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Paul Graham On Two Kinds of Programmers and Painters
In the world of painting there are some people who are just fabulously talented at drawing. They can sit down, these are like the kids who c...
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High Performance at Massive Scale: Lessons Learned at Facebook
Recently, we were fortunate to host Jeff Rothschild, the Vice President of Technology at Facebook, for a visit for the CNS lecture series. Jeff’s talk, “High Performance at Massive Sca…
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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My Slides?
In my 21 years of startups, I had my ideas “stolen” twice. See part one for the first time it happened. This time it was serious. As a reminder, this post is not legal advice, it’s not even advice.…
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Xmonad + bluetile = making tiling windowing accessible to new users
The xmonad dev team is very proud to announce that the bluetile merge was completed today. The Bluetile branch is an experimental xmonad variant whose: focus lies on making the tiling paradigm ea…
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Clarity - an open source web interface to grep and tail
As Shopify prepared to go public in 2015, I wrote a letter in our F1 filing that read,
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Beautiful plots of roots of polynomials
Click on the picture for bigger view. Roots of quadratic polynomials are in grey; roots of cubics are in cyan; roots of quartics are in red and roots of quintics are in black. The horizontal axis of symmetry is the real axis; the vertical axis of symmetry is the imaginary axis. The big hole in the middle is centered…
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Visualization of the Grammars of Ruby, Java and Javascript
As part of the momentum surrounding the Ruby implementer’s summit , I have decided to take on a pet project to understand Ruby’s grammar better, with the goal of contributing to an implementation-independent specification of the grammar. Matz mentioned during his keynote how parse.y was one of the uglier parts of Ruby…
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EtherPad Back Online Until Open Sourced
Real-time collaborative editing where authorship is the default, your server is the only server, and you decide what AI (if any) ever touches your text.
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Adieu google
The first thing I searched for in Google, back in 1999, was probably "linux", followed by my name.
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How Google should have acquired EtherPad
How Google acquired EtherPad How the acquisition probably went down. EtherPad is one of my favorite companies and we have mentioned it from…
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Twelve Tips to Master Programming Faster
TITANSLOT88 menyediakan info akses login, cara daftar, serta link alternatif terbaru 2026, didukung navigasi mudah dan tampilan responsif di semua perangkat.
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JQuery 1.4 Alpha 1 Released
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
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Google acquires AppJet/Etherpad
Real-time collaborative editing where authorship is the default, your server is the only server, and you decide what AI (if any) ever touches your text.
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Why I gave away my company to charity
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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Saying "NO"
I saw this cartoon in a tweet today. It’s the story of how a boss corrupts the work of a professional. It’s a funny cartoon, and a sad story that happens all too often in our profession. But who, exactly, was at fault?...
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Webapp: image recognition to find nearest tennis courts from satellite photos
This is a description of how ahathereitis.com works. The things I'll be looking for are basically just a bunch of lines on the ground (like...