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Author Archives: kfarr
Why I resigned from Geary Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) board
I love Bus Rapid Transit (BRT). Implementing BRT is recognized by transportation professionals across the world as a proven set of techniques to significantly improve a bus line’s performance with little up-front investment in costly infrastructure such as rail. BRT … Continue reading
Posted in happiness, politics, tech, transit
Tagged brt, bus rapid transit, cta, geary, geary brt, mta, san francisco, sfcta, sfmta, transit, transportation, transportation authority
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New Year’s Post: Life Goals and 2013 Resolutions
I love flying. I feel as though it gives me a greater perspective on myself and the rest of the universe. I wanted to take advantage of this on my recent flight back to San Francisco after visiting my family … Continue reading
Posted in family, happiness
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Video SEO Sitemap Standards and Documentation get a Refresh from Google and Partners
I don’t know about you, but nothing gets me more excited than video SEO! (Well, at least it’s a close second after racing cars, driving taxis, and public transportation, but none of those pay the bills at the moment.) By the … Continue reading
Posted in internets, marketing, media, tech, work
Tagged documentation, schema.org, seo, sitemap, standards, vidcaster, video search engine, video seo, video seo optimization, video sitemap
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The sky is not falling
I am writing to share some reactions to Claire Cain Miller’s piece in the New York Times, “Silicon Valley Booms but Worries About a New Bust.” I met Claire at the Founder Showcase event she mentions in her article and … Continue reading
Posted in econ, internets, media, tech, work
Tagged boom, bust, farr, fundraising, gross margin, kfarr, kieran, new york, new york times, nyt, nytimes, quote, saas, silicon valley
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One thing that you will learn quickly is that a computer is very dumb. It does exactly what you tell it to do, which is not necessarily what you wanted. —Introduction to Computer Programming from Berkeley Foundation for Opportunities in … Continue reading
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Emergency!
Working taxi dispatch phones, I received a call around 1am from a group of loud women. “We have an emergency, we need a taxi immediately.” (Loud yelling in the background.) “What’s going on? Is anybody injured?” “No, nobody is injured. … Continue reading
Posted in taxi
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Woman in Tears
I worked taxi dispatch phones Friday night, answering hundreds of calls from people looking for a cab all across the City during the busiest time of the week. A woman had called around 10pm for a cab from the Richmond … Continue reading
Posted in politics, taxi, transit
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Python Multithreaded S3 Bucket-to-Bucket Copy (on Amazon Web Services)
For both backup and staging purposes, we regularly need to backup an entire S3 bucket to another bucket. AWS has no built-in function to do this, nor does the boto Python library. We started off with a simple for key … Continue reading
Take Me to Chinatown
I drove Thursday this week, a day after the SF Giant’s World Series Parade attracted record crowds. The morning was spent driving to and from the airport — I had 4 trips to SFO before noon. In the afternoon I … Continue reading