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What happens when you use a standing desk for two years
The video below is an update on the original post. At the time of the video’s recording, I had been standing for 5 years. cialis About me: I build Power 20, a suite of mobile exercise apps. It has now been two years since I started using a standing desk at work. No matter how long my...
Go After 2 Years in Production
After running Go for two years in production at Iron.io, I wanted to share our experience/feelings about it. We were one of the first companies
10gen is now MongoDB, Inc.
New Branding Reflects Commitment to the MongoDB NoSQL Database and Its Global Community.
What is algebra?
NOVEMBER 20, 2011. We hear a lot about the importance that all children master algebra before they graduate from high school. But what exactly is algebra, and is it really as important as everyone …
Detaining David Miranda
Last Sunday, David Miranda was detained while changing planes at London Heathrow Airport by British authorities for nine hours under a controversial British law—the maximum time allowable without making an arrest. There has been much made of the fact that he’s the partner of Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian reporter whom…
Logstash joins Elasticsearch
Logstash is an open source data collection engine with real-time pipelining capabilities. Logstash can dynamically unify data from disparate sources and...
Introducing Brick: Minimal-markup Web Components for Faster App Development
Those of you on the cutting HTML5 edge may have already heard of the exciting Web Components specification. If you haven't, you'll probably want to read up on what makes ...
Shon Hopwood and Kopf’s terrible sentencing instincts
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Stripe launches German beta
Once Stripe is supported in your country, you’ll be able to accept payments from customers anywhere in the world.
SQLite 3.8.0 Release with next-generation query planner
Beginning with this release, SQLite will not compile on Windows version prior to Windows Vista (circa 2007), due to a switch to using Slim Reader/Writer Locks (SRWLs) which are faster but which are not available on WindowsXP and earlier.
Why do RET instructions have a REPZ prepended on x86?
Recently, we began work on a binary static analysis tool. While reading some disassembly, we came across a weird-looking instruction, that was present in most everything we gave objdump .
A Startup Reading List
Books are still vital. Ask the CEOs of the successful companies and you will find that they are well read. Ask the top people everywhere and they read to expose themselves to new ideas.
Recycling memory buffers in Go
This blog post is very old now. You probably don't want to use the techniques described here. GO'S sync.Pool is a better way to go.
The realtime magic behind Moot and how we deliver all your instant notifications
Le tecnologie in tempo reale stanno trasformando il digitale. Permettono interazioni immediate e autentiche🎯 Scopri come migliorano l'esperienza utente e favoriscono il coinvolgimento.
Deterministic Builds Part One: Cyberwar and Global Compromise
I've spent the past few months developing a new build system for the 3.0 series of the Tor...
On the Cleverness of Compilers
The “Sufficiently Clever Compiler” has become something of a trope in the Lisp community: the mythical beast that promises language and interface designers near-unlimited freedom, and leaves their output in a performance lurch by its non-appearance. A few years ago, I was young enough to join a research project to…
Reddit has the killer social network feature: anonymity
As a follow-on to my last post, about facebook needing the ability to forget, I'm going to put forward a premise - the Reddit's social featu...
Calibre version 1.0 released
calibre: The one stop solution for all your e-book needs. Comprehensive e-book software.
0 to 60 in One Second: Fusing WebGL, CSS 3D and HTML
A new design for Acko.net, fusing WebGL, CSS 3D and HTML at sixty frames per second.