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Xanalogical Structure
Xanalogical Structure, Needed Now More than Ever: Parallel Documents, Deep Links to Content, Deep Versioning and Deep Re-Use
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,076 posts.
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Ben Horowitz: A Good Place to Work
Ben Horowitz is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The
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A Proposal To Improve Hacker News
This morning, HN user sw007 reached out the community to explain why he/she hates Hacker News . sw007 is not the first to notice the vile demeanor of the site but it was his/her post that got me thinking about how to improve the community I love.
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Light Table reaches 0.1.0
The Light Table Playground is getting a huge update today that we’re really excited to show you. New to Light Table? It’s a new kind of reactive IDE, check out the original post to learn more.
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How We Nearly Lost the Discovery Shuttle
Now that Discovery is safely delivered to the Smithsonian, I think I can tell the story of how we nearly lost her in July of 2005, and how well-intentioned, highly motivated, hard-working, smart p…
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A Tor of the Dark Web
Tell me if you’ve been in this situation: you’re chatting about online anonymity with your wife and the other Knight-Mozilla Fellows over a pizza in Florence. A quiet-spoken stranger who had been sitting across the room walks up to your table and says “are you all here for the Tor hackathon?” You respond “why yes, yes…
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Interpreting some of Twitter’s API changes
Twitter has posted some of their upcoming API-policy lockdowns and restrictions in this post from Michael Sippey , euphemistically titled “Changes coming in Version 1.1 of the Twitter API”.
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Twitter to Client Developers: Drop Dead
Link to: https://dev.twitter.com/blog/changes-coming-to-twitter-api
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New study finds 45,000 deaths annually linked to lack of health coverage
Nearly 45,000 annual deaths are associated with lack of health insurance, according to a new study published online today by the American Journal of Public Health. That figure is about…
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Happy birthday Debian
[10 Nov 2012] Help us to release Wheezy : participate to our BSP marathon [29 Sep 2012] Updated Debian 6.0: 6.0.6 released [16 Aug 2012] Debian Community celebrates its 19th birthday [13 Aug 2012] Organize a Debian Birthday party in your city [10 Aug 2012] Help the Debian Installer team: test the new version of the…
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Software Effort Estimation Considered Harmful
Delta Air Lines tells me it will take two hours and twenty-five minutes to fly from New York City to Atlanta, GA. American says two thirty. United? Two thirty-four. Yet, the captain just told me it was “one-hour forty-five” minutes “wheels-up to wheels-down”. What gives?
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How anti-competitive lawsuits by incumbents are killing early stage startups
These days, Southwest Airlines is synonymous with low airfares and solid customer experience. But in the late 1960's when it was founded, the fledgling airline (then Air Southwest) was almost sued...
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'; CREATE TABLE `Capture the Flag`; -- Stripe CTF Web Edition coming next week'
Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.
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The Making of Warcraft, Part 2
Warcraft almost didn't become Warcraft. Part 2 gets into the hard calls, surprises, and turning points that shaped the hit.
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Sexual Harassment at DefCon (and Other Hacker Cons)
Excellent blog post by Valerie Aurora about sexual harassment at the DefCon hackers conference. Aside from the fact that this is utterly reprehensible behavior by the perpetrators involved, this is a real problem for our community. The response of “this is just what hacker culture is, and changing it will destroy…
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The first Django site to run on Python 3
This page was generated by Django 1.5.dev20120815104632 and Python 3.2.3 (default, Aug 15 2012, 13:02:32) [GCC 4.4.5] on Sept. 1, 2012, 3:42 p.m. (Paris time).
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Abuse of Youtube's copyright infringement claim process for doxxing purposes
UPDATE: it appears that the pathetic cowards who perjured themselves filing these maliciously false copyright infringement claims have chick...