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Raj

@raj

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Former VP at Gartner, lead analyst cloud. Now building Perspect: Shopify + Vercel + ChatGPT

Boston, MA
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@raj
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1 year
Happened upon a ⁦ @xdannyxbrownx ⁩ mural in an alley in Detroit.
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@raj
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7 years
@AshaRangappa_ From my house to @SteveKingIA ’s.
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@raj
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4 months
@MOSSADil What kind of badass name is Cornelius Cornelius?
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1 month
@tribelaw The algorithm doesn’t think people will care enough about him to surface it to anyone who does not already follow him.
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@raj
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11 months
@SenWarren Please advocate for a travel ban of right wing Israeli extremists such as Smotrich and Ben Gvir. Send the message that Israeli Jihadism is equally abhorrent.
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1 year
@JRubinBlogger First step: convince his niece to do the same.
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@raj
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2 years
@joshelman England higher than Thailand tells you everything.
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@raj
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4 years
Name a more useful developer-focused tool than @getsentry .
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6 years
@davidaxelrod But can he take a roasting? Tall order for some leaders.
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2 years
@Andy9romero Such a good find. Is there a longer version of that anywhere? He was unjustly taken from this world and far too young at that. RIP.
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@raj
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6 years
@harikondabolu In Uganda, Indians eat Idli Amin.
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11 months
@QuinnyPig Is it awful that I thought of you immediately?
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@raj
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4 years
@kenjilopezalt Everything bagel seasoning is also shockingly good on naan and Indian food.
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@raj
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2 years
@findingnimesh Dosa N Curry/Veggie Crust (same owners, next door to each other, Indian pizza). Somerville, MA. Don’t want to be friends. Wouldn’t even talk to you. Would stare awkwardly like Indians do.
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@raj
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1 month
@QuinnyPig It’s one of the reasons I really like Costco.
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@raj
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2 years
@BriannaWu Not to mention the generations of Afghan and Iraqi children who will hate the US after losing by a parent or relative to unjust imprisonment or wanton violence.
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@raj
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5 months
@pitdesi If you walk by the Tootsie Roll plant in Cambridge, MA at the right time you can smell the candies being made.
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@raj
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2 years
@bijan @VP Congrats, Ambassador Sabet!
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@raj
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11 months
Chatting with PDFs is cool, but what's even cooler is turning those documents into other useful things, like slides for a presentation. #buildinpublic #indiehacker
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@raj
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5 months
@DalrympleWill Self-preservation all around.
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@raj
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5 years
While you guys are making sourdough I’m making naan with everything bagel seasoning, which is amazing with Indian food.
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@raj
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10 years
It’s all fun and games until Rob Thomas comes out on stage at a GBV show. Wait, wut?
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@raj
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7 months
My office this week has been in an unusual place. I have been working in a commercial kitchen in a newly opened Indian restaurant in the Kendall Square area of Cambridge called Depth 'N Green.
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@raj
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@raj
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11 months
@Mpolymer Also should apply tough sanctions against the Israeli politicians who encourage the settlements such as Smotrich and Ben-Gvir.
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@raj
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2 years
@sonamohapatra @palkisu @firstpost Might I also suggest a few other BBC documentaries? 1. Winston Churchill and the Tories: Britain's Past and Present Racist Culture 2. How Britain Planted the Seeds of Current Humanitarian Strife in Iran and Palestine 3. Britain: A Real Estate Haven For Russian Oligarchy
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@raj
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6 years
@ev Counter example: India where social hierarchy is systematically enshrined in the caste system and yet substantial portions of the public are vegetarians.
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@raj
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4 years
Parler is in clear violation of multiple clauses in the AWS acceptable use policy.
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Dan Primack
4 years
As I wrote yesterday, Apple/Google banning Parler from app stores is a much bigger deal than Twitter banning Trump. But if AWS were to remove Parler from its service, that would be bigger deal than all of the rest put together.
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@raj
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2 years
@WillGregorian @jeffbarr us-jeff-1 has a nice ring to it.
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@raj
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3 years
@rakyll @_msw_ Because it’s hard for people with limited knowledge to choose from the myriad of options that all look alike.
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@raj
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10 months
Why pay for an OpenAI subscription?
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@raj
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2 years
@MichelleObama @GayleKing Gayle King is an American treasure.
