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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 503 posts.
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NYTimes.com Announces Map/Reduce Toolkit
Recently we’ve been exploring the on-demand storage and computation tools offered by Amazon Web Services, along with an open-source toolkit called Apache Hadoop. The result is many computers working together to answer questions about our users.
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Why I haven’t been blogging as much
News and announcements from your friends at Balsamiq.
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Backup your Database in Git
Short version : dump your production database into a git repository for an instant backup solution.
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Clojure 1.0
After a sustained period of API stability and minimal bug reports, I'm happy to announce the release of Clojure 1.0! http://clojure.googleco...
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Sam Odio and the EFF vs. Apple Inc.
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed suit against Apple Inc. today to defend the First Amendment rights of an operator of a noncommercial, public Internet "wiki" site known as BluWiki. EFF and the San Francisco law firm of Keker...
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Google: Mowing lawn with goats
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Flight Control (#1 paid app) iPhone Game Sales Numbers
When we launched Flight Control on 6 March 2009, we made a committment to share our sales numbers with the game development community. At th...
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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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Heroku: Commercial Launch (YC W08)
When Adam, Orion, and I started Heroku two years ago, we had no idea how much new technology we would have to build to realize our vision of an instant...
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Attention Developers: Google Analytics API Launched
A Google Analytics API has long been one of our most widely anticipated features. Today we're pleased to announce that the Google Analytics ...
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First reprapped circuit
Blog for the RepRap project at www.reprap.org - a project to create an open-source self-copying 3D printer. To get all the early posts on this blog with all the images as a single PDF visit this page .
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Boston College Campus Police: "Using Prompt Commands" May Be a Sign of Criminal Activity
On Friday, EFF and the law firm of Fish and Richardson filed an emergency motion to quash [pdf] and for the return of seized property on behalf of a Boston College computer science student whose computers, cell phone, and other property were seized as part of an investigation into who sent an e-...
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Lord of the REPLs
While working on App Engine's new Java runtime , we realized that we were missing something important. Something the Python runtime already...
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Will it lens?
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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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.