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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,784 posts.
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Post from "weev" (AT&T/ipad data hacker) on his arrest and treatment
A while ago, someone came to me and gave me some data involving AT&T iPad customers to publicize, the full story of which I’m sure you’re all familiar with from my previous excellent blog posts. I was subsequently raided by the FBI and arrested , though I have been under gag orders and haven’t been able to discuss the…
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Lessons learned from 13 failed software products
“No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients.” – Proverb Software entrepreneur culture is full of stories of the products that succeeded. But what about t…
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Peter Seebach: How I learned C
I would like to thank Greg Bacon for saving this article, and converting it to HTML. I didn't have any saved copies of this, and thought I'd lost it.
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Two Weeks Vacation is only a Recommendation, not a Rule
How much vacation time did you take last year? If you're like most workers in the States, it was probably less than 3 weeks. That's all your...
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Out Of Nowhere, The iPad Has A Real Competitor
Oh, it’s not an iPad. Not even close to the smoothness and sleekness of one. However, consider these points: 1) It’s less than half the price of the least-expensive iPad. That’s $…
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Why we’re really happy with AppEngine (and not going anywhere else)
There’s been a handful of articles critical of Google’s AppEngine that have bubbled up to the top of Hacker News lately. I’d like to throw our story into the ring as well, but as a story of a happy customer rather than a switcher.
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The Best Free and Open Source Data Mining Software
The process of extracting patterns from data is called data mining. It is recognized as an essential tool by modern business since it is ab...
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A geek meets the Ikea Lillabo Train Set
As further proof of my unsuitability to be a child minder (see previous post ) I found myself playing with an Ikea LILLABO 20-piece basic se...
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Steve Jobs "never had any designs. He has not designed a single project"
Back when I reviewed Peter Siebel’s fascinating book of programmer interviews, Coders at Work, Erik Anderson suggested in a comment that I might also enjoy its precursor Programmers at Work […
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My Android development income report
A lot of people says that there is no real money in the Android development. They say that if you want to make money you should write for iPhone, iPad and all other iThings… This is not true!…
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PyPy is the Future of Python
Currently the most common implementation of Python is known as CPython, and it’s the version of Python you get at python.org , probably 99.9% of Python developers are using it. However, I think over the next couple of years we’re going to see a move away from this towards PyPy, Python written in Python. This is going…
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Top Ten One-Liners from CommandLineFu Explained
I love working in the shell. Mastery of shell lets you get things done in seconds, rather than minutes or hours, if you chose to write a program instead. In this article I'd like to explain the top one-liners from the commandlinefu.com. It's a user-driven website where people get to choose the best and most useful...