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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,905 posts.
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Redesigning OSX Spaces: 45˚ Is All It Takes
What additional abilities should designers acquire? There are many debates regarding this. Is it better for designers to learn how to code, write, or
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Why I Left Google
Jean Hsu - Fractional VP Engineering | Engineering Leadership for Startups
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You Dont Need a Good Idea To Start a Great Company
I met recently with a friend of mine who has been talking about leaving Google for the last 3 years. Every time I see him he says he is just "waiting for a great idea" to leave to start his own company. I expect him to do what a lot of people do - stick around Google for another 6-24 months, and then join someone…
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Power user replacements for OS X default apps
I've noticed that the longer I use OS X the more replacements I'm finding for Apple's built-in applications. Apple focuses heavily on design...
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What Stops Female Founders?
The lack of women in tech startups seems a perennially hot topic. I’m keenly aware of this problem because I see so many founders, and so few of them are women. I’m delighted to have 6 women at...
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The Next Big Language
Dylan? C# 3? Perl 6? Does it have deterministic destructors, even as blocks like Python 2.5? Generics? A powerful macro system? Even as described it sounds like magic, but not a moment too soon.
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How (not) to write Factorial in Java
I will admit this post was inspired by How would you write factorial(n) in java? So excuse me while I rant in code: I have a point to make at the bottom of this article. Now most people who write f…
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OAuth Will Murder Your Children
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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How To: WordPress to Jekyll
I decided to migrate my blog from WordPress to Jekyll. I designed a new layout, imported my database and created some custom features to get it all to my liking.
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Design for Hackers: Why You Hate Comic Sans
Everyone loves to hate Comic Sans. The child-like handwriting font is so infamous, there is a movement to try to ban it. Mention its name to the common layman (aside from a preschool teacher), and you will likely get a chuckle, mention it to a trained designer, and you’ll get a look of disgust. In […]
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Neat trick for getting private info for Facebook, GMail, Twitter and Digg users
Hidden img and script tags with onload and onerror let any site tell if you're logged into GMail, Facebook, Twitter or Digg. Google called it expected.
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Startup Suicide -- Rewriting the Code
The benefits of customer and agile development and minimum features set are continuous customer feedback, rapid iteration and little wasted code. But over time if developers aren’t careful, code wr…
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Close Tab Behaviour in Google Chrome
Tabs, tabs, tabs. The specialist subject of UI experts everywhere. Should tabs just rearrange horizontally or also detach? How much vertical scroll buffer should a tab have before it detaches? Under what circumstances should it detach? What about reattaching?