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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,784 posts.
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How I write and time-manage
I was asked a few times by some very nice people at WWDC this week how I manage my time between Instapaper and Tumblr, and how I write essays here that occasionally make sense. If you’ll forgive my auto-back-patting, here’s the answer I gave, and I think it’s worth sharing with you because you can do the same sort of…
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Apple fears the killer app
Ok, so were finally getting down to it. On at least two fronts, Apple has now essentially thrown out its draconian rules on what developers can and cannot do on its platform, and replaced them with essentially, no rules. The new “rules” appear to be, “its OK to do what you want in your app if we say so. And we’ll…
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Hello, Lua. (Apple opens door to interpreters on iOS devices)
Under the radar of this week’s WWDC news is a small but very significant change to the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement. The change is in the
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Your company culture is a meaningless platitude
In this envelope, I have your Company Culture. We work hard, but value work/life balance. We’re a team culture and we believe in individual empowerment. We give back to the community, and have strong ethics. We hire only the best people, support diversity, and promote growth and leadership in our employee ranks. And…
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Clojure.rb
Call me crazy, but it seems that there is a large influx of Ruby programmers exploring the Clojure programming language. Based on the results of Chas Emerick’s great State of Clojure - Summer 2010 survey , 17% of surveyed Clojure users come from a Ruby background. Based on observed trends, I expect that percentage to…
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Copyright: The Elephant in the Middle of the Glee Club
A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics
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Save My Life: an update
Time for an update. Based on the many suggestions I received over at HN, I asked my doctor to test me for Celiac Disease. I just got the re...
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AT&T Learns Exactly the Wrong Lesson About Data Usage
AT&T says that 65% of its users use less 200 megabytes per month; a whopping 98% use less than 2 gigabytes. (NYT) AT&T looked at these numbers and concluded it was time for tiered pricing; …
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Results from the State of Clojure, Summer 2010 Survey
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How to Afford Anything
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Daring Fireball: iPhone 4 Impressions and Observations
Notes from today’s WWDC keynote.
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The Just-World Fallacy
The Misconception: People who are losing at the game of life must have done something to deserve it. The Truth: The beneficiaries of good fortune often do nothing to earn it, and bad people often g…
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You can’t beat a good compiler…. right?
It is extremely well worn conventional wisdom that for your “average” programmer, it’s pretty much impossible to beat a good optimizing compiler at writing fast code. For those who skip the “understanding” part, and jump straight into the “application” part, this rule of thumb tends to be grossly misunderstood, and…
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Math library functions that seem unnecessary
Functions include in the standard C math library that seem unnecessary at first glance and why they are necessary.