just a warm body.
To do that, they lay out their corporate culture before you and let you judge for yourself how you fit it.
What about your company?
What does your jobs page say about your company? Can visitors to your site get any sense of your company culture? Do you get serious applications from serious talent or crazy random CV that make little or no sense?
i can’t say this has never happened to me…
Obama for America: Hi, Tumblr. -
It’s nice to meet you.
There are lots of reasons we’re excited to be launching the Obama 2012 campaign’s new Tumblr today. But mostly it’s because we’re looking at this as an opportunity to create something that’s not just ours, but yours, too.
We’d like this Tumblr to be a huge…
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about motivation. What is it that makes some people willing to push themselves to the breaking point? Why doesn’t everyone have that drive?
Mostly I’m curious about the subject because I have an 11 year old daughter and I’m trying to inspire her to think big, dream big. Think Different. I wish I could go back now to talk to my 11 year old self and give that shy young man a pep talk.
So when news of Steve Jobs passing away exploded on Twitter yesterday as we were sitting down to dinner it was all I could do to stay composed in front of the kids and I didn’t even know the man. He was my childhood hero. Steve was the ultimate Doer, the very definition of a driven individual with an unwavering belief in himself and what he was building and he was an inspiration to millions of young geeks.
When I was 5 my family bought an Apple II and I learned to write BASIC programs. I wrote a number guessing game for my younger sister after learning how to generate random integers in a magazine. My dad and I soldered a new resistor onto the motherboard to replace a faulty potentiometer that controlled the brightness of the display. We punched holes in floppy disks. I hacked my SE/30 and my Performa with ResEdit. I removed all the vowels from a friends keyboard mapping as a prank. I built games with Hypercard. I wrote music on a NeXT cube using CSound.
I remember hearing stories about the groups of computer enthusiasts that built the first personal computers and the first switches and routers. I was fascinated by the idea that two men in a garage could start a company that could challenge the giants of industry.
When I started my own company a few years ago I knew I was up against formidable odds. Pursuing companies with a 5 year head start and millions in revenue from my couch didn’t seem crazy to me and that’s because of the trail that was blazed many years before by brave, driven people.
My company ultimately failed when my co-founder and I stopped pushing ourselves but I never regretted starting it or closing it down. Ultimately if you don’t believe in your idea then nobody else will either and you shouldn’t be doing it.
Here’s the thing. You only have so much time. Spend it doing something that gets you fired up. If somebody has to push you to do something, you’re doing the wrong thing. I left my Fortune500 job a couple of years ago because I had been there for 6 years ( a huge chunk of my life) and it wasn’t going anywhere. It needed to be about more than a paycheck for me.
Do Something. Be Something. Rest in Peace, Steve.
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” — Steve Jobs
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So I know I said I wasn’t going to go online during this flight. It turns out I’m not good at Kindle reading for 4 hours and even though I fell asleep before we even took off that liter of Dr. Pepper kicked in somewhere over Arkansas.
Ultimately the temptation to use the free GoGo Wireless code I received for upgrading to Priority Seating™ was too great… the 572 digit coupon code wqs buried in my email! I had gotten that coupon on 5/24 and I only had my phone set to sync my inbox back 4 days so now I couldn’t get to it while offline.
FOOK ME, RIGHT? SRSLY.
I took out my android phone (HTC G2) to play Angry Birds but then I changed my mind. Even though it was in airplane mode I turned on the WiFi and connected to the GoGo Inflight HotSpot. What the hell, right? I got nothing else to do.
BAM.
I have new email! I was shocked. Apparently you can send and receive emails on your Android Device even if you haven’t paid for access.
So I was able to get to the aforementioned 8673 digit coupon code and get online after all.
Only now I just want to take a nap.