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Three months at Y Combinator: what it’s like and how to get in
Take a look into Front’s Journey to get into Y Combinator.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,419 posts.
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Linux 3.17
Summary of the changes and new features merged in the Linux kernel during the 3.17 development cycle
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The Man Who Writes His Dissenting Opinion in All Caps
Terence Faulkner wrote 1/3 of the opposing arguments in this year's SF voter guide. And large chunks of them read like he's yelling at you.
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Yelp’s Style Guide
Yelp’s got style (and the guide to back it up) Molly F. Front-End Engineer Feb 11, 2014 We’re excited to publicly share Yelp’s styleguide — a living document that we’ve...
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A call to arms: Helping Internet services accept anonymous users
Looking for a way to help the Internet stay open and free? This topic needs some dedicated...
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GPLGPU: An Open-Source GPU
Estimate CPU and GPU balance by resolution, frame-rate target and workload. Get a transparent result, diagnostic checklist and practical upgrade guidance.
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“The Great Plate Count Anomaly” that is no more
by Gemma Reguera — For over a century, microbiologists have been using growth media solidified with agar to culture microbes from environmental samples. Individual cells are easily separated on th…
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Richard Dawkins' response to “What scientific idea is ready for retirement?"
Essentialism—what I’ve called "the tyranny of the discontinuous mind"—stems from Plato, with his characteristically Greek geometer’s view of things. For Plato, a circle, or a right triangle, were ideal forms, definable mathematically but never realised in practice. A circle drawn in the sand was an imperfect…
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String Deduplication – A new feature in Java 8 Update 20
Java 8 Update 20 String Deduplication with G1GC drastically reduces JVM memory by reusing duplicate char arrays. Optimize your Java applications today!
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Two New YC Partners: Justin Kan and Aaron Harris
I’m delighted to announce that Justin Kan and Aaron Harris are joining Y Combinator as Partners. Justin was in the very first YC batch with me in the summer of 2005, and has been a part-time partner since 2011. Justin founded Kiko, Justin.tv/Twitch.tv, Socialcam, and Exec. He took the “do what it takes” directive of…
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Why Asana Is Switching to TypeScript
Are you interested in learning more about working on Asana's engineering team or the work they do? Read the Asana engineering blog.
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Terraform 0.3
We are releasing Terraform 0.3. Terraform is a tool for safely and efficiently building, combining, and launching infrastructure. Terraform 0.3 is a massive release filled with both features and a wealth of stability improvements. If you've been waiting for a strong version to try Terraform, this is the version to…
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Introducing Consul Template
Today we are releasing Consul Template, a standalone application that is packed full of amazing new features. Consul Template queries a Consul instance and updates any number of specified templates on the filesystem. As an added bonus, Consul Template can execute arbitrary commands when a template update completes.
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