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Audion - The Story behind Panic's 2nd product
Is it just me? I mean, do you ever wonder about the stories behind everyday products?
Most cited
Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 62 posts.
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Dev stays without pay to finish Mac Graphing Calculator as skunkworks project
Pacific Tech's Graphing Calculator has a long history. I began the work in 1985 while in school. That became Milo , and later became part of FrameMaker . Over the last twenty years, many people have contributed to it. Graphing Calculator 1.0, which Apple bundled with the original PowerPC computers, originated under…
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Steve Jobs to 2005 graduates: ‘Stay hungry, stay foolish’
Drawing from some of the most pivotal points in his life, Steve Jobs, chief executive officer and co-founder of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, urged graduates to pursue their dreams and see the opportunities in life’s setbacks—including death itself—at the university’s 114th Commencement on Sunday in…
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Reddit Inc Blog Homepage
Get the latest product news, company announcements, and user insights from the official Reddit blog.
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Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage
Get all of the latest cloud storage news and insights from Backblaze - the leading independent cloud storage provider.
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Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit by Aleph One
An excellent (if a bit dated) article/tutorial on exploiting buffer overflow vulnerabilities. It was written by Aleph One for Phrack 49.
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Tell HN: Cinch, W7-like window management for OSX
Cinch allows you to resize your windows simply by dragging them to a screen edge
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PEP 289 – Generator Expressions
This PEP introduces generator expressions as a high performance, memory efficient generalization of list comprehensions PEP 202 and generators PEP 255.
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Getting Real
The smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web application
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Jason Fried: Get Satisfaction is "awfully close to blackmail"
Get Satisfaction, a third-party customer service app/community, allows customers to offer feedback, make suggestions, get their questions answered, and generally get help with a product or service. A good idea Building support/community infrastructure is a pain point for a lot of companies. The…
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Language Log » Orwell's Liar
January 10, 2009 @ 1:19 am · Filed by David Beaver under Peeving , Prescriptivist poppycock
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Apple Says iPhone Jailbreaking is Illegal
Jailbreaking an iPhone constitutes copyright infringement and a DMCA violation, says Apple in comments filed with the Copyright Office as part of the 2009 DMCA triennial rulemaking. This marks the first formal public statement by Apple about its legal stance on iPhone jailbreaking.Apple's iPhone,...
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PEP 374 – Choosing a distributed VCS for the Python project
Python Enhancement Proposals (PEPs)
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Clojure - Rationale
Customers and stakeholders have substantial investments in, and are comfortable with the performance, security and stability of, industry-standard platforms like the JVM. While Java developers may envy the succinctness, flexibility and productivity of dynamic languages, they have concerns about running on…
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Stack Overflow Creative Commons Data Dump
We decided early on that all user-generated content on Stack Overflow would be under a Creative Commons license . All those great Stack Overflow questions, answers, and comments, so generously contributed by all of you , are licensed under cc-wiki (also known as cc-by-sa ):
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A new compression algorithm to make Google Chrome updates small
We have just started using a new compression algorithm called Courgette to make Google Chrome updates small. We have built Google Chrome to ...
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What is the minimum viable product?
Eric Ries and I recently sat down to talk about minimum viable products: the product with just the necessary features to get money and feedback from early adopters. The minimum viable product (MVP)…
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It’s very easy to underprice your product
What’s the right price for your product? According to Steve Blank, it’s apparently $0. And it’s also $1 million. What? Listen to this wonderful story to learn how Steve uses these…
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Introducing the Google Chrome OS
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Python language moratorium is accepted
This PEP proposes a temporary moratorium (suspension) of all changes to the Python language syntax, semantics, and built-ins for a period of at least two years from the release of Python 3.1. In particular, the moratorium would include Python 3.2 (to b...
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Google Open Source Blog: Introducing Android Scripting Environment
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
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The Value of Downvoting, or, How Hacker News Gets It Wrong
Paul Graham's Hacker News is a great website to find interesting programming links and sane discussion. The site reflects a sort of post- Reddit sensibility; the design of HN was directly intended to address the shortcomings of programming.reddit.com from someone very much on the inside (Reddit was a Paul Graham Y…
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