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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,456 posts.
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Always Be Coding – How to Land an Engineering Job
How to Land an Engineering Job.
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The Last Psychiatrist: The Dove Sketches Beauty Scam
"Dude, are you doing the Dove ad now ? That was so April 15th...?" Yes, I realize I missed the meme train, but it's better to be right than part of the debate, especially when there is no debate, this is all a short con inside a 50+ year long con. Remember House Of Games ? "It's called a confidence game. Why, because…
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Teenager facing terrorism charges for something he posted on Facebook
Meet Cameron D'Ambrosio. He's 18 and lives in a small town near Boston. He posts a lot of lyrics on Facebook and wants to be a rapper. Oh, and he's being held without bail as a terrorist for ... WHAT??!
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Starters Guide to iOS Design
As someone who does work on both the development and design side of iOS apps I find that many designers struggle with the transition to UI work, or with the different processes involved in iPhone and iPad app design. In this guide I'll describe the deliverables you'll be expected to produce, outline the constraints of…
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Pricing Principles
Articles and Podcasts on Customer Service, AI and Automation, Product, and more.
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An eBook pricing model that resulted in $100,000 in sales
How you price a product can have a radical impact on the revenue you make from it. My search for the perfect pricing model resulted in an additional $50,000 (a 170% increase) in revenue. Here's how.
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Cancer and Startups
About a year and a half ago, my mother’s partner was diagnosed with terminal cancer and given less than six months to live. Since then it has been treatments, pain, and truly miraculous victories - but the word “terminal” is pretty clear; at some point you will lose. I flew home as soon as things started to take a…
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Surveillance and the Internet of Things
The Internet has turned into a massive surveillance tool. We’re constantly monitored on the Internet by hundreds of companies—both familiar and unfamiliar. Everything we do there is recorded, collected, and collated—sometimes by corporations wanting to sell us stuff and sometimes by governments wanting to keep an eye…
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Firefox Developer Tool Features for Firefox 23
Another uplift has left the building and it's time to take a look at what's in Firefox Developer Tools in Firefox 23 currently Aurora, our pre-beta channel. You can download ...
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Porting to Python 3 Redux
Some updated tips for porting software to Python 3.
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Nintendo parodies Kickstarter
Visite a página oficial da Nintendo para comprar consoles e videogames Nintendo Switch™, ler as últimas notícias, encontrar equipamentos e presentes divertidos com um toque da Nintendo e muito mais.
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Go 1.1 performance improvements
This is the first in a series of articles analysing the performance improvements in the Go 1.1 release.
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The One-Person Product
In 2006, I moved to New York and started working for David Karp doing web development for various media companies . That fall, in a brief gap before starting a new client , David said that we were going to make a prototype of an idea he’d had for a while. He had already bought the domain: tumblr.com , because it was…
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Why I left Heroku, and notes on my new AWS setup
On Friday, we migrated Soundslice from Heroku to direct use of Amazon Web Services (AWS) . I'm very, very happy with this change and want to spread the word about how we did it and why you should consider it if you're in a similar position.
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Call me maybe: final thoughts
Previously in Jepsen , we discussed Riak . Now we’ll review and integrate our findings.
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Jepsen: Postgres
Previously on Jepsen , we introduced the problem of network partitions . Here, we demonstrate that a few transactions which “fail” during the start of a partition may have actually succeeded.
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Jepsen: Redis
Previously on Jepsen , we explored two-phase commit in Postgres . In this post, we demonstrate Redis losing 56% of writes during a partition.
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Native equivalents of jQuery functions
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Statistical Formulas For Programmers
When someone says “7 is greater than 5”, you declare that they’re really the same.