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Why I left news
I get asked two questions several times a week, and I brush off both with a verbal swat. One — because I’m in my late 20s, I suppose – is when are you getting married? And the other, because …
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,456 posts.
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Introducing "Functional JavaScript"
A few years ago I got the idea that it would be fun to implement a variant of Scheme targeting the JVM. During my search for different ways to implement numerics I looked deeply at the implementation of two languages: JScheme and a little-known language Clojure . During my explorations with these two languages and the…
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Riak CS is Now Open Source
Riak's cloud storage software is now open source.
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The brutal truth about marketing your software product
We tend to hear a lot about software industry success stories. But most of us mere mortals have to fail a few times before we learn enough to succeed. In this guest post William Echlin talks about …
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Free works
Google Reader’s upcoming shutdown and Mailbox’s rapid acquisition have reignited the discussion of free vs. paid services and whether people should pay for products they love to keep them running sustainably.
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Goodbye, Malcolm
Posted by Jacob Kaplan-Moss on March 19, 2013
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Announcing Sift Science: fight fraud with large-scale machine learning
Expert insights on payment fraud, account takeover, chargebacks and digital trust from the team behind Sift's fraud prevention platform.
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Chart.js is back online
Simple yet flexible JavaScript charting library for the modern web
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Introducing SourceTree for Windows – a free desktop client for Git
We’re thrilled to introduce the latest addition to the Atlassian distributed version control system (DVCS) family – Sourcetree for Windows. Sourcetree is a free Git desktop client for developers on Windows. Say goodbye to the command line and use the full capabilities of Git through Sourcetree’s beautifully simple…
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Why do we eat grains? Thermodynamics
For generations their people had collected the seeds of tall grasses, which they cooked and ate to supplement their diet of foraged fruits, vegetables, and leaves, and hunted game, fish, and seafood.
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An apology to open source
Simple yet flexible JavaScript charting library for the modern web
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Analyzing my DNA
I recently bought 23andme [http://23andme.com], a service which requires you to send off a DNA sample, and in return performs a series of interesting tests concerning your health and ancestry. I bought the test as a birthday present to myself, somewhat because I was interested in the results,
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Without even knowing: the HN post I missed
On the day after Christmas, my city-mapping project Majuro.js appeared on the front page of Hacker News. It would be a few days before I found out, because I was out of internet, cell phone, or even radio contact on Arno Atoll, a razor-thin string of tropical islands in the Pacific Ocean.
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What Lua scripting means for Wikimedia and open source
Yesterday we flipped a switch: editors can now use Lua, an innovative programming language, to generate sections of wiki pages on all our sites. We’d like to talk about what this means for th…
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Homeworld 2 Backgrounds
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