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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,456 posts.
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HTML5 localStorage allows sites to fill up users' hard disks
Use HTML5 localStorage to completely fill up Chrome, Safari, and IE users hard disks. Trololo...
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An Unremarkable Event in the Tenderloin
I just ran across a wretched, unfortunate looking man while walking through the Tenderloin. If you've spent any time here, you know this is nothing out of the ordinary. It made me sad.
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Tim Berners-Lee: WorldWideWeb, the first Web client
The first web browser - or browser-editor rather - was called WorldWideWeb as, after all, when it was written in 1990 it was the only way to see the web. Much later it was renamed Nexus in order to save confusion between the program and the abstract information space (which is now spelled World Wide Web with spaces).
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Ang Lee and the uncertainty of success
Recently I was going through some old things I had put away for safekeeping, and I found these: In 1993 I interviewed film director Ang Lee before the US premiere of his second movie, “The Wedding …
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Help Fight Patent Trolls – Support the SHIELD Act
This week brings promising news in the fight against patent trolls. We have written before about how a broken patent system has led to an explosion of lawsuits by patent trolls (companies that assert patents as a business model instead of creating products). In the hands of trolls, patents become a...
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The Deep Insights of Alan Kay
If you haven’t heard of Alan Kay you’ll likley have heard one of his many famous quotes, the most popular, likely his 1971 gem: The best …
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Building A Paid App For Firefox OS
At first glance the Firefox Marketplace for Firefox OS may look similar to the Apple Store or Google Play Store but there is a key difference: it does not lock ...
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The Infuriating Truth About Getting Hired
ArticulateVentures.com - a great premium domain available for sale.
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Erlang 16B Released
The official home of the Erlang Programming Language
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Django 1.5 released
Posted by James Bennett on Feb. 26, 2013
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Introducing Google+ Sign-In: simple and secure, minus the social spam
Today we’re adding a new feature to the Google+ platform: application sign-in . Whether you’re building an app for Android, iOS or the web, ...
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How to negotiate the long, slow, SaaS ramp of death [video]
One of Gail Goodman's legacies to the software industry has been proving you can build a profitable business in the SMB space.
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App.net’s new direction
Today, App.net launched free accounts . Previously, everyone had to pay — originally $50/year, then reduced to $36/year.
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