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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,466 posts.
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Google Wave Available for Everyone
Starting today, we are making Google Wave openly available to everyone as part of Google Labs. You no longer need an invitation to wave -- s...
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Microsoft patent trolls Salesforce
Microsoft has filed suit against Salesforce for infringing the following patent: Method and system for mapping between logical data and physical data System and method for providing and displaying a web page having an embedded menu Method and system for stacking toolbars in a computer display Aut…
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Goodbye, "free software"; hello, "open source"
The original call to switch to the term `open source'.
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Don’t bite the shit sandwich
The “startup” world is bursting with bullshit (or, if you prefer, ‘unicorn dust’). There are bullshit peddlers on every blog-corner. They don’t want
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Hiring: The Lake Wobegon Strategy (2006)
Posted by Peter Norvig, Director, Google ResearchYou know the Google story: small start-up of highly-skilled programmers in a garage grows into a l...
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Start In The Middle
Middle in the start you shall.
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Django 1.2 released
Posted by James Bennett on May 17, 2010
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Why your Android app doesn't need an exit button
A couple of weeks ago I published my first Android App Surgery , a technical review of MySettings from JQSoft. One of my UX suggestions wa...
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Operational Transformation (algorithm behind Wave, Google Docs)
Almost exactly a year ago, Google made one of the most remarkable press releases in the Web 2.0 era. Of course, by "press release", I actually mean keynote at their own conference, and by "remarkable" I mean potentially-transformative and groundbreaking. I am referring of course to the announcement of Google Wave , a…
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No One Wins In Business Plan Competitions
Last week one of the schools I teach at invited me to judge a business plan contest. I suggested that they first might want to read my post on why business plans are a poor planning and execution t…
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Gave up a day job. Now what? - Income report #2
I know that many of my blog readers have subscribed my RSS Feed only for my monthly income reports. And as I want to make you happy here is my report from last month. April have ended over two week…
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Diaspora's Curse - Jason Fried
Diaspora, the “open Facebook alternative” (NYT story for background if you aren’t familiar), has raised Over $170,000 from over 4600 people in just a few weeks. All for an idea. That’s an impressive start if victory was measured in press coverage, cash, and cool. HereR…
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The Glasgow Haskell Compiler and LLVM
If you read the LLVM 2.7 release notes carefully you would have noticed that one of the new external users is the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC). As the author of the LLVM backend for GHC, I have been invited to write a post detailing the design of the backend and my experiences with using LLVM.
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Doc Searls on Steve Jobs (1997)
S o Steve Jobs just shot the cloners in the head, indirectly doing the same to the growing percentage of Mac users who prefered cloned Mac systems to Apple's own. So his message to everybody was no different than it was at Day One: all I want from the rest of you is your money and your appreciation for my Art.
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PyPy is the Future of Python
Currently the most common implementation of Python is known as CPython, and it’s the version of Python you get at python.org , probably 99.9% of Python developers are using it. However, I think over the next couple of years we’re going to see a move away from this towards PyPy, Python written in Python. This is going…
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Common Misconceptions About Publishing
A while back I did a series of postings on the topic of Common Misconceptions About Publishing.
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Django 1.2 final out on Monday
Posted by James Bennett on May 15, 2010
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Google admitting defeat in 'direct to consumer' model phone sales
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