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Some Brutally Honest iPhone App Sales Numbers: $32k Spent vs $535 Revenue
I will freely admit, I’ve been avoiding writing this article. In fact, as I type this, I’m still not sure that it’s something that I want to do. However, again, I come back to that damn promise I made when I started this whole thing about being open and honest. Curse me and my big mouth! I also stated just over a week…
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Obfuscated Erlang Competition Results
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There's always time to launch your dream
“I’d love to start a company / become a great programmer / write an awesome blog, but there’s just not enough time in the day!” Bullshit. There’s always enough time, you’re just not spending it right. Now that’s some tough love, but I’m sick and ti…
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How did the web lose faith in charging for stuff?
We’ve been talking about the basic wonder of putting a price on your product for such a long time that it almost seems trite at this point. I certainly thought that point would have lost propulsion long ago, but I keep being surprised by the contrary. It seems that the web has been so thor…
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The Value of Downvoting, or, How Hacker News Gets It Wrong
Paul Graham's Hacker News is a great website to find interesting programming links and sane discussion. The site reflects a sort of post- Reddit sensibility; the design of HN was directly intended to address the shortcomings of programming.reddit.com from someone very much on the inside (Reddit was a Paul Graham Y…
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Why the Wii will never get any better
Yes, this is another Wii rant. There are plenty of other articles talking about the poor recent game offerings, the hardware limitations, and the primitive online play. I’m not here to talk about those. Instead, I’m going to talk about the Wii’s software stack, and how it compares to other consoles.
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JQuery UI 1.7 Released: New domain, New CSS Framework & Dramatic Updates to Controls
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The Death Of Dynamic Range
1983 - Bryan Adams - Cuts Like a Knife (A&M CD-3288) This represents the earliest stage of CD audio mastering techniques. One of the big attractions of the CD format was its very wide dynamic range and absence of surface noise, so the first generation of CDs that were released made full use of this. The CD's digital…
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Wolfram|Alpha Is Coming
A computational knowledge engine accessing trillions of pieces of curated data and millions of lines of algorithms will soon be released by Wolfram Research.
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On Building A Stupidly Fast Graph Database
It’s pretty clear to computer science geeks that Directed Edge is supposed to be doing groovy things with graphs. In fact our recommendation engine, and some of the things that are unique about our approach to recommendations, are built on our super-fast graph database. When we went live yesterday with the latest…
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Why is the DOS path character "\"?
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The most surprising thing I've seen in 2009, courtesy of Etherpad
Real-time collaborative editing where authorship is the default, your server is the only server, and you decide what AI (if any) ever touches your text.
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Why I chose Clojure/CouchDB for a new site
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You can go beyond quotas now on Google AppEngine
Posted by Brett Slatkin, App Engine Team We're psyched to announce that developers can now purchase additional computing resources on App ...
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How IMVU learned its way to $10M a year
“Lean startups are built from the ground up for learning about customers.” – Eric Ries I recently sat in on Eric Ries’ presentation on lean startups at Berkeley. The slides and audio ar…
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Heroku: Why Instant Deployment Matters (YC W08)
How much better are two steps than three? Does it matter if something takes five minutes instead of twenty? When it comes to software deployment and...
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Last.fm: "Techcrunch are full of shit"
On Friday night a technology blog called Techcrunch posted a vicious and completely false rumour about us: that Last.fm handed data to the RIAA so they could track who’s been listening to the “leaked” U2 album.