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After the Deadline now Open Source
After the Deadline, an intelligent checker for spelling and grammar, is now free software. The server software is available under the GNU General Public License. We’ve created a portal at whe…
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,923 posts.
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Google Docs Liberated
When Google Launched DataLiberation ,Brian Fitzpatrick, Data Liberation engineering manager said in a blog post: We've already liberated ov...
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Arbitrary code execution via ldd utility
The `ldd` utility is more vulnerable than you think. It's frequently used by programmers and system administrators to determine the dynamic library dependencies of executables. Sounds pretty innocent, right? Wrong! In this article I am going to show you how to create an executable that runs arbitrary code if it's...
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The curious pricing of the 27" iMac
The more I think and learn about the curious pricing of the 27” iMac , the more bizarre and incredible it seems.
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What Startups Are Really Like
October 2009 (This essay is derived from a talk at the 2009 Startup School.) I wasn't sure what to talk about at Startup School, so I decided to ask the founders of the startups we'd funded. What hadn't I written about yet? I'm in the unusual position of being able to test the essays I write about startups. I hope the…
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The false god of coffee
If you are self-tracking for any reason — to answer a health question, achieve a goal, explore an idea, or simply because you are curious — you can find help and support here.
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New iPhone app piracy over week one.
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Herd Mentality
It’s not just that Apple *is* different among computer makers. It’s that Apple is the only one that even *can* be different, because it’s the only one that has its own OS.
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How to Read Other People's Code -- And Why
If you are a professional software developer, or aspire to be one, you will need to know a lot of of things. Various maths, stats, languages, frameworks, methodologies, tools, etc. Fads and buzzwor…
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The Ideal Startup Career Path
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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Dirty Little Secret of Success
A longing for love and approval. That's the dirty little secret of success.
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Why I like Redis
I’ve been getting a lot of useful work done with Redis recently. Redis is typically categorised as yet another of those new-fangled NoSQL key/value stores, but if you look closer …
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I Was Told I Was Very Smart
Your life is the best story! Just start your blog today!
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RT @google: Tweets and updates and search, oh my
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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37signals Launches Haystack for Web Designers and Clients To Find Each Other
A few years ago we launched the 37signals Job Board to answer a question we heard all the time: “Do you know where we can find a programmer or a designer? We need to hire one but we don’t know where to find one.” Since then, over 5,700 jobs have been posted, and many positions hav…
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Pimping out git log
I got playing with git log and ended up creating this alias: [alias] lg = log --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr)%Creset' --abbrev-commit --date=relative Which adds a git lg command that is a prettier version of git log --oneline.
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Starting a business isn't as crazy and risky as they say
If you're thinking about starting a new venture right now, you need to understand the risks, but you need the real risks. The truth (as always) lies between baseless off-hand remarks about how "95% of businesses fail" (false!) and those startup blogs that show only the rosy side of things.