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Mini Mario Game as Resignation Letter
How do you break the news to your coworkers that you’re leaving your job at a major game studio to pursue indie development? With a game, of course.
Diceware Passphrase Home
This page offers a better way to create a strong, yet easy to remember, passphrase for use with encryption and security programs. Weak passwords and passphrases are one of the most common flaws in computer security. Take a few minutes and learn how to do it right. The information presented here can be used by anyone…
An Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation
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YC Terms are Poor
I love Y Combinator. They are scrappy, innovative, entrepreneur-friendly, and created a model that VCs originally laughed at but are now copying. I love Paul Graham’s essays and I like him pe…
Clojure: It’s About the Libraries
There’s a big ‘ol thread going on down at comp.lang.lisp about Clojure vs. Common Lisp. I’m biased, of course, but I have to say that Clojure and Rich Hickey are holding their own against some of the top c.l.l. flamers.
WebKit gets a new JavaScript profiler courtesy of 280 North (YC W08)
New Profiling and Debugging Tools in WebKit
JWZ, on Garbage Collection
In a conversation at work about the architecture of a new product, someone made an assertion along the lines of, ``then we'd need to use a garbage collector, and that would hurt performance.''
A Selection Of Thoughts From Actual Women (regarding GoGaRuCo)
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How 4chan hacked ReCAPTCHA to win the TIME 100 Poll
This morning Time.com published the final result for their annual TIME 100 Poll. Time reports that the new owner of the title ‘Worlds’s most influential person, is moot’. What T…
Secret History of Silicon Valley Part VI: Every World War II Movie was Wrong
This is Part VI of how I came to write “The Secret History of Silicon Valley“. This post makes a lot more sense if you look at the earlier posts as well as the video and slides. ——̵…
Joe Marshall's take on Guido Van Rossum's post on tail recursion
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Fred Wilson on investing in Geocities
Yesterday, TechCrunch reported the news that Yahoo! is planning to shut down Geocities. That is sad news on many levels. Geocities was the web's first community and it was my first "mega deal" when it was sold to Yahoo! in 1999 for $3.5bn (including the value of the options Yahoo! assumed). I learned a lot […]