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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 416 posts.
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How to Minimize Politics in Your Company
Ben Horowitz is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The
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The real truth on Wikipedia is in the edits
On Friday, I spoke at dConstruct in Brighton. Huge thanks to everyone at Clearleft , and everyone who came, for a really great time.
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Excellent analysis of Assange's Wikileaks motivations (from the horse's mouth)
(en Español) (auf Deutsch) (in het nederlands) “To radically shift regime behavior we must think clearly and boldly for if we have learned anything, it is that regimes do not want to be changed. We…
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Analysis of 50+ requests for my "Offer HN" conversion rate optimization help
Landing page optimization (LPO) is the process of optimizing landing pages to boost conversions. Learn tips & examples in this guide written by experts.
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John Gruber: I'll Tell You What's Fair
What’s goofy is the idea that Google would do this — to aggressively change Android from a BlackBerry/Windows Mobile competitor into an iPhone competitor — and that anyone would expect Apple not to retaliate, to instead just sit there and take it and allow all other aspects of their previous buddy-buddy corporate…
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What A CEO Does
I am posting this as a MBA Mondays post. But I did not learn this little lesson at business school. I learned it from a very experienced venture capitalist early in my post-MBA career. I was working on a CEO search for one of our struggling portfolio comapnies. We had a bunch of them. I […]
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Heroku Node.js Support (experimental)
UPDATE: Node.JS is now officially available on Heroku. Today we’re offering experimental support for node.js to a limited set of users. We know there is a.
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Everything you never wanted to know about file locking
1. Nobody really knows how to do it 2. If you think you have a reliable system for doing it, you're probably doing the computer's job -- "...
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Who killed Prolog?
There are a thousand programming languages out there (Literally, it seems, according to people who actually count such things.) A classification of so many species is bound to be complex and subjec…
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TeX line breaking algorithm in JavaScript (and HTML5 Canvas)
TeX line breaking algorithm in JavaScript. Contribute to bramstein/typeset development by creating an account on GitHub.
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So long, and thanks for the Ph.D.
A guide to surviving graduate school, from the perspective of what I wished I had known at the start but had to learn the hard way instead.
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Ruby 2.0 Refinements in Practice
First Shugo announced them at RubyKaigi. Then Matz showed some improved syntax at RubyConf. But what are refinements [http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/4085] all about, and what would they be used for? The first thing you need to understand is that the purpose of refinements in Ruby
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A real person, a lot like you
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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A new type of phishing attack. Works on savvy users.
In essence, a phishing attack is a kind of hack used by cybercriminals to trick victims into performing a certain activity. These emails are frequently sent
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I assume I'm below average
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.