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Will Olbrys

Phone Number: 917-720-5076 (text me)
Location: Brooklyn, NY

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Projects

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culturious by tauck
cynthia rowley ecommerce
joe coffee
the border film project

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Oct 19

» Git Shortcuts Like You've Never Seen Before | Made by Nathan

awesome git shortcuts

Oct 13

Anarchy/Alchemy. Thx @jendotlu.

Oct 12

A systematic approach to interactive visualization.

(via Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction)

Oct 04

“ Of course it takes tremendous amounts of time and effort and, for lack of a more scientific word, stick-to-itiveness, to make any real progress in the world. But time and effort and even stick-to-itiveness are not in infinite supply.

— Freakonomics » The Upside of Quitting: Full Transcript

Sep 26

“ If you’re going to count on the competition to bring out your best work, you’ve surrendered control over your most important asset. Real achievement comes from racing ahead when no one else sees a path—and holding back when the rush isn’t going where you want to go.

—

Seth’s Blog: Run your own race

Posted with Percolate

Storm: distributed and fault-tolerant realtime computation

If you process a lot of data you need to know about Storm. People smarter than you built something unique and interesting to process all that data of yours you’ve been collecting.

Miniature Tigers - Bullfighter Jacket
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Sep 21

LAUGHS by Everynone

Aug 27

» Data-Driven Documents - d3.js

D3 allows you to bind arbitrary data to a Document Object Model (DOM), and then apply data-driven transformations to the document. As a trivial example, you can use D3 to generate a basic HTML table from an array of numbers. Or, use the same data to create an interactive SVG bar chart with smooth transitions and interaction.

Aug 24

I Break Horses by Smog (1997 BBC Session) (on the youtube)

heard this version on the coldblooded old times ep.

Living breathing heart-beating flesh

But soon that warmth turned to an itch

Turned to a scratch

Turned to a gash

p.s. when you decide to call your band i break horses, go fuck yourself.

Aug 22

» Scaling Up Machine Learning

A presentation from KDD 2011. Based on the team’s upcoming book.

» The Petrichor Protocol Primitives

Aug 18

» spin.js

This has GOT to be the last spinner code ever written.

Aug 15

» GitHub now lets you edit/commit files on the site with Cloud9

sick.

Aug 11

» Comparing Mongo DB and Couch DB - MongoDB

I have been thinking about this exact comparison a lot lately. Check it out.