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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,717 posts.
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Good UX in the Wild: Dropbox's attention to detail on their download page
Sometimes good UX is about being clever. Sometimes it's to make the user happy ...
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Phil Haack quit Microsoft for GitHub
.hubot stache me
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The AI-Box Experiment
On the first occasion (in March 2002), Eliezer Yudkowsky simulated the AI and Nathan Russell simulated the gatekeeper. The AI’s handicap (the amount paid by the AI party to the gatekeeper party if not released) was set at $10. On the second occasion (in July 2002), Eliezer Yudkowsky simulated the AI and David…
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Code snippets on Microsoft website shown in form of images.
Azure Translator is a cloud-based machine translation service you can use to translate text through a simple REST API call. The service uses modern neural machine translation technology and offers statistical machine translation technology. Custom Translator is an extension of Translator, which allows you to build…
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CNET Injecting Malware into Downloads
Download.com has been caught inserting malware/adware into the 3rd party software it distributes
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Thoughts on Python 3
My current thoughts on the state of Python 3 and where it’s heading.
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Please Donate to the Internet Archive
Dear Supporters of the Archive, In the last year, the number of people using the Internet Archive has increased to two million people every day, and our collections of free books, music, video, and web pages have also grown by twenty to twenty-five percent. This is great news, but we are doing it all
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Always have 18 months of cash in the bank
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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The Carbohydrate Hypothesis of Obesity: a Critical Examination
Introduction I'd like to begin by emphasizing that carbohydrate restriction has helped many people lose body fat and improve their metabol...
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jwz: Apple recently broke Ctrl-Y
Ever since MacOS 10.0 was released, text fields have supported Emacs bindings for the single-character Control commands, showing that there were people inside Apple (and, presumably, NeXT) who were right-thinking and sensible. But some time late in the 10.6 release cycle, and continuing into 10.7.1, the binding for…
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really bad attitude
The first three newsgroups created inside Netscape (then Mosaic Communications ), when our news server went online the first time, were mcom.general, mcom.humour, and mcom.bad-attitude.
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Be careful what you put in an email
Posts about OMakase written by Om Malik
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Knyle Style Sheets
Documentation for any flavor of CSS that you’ll love to write.
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MemShrink progress report, week 23
The only significant MemShrink-related change that landed this week was that David Anderson removed TraceMonkey , the tracing JIT compiler. In fact, TraceMonkey was disabled a while ago, so the effects on code size and memory consumption of its removal have been felt since then. But it feels more real now that the…
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