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Things Paul Graham is wrong about
I debated with myself for a long time over whether to write this post (which is one of the reasons some of the subject matter is a little ol...
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,784 posts.
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Watch – A Useful Linux Command You May Have Never Heard Of
How many times did I want to watch a directory waiting for a file to appear in it? Constant ls, for example, quickly got boring. A quick Perl script that would reload ls every 5 seconds… yeah it works but it takes a while to type up, and often enough I'm too lazy for that. And then I found 'watch' – a utility that…
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Firesheep, a day later
Most importantly, I certainly never expected there would be this much attention all at once, and within the first 24 hours.
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Yahoo Pipes compiled to Python now run on Google App Engine
Yahoo! Pipes is an excellent tool for processing data. It provides a visual way to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web. It's very much like plumbing with data and is a great metaphor. I'm convinced that this approach is just the beginning, and look forward to connecting systems using pipes in…
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Paul Buchheit: Serendipity finds you
Here is an interesting comment from Hacker News, on a story about someone turning down an early Google offer: Similar thing happened t...
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You need to use social services to understand them
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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An Illustrated guide to multi-core parallelism in Clojure
Here are my Clojure Conj slides, From Concurrency to Parallelism: an illustrated guide to multi-core parallelism in Clojure. The version of clojure.par I used isn’t publicly available yet, bu…
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When App Engine Went Wrong
The High Falls hike was my first with the Vancouver branch of the Alpine Club...
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Apple Is No Longer Bundling Flash Player With Mac OS X
Starting with this week’s new MacBook Air models, Flash Player is no longer bundled with Mac OS X.
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What We Look for in Founders
(I wrote this for Forbes, who asked me to write something about the qualities we look for in founders. In print they had to cut the last item because they didn't have room.) 1. Determination This has turned out to be the most important quality in startup founders. We thought when we started Y Combinator that the most…
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