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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,923 posts.
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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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Microsoft’s Long, Slow Decline
Microsoft is increasingly left only with customers whose priority is price.
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Confessions of a Math Idiot
A blog about computers, functional languages, Lisp, and Scheme.
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He’s Only in Field Service
The most important early customers for your startup usually turn out to be quite different from who you think they’re going to be. He’s Only in Field Service When I was at Zilog, the Z8…
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The best way to load external JavaScript
The Official Web Site of Nicholas C. Zakas
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Steve Jobs on why Apple doesn’t do market research
An Interface and Product Design blog by Joshua Porter
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Embrace technical debt
Financial debt plays an important and positive role in our economy under normal conditions. Yet, especially in times like these, it’s easy t...
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Debian decides to adopt time-based release freezes
[08 Oct 2009] Robotic Submarine Running Debian Wins International Competition [07 Oct 2009] Debian pushes development of kFreeBSD port [23 Sep 2009] First Debian Mini Conference to be held in Taiwan [05 Sep 2009] Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 updated [06 Aug 2009] 2009 Annual International Debian Conference finished…
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Emacs 23 is very near
Emacs 23(.1) has been released ! After only just over two years since the previous version, emacs 23 has been released on July 29 200...
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Google Maps Street View capture... from a bike
I met this guy while I was walking around Beebe Lake . He says they're deploying people on bikes to capture images of trails where you can't take cars, but it's small-scale and experimental at this stage. A pedestrian version is also in development, and may come into use next year. He's excited…
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Where I Program - Independent Developer's Cribs
whereiwrite.org is a photographic project showing science fiction writers and their offices. I started wondering what the offices of other microISVs and small software companies look like. Were the…
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I really want to like Apple (but they don't like us)
I loved my Apple IIs passionately. I love my Macintosh collection (from SE to Bondi-blue iMac). While not being a heavy Mac user, I keep a Mac on my desk as a second computer to my main computer (a netbook running Linux because I like carrying it around, because it's cheap and because I like Linux better than OSX for…
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Ramen Profitable
July 2009 Now that the term "ramen profitable" has become widespread, I ought to explain precisely what the idea entails. Ramen profitable means a startup makes just enough to pay the founders' living expenses. This is a different form of profitability than startups have traditionally aimed for. Traditional…
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Ask and It Shall be Given
Once I recovered from burnout at Zilog, I was working less and accomplishing more. I even had time to find a girlfriend who was a contractor to the company. One of her first comments was, “I…
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Recreating the THX Deep Note - EarSlap
Procedural music, art, computation and some other things.
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Typeface by Toyota. The iQ font Designed By A Moving Car.
A blog about the best creativity and design in the world.
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What You Learned About How Planes Fly Was Probably Wrong
So we all know how planes fly, right? The top of the wing is rounded and the bottom of the wing is more straight. Air takes longer to travel over the top of the
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90% of China's billionaires are kids of high-ranking officials
Elite Chinese Politics and Political Economy200957 points46 commentsSociety, Policy & Culture details
My name is Victor Shih, currently an assistant professor of political science at Northwestern University specializing in Chinese politics. This blog shares my musing and discussions on Chinese politics and political economy with interested readers. You can contact me at vshih AT northwestern.edu, and my website, where…