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Who took a chance on you?
Many folks get to experience some of their goals because someone, somewhere along the way, gave them a shot. They took a real chance based on something they felt or saw (vs historical evidence per se).
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,456 posts.
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The 1% fallacy
Here is how to make a fortune writing software: Pick a large and established software market e.g. back-up, anti-virus or customer relationship management (CRM) software. Write a new product for tha…
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The Pull Request Hack
After writing about Open Source And Responsibility , I’d like to share a small collaboration hack I came up with last year. Here it is:
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Shiva – More than a RESTful API to your music collection
Music for me is not only part of my daily life, it is an essential part. It helps me concentrate, improves my mood, distracts me and/or helps me relax. This ...
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How to run an Arduino clone on a 9V battery for weeks or even months
About a year ago, I started building wireless sensors that needed to run on a battery. I quickly found out however that this wasn’t going to be easy: A battery would only last for a few days,…
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Releasing my book "Hacking the Xbox" as a free PDF in honor of Aaron Swartz
Dear Reader, No Starch Press and I have decided to release this free ebook version of Hacking the Xbox in honor of Aaron Swartz. As you read this book, I hope that you’ll be reminded of how important freedom is to the hacking community and that you’ll be inclined to support the causes that Aaron believed in. Download…
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Life is wasting my time
Lately I've been struggling with a constant feeling that there is 'something else' I am supposed to be doing. If I wasn't doing this, I'd be doing something awesome.
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Zombie Startups
My greatest fear as a startup founder isn’t to fail, it is to become a zombie startup.
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Web Scraping 101 with Python
A beginner's guide to getting started with web scraping using Python and BeautifulSoup.
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Laser Pointer
If every person on Earth aimed a laser pointer at the Moon at the same time, would it change color?
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Django Best Practices
Deep insights from our research and experience
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Twitter? It’s Not Fun Anymore
How To Be A Good Twitter Citizen Improve your presence & interaction, minimise your chance of appearing on Twit Cleaner reports.
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Here come the encryption apps
It seems like these days I can’t eat breakfast without reading about some new encryption app that will (supposedly) revolutionize our communications — while making tyrannical regimes fa…
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Hacking Github with Webkit
Previously on Github: XSS , CSRF ( My github followers are real , I gained followers using CSRF on bitbucket ), access bypass, mass assignm...
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Extreme debugging - a tale of microcode and an oven
It's been quite awhile since I debugged a computer program. Too long. Although I miss coding, the thing I miss more is the process of findin...
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The Case for a True Mac Pro Successor
The xMac has been back in the news lately—the idea, if not necessarily the name. Whether it’s called a “ Mac minitower " or a “ Mac Pro mini ,” we long-suffering Mac Pro fans are all looking forward to the “really great” thing Tim Cook told us to expect this year.
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