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Facelette: On TechCrunch in Three Hours and $0
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
Computing at scale, or, how Google has warped my brain
A number of people at Google have stickers on their laptops that read "my other computer is a data center." Having been at Google for almost...
Real Go Projects: SmartTwitter and web.go
How Michael Hoisie used Go to build SmartTwitter and web.go.
Marco Arment: The new MacBook Air
The new MacBook Air was released today, and it’s a hell of an upgrade. It got much better and it’s at an extremely compelling price.
I’ve Made $216,688 From Products This Year
Hey, would you look at the time? It’s getting late. Just two months until the deeply introspective blog posts start comin’ hot & heavy. It’s still on
Edward Tufte's impression of Windows Phone 7
A forum moderated by author and artist Edward Tufte, including discussion and questions dealing with information design.
My experience of selling the same apps on iOS and on Android (with numbers)
This is a numbers post comparing my experience of selling the same apps on iOS devices and on Android. A few weeks ago, the Android Market m...
The New Funding Landscape
October 2010 After barely changing at all for decades, the startup funding business is now in what could, at least by comparison, be called turmoil. At Y Combinator we've seen dramatic changes in the funding environment for startups. Fortunately one of them is much higher valuations. The trends we've been seeing are…
Python is now Python 3
A major Python update has just been moved from the testing repositories and will be available on a mirror near you. The default "python" package is now for the 3.x series while the 2.x series has been moved to a "python2" package, with python-2.7 having been scheduled to be the last major release in the python-2.x…
60 percent of Apple’s sales are from products that did not exist three years ago
This chart speaks for itself. Note the bottom two bands and the proportion of the total that they make up. Also note the seasonality with the holiday spikes. This last quarter is not a holiday quar…
Mozilla Open Web App prototype
The open Web is a great platform for rich applications. It would be even better if it had additional capabilities to ease discovery, acquisition, installat
Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results
The official source for news about Apple, from Apple. Read press releases, get updates, watch video and download images.
Redis, from the Ground Up
A deep dive into the data structure server: origins, design decisions, feature set, applications, and more.