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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,717 posts.
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Nvidia Opens CUDA Platform, Releases Compiler Source Code
NVIDIA's CUDA Compiler (NVCC) is based on the widely used LLVM open source compiler infrastructure. Developers can create or extend programming languages with support for GPU acceleration using the NVIDIA Compiler SDK .
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Scott Hanselman's 2011 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows
Everyone collects utilities, and most folks have a list of a few that they feel ...
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EFF: Some Facts About Carrier IQ
There has been a rolling scandal about the Carrier IQ software installed by cell phone companies on 150 million phones, mostly within the United States. Subjects of outright disagreement have included the nature of the program, what information it actually collects, and under what circumstances....
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Apps are too much like 1990's CD-ROMs and not enough like the Web
I'm starting to resent Apps like I resented CD-ROMs. I started playing this ...
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From zero to Go: launching on the Google homepage in 24 hours
How Go helped launch the Google Doodle for Thanksgiving 2011.
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Why you can't hire
There isn’t a shortage of developers and designers. There’s a surplus of founders. The cost of starting a company has collapsed. It’s now just (minimal) salaries. For entrepreneurs, desks are free, hosting is free, marketing is online, and company setup is cheap. Raising the first $25K for product development is easy…
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TextMate 2 (Public) Alpha
The excitement for a new version has been tremendous and today we’re finally able to repay the much appreciated loyalty and moral support from the community by releasing the first public alpha: TextMate 2.0 alpha .
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Why apps are not the future
I heard it first on the cover of Wired Magazine in March 1997 and again in August 2010. I was so impressed I added it to my blogroll , as a reminder to all that you're reading a dead medium.
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Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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ThemeForest author to sell more than $1million in WordPress stock themes
Discover ideas, trends and tools to inspire your creative projects on the Envato Blog.
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Trillion-frame-per-second video
By using optical equipment in a totally unexpected way, MIT researchers have created an imaging system that makes light look slow.
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WordPress 3.3 "Sonny"
The latest and greatest version of the WordPress software — 3.3, named “Sonny” in honor of the great jazz saxophonist Sonny Stitt — is immediately available for download or update inside your WordP…
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Amber.js (formerly SproutCore 2.0) is now Ember.js (and released)
After we announced Amber.js last week, a number of people brought Amber Smalltalk, a Smalltalk implementation written in JavaScript, to our attention. After some communication with the folks behind Amber Smalltalk, we started a discussion on Hacker News [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3335916] about what we should
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Hiring Employee #1
If you want another pair of hands to screw things up, how do you acquire resumes, pair them down, and identify someone who is going to work well in your company?
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Programming With Nothing: FizzBuzz in the lambda calculus in Ruby
I love Ruby! I’ve used it every day for years and I’m not sick of it yet. It’s an easy language to love: it’s expressive, flexible and syntactically beautiful ; it has a unique combination of useful features like mixins , metaclasses and blocks ; it comes with a useful core library and comprehensive standard library …
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STFU About What Women Want
In a recent post on TechCrunch , Penelope Trunk tells us (again) that most women don’t want to do startups. First, I’d like to extend that...
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Russian legislative elections 2011 - statistical evidence of vote fraud
You probably have heard about alleged vote fraud in the Russian legislative election 2011. You might even have seen videos about cases of vo...
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WebSockets RFC is now official
Search IETF mail list archives
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The $150k Solution
An article was published yesterday in one of Austin's local papers about Austin's tech talent shortage . I was job hunting just a couple months ago and get a lot of calls from recruiters and hear about friends' companies who are hiring and I think it's pretty damned accurate. And by accurate I mean that it points out…
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