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The traveling German carpenters
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"A JVM Does What?"
Cliff Click gave a very good talk at Google last week. For your viewing enjoyment: The slides are available here . (For those who watched i...
Let us pay for this service so it won't go down
Google, please set a price — any price — that you determine is necessary to keep anyone’s account running smoothly at all times. I’ll gladly pay it. I don’t care if it’s $100 a year or $1,000 a year. It would be worth it.
OpenSSL memory use in Node.js
Last Thursday I went to the Joyent office for Node Office Hours — I wanted to talk to Isaac about running a private NPM registry .
The Prime That Wasn’t
Life, technology, and other good things
A few of my Git tricks, tips and workflows
This post is based on a talk I gave at the 18th Cocoaheads Meetup Vienna (CHW018) on Feb 17th, 2011. It is an annotated tour of my Git config, Git related scripts and commands, and various other tips and tricks I picked up over the years. You can find most of these things in my dotfiles repo, as well with a lot of…
Facebook Ads: The Cheapest Traffic You'll Ever Buy
Whenever people talk about Facebook Ads (or even more generally "Can Facebook justify their $50bn valuation?") the conversation always tends to swing around to how poorly Facebook Ads perform. ...
Patents and innovation
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
Withdrawing from Hacker News
Slightly surprisingly, I got a reply, in which he suggested that I submit the link to Hacker News[4]. I'd never heard of Hacker News, but had a look, thought it interesting, and submitted the link.
Success, and Farming vs. Mining
Let’s come up with an analogy and then torture it like we’re the Cheney administration: imagine you’ve just purchased a plot of land. What a...
Android
Roughly six months ago, I put up a blog post suggesting Android was going to be the dominant mobile phone operating system and that developers interested in the largest user bases ought to start developing for it in preference to iOS. As you might expect, I got a lot of heat from Apple fanboys for […]
App store shenanigans
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups