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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,717 posts.
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Old, but gold - "Strategy Letter I: Ben and Jerry's vs. Amazon"
Building a company? You’ve got one very important decision to make, because it affects everything else you do. No matter what else you do, you absolutely must figure out which camp you’…
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Time to end the war on drugs
Richard Branson's blog - where he shares his thoughts on business, Virgin news, leadership, life, family and the global issues he cares about the most
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Harsh Realities From 500 Startups Founders
500 Global is a venture capital firm with $2.4 billion¹ in assets under management that invests in founders building fast-growing technology companies. We focus on markets where technology, innovation, and capital can unlock long-term value and drive economic growth.
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A Perl Regular Expression That Matches Prime Numbers
Take a look at this Perl regular expression: perl -lne '(1x$_) =~ /^(11+?)\1+$/ && print "$_ is composite"' This regular expression matches only the composite numbers (and doesn't match prime numbers). Can you figure out how it works? I'll give the explanation below but try to figure it…
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Be aware of "morality" clauses from domain registrars
GoDaddy has received a lot of bad press for their support of …
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Elon Musk says he will put millions of people on Mars
New Scientist – Musk declared recently that he could put a human on Mars in 10 to 20 years’ time. It is a remarkable claim, yet even more astonishingly Musk tells me that he could do it for $5 billion, and possibly as little as $2 billion – a snip when you consider that the International Space Station (ISS) has cost…
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"Another World" (game) Code Review
I spent two weeks reading and reverse engineering further the source code of Another World ("Out Of This World" in North America). I based my work on Gregory Montoir's "binary to C++" initial reverse engineering from the DOS executable. I was amazed to discover an elegant system based on a virtual machine interpreting…
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Petzl comes out against SOPA, after appearing on the list of supporters
New products, innovative equipment, tech tips and resources, adventure stories and trip reports, field insights, and more.
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Golden Ratio for Readable Web Typography
This is the original introductory article to Golden Ratio Typography (GRT). The basic concepts you’ll find on this page are important for understanding GRT, but much of the math is now outdated (and has been replaced by updated formulae). For a more current and comprehensive look at all things GRT, check out the Golden
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Questions you have to answer correctly to get funding for your startup
Fundraising questions for startups: 1. Why do you need investment? 2. What does your service do? 3. Is there any competition? 4. Can you...
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The Problem with Implicit Scoping in CoffeeScript
A longer explanation of why I think that the CoffeeScript scoping is problematic and should be changed.
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John Resig: JavaScript as a First Language
At Khan Academy we’ve been investigating teaching Computer Science to students in some new and interesting ways. The most interesting aspect of which is that we’re likely going to be teaching them JavaScript as their first language.