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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,784 posts.
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Marine Heavy Gunner dev notes - 'Nobody picked up that it was a parody'
So… I worked on this six years ago. If I see one now & then in a bargin bin I usually pay the $5 for it & pass it off on one of my friends as a reminder to myself about the boat tim…
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WSJ Jumps the Shark
The politicalization of the WSJ has moved to a new and more risky phase. The paper is now in danger of being a money loser — not for its investors (tho that has already happened), but for those traders who read its content. It used to be that articles on the Market or specific companies…Read More
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How to Snatch an Expiring Domain
I recently found myself in the position of wanting to register a domain which was owned by someone else. The domain was set to expire in a week, and I figured there was a decent chance that the person …
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Realism in UI Design
The history of the visual design of user interfaces can be described as a gradual change towards more realism. As computers have become faster, designers have added increasingly realistic details such as color, 3D effects, shadows, translucency, and even simple physics. Some of these changes have helped usability…
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The "Soft Maximum" function
The soft maximum approximates the maximum function, and approaches it in the limit, but is easier to work with.
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The monetization paradox (or why Google is not my friend) (Charles Stross)
The continual plaint in newspapers around the world is that the news media are in big trouble. Au contraire: what's in trouble is their monetization model.
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Nexus One display and subpixel pattern
Progression news for Business
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Fast. Easy. Clean. Shoelace Knot.
Tutorial for tying the “Ian Knot”, the world's fastest shoelace knot.
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Offline Book "Lending" Costs U.S. Publishers Nearly $1 Trillion
Hot on the heels of the story in Publisher's Weekly that "publishers could be losing out on as much $3 billion to online book piracy" come...
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Would you have spotted the fraud?
Pictured below is what’s known as a skimmer, or a device made to be affixed to the mouth of an ATM and secretly swipe credit and debit card information when bank customers slip their cards into the machines to pull out money. Skimmers have been around for years, of course, but thieves are constantly improving them…
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Why I left Microsoft
By Scott Berkun, May 2005 My reasons for leaving Microsoft were the opposite of why I went to work there. I arrived at Microsoft a scared kid just out of college. I was desperate to start my life, …
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Startup Equity For Employees
2020 PREFACE: I originally wrote this back in the mid-2000s and have resurrected it by request.
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Presentation on the new Python GIL
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Google Agrees to Censor Encyclopedia Dramatica Entry in Australia
Google self-censors certain results in countries like France or Germany, and Australia as well. The Sydney Morning Herald writes:
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Why I prefer no tabs in source code
I notice several people have been referred to this page from http://derkarl.org/why_to_tabs.html , which tries to counter my arguments against tabs. (I also notice that the author rather ungracefully failed to inform me of the page's existence, thereby conveniently not giving me a chance to respond. Kind of makes his…
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