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Google, what were you thinking?

My Recent Nine Months as an Indie Developer

Circumventing the No-Fly list in thirty seconds

Microsoft confirms UEFI fears, locks down ARM devices

Software Freedom Law Center2012254 points131 commentscited by 5Security & Privacy details

The Software Freedom Law Center provides legal representation and other law related services to protect and advance Free and Open Source Software.

How I got into MIT when I was 14

What a Wonderful World2012153 points105 commentsLife, Learning & Writing details

Hi guys! A few folks have asked what it was like to grow up outside the traditional academic route - here's a quick piece written for GHF (G...

The Elephant in the Room: Google Monoculture

FreeBSD 9.0-Release Announcement

FreeBSD Project2012130 points35 commentsSystems & Performance details

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE. This is the first release from the stable/9 branch, which improves on stable/8 and adds many new features. Some of the highlights:

The Strange Case of John Dillinger and the Fraudulent Apple ID

Programming Zen2012119 points36 commentsSecurity & Privacy details

Programming Zen is a blog about programming and emerging technologies, authored by Antonio Cangiano, a Software Development Manager and AI Evangelist at IBM.

Martin Fowler: An Open Letter to Pearson about SOPA/PIPA

Martin Fowler2012129 points8 commentsSociety, Policy & Culture details

To: John Isley, Executive Vice President, Higher Education & CEO Pearson Technology Group

Stop looking for a cofounder

Relational shell programming

Unix is a bestiary of ad hoc databases: comma-, colon-, tab- and space-separated tables. Think of /etc/* or /var/log/* , or of columnar commands.

How rel=nofollow Works

Luigi Montanez2012209 points50 commentsWeb & Frontend details

Links shared on Twitter aren't surfacing in Google's Search Plus Your World because Twitter wants it that way.

A Depressive Journey With MongoDB

Sublime Text 2 Beta released with Auto-complete and Improved UI

Sublime Text Blog2012299 points151 commentsTools & Productivity details

Sublime Text 2 Beta 2165 is out now, with the biggest set of improvements yet. Some of the highlights are:

Designing Great API Docs

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Google+ Hacker News Circle makes Search plus Your World Amazing

Sash!2012310 points107 commentsTech Industry & Business details

When Google+ first launched, I hustled my way to get an early invite so that I could grope the shiny UI touches like circles, and oogle the sexy tech features like Hangouts, but up until now, I...

This photograph is free

Tristan Nitot2012530 points143 commentsSociety, Policy & Culture details

I've just read This photograph is not free on Petapixel.com, and I should explain why I disagree with the author and decided to give away the picture below: The photo above is

The SOPA Debate and Congress's Understanding of Child Porn

Dan Nguyen2012132 points91 commentsSociety, Policy & Culture details

Update (1/22/2012): SOPA was indefinitely postponed by Rep. Lamar Smith on Friday (PIPA is likewise stalled). Rep. Smith also has another Internet rights bill on deck though: the The Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act of 2011, which mandates that Internet services store customer data for up to 18…

The Cathedral and the Bazaar

Eric S. Raymond2012cited by 11Open Source details

My third book

Small teams are dramatically more efficient than large teams

Atomic Object Blog2012226 points83 commentsTech Industry & Business details

Small software teams are dramatically more cost efficient than large teams. Large teams don't even confer much calendar time advantage over small teams.

Visualizing binaries with space-filling curves

Aldo Cortesi2012160 points43 commentscited by 4Software Engineering details

Edit: Since this post, I've created an interactive tool for binary visualisation - see it at binvis.io

Reddit to go dark on Jan 18 to protest SOPA

Reddit Blog2012922 points150 commentsSociety, Policy & Culture details

Get the latest product news, company announcements, and user insights from the official Reddit blog.

Web programs written in C++ are no big deal

Introducing the Backbone.js Boilerplate

Raspberry Pi: We’ve started manufacture

Raspberry Pi Blog2012329 points104 commentsHardware & Electronics details

Deconstructing "K&R C"

Learn Code the Hard Way2012118 points129 commentsSoftware Engineering details

Learn C The Hard Way (LCTHW) is a practical book teaching real world useful C using the same proven Learn The Hard Way method. LCTHW teaches real robust C coding and defensive programming tactics on real hardware rather than abstract machines and pedantic theory. The book emphasizes breaking your code on purpose, and…

The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode

Joel on Software2012214 points128 commentscited by 40Software Engineering details

Ever wonder about that mysterious Content-Type tag? You know, the one you’re supposed to put in HTML and you never quite know what it should be? Did you ever get an email from your friends in…

Diaspora re-writes its front to Backbone: why and what it means

JavaScript Needs Blocks

Yehuda Katz2012227 points91 commentscited by 4Software Engineering details

While reading Hacker News posts about JavaScript, I often come across the misconception that Ruby's blocks are essentially equivalent to JavaScript's "first class functions". Because the ability to pass functions around, especially when you can create them anonymously, is extremely powerful, the fact that both…

Don't write on the whiteboard

Quill Grid2012213 points111 commentsCareer & Management details

Quill Grid: The Starlink for AI becomes a network. An optional, opt-in distributed AI grid where idle Quill One devices share spare capacity, earn credits, and donate AI hours.