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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 240 posts.
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SvN: Design Decisions: The new Highrise signup chart
A couple weeks ago we launched the new Highrise marketing site. We’re still iterating that design post-launch, and we have a big post brewing about that design process, but today I wanted to share some of the iterations we explored for the new signup chart. The start Here’s where we…
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The Untold Millions
The media is biased towards stories that want to be told. This is especially true about the media covering the web world. It’s much easier to write a story about Facebook, Google, Youtube, or any of the other limelight stories where much of the juicy details are willingly shared. We have s…
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Joel on Software: The new Fog Creek Office
Remember the Bionic Office? Fog Creek moved in there in 2003. After a couple of years we had outgrown the first office so we expanded to take over the whole floor. By the time our lease ran out in …
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So you want to be a consultant?
Or: Why work 8 hours/day for someone else when you can work 16 hours/day for yourself?
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Why you should support Mac OS X and Linux
Last I checked, Mac OS X had around a 5% market share, and Linux had much less than that (among consumers). I can feel that many PHBs look…
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Mibbit: One year old, and profitable
Mibbit is a fully featured IRC Client. Allowing you to interact realtime with your friends. Chat, play games, colaborate on projects together and more.
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Your idea sucks, now go do it anyway
Your idea probably sucks, and it doesn't matter because your business will probably turn out to be something completely different.
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Laying off George
George Oates is responsible for much of what is great about Flickr. George Oates is just about the last person any sane company would lay off. I don't know what to think about Yahoo after reading how they laid off George Oates.
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Google Chrome Officially Out of Beta
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Stephen Fry on the iPhone, Bold, Storm, and G1
So here I am. In a hotel room in New York. The writing desk and its view of xth Avenue are all but obscured by:- 7 x Mini USB cables: 2 of them are the new Micro type that Blackberry has switched to for the Storm only, the rest are standard. 1 x Ethernet cable: […]
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Java is Dead; Long Live Python
Version 3.0 of Python has been released . Notably Python has again done something Java has long resisted: it has broken backwards compatibility with Python 2.x. Notable fixes include a much saner string processing model based on Unicode. I am told by my Pythonista colleagues that a lot of other weirdnesses such as the…
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6 Credit Card Processing Facts Nobody Tells You
Well, we’ve solved our latest credit card validation problem and it seems like a good time to give a quick recap of the lessons we’ve learned during this whole sordid process. Things that nobody bothers to tell you, not even the people you’re paying to do just that. This is 2008, but credit card processing is a…
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Not My Gorilla
Link to: http://groups.google.com/group/capistrano/msg/f5213577eaeadc47?pli=1
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Tipjoy (YC W08) now allows payments via Twitter
Tipjoy is different in a few ways. - We don't mandate branding in the tweet. You can just use 'p'. - We don't take a cut per tip, unlike their $0.05. That's 20% overhead on a $0.25 payment, which is high. - We allow cash out. People receiving money in Twitpay currently can't cash out. We're hoping to enable this…
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