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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 568 posts.
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What's your story? Why start Balsamiq?
News and announcements from your friends at Balsamiq.
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Free links to your site
I can’t believe a new feature from Google isn’t getting more notice, because it converts already-existing links to your site into much higher quality links, for free. The Google webmast…
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Sequoia Capital: Armchair quarterbacks
Sequoia Capital’s “R.I.P. Good Times” deck made the rounds on the web last week. It’s Sequoia’s take on what happened with the economy and what their portfolio companies should do to weather the storm. Sequoia Capital on startups and the economic downturnView SlideSh…
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ILoveSketch: As-natural-as-possible sketching system for creating 3D curve models (+amazing vid)
NEWS 100 concept models created by sketching with ILoveSketch for 4.5 days at Emerging Technology, SIGGRAPH 2009 (New Orleans, LA, USA, August 3-7) Paper and demo presentation of EverybodyLovesSketch at UIST 2009 (Victoria, BC, Canada, October 4-7)
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Do it yourself first
You should never hire anyone for something you haven’t first struggled to do on your own. It’ll teach you most of what you need to know to actually interview candidates, it’ll allow you to understand the nature of the work better (do I even need to hire or can we outsource?), and …
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Ask 37signals: How did you come up with pricing for your products?
Mattijs asks: I am developing an internet product and I am rapidly approaching the point at which I will need to set a pricing scheme for this product. Problem: I have no idea what to shoot for! I have done some research which shows a wide range of similar products with varying pricing schemes. …
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Wufoo's Secret to Customer Happiness? Googly Eyes
Wufoo inspires NMC to keep up with their customer base, even after they are customers.
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Make an Extraordinary Effort
> "It is essential for a man to strive with all his heart, and to understand that it is difficult even to reach the average if he does not have the i…
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New in Labs: Stop sending mail you later regret
Posted by Jon Perlow, Gmail engineer Sometimes I send messages I shouldn't send. Like the time I told that girl I had a crush on her over te...
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Horrible
I can turn a phrase. High school journalism is where I discovered this. Mrs. Wickett kept bringing stories to me in my junior year "Needs a clever headline." I
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Edward O. Wilson: Marx was right, he had the wrong species
Among many other things, Edward Wilson is a myrmecologist and two times Pulitzer-prize winner. There is a picture taken by him of an ant holding between its mandibles a banner with the words: 'Onward Sociobiolo�gy!'. Following the publication in 1975 of his book Sociobi�ology, the New Synthesis , he became both to…
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Lessons from the failure of Livejournal: when not to listen to your users
Your life is the best story! Just start your blog today!
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Mark Cuban on How to Get Rich
Thats what so many want. Right ? I’m certainly not going to lie and say it is not a whole lot better having lots of money. I had a whole lot of fun and loved my life when I was eating mustard and ketchup sandwiches and sleeping on the floor of a 3 bedroom apartment that housed me and 5 buddies.
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What the author of ARC thinks about Phil Katz
Some folks have asked me what I know about Phil Katz. It occurs to me that most folks have probably never heard the story, and of the ones who have heard of it, few would know or remember the details. So here's what I know about Phil Katz, plus a little history to put it in context. The dates could be off a bit. I…
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Grad School Enrollment vs. Unemployment Rate
Link to Piled Higher and Deeper
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Bank Robber Recruits Accomplices With Fake Job Ad on Craigslist
Now this is clever: “I came across the ad that was for a prevailing wage job for $28.50 an hour,” said Mike, who saw a Craigslist ad last week looking for workers for a road maintenance project in Monroe. He said he inquired and was e-mailed back with instructions to meet near the Bank of America in Monroe at 11 a.m…
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PEP 318 – Decorators for Functions and Methods
The current method for transforming functions and methods (for instance, declaring them as a class or static method) is awkward and can lead to code that is difficult to understand. Ideally, these transformations should be made at the same point in the...
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Python 2.6 Released
The official home of the Python Programming Language