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You Dont Need a Good Idea To Start a Great Company
I met recently with a friend of mine who has been talking about leaving Google for the last 3 years. Every time I see him he says he is just "waiting for a great idea" to leave to start his own company. I expect him to do what a lot of people do - stick around Google for another 6-24 months, and then join someone…
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Power user replacements for OS X default apps
I've noticed that the longer I use OS X the more replacements I'm finding for Apple's built-in applications. Apple focuses heavily on design...
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What Stops Female Founders?
The lack of women in tech startups seems a perennially hot topic. I’m keenly aware of this problem because I see so many founders, and so few of them are women. I’m delighted to have 6 women at...
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The Next Big Language
Dylan? C# 3? Perl 6? Does it have deterministic destructors, even as blocks like Python 2.5? Generics? A powerful macro system? Even as described it sounds like magic, but not a moment too soon.
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How (not) to write Factorial in Java
I will admit this post was inspired by How would you write factorial(n) in java? So excuse me while I rant in code: I have a point to make at the bottom of this article. Now most people who write f…
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Woot's take on affiliate marketing
What's in it for you? Make that money! We offer competitive commission on almost everything.
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New in Gmail Labs: Unread message icon
Posted by Manu Cornet, Software Engineer When you’re visiting sites other than Gmail, it’s easy to find out how many unread messages are in ...
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Help wanted: Google hiring in 2011
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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OAuth Will Murder Your Children
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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How To: WordPress to Jekyll
I decided to migrate my blog from WordPress to Jekyll. I designed a new layout, imported my database and created some custom features to get it all to my liking.
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Design for Hackers: Why You Hate Comic Sans
Everyone loves to hate Comic Sans. The child-like handwriting font is so infamous, there is a movement to try to ban it. Mention its name to the common layman (aside from a preschool teacher), and you will likely get a chuckle, mention it to a trained designer, and you’ll get a look of disgust. In […]
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Neat trick for getting private info for Facebook, GMail, Twitter and Digg users
Hidden img and script tags with onload and onerror let any site tell if you're logged into GMail, Facebook, Twitter or Digg. Google called it expected.
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Startup Suicide -- Rewriting the Code
The benefits of customer and agile development and minimum features set are continuous customer feedback, rapid iteration and little wasted code. But over time if developers aren’t careful, code wr…
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Close Tab Behaviour in Google Chrome
Tabs, tabs, tabs. The specialist subject of UI experts everywhere. Should tabs just rearrange horizontally or also detach? How much vertical scroll buffer should a tab have before it detaches? Under what circumstances should it detach? What about reattaching?
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How the iPhone mail app decides when to show you new mail
You’re in the iPhone mail app, and you’re looking at your inbox, when a new email arrives. What happens?
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Can you see the flag on the Moon with a telescope?
The answer is basically "not a chance". No Earthbound telescope can see the flag on the Moon. Why not? For openers, the Earth's atmosphere is never steady enough to allow resolution below about one arc second for most locations. Beyond that, the telescope required to "see" the flag would need to be absolutely huge!…
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Stop Saying ‘Let me know when works for you’
Vinicius Vacanti is co-founder and CEO of Yipit. Next posts on how to acquire users for free and how to raise a Series A. Don’t miss them by subscribing via email or via twitter .
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The Dilbert Black Swan Portfolio: a skeptical/practical guide to investing
If you are a young professional and you’re making your first savings, and wondering what to do with them, this post is for you. Disclaimer: I am not an economist. But that’s probably a good thing. Why? Read on.
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