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Google Wave's Scrollbars
In spite of some of the reaction to it , I find Google Wave to be surprisingly useful. One thing I don't really understand, though, is its scrollbars. They behave quite differently from regular scrollbars, and I can't discern any overwhelming advantages of Google's implementation. It seems I'm not alone. The…
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100,000 tasklets: Stackless and Go
I made a mistake when first publishing this and used the wrong date. Now that I've fixed it you'll have to go to the correct page to see it.
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A very clever idea to enforce copyright with minimal lawsuits.
One reason the record industry's strategy of suing online infringers ran into trouble is that there are too many infringers to sue. If the industry can only sue a tiny fraction of infringers, then any individual infringer will know that he is very unlikely to be sued, and deterrence will fail. Or so it might seem …
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Cryptographic voting system developed by MIT prof has first real world trial
A new system for ensuring accurate election tallies, which MIT researchers helped to develop, passed its first real-world test last Tuesday.
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At peak, Spain gets 53% of its energy from wind
Ok, not all the time, but last weekend at 5:50am on Sunday morning (8th Nov) Spain set a new record, hitting 53.7% of its energy requirements being supplied by wind energy. As you can see from the graph above, the amount of electricity being supplied by wind, the light green portion of the graph, doesn’t […]
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Bram Cohen: Comments on Go
Here are my preliminary thoughts on the Go programming language. The most interesting feature for me personally is the built-in threading. Aside from its superb support for multi-core, it's just plain a good set of ways of doing networking. The lack of a decent built-in networking library (and…
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Rogue Amoeba abandons iPhone because of App Store approval insanity
Visit the Rogue Amoeba blog to read more.
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The Nerd Handbook
A nerd needs a project because a nerd builds stuff. All the time. Those lulls in the conversation over dinner? That's the nerd working on his project in his hea
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Verizon: How Much Do You Charge Now?
Verizon’s cellphones are designed in such a way that you can almost never avoid getting $1.99 charge on the bill for its mobile Web services, even if you immediately cancel the action.
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A 2x Faster Web
Today we'd like to share with the web community information about SPDY, pronounced "SPeeDY", an early-stage research project that is part of...
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VentureHacks: How to Pick a Co-founder
Update: Also see our 40-minute interview on this topic. Picking a co-founder is your most important decision. It’s more important than your product, market, and investors. The ideal founding …
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Reddit launches self-serve ad tool (buy a sponsored link for as little as $20)
Get the latest product news, company announcements, and user insights from the official Reddit blog.
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The Gervais Principle II: Posturetalk, Powertalk, Babytalk and Gametalk
We began this analysis of corporate life by exploring a theoretical construct (the Gervais Principle ) through the character arcs of Michael and Ryan in The…
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Awesome Visualisations of Choose Your Own Adventure books
An infographical analysis of the structure of the Choose Your Own Adventure books series
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Summary of all the MIT Introduction to Algorithms lectures
As you all may know, I watched and posted my lecture notes of the whole MIT Introduction to Algorithms course. In this post I want to summarize all the topics that were covered in the lectures and point out some of the most interesting things in them. Actually, before I wrote this article, I had started writing an...