Yep – we climb this mountain from both sides…
It was hot day, so the second climb was much harder.
You can see more details and even see the ride in 3D (if you have Google earth).
Category Archives: life
Do Bankers Cheat More Than Politicians? (yes! 2 to 1)
Dan Ariely research and books are excellent! I’ve just finishing his second book “The Upside of Irrationality”.
Here is a short example to the wonderful world he is clearing for us:
A Good Example to an Elevator Pitch
Very nice idea… As for this start up, I’m not sure what will be their revenue stream since this space is:
1. Crowded like crazy. The big guys are there (google, yahoo local, yelp etc’) and some cool start ups like Techcrunch 50 winner – RedBeacon. They are doing the same.
2. Local is very hard because it is a pure tail game. Even if they will try to focus on the 5 biggest cities in the USA first, it is still very hard to build an index and have a community to put comments/reviews/thumbs/scores on all these little business.
We will see…
How much are these Apples?
Great video that show you how to world has change and a lot of people are evaluating everything just by the ‘packaging’ and the ‘fancy’ descriptions.
What a real life examples? go to Draegers and then just go to Trader Joe’s – for the SAME cheese you will pay in Draegers… much much more.
The Best Motivator?
It’s not money… Once you get above rudimentary cognitive skill –> Rewards don’t works the way you think they should. It’s the opposites around.
Marathon Tel Aviv – Hot Hot Hot
In a nutshell, it was the hardest marathon I did due to the fact that the weather was…
How can I put it? hot as the desert in a very hot day. Overall, it was great event with lots of good friends running ‘around’ you in the marathon, half-marathon and 10k race.
Amarel did her first half-marathon and she did it in an excellent way! Very cool!
Now it is time to drink something…
Great Cycling Day With Two Mountains: Montebello-HWY9
Here is a little ‘recovery’ day I did yesterday with a good friend.
For full details:
Montebello-HWY9 With Guy Marom.
Yes – cycling in the bay area is an amazing adventure.
All the little roads that clip to HWY 35 are super nice.
Advanced jQuery & Javascript For Your Web App
This is an excellent 25min that (the one and only) John Resig gave at the Future of Web Apps conference in Miami 2010.
If you don’t know when to use the new features of jQuery 1.4.2 like: .live and .delegate events – you must see it.
Main points to take home with you:
- Event delegation – Event delegation is a technique that routes around the traditional method of binding events. You must understand it and start using it if you have apps that use a lot of DOM elements. The example he gave was of a table with 10,000 cells. You do not need to bind the event to each cell but rather one event to the table element and by using the bubbling of events in the browser these events will be executed with less code and more efficiency.
- Use CDN. What is a CDN you ask? Well, A CDN is short for Content Delivery Network and what that effectively translates into is a bunch of geo-position data centers around the globe. Not all of us have the finances to build a whole bunch of data centers all around, but there are a number of great services that handle this. Amazon CloudFront is one that we (at High Gear Media) use and they are good and cheap.
- Minifying and gzipping your JavaScript. Easy and save lots of time. Performance – performance – performance (like Steve balamer like to say).
- Use jQuery UI and don’t re-invent the wheel. jQuery UI is a set of components and set of widgets that you can use, you can drop into your application, and they will just work. I’ve used them over and over again and each time they are getting better and better with a great API that let you (the developer) all the power to customize and work with them.
The Top 10 Air Time Around The World
Did I told you I love red-bull?
They are a great company that invest in crazy/cool people.
Ido Green 
