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Miso pays disputed $10k referral bonus to ex-engineer, apologizes
UPDATE 2: There's a few things I want to clear up here about certain assumptions made about what exactly happened. Prior to the database...
I'm a former Miso engineer and the founders screwed me out of 10k
UPDATE 2: There's a few things I want to clear up here about certain assumptions made about what exactly happened. Prior to the database...
Building a higher-level query API: the right way to use Django's ORM
This blog post is based on a talk given at the Brighton Python User Group on April 10th, 2012.
Supporting IE Is Too Much Work
Bart van Zon, software developer
"Adobe has released Adobe Photoshop CS6, which addresses these vulnerabilities"
Adobe applies hundreds of security processes and controls to help us comply with industry-accepted standards.
Windows On ARM Users Need Browser Choice Too
For the past eight years, users and developers have enjoyed a Windows platform environment that offered users a choice of browsers to navigate their digita
Old People Icons That Don't Make Sense Anymore
The Floppy Disk Icon means 'save' for a whole generation of people who have ...
Compelling Startup Pitch Archetypes (with examples from YC companies)
Over the past few weeks, I’ve helped a handful of startups work on their YC applications and interviews. I spent much of the time brainstorming with the founders on the best way to explain their business in the most clear and compelling way possible. These founders knew a lot
SparkFun Gets A Subpoena
We've never seen a subpoena before, have you? Check this out...
Germany's Leading Technical University Cancels All Elsevier Subscriptions
Wir sind die TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology der Technischen Universität München! Alles über unsere Lehre und Forschung.
I'm calling this Bubble 2.0, and it's ready to burst
The smart, fashionable startup-people these days are all trying to come up with brilliant and innovative new business models that disrupt struggling industries and synergize for break-out growth potential forming new markets. (Ahem. At least that's what they say.)
Netherlands first country in Europe with net neutrality
On 8 May 2012 The Netherlands adopted crucial legislation to safeguard an open and secure internet in The Netherlands. It is the first country in Europe to implement net neutrality in the law. In addition, it adopted provisions protecting users against disconnection and wiretapping by providers. Dig
TCP doesn't suck, and all the proposed bufferbloat fixes are identical
: While I'm suspicious of all JIT-compiled languages, C# has always had a much better IL than java, even since version 1.0, making it easy...
You, Too, Can Be on the Cutting Edge of Functional Programming Research
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
Hey Paydirt: Your Site Works Just Fine In IE
One of the things that I’m passionate about in my role at Microsoft is helping developers ensure that their sites provide an awesome experience in every browser. Yeah, yeah I know it seems odd th…