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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 812 posts.
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Google buys Zagat
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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A 1970s Cray-1 hard drive has been imaged
Two different, but somewhat related additions to the archive you might want to check out. First, I was contacted earlier this week about a project to recover information off of an old Cray-1 supercomputer hard drive. Unlike, say, trying to get your old floppies to read or pulling an old mix tape off of a
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DevDays 2011 is Cancelled
It’s my fault, actually. I took a perfectly good thing (DevDays ’09) and gold plated it until it was a different thing.
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Reddit becomes reddit Inc.
Get the latest product news, company announcements, and user insights from the official Reddit blog.
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Setting Up A New Machine for Ruby Development - as used at 37signals these days
It used to be a jarring experience to setup a new machine for development, but progress has paved the dirt road into a silky smooth autobahn. These are the tools we use today: Homebrew: Remember how painful it used to be to get imagemagick installed? Now it takes about a minute. “brew insta…
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People are biased against creative ideas, studies find
While people say they welcome creative ideas, they are in fact frightened by them and favor the tried and true, according to a new ILR School study. (Aug. 25, 2011)
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Dr. Brian May on Freddie Mercury's creativity
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DigiNotar Damage Disclosure (with full list of issued certs)
About an hour ago I was contacted by the Dutch Government with more details about the DigiNotar...
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DigiNotar root CA trust removal follow-up
Earlier this week we revoked our trust in the DigiNotar certificate authority from all Mozilla software. This is not a temporary suspension, it is a complete removal from our trusted ...
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A fall spring-cleaning - Google products getting shut down
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Using Gmail, Calendar and Docs without an Internet connection
Posted by Benoît de Boursetty, Product Manager (Cross-posted on the Google Enterprise Blog ) The great thing about web apps is that you...
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Sublime Text 2 (Build 2111) gets vi key bindings, indent guides
Sublime Text 2 Build 2111 is available now , with new features including indent guides, improved project support, new commands for working with HTML, and last but not least, Vintage Mode , adding support for vi key bindings.
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An update on attempted man-in-the-middle attacks
Posted by Heather Adkins, Information Security Manager Today we received reports of attempted SSL man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks again...