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A Skeptical Look at Dwight Lundell, M.D.
Dwight C. Lundell, M.D. lost medical license in 2008. Since that time he has been promoting books that clash with established scientific knowledge of heart ...
Transfer of Wikipedia sites from GoDaddy complete
After months of deliberation and a complicated transfer, the Wikimedia Foundation domain portfolio has been successfully transferred from GoDaddy to MarkMonitor. The portfolio transfer was formally…
The Ruby on Rails Tutorial, now with Twitter's Bootstrap
News & blog about Learn Enough (including the Ruby on Rails Tutorial)
A fresh new Dropbox on the web
Modern work can be frustrating and chaotic—if you don’t have the right tools. From context engineering to multimodal search, go behind the scenes and hear how Dropbox engineers are building AI that actually understands you, so you can focus on the work that matters most.
New Reddit CEO reporting for duty
Get the latest product news, company announcements, and user insights from the official Reddit blog.
What being on the front page of Hacker News does for our bottom line
There’s been some speculation that we significantly increased the amount of posts here on SvN in the build up to the launch of the new Basecamp, and in particular that we targeted the front page of Hacker News for those articles. Some people aren’t happy about this. I’d like to…
OpenStreetMap: Welcome Apple
Yesterday Apple launched iPhoto, its photo management app, for the iPad and iPhone… and we’re rather pleased to find they’re the latest to switch to OpenStreetMap.
Securing Your Domain Against Seizure: Where Is Safe to Register a Domain Name?
The Gun.io blog: insights on hiring software developers, AI in engineering, distributed teams and how to build high-performing technical teams.
HipChat acquired by Atlassian
Atlassian and Slack have forged a new strategic partnership.
Criticism is a Two Way Street - Things you should know before criticising
A post by Jason Fried titled “Give it 5 minutes” reminded me of a great technique I learned about from Bill Buxton. Bill is a Principal Researcher in Microsoft where his main role focuses on designing…
Announcing the jQuery Foundation
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
Sencha Touch 2.0
Sencha Touch 2.0 is built for amazing apps, delivering a faster core, improved performance, and powerful tools for mobile app development.
Mari0=Mario + Portal ..Open source game
Great improvement from my previous tile selection. I was actually still using the same tile selection code that I wrote way back in January when this started. Now there's a nice editor menu with tabs and stuff. The filters at the top and the sorting things don't work yet. All in good time.
PHP 5.4.0 released
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
Give it five minutes
A few years ago I used to be a hothead. Whenever anyone said anything, I’d think of a way to disagree. I’d push back hard if something didn’t fit my world-view. It’s like I had to be first with an opinion – as if being first meant something. But what it really meant…