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The 17x17 problem solved
THE 17x17 PROBLEM HAS BEEN SOLVED!!!!! On Nov 30, 2009 I posted here the following challenge: If someone emails me a 4-coloring of...
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,076 posts.
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Why Concatenative Programming Matters
Introduction There doesn’t seem to be a good tutorial out there for concatenative programming, so I figured I’d write one, inspired by t...
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D3: Thinking with Joins
Say you’re making a basic scatterplot using D3 , and you need to create some SVG circle elements to visualize your data. You may be surprised to discover that D3 has no primitive for creating multiple DOM elements. Wait, WAT?
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Are You a Zen Coder or Distraction-Junkie?
Better ListView by Component Owl is a .NET WinForms control designed to replace the standard list view control included with C#/VB.net.
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It's 2012 and your kids have an iPhone - Do you know where they are? I do.
The strangest thing just happened. I'm sitting here in a hotel in New Zealand ...
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99 Problems But Money Ain't One
When the Series A check clears, most startups send out a bragging press release, the equivalent of flashing your grill. The VC backing is supposed to mean that the company has experienced hands in its corner. That it’s financially solid. A shoe-in for a puff profile piece in a magazine. Eligible fo…
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The Future of JavaScript
The ECMA committee is working hard on designing the next version of JavaScript, also known as " Harmony ". It is due by the end of next year...
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High performance libraries in Java
There is an increasing number of libraries which are described as high performance and have benchmarks to back that claim up. Here is a sele...
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Running Dropbox affiliate ads cost me my Adwords account
i dont really get it... did you actually create multiple account? did you redeem multiple adwords credit coupons? what exactly did you do? or were there just other people with the same idea so there were multiple adwords accounts advertising dropbox? if the latter: would it be possible to get other advertisers banned…
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PyPy 1.8 - business as usual
We're pleased to announce the 1.8 release of PyPy. As habitual this release brings a lot of bugfixes, together with performance and memory i...
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Startup dudes: Cut the sexist crap
Last week I was speaking on what would have otherwise been a terrific panel. It was Frank Artale from Ignition, Tom Duterme from Groupon M&A, Andy Sack from Lighter Capital & Founder’s Co-op, and me talking about funding & exiting. The only thing that spoiled it was yet another guy in the tech scene putting forth yet…
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Evolving an image out of polygons
Shareware games, New Zealand Game Developers Screaming Duck Software are the makers of the puzzle games Fitznik, Fitznik 2 and Drippy
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All or something (2009)
One of the most pervasive myths of startup life is that it has to be all consuming. That unless you can give your business all your thoughts and hours, you don’t deserve success. You are unworthy of the startup call. This myth neatly identifies those fit for mission: Young, without obligat…
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MapReduce Patterns, Algorithms, and Use Cases
In this article I digested a number of MapReduce patterns and algorithms to give a systematic view of the different techniques that can be found on the web or scientific articles. Several practical…