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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,076 posts.
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Why Crunch Mode Doesn't Work
The International Game Developers Association (IGDA) is the world’s largest nonprofit membership organization serving all individuals who create games. We advance the careers and enhance the lives of game developers by connecting members with their peers, promoting professional development, and advocating for the…
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The Sparrow Problem
We’ve all read stories about and been enthralled by the idea of App Store millionaires. As the story goes… individual app developers are making money hand over fist in the App Store! And if you can just come up with a great app idea, you’ll be a millionaire in no time!
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VMware Buys Nicira for $1.26B
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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How the Norwegians Reacted to Terrorism
An antidote to the American cycle of threat, fear, and overspending in response to terrorism is this, about Norway on the first anniversary of its terrorist massacre: And at the political level, the Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg pledged to do everything to ensure the country’s core values were not undermined. “The…
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All you ever wanted to know about building a secure password reset (NSFW)
This content is now available in the Pluralsight course "Secure Account Management Fundamentals" [http://www.pluralsight.com/courses/secure-account-management-fundamentals] Recently I’ve had a couple of opportunities to think again about how a secure password reset function should operate, firstly whilst building this…
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Destined To Fail
Tinkerer, designer, and angel investor. Building software products and backing early-stage startups.
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Jack Daniels writes the politest cease and desist notice ever.
Learn why professors appreciate storytelling in essays and how students can use narrative techniques to write stronger academic papers. Practical tips and examples included.
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Implementing Fast Interpreters
Many modern virtual machines include either a fast interpreter or a fast baseline compiler. A baseline compiler needs extra memory and is li...
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Linux 3.5 Kernel Released
Summary of the changes and new features merged in the Linux kernel during the 3.5 development cycle
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The Two Egg Problem
Analysis of the classic "dropping two eggs from a building" interview question
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Firefox Beta 15 supports the new Opus audio format
Firefox 15 (now in the Beta channel) supports the Opus audio format, via the Opus reference implementation. What is it? Opus is a completely free audio format that was recently ...