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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,923 posts.
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Excuse Me, But Where Did Google's Organic Search Results Go?
In the past many SEOs have called organic search results the results on the left side of the page and the pay-per-click / AdWords results as the results on the right side of the page. As Google has grown more aggressive with promoting vertical/universal search I think a better way of defining the portions of the…
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How to write untestable code
by Miško Hevery , Jonathan Wolter , Russ Ruffer, Brad Cross, and lots of other test infected Googlers This guide lists principles that will ...
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Introducing Closure Tools
Millions of Google users worldwide use JavaScript-intensive applications such as Gmail , Google Docs , and Google Maps . Like developers eve...
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Python in the Scientific World
Yesterday I attended a biweekly meeting of an informal a UC Berkeley group devoted to Python in science (Py4Science), organized by Fernando ...
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WTF is up with Dell?
[Update at end of post] I love Dell servers. In fact I even love their network hardware. I’ve spent 0000’s (yeah that’s four zeros) with them during the last 2 years and Mick my old sales guy rocked! As did his hardware team.
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Japanese Teenage Boy Improved Ruby 1.9 Performance By Up To 63%
Japanese online magazine, @IT Jibun Senryaku Lab. (information site for IT engineers to educate and/or develop oneself), published an interv...
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Upgrade your career
Do you like your job? Do you enjoy the people you work with? Would you want to have lunch with them? Every day? Alex Papadimoulis thinks that FogTyler Griffin Hicks-Wright Creek’s free lunches are …
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The “Interview” with Y Combinator That’s Not
So, in our last installment of the Y Combinator saga, we talked about applying. Since a handful of folks will be gearing up for their interviews shortly, it seems a fine time to move on to the next step in our journey.
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Having Co-founders Is Valuable But Not Crucial
Many experts, including my personal hero Paul Graham, strongly advise against founding a company on your own: All investors, without exce...
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z/OMG
Two weeks ago I was on a Project Management course at work, which was highly enjoyable and very involved. Project management for a company this big is evidently a very complex and rigorous process involving all kinds of procedural steps and checks and formal presentations of stuf...
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Bug tracking isn't a network-effect business
Facebook sucks you in because everyone you know is using it. You go to eBay to find something because you know someone is selling what you want to buy. Oracle wins in the enterprise because there are tons of experts and plenty of auxiliary software available. All these business rely heavily on the …
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Mockingbird, Cappuccino, and what really matters
What makes an app an app?
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Escher's "Ascending and Descending" in Lego
Because The LEGO Company get paranoid about this sort of thing let me make it clear that I have no affiliation with them, that my views are my own and do not necessarily represent theirs, and so on. So if you think any of this is official you are as deluded as they are.
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Bill Gates sums up Microsoft's abusive history
The latest news about Opera web browsers, tech trends, internet tips.
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Clojure N00b Tips from Tim Bray
Clojure is the new hotness among people who think the JVM is an interesting platform for post-Java languages, and for people who think there’s still life in that ol’ Lisp beast, and for people who worry about concurrency and state in the context of the multicore future. Over the last few days I’ve been severely…
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