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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,466 posts.
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Chance of Dying From Backscatter Radiation Same as Chance of Terrorism
Link to: http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/11/16/5477568-are-airport-x-ray-scanners-harmful
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Why wreck a blank canvas?
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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Signups increased by 60% after actually removing the signup form
Read how Vendio, a SaaS company, used Wingify Testing to optimize their landing page for better usability and increased conversions by 60%
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Deprecating XML
Someone asked me recently what I thought about XML being removed from the Twitter streaming API. Around the same time, I heard that Foursquare are also moving to a JSON-only API.
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The Importance of Abandoning Crap
Curating the intersection of modern lifestyle and technical obsession. We are currently architecting our systems for the upcoming launch.
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World's smallest legible font is not the smallest I've seen
Also, my font is fixed pitch as I needed it to be that rather than proportional, so you can shave quite a bit more. It is also far more legible -- especially when enlarged:
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Generating code from natural language is closer than you think
Articles by Stephen Wolfram covering artificial intelligence, computational science and computational thinking, data science, education, future and historical perspectives, sciences, software design, technology, Wolfram products, more.
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Google Voice for iPhone Released
Earlier this year we launched a Google Voice HTML5 web app for iPhone users. Today we’re taking the Google Voice experience on the iPhone t...
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When we got to the scanner, I opted out. Then they opted out.
Writing and Stuff from Isaac Z. Schlueter
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Is it hard to become an Android developer?
My last post (Android Developer Income Report) caused a lot of questions about how to jump into Android apps development. It is very surprising for me as earnings I have presented are not even clos…
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Why Facebook badly needs Steve Jobs
Facebook could have easily become a player in the email battle, if they had just kept it simple. All they needed to do was the following: ...
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