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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 122 posts.
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Saving is Obsolete: Etherpad adds time slider
Real-time collaborative editing where authorship is the default, your server is the only server, and you decide what AI (if any) ever touches your text.
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Bithacks.h - bit hack macros
A part of being a great programmer is having your personal code library. With a personal code library I mean a repository of code that you have an intimate knowledge of and that you can reuse quickly. If you are a C programmer, you don't want to reimplement linked lists, trees, various utility functions, macros and...
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Scott Hanselman's 2009 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows
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Google Website Optimizer Case Study: Daily Burn, 20%+ Improvement
This post will show exactly how one start-up improved their homepage conversion rate (visitor to sign-up flow) more than 20%, then 16% again, with a few simple changes and Google Website Optimizer. Once reading this, you will know more about split-testing than 90%+ of the consultants who get paid to do it… There are a…
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How to Back Up Gmail In Linux
I really like Gmail, but I also like having backups of my data just in case. Here’s how to use a simple program called getmail on Unix to backup your Gmail or Google Apps email. We’ll b…
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How to Create a Self-Referential Tweet
Yesterday Mark Reid posted on Twitter a challenge : create a self-referential tweet (one that links to itself). He later clarified that the tweet should contain in its text its own identifier (the number after " /status/" bit should be its own URL). I decided to take up the challenge ("in order to learn a bit about…
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Vim Plugins You Should Know About, Part IV: snipmate.vim
This is the fourth post in the article series "Vim Plugins You Should Know About". This time I am going to introduce you to a plugin called "snipmate.vim". If you are intrigued by this topic, I suggest that you subscribe to my posts! For the introduction and first post in this article series, follow this link - Vim...
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From TextMate to Vim
TextMate is an excellent editor, but it is beginning to show its age. It has a few squeaky wheels that have yet to be oiled, and it looks as though the author may be getting bogged down in the minutiae of his next release. With the next version apparently due sometime after the colonization of Mars, it seemed an…
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Gmail: Send mail from another address without "on behalf of"
Posted by Emmanuel Pellereau, Software Engineer Quite a few of you use Gmail's custom "From:" to send messages with one of your other email...
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How to Make Phone Calls from the Command Line
With Twilio, unite communications and strengthen customer relationships across your business – from marketing and sales to customer service and operations.
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Share HN: I wrote an app to help my paralyzed cousin type significantly faster.
Chirag Mehta - Personal Web Log - 'blog - Chime Softwares - Indian Blogger live from Saint Petersburg, Florida, St. Pete, FL
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Learn Emacs in Ten Years
Somebody emailed me the other day, asking about how to go about learning Emacs. This is my (edited and rearranged) reply.
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Working on It (TextMate)
Over the past two years, posts on this blog have slowed to just a trickle, and a number of TextMate users have asked about TextMate’s status, or publicly worried about its future. This blog post, the first I’ve written here in a long time, is an attempt to assuage those concerns and answer some of the most frequent…
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Polyphasic Sleep: One Man's 6-Month Experiment (2005)
A couple days ago, I saw a post about polyphasic sleep on LifeHack.org . Since then I’ve been emailed about this topic as well, probably because I’ve written previously about becoming an early riser .
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How To Put Invite Codes on Business Cards
We build the best deployment and testing tools money can't buy. There's no prohibition on performance!
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Top Programming Fonts
Technologist, podcaster, and inventor. Founder of the 5by5 podcast network and Fireside.
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Schneier on Security: Software Problems with a Breath Alcohol Detector
This is an excellent lesson in the security problems inherent in trusting proprietary software: After two years of attempting to get the computer based source code for the Alcotest 7110 MKIII-C, defense counsel in State v. Chun were successful in obtaining the code, and had it analyzed by Base One Technologies, Inc…
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Stephen Wolfram’s Introduction to Wolfram Alpha (screencast)
Building the ultimate computational knowledge engine is a highly ambitious and long-term project. The Wolfram|Alpha that you will get to start exploring next week is really just the beginning. Still, there are a lot of ways that you might use Wolfram|Alpha.