The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 8,982 posts.
This is everything wrong with tech-startup culture, unreasonable expectations, and workaholism in one job posting, by a company with a massive audience that probably contains a very high percentage of young software developers.
The basic formula for Hacker News ranking has been known for years , but questions remained. Does the published code give the real algorithm...
Twitter went mad last week because somebody had transferred almost $150m in a single Bitcoin transaction. This tweet was typical: There was much comment about how expensive or difficult this would …
A few days ago I learned, via a French blog, that I was fined 8,000 euros for quoting a French blogger. I would have known earlier, but the ...
Published: 19-11-2013 | Author: Remy van Elst | Text only version of this article
Google is going down the drain. That isn't to say they aren't fantastically successful. They are. I still use their products, mostly becau...
As I was exiting Oxford Railway Station, I glanced at this screen showing the bus departure times. Notice anything odd about it? sigh Yet again someone has shoehorned Microsoft Windows into a product it is completely unsuitable for. Why does a screen which displays a fairly basic set of information need to be running…
This is a brilliant campaign, for technical and artistic reasons. What is the brand that it conveys? Heirloom quality .
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
I've been "freelancing" part time for the better part of the past 4 years and full time for the past 8 months, and if there's one thing I've learned it's that…
Wolfram's many advances, including the Wolfram Language, are coming together to create a new and profoundly important unified level of computation.
Message from a Jedi to a Young Padawan When I graduated and was considering pursuing startups, an alum from my fraternity gave me some advi...
It isn't hard to find criticisms of Microsoft's employee appraisal system. Whether it's almost decade old complaints such as Mini-Microsoft’s Microsoft Stack ...
I quit my my last job after a little more than 2 months. Why? Did I jump into a position I was not excited about? ...
Everything that used to be fax machines, contracts, and invoices and purchase orders in triplicate are going away. What's replacing it? The API. Before Stripe, you had to fill out a ton of forms...
