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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,784 posts.
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Dammit, MySQL
Update May 2018: This is more rant-ish than I would write now, but it’s my only post to hit the front page of HackerNews (it got to the number 2 spot back in 2010; I saved screenshots), so has a soft-place in my heart.
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Me vs Backspace: my war against a rogue character
A while ago, I began receiving reports from various people in IRC that I was prepending a garbage ascii character to some of my messages. I found this very odd. The complaints didn’t stop. It became a running joke. Eventually, playful mockery. It is a bit demeaning to hang out in programmer corners and not have any…
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Redirect to sslh
My homepage for projects, jokes and bunnies.
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I know your name, where you work, and live (Safari v4 & v5)
Update 07.30.2010 : Apple patched Safari ( CVE-ID: CVE-2010-1796 ) Right at the moment a Safari user visits a website, even if they’ve never...
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The Top Idea in Your Mind
July 2010 I realized recently that what one thinks about in the shower in the morning is more important than I'd thought. I knew it was a good time to have ideas. Now I'd go further: now I'd say it's hard to do a really good job on anything you don't think about in the shower. Everyone who's worked on difficult…
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Google takes the FTC to school
Google just issued a response to the Federal Trade commission's staff discussion draft on potential recommendations to support the reinvention of...
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I am doing a startup (putting virtual machines on the web)
Update: StackVM is now called Browserling. Hey everyone, I have awesome news! I am doing a startup together with James Halliday! I met James on FreeNode several years ago and it turned out that we had very similar ideas about doing great hacking. So we teamed up as equal co-founders to do a startup. We're on…
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We’re Apple. We don’t wear suits. We don’t even own suits.
Link to: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/07/ff_att_fail/all/1
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How to find start-up ideas
Chris Dixon had an interesting post a while ago about how to find start-up ideas. The advice boiled down to keeping a spreadsheet of ideas and talking to lots of smart people (entrepreneurs, potent…
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Startup Competitive Advantages that Work
It's not a question of if someone copies your business idea, it's when.
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Abandoned open source projects
About some problems I'm having with old open source projects and a Github feature request to try and fix them.
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