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@raj
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6 years
@bijan I used this company locally:
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@raj
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2 years
Final thought: when you hear a company say that its product is "S3-compatible" think about the long-tail of features such as this and ask "how compatible is it really??"
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@raj
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3 years
Made vermouth with whole chai masala spices and roasted tangerines.
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@raj
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4 months
@pitdesi Sounds crazy but I’m hearing great things about white sand beaches on the coast of Mozambique.
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@raj
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4 years
@chrisfralic The Strokes - Is This It
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@raj
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5 years
Pardon me while I pull out my centrifuge to make a cocktail.
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@raj
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3 years
The pizza I made for tonight: broccoli rabe with crispy garlic scapes on a thin NY crust.
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1 year
@gtconway3d My friend understanding is that documents created by an agency fall under the Federal Records Act as opposed to the Presidential Records Act. Is that correct? If so, then the PRA argument is irrelevant.
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@raj
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11 years
This car may be in a collision soon. http://t.co/wdGGFJW561
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@raj
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4 years
If you are pizza obsessed like me you will understand how excited I am at finding these canned tomatoes in Boston made by Pizzeria Bianco from Phoenix. Bought every last can.
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@raj
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2 years
I launched an AI service yesterday to help you build and deliver better PowerPoint presentations.
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@raj
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4 years
Current status. Naan stop action. What’s the recipe? It’s naan of your business.
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@raj
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1 month
@QuinnyPig Any guesses as to why I had 860,000 requests in one month to an SQS queue for a not-in-production queue?
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@raj
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10 months
Robert Kraft has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever with the Pats.
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@raj
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4 years
I call this pizza the "Alison Beddia" because it combines technique from Philly's Pizzeria Beddia with the sauce from @alisoneroman 's caramelized shallot pasta recipe. The crispy NY style crust made possible by the amazing @BakingSteel .
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@raj
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4 years
My exploration of making regional American pizza continues. Tonight: Detroit Red Stripe.
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@raj
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8 years
Median home prices per sq. foot near the MBTA stops in Boston and Cambridge. It's crazy.
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@raj
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2 years
I’m going to write an Indian Ice Cream cookbook. This one will be in it.
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@raj
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5 years
@AshaRangappa_ @MollyMcKew Lemon and/or mango pickles in a grilled cheese sando make it 💯 btw.
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@raj
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10 years
I've learned that losing focus is a cascading organizational problem that starts with product management.
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@raj
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2 years
Rare, but this is an actual LOL.
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2 years
Request for startups: RAID for bank deposits.
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@raj
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10 months
How do I make a feature suggestion to the @nytimes ? I want to never miss a piece by @farnazfassihi , @ronenbergman and @maggieNYT . I could follow them on the NYT app/site and get a notification when a new piece is published. The NYT app does not seem to use my behavior to
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Iran’s leaders find it easier to blame Israel for a deadly attack than to admit vulnerability to terrorism - even after the Islamic State took responsibility.
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@raj
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13 years
Twitter didn't kill RSS. Twitter killed message boards.
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@raj
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4 years
Queue the duckboats. That’s what happens when we win something in Boston. Amirite?
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@raj
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6 years
@ktumulty @peterbakernyt Donate to the Wounded Warriors which fired their execs for lavish spending to the tune of $800mm? Fox News link no less:
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@raj
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4 years
@brianleroux Not sure I understand. You’re suggesting that one should not call client.invoke() directly?
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4 years
👀
@ossoff
Jon Ossoff
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@pitchforkmedia Looking forward to your writeup of the new @imaginedragons album
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@raj
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7 years
@bijan @nickbilton Check out the bread documentary by Michael Pollan on Netflix. It will have you convinced that you need to bake your own bread.
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@raj
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4 years
Pizza Fridays.
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@raj
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2 years
Can you imagine how this would have turned out if true?
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@raj
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6 years
Showing that crying little kid in a Uruguay jersey is just wrong. #URUFRA
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@raj
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2 years
@levelsio I’ve tried a bunch of them and found that Ubuntu 20.04 works best for the Nvidia drivers required. At home I use PopOS because it includes Nvidia support out of the box.
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@raj
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6 months
@jedshug @andersoncooper @CNN I could have listened to a much longer version of the discussion that you just lead.
