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Stop A/B Testing and Make Out like a Bandit
This is the blog post that led to Myna . Sign up now and help us beta test the world’s fastest A/B testing product!
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,717 posts.
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I Want To Unsubscribe, Not "Manage My Preferences"
The best 25 books I’ve read since the last time I did one of these book roundups way back in 2024.
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Understanding the Git Workflow
If you don't understand the motivation behind Git's design, you're in for a world of hurt. With enough flags you can force Git to act the way you think it should instead of the way it wants to. But that's like using a screwdriver like a
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We see a lot of metrics on web and mobile apps. Our portfolio companies share their metrics with us, which we keep confidential and do not share with anyone outside of our firm. And companies that are seeking investment from USV also share their metrics with us. We also keep these metrics confidential and do […]
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How to work with me - a no BS approach
In March 2005, a photocopy was handed to me in preparation for work with one of the top wigs. It enumerated the rules necessary to avoid con...
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Vim & Python: Making yourself at home
You might look at Python code every day, but what is the lens through which you view code? It's your text editor. This article was written for Python Magazine and was first in a series on Python development environments. Here, we look at how Vim users can boost their productivity by having Vim tell you as much as…
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Sublime Text 2 Build 2091
Sublime Text 2 Build 2091 is available now, with a raft of new features. Many thanks to everyone who has tested the dev builds during this time.
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Airbnb Nightmare: No End In Sight
Around The World and Back Again20111,017 points482 commentscited by 8Tech Industry & Business details
Somewhere around 1:00 am yesterday, my Airbnb.com horror story was picked up by Hacker News ; to say this story has gone viral in the past ...
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Google Acquires Over 1,000 IBM Patents
While Google may have lost the recent bidding for Nortel's patent portfolio, they did quietly acquire over a 1,000 patents from IBM this past month.
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New Khan Academy Exercise Framework Is Live
Today we’re pushing live a complete rewrite of the Khan Academy Exercise framework ( live demo ).
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Steve Jobs Sometimes Lies to You
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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Java 7 is now available
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Could You Modify It ‘To Stop Students From Becoming This Advanced?’
The free Web tutoring service “Khan Academy” has gotten much well-deserved attention, including a feature story in the current issue of Wired . That story includes a quote that literally took my breath away :
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WSGI and the Pluggable Pipe Dream
Why WSGI is not as big of a problem as you would believe and why framework independent pluggable applications don’t work in practice.
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Every language fixes something - a DiGraph - just for fun
Oh, and - added later - the original from PG is undated, but the "enhanced" version below it was on the C2 wiki in 2003/2004 and possibly earlier, so don't for one minute think it's supposed to be up-to-date, or refer to modern version of these languages.
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Page Speed Service
By Ram Ramani, Engineering Manager Update 7/29/11: We were notified of a bug in the measurement tool that sometimes causes incorrect meas...
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Symfony 2.0 is now available
After 12 preview releases, 5 beta versions, and 6 release candidates, I'm very proud to announce the immediate availability of Symfony 2.0, final version.
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Finding your way in vim: tags, cscope, grep and more
Vim is quite powerful programmer's editor, but has a very steep learning curve and it takes time to configure it properly. In this tutorial...
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Hotelling’s Game, or Why Gas Stations Have Competitors Nearby
There are hundreds of gas stations around San Francisco in the California Bay area. One might think that gas stations would spread out to serve local neighborhoods. But this idea is contradicted by a common observation. Whenever you visit a gas station, there is almost always another in the vicinity, often just across…
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Hacker News Fires Steve Yegge
It's great that you aren't quitting google, but it seems like you misspoke rather than being misinterpreted. It's kind of random that you claim that people misheard the word "project" when it is easy to check the actual video and realize that you didn't say that word. Your exact quote was "I am officially quitting…