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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,456 posts.
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Will Your College Go Out of Business Before You Graduate?
I’ve been getting a lot of questions from High School kids asking whether or not they should go to college. The answer is yes.
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Jonathan Coulton vs. Glee
With all the controversy surrounding Glee’s ripoff of Jonathan Coulton’s Baby Got back I thought I would makes a remix that combines the two versions. The remix alternates between the t…
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The IDE as a value
In my last post I talked about building a game in ClojureScript using a Component-Entity-System engine and I hinted that the ideas that underly that architecture inspired how we designed Light Table . The reason why stems from the architectural goals of the project:
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Google has indexed thousands of publicly accessible HP printers
A quick, well crafted Google search returns “About 86,800 results” for publically accessible HP printers.
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Dwolla Begins PayPal-Style Account Suspensions for Bitcoiners
99Bitcoins is your trusted guide to Bitcoin & crypto, offering easy tutorials, expert insights, and in-depth reviews to help you navigate the crypto world.
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License Haiku
I think that people really use software licenses to express intentions, and don’t really read the details of the licenses. So I think that licenses should be made as simple as possible, so that they don’t disagree with intentions… thus, haiku licensing:
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Amazon, Apple, and the beauty of low margins
[As always, I preface any discussion of Amazon and Apple by noting that I own some stock in both companies, and that I worked at Amazon from 1997 to 2004] A lot of folks, especially Apple supporters, like to characterize Amazon as irrational, even crazy, for its willingness to live with low margins
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You've heard of Markov chains. But who was Markov?
Harvard celebrates the 100th anniversary of a computational principle that was little noticed in its time, but that underlies all of modern science.
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How an unsigned rapper changed music
The relationship between label and talents has been drastically changed, and if we don’t see an adequate response on both sides, the music industry might never be the same.
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I'm sorry
On Being A Journeyman Software Developer2013463 points177 commentscited by 9Life, Learning & Writing details
Yesterday I made a mistake . Without thinking, I put up a mean tweet about some code that Heather Arthur wrote. And I want to apologize. ...
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What It's Like To Be Ridiculed For Open Sourcing A Project
Yesterday my colleague mentioned that a script I wrote was getting a lot of attention on Twitter. This particular project was something I wrote a couple years ago to help me out with a workflow. I …
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Why Everyone Eventually Hates or Leaves Maven
My colleague Martin Fowler recently posted a Bliki entry about InternalReprogrammability , lamenting the diminishing mind share of tools that allow extremely fine grained customizability, such as Emacs and Smalltalk. I agree whole heartedly with his sentiment; I covered some of the same ground in my Abstraction…
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Developing a responsive, Retina-friendly site (Part 1)
This post is part of a series documenting the design and development of this blog, including responsive mobile first web design.