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When it comes to acquisitions, there are only two things worth buying: products and customers. When you buy either, you’re buying a solid stream of revenue. All you have to do is not fuck it up. That’s harder than you think, but the good news is that there is room for error. Fuck it up …
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Every time a young, promising start-up is bought out by a stodgy, old incumbent, the world is flush with congratulations. Congratulations to the team, island mojitos now await them. Congratulations to the venture capitalist, their past nine flops can fade in the background for a week. Congratulatio…
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Why NoSQL Matters “NoSQL” is a label which encompasses a wave of innovation now happening in the database space. The NoSQL movement has sparked a whirlwind
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When an Apple iOS device (iPhone, iPad, iPod) connects to a WiFi network, the first thing it does is make a request to the URL http://www.ap...
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Announcing Micro Instances for Amazon EC2
Reviews the history of why psychologists moved from a word shape model of word recognition to a letter recognition model.
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Unix programming can be tricky. There are many subtleties many developers are not aware of. In this post, I will describe just two of them.....
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Since the announcement that we will discontinue development of Google Wave as a standalone product, many people have asked us about the fut...
First, some background. I grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico... OK, wait a minute, you don't need that much background. In the beginning there was Stack Overflow. When we set up Stack Overflow, we knew people would use it to ask questions about lots and lots of different programming topics. Instead of the traditional…
When collaborating with lots of engineers as we do here at Google, it’s important to keep a consistent coding style. To this end, we recent...
Many people ask me, “How can I get started in web design?” or, “What skills do I need to start making web applications?” While it would be easy to recommend stacks of books, and dozens of articles with 55 tips for being 115% better than the next guy, the truth is that you do…
Posted by Doug Aberdeen, Software Engineer People tell us all the time that they’re getting more and more mail and often feel overwhelmed by...
