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Java 7: Oracle pushes a first version of closures

Baptiste Wicht201085 points57 comments Software Engineering details

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Ballmer just opened the Second Envelope

Monday Note2010139 points65 comments Tech Industry & Business details

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Why are the east of cities usually poorer?

The Januarist2010260 points99 comments Society, Policy & Culture details

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Go To University, Not For CS

Zed Shaw2010163 points143 comments Career & Management details

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How We Improved Our Conversion Rate by 72%

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Postgresql's new recursive queries at Disqus: 500% speedup

David Cramer2010133 points22 comments Databases & Data details

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A Breakthrough Cure for Ebola

Genomics, Medicine, and Pseudoscience2010112 points24 comments Science & Space details

Ebola is one of the nastiest, most frightening viruses known to man. Its victims suffer fevers, muscle weakness, and other symptoms that pr...

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Indie Developers and Crossing the App Store Chasm

Dan Grover201095 points15 comments Tech Industry & Business details

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GitHub is the Best Thing Ever

Eric Harrison2010122 points39 comments Software Engineering details

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An open letter to Kevin Rose from Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian

Alexis Ohanian2010139 points69 comments Tech Industry & Business details

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Why I Don’t Work At Google

Sarah Mei2010114 points72 comments Career & Management details

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Perfect email regex finally found

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Finding the best regular expression for validating e-mail addresses

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Tynt, the Copy/Paste Jerks

John Gruber2010357 points113 commentscited by 7Society, Policy & Culture details

Regarding Tynt, a service that breaks copy-and-paste on websites.

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Gmail has become unusably slow

Gabriel Weinberg2010203 points127 comments Web & Frontend details

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What To Do With Your Millions

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500MB download? Why didn't Wired Magazine use HTML5 for their iPad app?

interfacelab.com2010107 points57 comments Web & Frontend details

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Programming: Attitude Trumps Intelligence

Jonathan Edwards2010170 points60 comments Software Engineering details

Reflecting upon my previous post, I am wondering why LISP triumphalists like Paul Graham annoy me so much? Perhaps it is because I used to be one myself, in spirit if not in syntax. And also becaus…

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Betting on the Engineers

Scott Adams201098 points51 comments Career & Management details

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Why Lawyers Don’t Run Startups

Steve Blank201081 points32 comments Startups details

Startups need to have a great lawyer, accountant, patent attorney, etc. But founders need to know how to ask for their advice and when to ignore it. Why Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers I was having coff…

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I've Changed My Mind About The iPad

Fred Wilson2010249 points163 comments Tech Industry & Business details

I got an iPad for our home when the wifi version first came out. I used it for a day and then wrote a post about the iPad on the iPad. I was not very enthusiastic about the device. At the end of the review I said: Over time it may turn into a mainstream […]

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Lessons learned from 13 failed software products

Andy Brice2010175 points36 comments Tech Industry & Business details

“No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients.” – Proverb Software entrepreneur culture is full of stories of the products that succeeded. But what about t…

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Interviewing programmers: coding test results.

Colin Wright201081 points129 comments Career & Management details

I've now stopped accepting new versions, so please don't send me any more. However, there has been such a strong reaction to this that I intend to offer another opportunity for people to write simple code and have it analysed and compared with others.

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