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Passwords For Your Facebook Account
This is interesting. You can log into your Facebook account using three passwords – one is the main password that you created and the other passwords can…
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Best Practices Exist For A Reason
If you've ever used node.js, you've probably also used Isaac Schlueter's npm, the node package manager. By maintaining a central repository to which authors can quickly publish their JavaScript modules, npm has made it easy to get started building node apps and its popularity has exploded over the past year…
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EU court: Reverse engineering OK, API not protected by (c) and more
This case (SAS v WPL) has a lot in common with the Oracle v Google case in the US.
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Common Lisp: The Untold Story
A version of the paper below was published in Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Lisp , edited by Charlotte Herzeel, the conference record of Lisp50 @ OOPSLA’08 (Nashville, Tennessee, USA, 2008). That collection is available through the ACM Digital Library .
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Probabilistic Data Structures For Web Analytics And Data Mining
Statistical analysis and mining of huge multi-terabyte data sets is a common task nowadays, especially in the areas like web analytics and Internet advertising. Analysis of such large data sets oft…
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Which is better: Many customers at low price-point or few at high price?
If two companies have the same revenue, one from a few large customers and the other from many little customers, which is better? Which would you rather build?
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Where modules go to die
Another great post
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The Python Standard Library - Where Modules Go To Die
If you’ve done Fourier series approximations of functions, you had three reactions to today’s XKCD comic :
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Why Use Postgres
This post is a list of many of the reasons to use Postgres, much this content as well as how to use these features will later be curated within PostgresGuide.com. If you need to get started check out Postgres.app for Mac, or get a Cloud instance at Heroku Postgres for free UPDATE: A part 2 has been posted on Why Use…
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Startups Are Bands for Hackers
Growing up as a young musician in suburbia, I fantasized about being in a band: playing music in front of thousands of people, signing a record contract, enjoying the successes (and excesses) of...
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Olympics 2012: A Bruce Schneier Moment
An east London estate, where 700 people live, has received leaflets saying a "Higher Velocity Missile system" could be placed on a water tower. ...
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My Prime Factorization Sweater
I wore my Prime Factorization Sweater to KidlitCon09 , and it shows up in all my pictures, so I think it’s time for me to explain it.
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Moving Django to GitHub: the postmortem
We finally moved Django to GitHub late yesterday. Here's a postmortem, to keep the community updated and for the benefit of any projects that take this leap in the future.
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Why being broke is the best startup strategy
Why being broke is the best start-up strategy there is. Startups are hard, but not because entrepreneurs don’t have an appetite for hard work. Rather, it’s the constant rejection, the inability to…
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Writing a CV in LaTeX
Writing my curriculum in LaTeX was a task that has been on my TODO-list for quite a while. I liked the style of my Word-written CV and I believed it would take hours to come up with a reasonable CV in LaTeX. Nevertheless, I recently sat down, began writing, and after not too long, I ... [Read more...]
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Your Bash Prompt Needs This
Have you ever had this happen to you? You start a program and then interrupt it with Ctrl-C, and Bash prints its prompt after the ^C you have typed: