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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,717 posts.
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This text circulated on the internet in September 2003. I first became aware of it when a journalist contacted a my colleague Sian Miller on 16th September, trying to track down the original source. It's been passed on many times, and in the way of most internet memes has mutated along the way. It struck me as…
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What on earth are Google thinking? (re: Binggate)
By now you’ve no doubt smelled the shitstorm surrounding Google’s allegation that Bing are ‘cheating’ and copying Google’s search results. If not, in brief, Google spotted that Bing sometimes includes results that seemed to be copied from Google, so Google set up a honeypot – they made some made up words like…
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Microsoft’s Bing uses Google search results—and denies it
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Color wheels are wrong? How color vision actually works
Artists say all colors are a mixture of red, yellow, and blue. But physics and TV screens and printers disagree. How does color really work?
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Why Stack Overflow Sucks and Participating There is Impossible
StackExchange/StackOverflow is broke. Real broke. Have you tried to participate in it? If so then you know how broke it is. But for those of you who haven’t sit back and get a view into fru…
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37signals Basecamp Mobile HTML5 app for WebKit browsers
Today we launch Basecamp Classic Mobile for phones and devices with WebKit browsers. This includes the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPad, Motorola Droid X, Motorola Droid 2, Samsung Galaxy S, HTC Incredible, HTC Evo, Palm Pre 2, BlackBerry Torch, or any other device running iOS 4+, Android 2.1+, webOS 2, …
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Java Hangs When Converting 2.2250738585072012e-308
Konstantin Preißer made an interesting discovery , after reading my article “ PHP Hangs On Numeric Value 2.2250738585072011e-308 ”: Java — both its runtime and compiler — go into an infinite loop when converting the decimal number 2.2250738585072012e-308 to double-precision binary floating-point. This number is…
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Readability's new service
I’ve always been a huge fan of Arc90’s Readability bookmarklet, which performs an article-text parse of any web page and displays the results in a highly readable, adjustable format. (It’s like Instapaper’s text view, but nicer and applied in place, instantly, to the web page you’re viewing.)
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Redesigning OSX Spaces: 45˚ Is All It Takes
What additional abilities should designers acquire? There are many debates regarding this. Is it better for designers to learn how to code, write, or
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Some weekend work that will (hopefully) enable more Egyptians to be heard
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Electronic Frontier Foundation Uncovers Widespread FBI Intelligence Violations
EFF has uncovered widespread violations stemming from FBI intelligence investigations from 2001 - 2008. In a report released today, EFF documents alarming trends in the Bureau’s intelligence investigation practices, suggesting that FBI intelligence investigations have compromised the civil...
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Why I Left Google
Jean Hsu - Fractional VP Engineering | Engineering Leadership for Startups
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How Organized Spam is Taking Control of Google's Search Results
In the past few months, I have been watching a very unsettling trend unfold in very competitive ecommerce search results on Google. It appears that huge amounts of money are put into place to systematically and successfully manipulate highly competitive search terms in order to sell fake…
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Sublime Text 2: Public Alpha Released
Sublime Text 2 is available now as a public alpha, for Windows, OS X, and Linux.
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