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The Perl Foundation got $100,000 donation from the Craigslist Charitable Fund
maybe some funds will be used to get some serious thread support going (and don't tell me that threads work in Perl because I'll throw some tomatoes at you).
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Why Tarsnap won't use DynamoDB
As I've blogged about before, the Tarsnap server code synthesizes a log-structured filesystem on top of Amazon S3 . As a result of this design, for each block of data stored on Tarsnap, the server code needs to keep track of two key-value pairs: First, to map a 64-bit machine number and a 256-bit block ID to a 64-bit…
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How Can A Free Conference Call Be Free?
At FeeFighters, we’re constantly on conference calls with other companies. We’re a scrappy startup, so we use free services when we can. I’ve been using a free conference call line from freeeconferencecall.com for the past year, and wondering – how is it free? I chose freeconferencecall because they
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Megaupload could spawn caselaw more destructive than SOPA
The GH engineers correctly identify the MySQL dependency as a problem. It’s such an easy one to remove, though!
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Exit Interview: The creators of no-longer-with-us products explain
Verifiable (shut down August 1, 2010) Stuart Roseman shut down Verifiable, a crowdsourced charting and data analysis site, to start SaneBox, a product that automatically identifies important email and separates them in a user’s inbox. Below, he explains how he knew when it was time to pull t…
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Books for people in the software business
I have personally read every book in this list. The enormous value I've gotten out of these books is the sole reason I am recommending them. These books helped me to make my Swift To-Do List very successful. There are no affiliate links in this post. I...
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Jonathan Coulton on MegaUpload and piracy
I wrote this thing on Twitter this morning about the MegaUpload shutdown, and it’s gotten some crazy traction on the old internet. In addition, I’ve just done a couple of interviews for NPR on the subject, and I think I may have said some crazy, provocative things. There are many comments and questions out there…
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New Google Accounts Require Gmail and Google+
Where are you from? Try using TOR to sign up if your country is blocked, once you have an account you should be able to access the service without having to run TOR again.
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The faster-than-fast Fourier transform
For a large range of practically useful cases, MIT researchers find a way to increase the speed of one of the most important algorithms in the information sciences.
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Postmark introduces easy inbound email processing for all accounts
Postmark started by solving the pain of sending emails for your web applications. We’re closing the loop by making easy to parse incoming emails.
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Trust is Fragile
Taylor’s post about our growth in 2011 included a bunch of numbers showing how the pistons inside the 37signals engine are pounding faster, but it all got swept away by what seemed like an innocent side-note: The 100 millionth file was called cat.jpg. Being as it is that the internet is co…
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An Investment Manager's View on the Top 1%
The following article, and the two addenda that follow, were written by an investment manager who works with very wealthy clients. I knew him from decades ago, but in 2011 he e-mailed me with some concerns he had about what was happening with the economy. What he had to say was informative enough that I asked if he…
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Schlep Blindness
January 2012 There are great startup ideas lying around unexploited right under our noses. One reason we don't see them is a phenomenon I call schlep blindness . Schlep was originally a Yiddish word but has passed into general use in the US. It means a tedious, unpleasant task. No one likes schleps, but hackers…
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What everyone in the SOPA debate is missing: IP is not a fundamental right
Underlying the debate about the so-called Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is the unstated assumption that intellectual property rights have th...
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