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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,466 posts.
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Introduction to tmux (alternative to GNU screen)
tmux is similar to screen as it lets you run numerous TTY’s in the same terminal window. It supports some very cool and intuitive features natively as well as a much more readable configuration syntax (ever looked at a .screenrc file?). Why TMUX over Screen? Well according to the FAQ for tmux it has the following…
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Building an HTML5 Drag & Drop File Uploader Using Sinatra and jQuery: Part 1
Upon setting out to build a Drag & Drop uploader, I first trawled the web for prior art. Blog posts, examples, any information that would lead me down
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Test driven development at Transloadit
You have probably heard a few talks or read a few articles where test driven development is depicted as a magic unicorn that watches over your software and makes everybody happy. Well, about 18.000 lines of "magic unicorn" code later, I'd like to put things into perspective.
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A White iPhone 4 Is Confronted Regarding Its Inability to Be Shipped
The Great White Nope.
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My Favorite Engineering Interview Question
As Ning is ramping up recruiting again, I need to brush off my interrogation techniques interview questions. Sadly, one of my favorites is no longer so useful, as originally designed, due to technical advances in hard drives. I figured I’d share and discuss how I use it. Hopefully folks can give me some feedback on…
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The Geocities Torrent (~1TB of awesomeness)
Well, here we are on October 26th, 2010. Can it really be a year ago that Archive Team had dozens of people assaulting Yahoo’s servers desperately trying to save disappearing history? Well, l…
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Why PHP Is Fun and Easy But Python Is Marriage Material
When I kicked off my startup HubSpot over 4 years ago June 2006 I wrote a set of articles on the topic of choosing a language/platform specific
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Mark Zuckerberg on What Hollywood Doesn't Get About Silicon Valley
Founders at Work
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Things Paul Graham is wrong about
I debated with myself for a long time over whether to write this post (which is one of the reasons some of the subject matter is a little ol...
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Firebug Metamorphosis
The story of Firefox and Firebug are synonymous with the rise of the web. We fought the good fight and changed how developers inspect HTML and debug JS in the browser. Firebug ushered the Web 2.0 era. Today, the work pioneered by the Firebug community through the last 12 years lives on in Firefox Developer Tools…
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How to hire a programmer when you're not a programmer
How do you hire a programmer if you’re not one yourself? Some things to look for… 1. How opinionated are they? Ask them about a juicy programming topic (e.g. Ruby or Python?). The tone and reasoning of the answer will reveal a lot. In our recent podcast on programming, Jeff said, &#…
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Watch – A Useful Linux Command You May Have Never Heard Of
How many times did I want to watch a directory waiting for a file to appear in it? Constant ls, for example, quickly got boring. A quick Perl script that would reload ls every 5 seconds… yeah it works but it takes a while to type up, and often enough I'm too lazy for that. And then I found 'watch' – a utility that…
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Firesheep, a day later
Most importantly, I certainly never expected there would be this much attention all at once, and within the first 24 hours.
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12 Months with MongoDB
As previously blogged , Wordnik is a heavy user of 10gen’s MongoDB . One year ago today we started the investigation to find an alternative to MySQL to store, find, and retrieve our corpus data. After months of experimentation in the non-relational landscape (and running a scary number of nightly builds), we settled…