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Twitter, Ruby on Rails, Scala and people who don’t RTFA
The Register recently published an article titled, “Twitter jilts Ruby for Scala“, prompting a wave of Tweets (Twitter messages for the jargon challenged)
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,420 posts.
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Reversing Tooth Decay with Good Diet
In the last post, I discussed the research of Drs. Edward and May Mellanby on the nutritional factors affecting tooth formation. Dr. Mellan...
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Daring Fireball: Complex
Gall’s Law and the iPhone.
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A 3700-year-old proof that the diagonal of a unit square has length √2
Clicking on an image will bring up the same image at higher resolution (a download of about about 100 KB). Clicking on that in turn will download an image of about 300 KB.
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Patch to fix RSS feed for News.YC
I’m an avid reader of news.yc , but it’s annoyed me for some time that the RSS feed is rather broken. So, I decided to dust off my Lisp skills and give it a go. The biggest chunk was adding code to do conversion from UNIX timestamps to UTC in Arc. Significant stuff that works now:
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That's Only Ten Lines Of Code
I've gotten used to the snarky and cynical comments that people make on techcrunch and other tech blogs when there's a post about a startup that get's funded. It's a good thing that people debate and discuss these investments. Clearly not every venture investment that is made is a good one. In fact I've written […]
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How My Startup Failed
Share a story that could only come from you. A spiritual experience, unexplained mystery, or an unlikely series of coincidences.
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Some AI Koans
These are some of the funniest examples of a genre of jokes told at the MIT AI Lab about various noted hackers. The original koans were composed by Danny Hillis, who would later found Connection Machines, Inc. In reading these, it is at least useful to know that Minsky, Sussman, and Drescher are AI researchers of…
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Google Checkout still unfit for business: I got my money, but would you?
After my rant about my Google Checkout fiasco and its subsequent mass exposure, Google has restored my Checkout account. I received two emails: one, a very ‘typical Google’ form letter:
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Joel on Solid State Disks
One of the FogBugz developers complained that compiling was pretty slow (about 30 seconds), which was leading to a lot of sword fights in the hallway. He asked if it would be OK if someone spent a …
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Google is Evil, Worse than PayPal: Don't use Google Checkout for your business
Wanting to offer an alternative to PayPal, we set up a Google Checkout account for people to buy our ebook.
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Using /usr/local
Technologist, podcaster, and inventor. Founder of the 5by5 podcast network and Fireside.