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Making money takes practice like playing the piano takes practice
Most of the people I know who are money-making-machines got started really early. Lemonade stands, car washes, lawn mowing, baseball card trading. I think the reason they are money-making-machines today is because they started early. They learned the skills of negotiation, pricing, selling, and mar…
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Amazon EC2 High-Memory Instances (34 GB, 68 GB)
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Announcing Amazon EC2 High-Memory Instances
After the Deadline now Open Source
After the Deadline, an intelligent checker for spelling and grammar, is now free software. The server software is available under the GNU General Public License. We’ve created a portal at whe…
RT @google: Tweets and updates and search, oh my
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37signals Launches Haystack for Web Designers and Clients To Find Each Other
A few years ago we launched the 37signals Job Board to answer a question we heard all the time: “Do you know where we can find a programmer or a designer? We need to hire one but we don’t know where to find one.” Since then, over 5,700 jobs have been posted, and many positions hav…
OpenBSD 4.6 released
OpenBSD 4.6 changes
IntelliJ IDEA goes open source
I believe you'll like this announcement — IntelliJ IDEA has just gone open-source! Check out the press release as well as the new jetbrains.org community site for the details. We all will soon g
Intractability of Financial Derivatives
A new result by Princeton computer scientists and economists shows a striking application of computer science theory to the field of financial derivative design. The paper is Computational Complexity and Information Asymmetry in Financial Products by Sanjeev Arora, Boaz Barak, Markus Brunnermeier, and Rong Ge…
Heroku: Announcing Huge Growth and New CEO
Big things are happening at Heroku, so we felt it was time for an overall update. I’m happy to say that not only has the platform doubled in size over the.
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App Engine can finally receive mail. [bonus: delete your app as well]
The App Engine team is psyched to present version 1.2.6 of our SDK for both runtimes, Python and Java. This releases contains plenty of imp...
Introducing Google Building Maker
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Changing the game with μTP
μTP or “micro-Transport Protocol” is a new protocol from BitTorrent, Inc. that is at the heart of the new major release of our popular BitTorrent clients “μTorrent” and “BitTorrent Mainline”. It is going to be available as the default transport mechanism in both μTorrent v2.0 and BitTorrent v7.0. So what’s the big…
Critical Django security updates released (0day, exploit in the wild)
Posted by James Bennett on Oct. 9, 2009