The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 812 posts.
The Nymwars rage on. Over the past several weeks Google has been engaged in a very public struggle with its users over its “real names” policy on Google+, prompting blog posts and editorials debating the pros and cons of allowing pseudonymous accounts on social networking sites. But there is one...
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
Programming languages are silos. The libraries, development tools, deployment practices, and even naming schemes associated with one language — say, Ruby —
The length of text lines substantially impacts their readability — yet this is often overlooked in e-commerce. See our latest test findings on line length readability.
String formatting is probably something you do just about every day in Python, and never think about. It's so easy, just "%d %d" % (i, i) ...
Last year Push Pop Press set off to re-imagine the book. We created a new way of publishing and exploring text, images, audio, video and interactive graphics, then teamed up with Melcher Media and Al Gore to create a new kind of book. The result is Al Gore's Our Choice , which was released earlier this year. The…
The blog you are searching for has been archived. Visit Eos for the latest Earth and space science news or go to the AGU homepage.
About 3 months ago, we set off on a little experiment into the world of the Amazon App Store. Back then people were hailing it as the solution to the problems with the Google Market, industry pundi…
While he was over in the UK for a book tour and lecture series, Professor Donald Knuth made time to talk to BCS editor Justin Richards about his life.
This is the blog post that led to Myna . Sign up now and help us beta test the world’s fastest A/B testing product!
Sublime Text 2 Build 2091 is available now, with a raft of new features. Many thanks to everyone who has tested the dev builds during this time.
The product version you are looking for is no longer the most current release. Please visit one of the links on the right to get the latest version, download an archived version, or learn more about JavaSE.
The free Web tutoring service “Khan Academy” has gotten much well-deserved attention, including a feature story in the current issue of Wired . That story includes a quote that literally took my breath away :
By Ram Ramani, Engineering Manager Update 7/29/11: We were notified of a bug in the measurement tool that sometimes causes incorrect meas...
After 12 preview releases, 5 beta versions, and 6 release candidates, I'm very proud to announce the immediate availability of Symfony 2.0, final version.
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and outreach programs for early career developers.
The Sophos Blog
Most people have an inkling of what the load averages mean: the three numbers represent averages over progressively longer periods of time (one, five, and fifteen-minute averages), and that lower numbers are better. Higher numbers represent a problem or an overloaded machine.
The W3C seeks information about access control systems available before October 2005 and content distribution systems before April 2006 that offer a viable solution that may apply to the use of access requests policy in Widgets . Such information could suggest ways to define a specification that can achieve the…
Test your English vocabulary size and measure how many words you know with Preply's free test (ex. Testyourvocab.com). For children, adults and EFL/ESL learners.
(echoes of a broken system) UPDATE: Aaron committed suicide on January 11, 2013.(!) More on his life here. Aaron Swartz is a friend and Cambridge-area polymath whose projects focus on access to kno…
I would say that alternative name of this book could be “How to think”. It is a must read.
