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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 357 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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Talent Acquisitions
Today, development stopped on Pulp, Wallet , and Sparrow as their companies were bought by Facebook and Google, respectively.
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Tell, don't ask
And now, a friendly message from your local Tell, don’t ask Department. ...
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How your startup is getting lapped by companies who know how to hire
There will always be an excess of bad ideas and dumb money in the market--so we'll always be complaining about a lack of talent, no matter how many developers there are. Still, I contend that most companies have no idea how to hire, and in the last week, my theory got proved to me several times ov
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Why Publishing on the Windows Phone is Like Walking Barefoot On Broken Glass
We started developing Toshl for Windows Phone because we liked the platform and saw the potential in it. It's a beautifully designed OS, even if the experience starts to wear a bit thin after a few weeks and a giant leap for Microsoft. Publishing apps for it though, has turned out to be a very…
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Some things I've learnt about programming
I've been programming for over 30 years from machines that seem puny today (Z80 and 6502 based) to the latest kit using languages that rang...
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Confession of a Haskell Hacker
I have a confession to make. I recently released two Haskell packages, lens-family-core and lens-family based on my previous blog post and Edward Kmett’s blog post . However, I never tested this code before releasing it. By “never tested”, I mean that I am pretty sure that I never once executed any of this code. I did…
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So You Want to Be a Security Expert
I regularly receive e-mail from people who want advice on how to learn more about computer security, either as a course of study in college or as an IT person considering it as a career choice. First, know that there are many subspecialties in computer security. You can be an expert in keeping systems from being…
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Books Every Entrepreneur Should Read
On Amazon.com there are… …over 2,000,000 books on “Business” …over 750,000 books on “Technology” …over 500,000 books on “Design” …o…
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