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Scaling GitHub
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,076 posts.
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PUT or POST: The REST of the Story
Web service designers have tried for some time now to correlate CRUD (Create, Retrieve, Update and Delete) semantics with the Representational State Transfer (REST) verbs defined by the HTTP specif…
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Cars kill cities
OK, I’m finally getting a chance to make another post. I have temporarily relocated to Mountain View, CA and have been up to my eyeballs in work, both ‘real’ work and research wo…
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Reddit: 2012 State of the Servers
Get the latest product news, company announcements, and user insights from the official Reddit blog.
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Tim Berners-Lee Confirms The Exact Location Where the Web Was Invented: France
[ Update, Feb 2014. Plaque placed outside room where web was invented.] Success (of sorts)! ARS Electronica have given an award to Tim Berners-Lee and CERN for the invention of the web. They had he…
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The Inside Story of a Small Startup Acquisition
Photo by psiaki Based on the title of this post you might be thinking I have mad stacks of money in the bank. That I’ve had a few “exits” and instead of hunkering down and writing code for 6 months I opted to talk to a few of my buddies at the yacht club and purchase a primed and growing s
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Lisp in 32 lines of Ruby
this post was discussed on various posts and podcasts including: Ruby5 , HackerNews , and Ruby Inside . BTW, this is now 29 27 25 lines.
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Apple Reports First Quarter Results: $13.06 Billion Net Profit
The official source for news about Apple, from Apple. Read press releases, get updates, watch video and download images.
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Matt Mullenweg: On the Evolution of Investing
Today Y Combinator announced they are adding two new partners, Garry Tan and Aaron Iba. This announcement is unique because it does not list their academic credentials, their previous investments, …
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Making universities obsolete
Sebastian Thrun recently announced that he was leaving Stanford to found a free, online university called Udacity . This is based on his ...
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The Perl Foundation got $100,000 donation from the Craigslist Charitable Fund
maybe some funds will be used to get some serious thread support going (and don't tell me that threads work in Perl because I'll throw some tomatoes at you).
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A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
1801 - Joseph Marie Jacquard uses punch cards to instruct a loom to weave "hello, world" into a tapestry. Redditers of the time are not imp...
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The Moore's Law free lunch is over. Now welcome to the hardware jungle.
Or, A Heterogeneous Supercomputer in Every Pocket In the twilight of Moore’s Law, the transitions to multicore processors, GPU computing, and HaaS cloud computing are not separate trends, bu…
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Let's make TCP faster
By Yuchung Cheng, Make The Web Faster Team Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), the workhorse of the Internet, is designed to deliver all...
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The Little Redis Book
Karl Seguin's Blog - A mix of coding and creative writing
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Why Tarsnap won't use DynamoDB
As I've blogged about before, the Tarsnap server code synthesizes a log-structured filesystem on top of Amazon S3 . As a result of this design, for each block of data stored on Tarsnap, the server code needs to keep track of two key-value pairs: First, to map a 64-bit machine number and a 256-bit block ID to a 64-bit…
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How Can A Free Conference Call Be Free?
At FeeFighters, we’re constantly on conference calls with other companies. We’re a scrappy startup, so we use free services when we can. I’ve been using a free conference call line from freeeconferencecall.com for the past year, and wondering – how is it free? I chose freeconferencecall because they