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Google Acquires Over 1,000 IBM Patents
While Google may have lost the recent bidding for Nortel's patent portfolio, they did quietly acquire over a 1,000 patents from IBM this past month.
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New Khan Academy Exercise Framework Is Live
Today we’re pushing live a complete rewrite of the Khan Academy Exercise framework ( live demo ).
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Steve Jobs Sometimes Lies to You
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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WSGI and the Pluggable Pipe Dream
Why WSGI is not as big of a problem as you would believe and why framework independent pluggable applications don’t work in practice.
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Every language fixes something - a DiGraph - just for fun
Oh, and - added later - the original from PG is undated, but the "enhanced" version below it was on the C2 wiki in 2003/2004 and possibly earlier, so don't for one minute think it's supposed to be up-to-date, or refer to modern version of these languages.
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Finding your way in vim: tags, cscope, grep and more
Vim is quite powerful programmer's editor, but has a very steep learning curve and it takes time to configure it properly. In this tutorial...
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Hotelling’s Game, or Why Gas Stations Have Competitors Nearby
There are hundreds of gas stations around San Francisco in the California Bay area. One might think that gas stations would spread out to serve local neighborhoods. But this idea is contradicted by a common observation. Whenever you visit a gas station, there is almost always another in the vicinity, often just across…
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Hacker News Fires Steve Yegge
It's great that you aren't quitting google, but it seems like you misspoke rather than being misinterpreted. It's kind of random that you claim that people misheard the word "project" when it is easy to check the actual video and realize that you didn't say that word. Your exact quote was "I am officially quitting…
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Violated: A traveler’s lost faith, a difficult lesson learned
I am crouched low on the carpeted steps of my apartment building's old staircase, bent over into something resembling the fetal position....
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Peteris Krumins: How I went to Silicon Valley and raised $55,000 for Browserling
Long story short, I went to Silicon Valley and found angel investors for my Browserling startup that I am doing together with James Halliday (SubStack). James Halliday, our lead investor and advisor David Weekly, and me. Here is how I did it. Last year in March, James offered me to do a startup. He had this idea of...
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When you're in a team that I lead, there are 3 things that I'd like to ask you
When you're in a team that I lead, there are three minor things that I'd like to ask you. I believe these ground rules are the lubricant of an effective team, and it's not only others I want to adhere to them, I do them myself, too. There's only three things: ASK: If a task is not clear, or more information is needed…
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Ten Ways to Check if an Integer Is a Power Of Two in C
To write a program to check if an integer is a power of two, you could follow two basic strategies: check the number based on its decimal value, or check it based on its binary representation. The former approach is more human-friendly but generally less efficient; the latter approach is more machine-friendly but…
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Guido van Rossum: Before Python
This morning I had a chat with the students at Google's CAPE program. Since I wrote up what I wanted to say I figured I might as well blog ...
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Setup a complete Django server, deploy, rollback – all in one powerful script.
This will create the neccesary directories, install nginx and gunicorn under supervisord control and upload new configuration files made from templates on all the app-servers. Additionally it deploys the newest codebase from your local git branch.
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Why Google cares if you use your real name
Over the weekend there was a bit of hoo-hah about accounts swept off Google-Plus, because they didn't have the users' real name.
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Bitcoin is Not Anonymous
An Analysis of Anonymity in the Bitcoin System2011135 points53 commentscited by 3Crypto & Blockchain details
TL;DR Bitcoin is not inherently anonymous. It may be possible to conduct transactions is such a way so as to obscure your identity, but, ...
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NoSQL is What?
I found myself reading NoSQL is a Premature Optimization a few minutes ago and threw up in my mouth a little. That article is so far off base that I’m not even sure where to start, so I guess…
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How I Dealt with Student Plagiarism
Panos Ipeirotis , a colleague at the NYU Stern School of Business , received considerable media attention when, in a blog post he subsequently removed , he discussed how his aggressive use of plagiarism detection software on student assignments poisoned the classroom atmosphere and tanked his teaching evaluations. As…
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The Acceleration of Addictiveness vs Willpower, Productivity, and Flow
A year ago Paul Graham posted The Acceleration of Addictiveness , and I just re-read it thoroughly. It is a wonderful insightful post. I agree with the whole thing and if you haven't seen it yet go read it first.
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On Succeeding Steve Jobs
A new Apple CEO would need credibility with two highly disparate factions: Apple’s rank-and-file employees, and Wall Street. The only candidates who could satisfy both factions, to any degree, already work at Apple.