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Why hasn't Vista sold well?
The truth is that no one really knows why Vista fared so poorly in the market. It defies a simple explanation.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,420 posts.
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Tarsnap reaches profitability
One of the most common questions I receive about tarsnap is this: What guarantee can I provide that the tarsnap service will continue to operate? This is a reasonable concern; after all, with services like Omnidrive and HP Upline shutting down, what guarantee is there that tarsnap won't also shut down? Until recently…
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Why some smart people are reluctant to share?
Life Beyond Code - Personal and professional development for technology professionals.
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Inventing Demand
It’s no secret I own and run www.rentoid.com – but here’s a story you don’t know. The story of how I got it off the ground and got people to use the website. Rentoid had... [ READ POST ]
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Challenging the MLS Monopoly
Personal website for Ryan McGreal
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The 17x17 challenge. "Worth $289.00. This is not a joke."
The 17x17 challenge: worth $289.00. I am not kidding. Definition: The n x m grid is c-colorable if there is a way to c-color the vertic...
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Just give me a simple CPU and some I/O ports
Back when I started programming computers came with circuit diagrams and listings of their firmware. The early machines I used like the Sha...
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Japanese Teenage Boy Improved Ruby 1.9 Performance By Up To 63%
Japanese online magazine, @IT Jibun Senryaku Lab. (information site for IT engineers to educate and/or develop oneself), published an interv...
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How to determine if your A/B test is statistically significant
A/B testing tools often lie about whether something is "statistically significant." Here's an extremely simple, mathematically sound formula to compute it for yourself.
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That's version ∞. First launch version 0.1.
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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It's official: NASA is a jobs program.
« Reading List: The Apollo 11 Moon Landing | Main | Mozilla Thunderbird "Domain Name Mismatch": Explanation and Work-Around »
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Parsing HTML in Python with BeautifulSoup
I got into a spat with Eric Raymond the other day about some code he's written called ForgePlucker . I took a look at the source code and...
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My GMail password scares me with its power
Google’s GMail blog has some “handy” advice on how pick a good password to project your email account. Don’t use dictionary words, use mixed case,…
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Minimalism
This website is for sale! ihumanable.com is your first and best source for information about ihumanable. Here you will also find topics relating to issues of general interest. We hope you find what you are looking for!
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