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Barack Obama gets Nobel's Peace Prize

Nobel Peace Prize200991 points207 comments Society, Policy & Culture details

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Shark Eats Entrepreneur Alive

FairSoftware Blog200972 points22 comments Tech Industry & Business details

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MacRuby 0.5 beta 1 Released

MacRuby Blog200961 points11 comments Programming Languages details

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The myth of the page fold: evidence from user testing

cxpartners Blog200969 points31 comments Design & UX details

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We Just Undid Three Months of Dev work. Here's What We Learned.

Scout Blog200998 points30 comments Career & Management details

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Introducing Atlas: A Visual Development Tool for Creating Web Apps

Carsonified Blog2009115 points63 comments Tools & Productivity details

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JDK7 to have escape analysis on by default...also back ported to JDK6

java.net Weblogs200984 points21 comments Software Engineering details

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AT&T to allow 3G Skype calls

Skype Blog200979 points61 comments Tech Industry & Business details

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Virtual Machine Performance Demystified

Engine Yard Blog200963 points7 comments Systems & Performance details

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Your Race Affects Whether People Write You Back (WRT Online Dating)

OkTrends200961 points89 commentscited by 3Society, Policy & Culture details

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Kevin Rose: How to Take Your Site from One to One Million Users

Carsonified Blog200965 points28 comments Tech Industry & Business details

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Flash Professional CS5 will build native iPhone and iPod Touch applications

Adobe Labs2009112 points79 commentscited by 5Web & Frontend details

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Bitbucket: On our extended downtime with Amazon

Bitbucket Blog200986 points36 commentscited by 3Infrastructure & DevOps details

Automating releases, semantic version bumps, and API calls often involves configuring branch permissions and storing long-lived credentials in pipeline variables. Managing credential rotation adds an ongoing maintenance burden. Today, we’re introducing granular step-level permissions and container tokens in Bitbucket…

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A terrible tragedy: Dan Haubert of Ticketstumbler (fallentimes) has passed away

TicketStumbler Blog2009626 points133 comments Society, Policy & Culture details

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Don't Forget: You Can Use Amazon SimpleDB For Free

AWS Blog200976 points21 comments Databases & Data details

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One Small Leap for Open Source, One Giant Leap for Mankind

Red Hat Press200991 points56 comments Open Source details

Search for and read the latest Red Hat news and press releases about the people and products shaping the future of open source and open hybrid cloud technology.

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Red Hat Asks Supreme Court to Review Software Patents

Red Hat Press200990 points21 comments Security & Privacy details

Search for and read the latest Red Hat news and press releases about the people and products shaping the future of open source and open hybrid cloud technology.

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An Engineer's Guide to Bandwidth

Yahoo Developer Network Blog2009112 points17 comments Networking & Internet details

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On Applying to Y Combinator

Directed Edge Blog2009161 points71 comments Startups details

I’ve decided to do a mini-series of sorts on our Y Combinator experience. Â Originally I was going to fold everything into one ginormus post, but I think it better to break it up and focus on different aspects.

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The Dropbox iPhone App is Out

Dropbox Blog2009154 points36 comments Tech Industry & Business details

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.

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How Races and Religions Match in Online Dating

OkTrends2009160 points94 comments Society, Policy & Culture details

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How Tim Schafer Broke Into the Game Industry: A Legendary Cover Letter

Double Fine2009207 points14 comments Games & Graphics details

(Not at my company of course. I would never hire somebody as unqualified as I was! I’m just lucky finding people smarter than me is so easy.) First, lets…

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