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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,784 posts.
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14 Megapixel, Six Monitor Ubuntu Karmic Setup
I recently took the opportunity to reboot several pieces of my technology stack. The coolest perhaps is my new 6-monitor machine running Ubuntu Karmic. It is nontrivial to be comfortable that everything (CPU, GPUs, monitors, OS) will play nice together so I’ll detail exactly what I did so that others can repeat it…
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Stone: Leonardo da Vinci's Resume
“An informed patriotism is what we want. Are we doing a good enough job teaching our children what America is and what she represents in the long history of the world? She is a shining city upon a hill.” - Ronald Reagan ~Largest Substack on the Right~. Click to read American Ambition, a Substack publication with…
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The iPad Is For Everyone But Us
Mac, iPhone & iPad interface design consulting, writing and speaking featuring tutorials, interviews, techniques and thoughts on crafting & building beautiful software. By Mike Rundle.
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Don’t Hash Secrets
Building secure systems is difficult. It would be nice if we had a bunch of well-designed crypto building blocks that we could assemble in all sorts of ways and be certain that they would, no matte…
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The iPad Big Picture
This is Apple’s way of asserting that they’re taking over the penthouse suite as the strongest and best company in the whole ones-and-zeroes racket.
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Is Apple Evil?
Today’s iPad introduction has to be about the most depressing Apple product launch I’ve ever watched. As has been noted , Jobs’ Reality Distortion Field only works when he believes in what he’s selling and he didn’t seem to really believe in this. The audience must have further added to the disappointment, expecting a…
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The Irony of iPad: A Great Day For Open Technologies
With the announcement of the iPad, the usual suspects have come out decrying a closed, proprietary, fully locked down system. For instance, a story on the top of Hacker News today [http://createdigitalmusic.com/2010/01/27/how-a-great-product-can-be-bad-news-apple-ipad-and-the-closed-
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Derek Sivers: There are always more than two options
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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C++: A language for next generation web apps
On Monday, I was pleased to be an uninvited speaker at <a href="http://devwaterloo.pbworks.com/">Waterloo Devhouse</a>, hosted in <a href="http://postrank.com">Postrank's</a> magnificent office. After making some surreptitious alterations to their agile development wall, I gave a tongue-in-cheek talk on how C++ can…
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Adobe, Apple, and Flash
If Adobe needs Apple to grant them further access to the hardware to make the *Mac* version of Flash Player better, what are the odds that they’d get that sort of low-level hardware access on the iPhone OS? (Hint: zero.)
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In praise of git’s index
I still run into people lambasting Git for the concept of the index from time to time. It seems strange and superfluous to users of other VCS s – like a speed bump that serves no purpose. Why not just commit the changes in the working copy? This perception is understandable; when I first heard of Git, back as a…
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Black Hat SEO Case Study: How Mahalo Makes Black Look White
Originally when launching Mahalo, Jason Calacanis claimed that it would be spam free and that SEOs would have hell to pay.
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Schneier on Security: Technology Shouldn't Give Big Brother a Head Start
China is the world’s most successful Internet censor. While the Great Firewall of China isn’t perfect, it effectively limits information flowing in and out of the country. But now the Chinese government is taking things one step further. Under a requirement taking effect soon, every computer sold in China will have to…
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