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Ejection Seats
I pulled a few pranks in the military, but the one that got pulled on me took years off of my life. Alone in the Cockpit There isn’t anything cooler for a 19-year old then getting into the cockpit …
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,466 posts.
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Bending over: How to sell to large companies
Selling to big companies can be lucrative, and small bootstrapped startups absolutely have the power to sell to the big boys. But it's a very different world than you're used to. Here's what you can expect and how to deal with it.
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Don't Talk to the Cops
Don't talk to the cops about any significant crime ...ESPECIALLY if you're innocent. Here's why.
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While Google fights on the edges, Amazon is attacking their core
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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John Gruber's Post-I/O Thoughts
The big loser this week, though, was Microsoft. They’re simply not even part of the game.
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steve yegge - effective-emacs
Effective Emacs Stevey's Drunken Blog Rants™ 10 Specific Ways to Improve Your Productivity With Emacs Emacs is the world's best text editor. It's not just the best for editing program source; it's the best for any kind of text-editing. Mastering Emacs will make you more effective at writing and
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Python code makes any song swing
[tweetmeme source= ‘plamere’ only_single=false] One of my favorite hacks at last weekend’s Music Hack Day is Tristan’s Swinger. The Swinger is a bit of python code that tak…
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Clang++ Builds Boost
Boost is a collection of open-source, peer-reviewed C++ libraries that's well-known for having many good utility components for C++ programmers. It's also well-known for using bleeding-edge C++ techniques, such as extensive template and preprocessor metaprogramming, that have pushed many C++ compilers beyond their…
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You’re Just the Founder
At times VC’s forget who their business is built on. Nice Car Last week in a car showroom of all places I ran into a VC who I hadn’t seen in ten years. He had sat on the board of my last company an…
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Reddit releases fully functional VM with their source code
Get the latest product news, company announcements, and user insights from the official Reddit blog.
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DuckDuckGo Searches Are Not Anonymous
DuckDuckGo didn't log IPs, but favicons loaded from Amazon S3 leaked every search term in the Referer header. It was fixed two days after I posted.
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Google Storage for Developers
As developers and businesses move to the cloud, there’s a growing demand for core services such as storage that power cloud applications. To...
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IE9 will support VP8 and H.264 video
Get to know Windows 11, the Windows that brings you closer to what you love.News and features for people who use and are interested in Windows, including announcements from Microsoft and its partners.Guidance to help developers create products and se
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Google Code Blog: Introducing the Google Font API & Google Font Directory
Today we are excited to announce a collection of high quality open source web fonts in the Google Font Directory , and the Google Font API ...
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Firefox will support VP8 (aka WebM)
Five important items of note today relating to Mozilla's support for the VP8 codec: 1. Google will be releasing VP8 under an open source and royalty-free basis. VP8 is a ...