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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,456 posts.
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Go and Assembly
Hi I'm Caleb Doxsey and welcome to my website. I'm a software developer. If you'd like to contact me, you can email me here: [email protected] .
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Syncing and merging come to Bitbucket
When developing on a feature branch or a fork, your code can often get out of date. There are a number of reasons this might happen: You’re concentrating on a feature rather than syncing. You’re not yet ready to worry about integrating just yet. You’re returning to a stale branch or fork to pick up […]
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What happened with LEGO
The price of a brick. NOTE: This blog has been moved to here “What happened with Legos? They used to be simple. Oh come on, I know you know what I’m talking about. Legos were simple. Somethin…
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Keeping Passwords in Source Control
I learned a neat tip from my co-worker, Craig Silverstein ( more on Craig joining Khan Academy ), recently and I thought others might find it to be useful.
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The “I just got bought by a big company” survival guide
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, investing in bold founders, innovators, and entrepreneurs building the future through technology.
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Announcing Topaz: A New Ruby
I’m extraordinarily pleased to today announce Topaz, a project I started 10 months ago, to create a brand new implementation of the Ruby programming language (version 1.9.3).
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In the future, all space marines will be Warhammer 40K space marines
M.C.A. Hogarth's account of the 2012–2013 Games Workshop "space marine" trademark dispute over her novel Spots the Space Marine, with the original posts preserved and the book available direct.
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KDE 4.10 has been released.
The KDE Community is proud to announce the 4.10 releases of KDE Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Development Platform. This release combines the latest technologies along with many improvements to bring users the premier collection of Free Software for home and professional use. Special thanks to the KDE Quality…
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Remember when people tracked bugs?
I've done some well-known bitching about the halfassed and haphazard way that Open Sores projects have handled their bugs in the past, but man, things have only gotten worse since then. I mean, projects used to actually have bug databases. Boy, those were the days. Failing that, developers used to put their email…
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Four Hours of Concentration
As I've blogged about before, and mentioned again in my previous post, the great mathematician and physicist Henri Poincaré put in two hours of work in the morning and two in the evening. Apparently this is a common pattern. Cal Newport mentions this in his interview with Todd Henry. Now we also know that if
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Tesla's ingenious strategy
Tesla motors has huge ambitions. Tesla founder Elon Musk has said he envisions Tesla as an independent automaker, aimed at eventually mass producing fully electric cars at a price affordable to the average consumer. This is a very difficult goal to achieve for several reasons. If you want to produce cheap cars you…
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Announcing MoSQL
MongoDB → PostgreSQL streaming replication - stripe-archive/mosql
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48th Mersenne prime found
GIMPS has discovered a new Mersenne prime number: 2^57885161-1 is prime! Discovered: 2013 Jan 25
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FedEx Bandwidth
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. –Andrew Tanenbaum, 1981
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