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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,784 posts.
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Naïve Quitting
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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A new type of phishing attack. Works on savvy users.
In essence, a phishing attack is a kind of hack used by cybercriminals to trick victims into performing a certain activity. These emails are frequently sent
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The Secret Lives of Professors (What Being a Professor is Really Like)
I came to Harvard 7 years ago with a fairly romantic notion of what it meant to be a professor -- I imagined unstructured days spent mentori...
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Ejection Seats
I pulled a few pranks in the military, but the one that got pulled on me took years off of my life. Alone in the Cockpit There isn’t anything cooler for a 19-year old then getting into the cockpit …
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Bending over: How to sell to large companies
Selling to big companies can be lucrative, and small bootstrapped startups absolutely have the power to sell to the big boys. But it's a very different world than you're used to. Here's what you can expect and how to deal with it.
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Don't Talk to the Cops
Don't talk to the cops about any significant crime ...ESPECIALLY if you're innocent. Here's why.
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While Google fights on the edges, Amazon is attacking their core
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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John Gruber's Post-I/O Thoughts
The big loser this week, though, was Microsoft. They’re simply not even part of the game.
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steve yegge - effective-emacs
Effective Emacs Stevey's Drunken Blog Rants™ 10 Specific Ways to Improve Your Productivity With Emacs Emacs is the world's best text editor. It's not just the best for editing program source; it's the best for any kind of text-editing. Mastering Emacs will make you more effective at writing and
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Python code makes any song swing
[tweetmeme source= ‘plamere’ only_single=false] One of my favorite hacks at last weekend’s Music Hack Day is Tristan’s Swinger. The Swinger is a bit of python code that tak…
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You’re Just the Founder
At times VC’s forget who their business is built on. Nice Car Last week in a car showroom of all places I ran into a VC who I hadn’t seen in ten years. He had sat on the board of my last company an…
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DuckDuckGo Searches Are Not Anonymous
DuckDuckGo didn't log IPs, but favicons loaded from Amazon S3 leaked every search term in the Referer header. It was fixed two days after I posted.
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Goodbye, "free software"; hello, "open source"
The original call to switch to the term `open source'.
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Don’t bite the shit sandwich
The “startup” world is bursting with bullshit (or, if you prefer, ‘unicorn dust’). There are bullshit peddlers on every blog-corner. They don’t want
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Start In The Middle
Middle in the start you shall.
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