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International Day Against DRM
EVENT TODAY: We're taking this day to educate people about the threats of DRM and the current policy challenges we face around DRM. We just completed a live video discussion at 10:00 AM PDT / 1:00 PM EDT to learn more about these fights and what we can do to take back our rights to control over the...
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Atom Is Now Open Source
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
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How to talk to an open source project as a large scale or interesting user
The very short version: if you contact an open source project anonymously, you may not get the best help.
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TextSecure's Private Group Messaging
One of the major features we introduced in the TextSecure v2 release was private group chat. We believe that group chat is an important feature for encrypted communications projects, so we wanted to try to summarize some of the existing work in this area, as well as how TextSecure’s group chat pr...
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Startup School is going global
In the past few years, we’ve seen more founders from around the world coming to Silicon Valley to start startups. In YC’s W14 batch alone, we had founders from 22 different countries, and every year we see an increasing number of international applicants. We want to help founders from all over learn about startups, so…
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HyperSwitch
Yet another window switcher for your Mac.
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Linus Torvalds Receives 2014 IEEE Computer Pioneer Award
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GitHub Language Trends
A while ago, I wanted to get a little quick feedback on some data I was playing with, but the day was almost over and I wasn’t done working on it yet. I decided to tweet my rough draft of a graph of GitHub language trends anyway, followed later by a slight improvement. Much to my surprise,
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Thinking in Types
A programming language with a type system can help you design abstractions and avoid mistakes.
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Help EFF test Privacy Badger, our new browser extension for privacy
EFF is launching a new extension for Firefox and Chrome called Privacy Badger. Privacy Badger automatically detects and blocks spying ads around the Web, and the invisible trackers that feed information to them. You can try it out today: Privacy Badger is EFF's answer to intrusive and objectionable...
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Porting 600k Map Views to OpenStreetMap/MapBox
This past week, we here at DoubleMap made a big change that users probably won’t notice. Instead of Google Maps, all of our public maps are …
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Introducing Anonymous Login and an Updated Facebook Login
Improved privacy options put better controls in your hands.
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When TDD Doesn't Work
Over the years many people have complained about the so-called “religiosity” of some of the proponents of Test Driven Development. The recent brouhaha over TDD has, once again, brought these complaints to the fore. So I thought it would be a good idea to talk about when TDD does not work.
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The Morality Police in Your Checking Account
In the latest example of a troubling trend in which companies play the role of law enforcement and moral police, Chase Bank has shut down the personal bank accounts of hundreds of adult entertainers. We’ve written before about the dire consequences to online speech when service providers start...
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A Motion-Sensing Keyboard
We present a new type of augmented mechanical keyboard, sensing rich and expressive motion gestures performed both on and directly above the device. A low-resolution matrix of infrared (IR) proximity sensors is interspersed with the keys of a regular mechanical keyboard. This results in coarse but high frame-rate…
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Stanford study finds walking improves creativity
News, research, and insights from Stanford University.
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What's New in Mercurial 3.0
HgLab is a powerful self-hosted Mercurial Server and Repository Management for Windows with Push and Pull server, Active Directory and LDAP integration, built-in Pushlog and other goodies