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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,456 posts.
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Why are payment forms so complicated?
Expert insights on payment fraud, account takeover, chargebacks and digital trust from the team behind Sift's fraud prevention platform.
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Tracking down a memory leak in Ruby's EventMachine
At Stripe, we rely heavily on ruby and EventMachine to power various internal and external services. Over the last several months, we’ve known that one such service suffered from a gradual memory leak, that would cause its memory usage to gradually balloon from a normal ~50MB to multiple gigabytes. It was easy enough…
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Could the eagles have flown Frodo into Mordor? (2000)
I probably wrote this page around 2000. At least, it must have been some point before Usenet was a complete ruin.
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Salary Negotiations: What is Possible When There's no More Money
ArticulateVentures.com - a great premium domain available for sale.
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Things Java Programmers can learn from Clojure
I was trained in Java at University. The OOP matrix was firmly implanted in my thinking. I wanted to share some things that I have learned from Clojure that were certainly possible in Java but never became fundamental to my programming practice.
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CircuitLab + Electronics.StackExchange.com Integration
We are excited to announce that CircuitLab is now integrated with the Electrical Engineering Stack Exchange site! Users can now insert a CircuitLab schematic directly into their question or answer.
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Load Balancing without Load Balancers
CloudFlare had an hour-long outage this last weekend. Thankfully, outages like this have been a relatively rare occurrance for our service.
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How to build a $5 Arduino clone
If you are like me and build projects with Arduino, you must have felt the frustration with ripping your project apart, because you wanted to build something else with that Arduino. I have had the …
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Play by Your Own Rules
Play by your own rules. A little over a year ago I joined Facebook as a Product Manager. I work with the Pages, Location, and Events teams. As I’ve spent a decade of being the founder of three …
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Matt Groening's Artwork for Apple
The story that The Simpsons' creator Matt Groening once illustrated a brochure for Apple back in 1989 has been making the rounds of the internet for a while now. However, in addition to that brochure, Groening did other artwork for Apple around that same time period. For anyone unfamiliar, Apple hired Groening to…
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How I ended up with Mac
Miguel de Icaza's Blog
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Lisp Hackers: Vladimir Sedach
Vladimir Sedach is an active open-source Common Lisp developer and proponent, as well as a computing philosopher to some extent. At his car...