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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,784 posts.
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The Collapse of Complex Business Models
I gave a talk last year to a group of TV executives gathered for an annual conference. From the Q&A after, it was clear that for them, the question wasn’t whether the internet was going to alter their business, but about the mode and tempo of that alteration. Against that background, though, they were worried
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A new kind of volume control
I'm David Friedman , a professional photographer who sometimes gets ideas for photos, designs, gadgets, and other projects. I write about it all on this blog. You can find the meaning behind the name “Ironic Sans” back in the very first post .
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A real person, a lot like you
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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Dear American Website Owner
Jan Rychter: Tech Consulting, Product Development, Data Science.
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Why Many Smart Folks End up going Nowhere
Life Beyond Code - Personal and professional development for technology professionals.
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A Summary of "Joel on Software"
This is a summary for the blog by Joel Spolsky, Joel on Software , volume 2000. The summary for the years 2000-2010 can be found on the Joel...
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Flip the stick
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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Accelerando - Charlie's Diary
This free ebook edition is made available by kind consent of my publishers, Ace and Orbit, under a Creative Commons license with certain restrictions attached. In particular, you may not create derivative works or use the work for commercial gain .
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Space Shuttle computer has 1MB of RAM
NASA's space shuttle was controlled by a computer running on only 1 megabyte of RAM. The hardware was over 30 years old during its last flight.
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Squaring two digit numbers in your head
All my life I've done mental arithmetic the 'wrong way': I've calculated from left-to-right, instead of right-to-left. So when I do somethi...
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The Surprising Psychology of Impressiveness
Steve and David Let’s try a simple experiment. Imagine that you’re an admissions officer at a competitive college, and you’re evaluating the following two applicants: ... Read more
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NoSQL vs. RDBMS: Let the flames begin
I’ve been getting solidly flamed recently, as have my former coworkers at Digg, my friends at Twitter, etc. about our adoption and promotion of various NoSQL storage systems. It seems that some DBAs are very, very upset that us internet kids are considering abandoning SQL’s ship. I’m not here to throw out a bunch of…
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The bitter truth about fructose alarmism.
Dr. Robert Lustig, professor of pediatrics at the University of California at San Francisco, is the star of the video above. While he presents some material that’s scientifically sound, he also makes enough errors to warrant a healthy dose of criticism. There’s a ton of material he goes over, so instead of writing a…
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Ask HN: How do you solve hard problems if you can't make incremental progress?
Ron Jeffries attempts to create a sudoku solver - here , here , here , here and here . (You really ought to read these articles. They are u...
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A retrospective of the fructose alarmism debate.
After 300 comments and counting, it’s safe to agree with Nigel Kinbrum that my recent critique of Dr. Robert Lustig’s fructose lecture “has caused a bit of a stir in the nutritional blogosphere.” The intense debate (& discussion) that ensued inspired me to re-cap some things I feel were most interesting. There was…
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Startups Get Hit By Shrapnel In The Banking Bill
There is a big banking reform bill working its way through the Senate right now. It is sponsored by Chris Dodd, Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee. It has a long name I can't remember, so I'll call it the Dodd Banking Bill. What does a bill attempting to regulate the banking industry have to […]
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Tabs versus Spaces
The last time the tabs-versus-spaces argument flared up in my presence, I wrote this. Gasoline for the fire? Maybe.
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"HTML5" versus Flash: Animation Benchmarking
The Man in Blue showcases the writing and Web design of Cameron Adams.
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