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@raj
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4 years
@danielpunkass I could see folks misinterpreting your exclamation of support for the opposite as if you were mocking them.
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5 months
@QuinnyPig I don’t understand how that will work when there are meaningful feature dependencies on using us-east-1 at least in part. SSL certs for Cloudfront and Lambda @Edge functions are two examples.
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@raj
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8 months
@sarahleah1 @Martin_Indyk @gantzbe @VP @POTUS Dangerous indeed. And it's precisely what Netanyahu did during the Obama administration.
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3 years
I was today years old when I learned what fresh dates look like.
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@raj
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2 years
To set the content-type of an object uploaded using an S3 pre-signed POST requires some interesting hijinks.
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@raj
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7 years
Whoa! Momokufu Milk Bar coming to Harvard Square!
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@raj
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9 months
All reviewed GQ products will get a mysterious 7.2 rating.
@nytimes
The New York Times
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Pitchfork, the storied music criticism site, will be merged with the men's magazine GQ, according to a memo from Anna Wintour, the chief content officer of Condé Nast, their parent company. Multiple employees within the online publication were laid off.
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1 year
@psychvsis @xdannyxbrownx It’s in the alley behind Grandma Bobs on Michigan Avenue.
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@raj
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6 years
@shahed @mehdirhasan @Walmart Bacon double cheeseburger advert in the background, but still.
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@raj
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10 months
@bindureddy My GPT costs money to use and people are paying for it already without the GPT store.
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@raj
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4 years
“Our sophisticated A.I. judges your awful taste in music.”
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@raj
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7 months
More of this.
@IhabHassane
Ihab Hassan
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An Israeli Jewish family offering dates to Palestinian Muslim worshippers outside Damascus Gate in Jerusalem during an evening in Ramadan. A small yet profoundly meaningful gesture in a time dominated by hatred, dehumanization, and calls for revenge from both sides.
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5 years
Thread of the year
@Robert_E_Kelly
Robert E Kelly
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The last few weeks of the Trump Show have been more awful than usual but also inadvertently revelatory @ Trump's coalition.If you've paid attention, you've suspected this stuff for a long time,but bc T says the quiet parts out loud,a lot of GOP masks have definitively dropped: /1
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4 years
@chrisfralic “White Van Parked Outside”
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7 months
We're having a pop-up this weekend and would love for you to join us. The flavors are incredibly unique.
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7 years
@tedr We met once in 2007 while I was visiting SF from Cambridge, but I would hug you like we were old friends.
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11 years
Please adhere to this simple rule: only make comparisons to Nazis when genocide is being discussed. Nothing else works. Ever.
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3 months
@myles_cooks Same trick works for pressure cooker caramelized onions btw. It’s the Maillard reaction in both.
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4 years
@danielpunkass Checkout the crust on my Pizza Friday.
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11 years
@GrahamBlog Where were you when GW oversaw one of the largest govt expansions in US history with the Prescription Drug Plan for Seniors?
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@raj
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8 years
I’m enamored with this band. Love that @napeyes insists on recording their records live rather than overdubbed.
@jonpierce
Jon Pierce
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. @raj and I saw these guys open for GbV last week. Now can’t get enough. Gorgeous track. Nap Eyes - Lion in Chains
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@raj
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7 months
To give you a sense of how unique the flavors are: Pushpir has sourced exquisite chocolate and raw cane sugar from Mysore, the extract of rhododendron flower from Uttarakhand and cardamom from Karnataka.
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@raj
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2 years
@zachklein Nooran Sisters are qawwali punk rock. Heard this banger recently:
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@raj
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11 years
Stumbled upon this commit message from Aaron Swartz today: "live up to @mitsuhiko 's ridiculous expectations" :)
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@raj
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2 years
“Yoga Pants” will definitely make it into my Indian Ice Cream book.
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@raj
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5 years
@ashou_singh Been listening to New Beginnings on Spotify a bunch lately. Particularly like the part midway through the song when it takes an unexpected turn almost into an entirely new song.
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@raj
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4 years
Joe Biden chose Kamala Harris on Janmashtami. Auspicious.
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@raj
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2 years
Developing a new ice cream flavor for my book.
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5 years
@fredwilson @aweissman @whitneymcn @naomics2 Dogs by Joyero is also great. Heard that one on Merge’s anniversary comp:
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