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Entrepreneurship is hard but you can’t die
I’m posting a series of articles on family, startup culture and careers. These vignettes are about how I’ve lived my life trying to make a dent in the universe. Hoping they’ll give you a point of v…
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,098 posts.
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Introducing Qubes 1.0 ("a stable and reasonably secure desktop OS")
After nearly three years of work, I have a pleasure to announce that Qubes 1.0 has finally been released! To see the installation instructio...
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Another go at the Next Big Language
2007 was a different time for languages. While Java held the popular crown, the mainstream programming community were still coming to terms with Java 6. Released 3 months earlier, it was very much an evolution of the Java 5 watershed. Its arrival heralded the end of life for Java 1.4 and represented an opportunity to…
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Reddit's database has only two tables
Steve Huffman talks about Reddit’s approach to data storage in a High Scalability post from 2010. I was surprised to learn that they only have two tables in their database.
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How to get that native iOS feel with PhoneGap
At Outbox we have been hard at work building our iPad application with PhoneGap . I wanted to share some of the lessons my team has learned...
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Greg Knauss's 10-year-old son's $23,800 bug bite
It’s just after midnight and I’m sitting in a hospital room in the pediatric unit next to my ten-year-old son. He’s asleep now, after a hard day of watching TV and playing games on the iPad and telling me to stop looking at him, geez .
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Why you should continue working on your bad idea
"The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out; the brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. The brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!" - Randy Pausch
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Neil Armstrong, Neal Stephenson, Neil Gaiman
Neal Stephenson and I were not standing in order to make it quite clear who Neil #1 was and would always be. I spent a couple of days ...
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Everybody Jump
What would happen if everyone on earth stood as close to each other as they could and jumped, everyone landing on the ground at the same instant?
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If the world’s population lived like... (infographic)
Shortly after I started Per Square Mile, I produced an infographic that showed how big a city would have to be to house the world’s 7 billion people.
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Tacocopter Basics
The Tacocopters are coming. Sure, the original pitch was a clever troll aimed at credulous and impatient fast-food junkies. But the numbers don’t lie – a typical taco weighs less than a pound, and aircraft that can autonomously fly a few dozen ounces of payload to your doorstep are already available for around a…
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An Introduction to Condition Handling for Non-Lispers
One of Common Lisp’s more advanced features is its condition handling system, which is a powerful generalisation of other languages’ exception handling systems. I first became aware of condition handling from Peter Seibel’s Practical Common Lisp , chapter 19 . But if I’m honest I’ve only very recently understood what…
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The Switch from Heroku to Hardware
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I've finally implemented the command I keep typing all day: gti
I've finally implemented the command I keep typing all day: gti. It's a program that displays a badly made ASCII-art animation to punish you for your typing error - and after that magically launches the command you meant to launch. The code is available under an MIT-like license on github - though of course anybody…
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Introducing human.io
My small startup, Tasty Labs, has recently launched human.io . Human.io provides a simple way to allow a publisher to turn a passive audience into a mobile army of participants. This allows publishers to easily create missions and activities to get people involved more directly than just reading stuff on a screen. If…
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Silicon Valley Is Filled With Liars
Have you been caught telling one of these lies?
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Wolfram Alpha Personal Analytics for Facebook
Wolfram|Alpha analyzes your Facebook data for free. Compute statistics: posting activity, most liked post, words most used, friends' geography, age and genders... more than a dozen reports.