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Rands in Repose: Managing Nerds
Ten years ago, the world was collectively freaked out by the Y2K bug. The idea was that when innumerable software-driven clocks flipped at midnight from 1999 to
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,905 posts.
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John Gruber Has Some Career Advice For Developers
( 33:45-35:53 from John Gruber's keynote speech at The Çingleton Symposium, a conference which took place in Montréal on October 14th and 1...
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Flash is dead. Long live the internet.
When I was in high school I didn’t own a computer. I used to read the occasional Popular Mechanics magazine and would linger for a while on the articles about the internet or HTML, fascinated by this new technology that I had barely even used. I don’t know why, but for some reason I’ve always been drawn toward…
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Most Pressed Keys and Programming Syntaxes
I switch between programming languages quite a bit; I often wondered what happens when having to deal with the different syntaxes, does the syntax allow you to be more expressive or faster at coding in one language or another. I dont really know about that; but what I do know
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End artificial scarcities to increase productivity
My colleagues and I realized this over beer: dry erase markers cost almost nothing, yet a lecture hall never contains functioning dry erase markers.
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Richard Feynman on education in Brazil
From Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!:
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How Siri Works
Once again someone has offered us incredible artificial intelligence, and once again we are bracing for disappointment. It happened with handwriting recognition on the Newton, which proved to be slow and clumsy. It happened with the not-as-smart-as-they-first-appeared creatures of Lionhead’s Black and White . And…
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What Google Learned from Wave and Buzz
สล็อตเว็บตรง แตกง่าย ด้วยการเล่นผ่านโทรศัพท์มือถือสามารถเล่นได้ทุกที่ทุกเวลาตลอด 24 ชั่วโมง ทำให้ได้รับความนิยมอย่างแพร่หลายเหตุปัจจุบัน
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JS is Assembly Language for the Web: Brendan Eich, Crockford, & others comment
UPDATE: Check out the Podcast I did with Erik Meijer on Hanselminutes this week ...
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Django Advice
For the past year and a half or so I've been working full-time at Dumbwaiter Design doing Django development. I've picked up a bunch of useful tricks along the way that help me work, and I figured I'd share them.
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WinRT demystified
Miguel de Icaza's Blog
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Speeding up Rails startup time
In which I provide easy instructions to try a new patch that drastically improves the start up time of Ruby applications, in the hope that with wide support it will be merged into the upcoming 1.9.3 release. Skip to the bottom for instructions, or keep reading for the narrative.
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Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out – The Startup Genome Project
In April 2010 I received an email that said, “I’m an incoming Stanford student in the fall and working on a project that a number of people suggested I get in touch with you about.̶…
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Rands in Repose: The Noise
It started that morning when you actually had time to go to your favorite coffee shop on that Wednesday morning. You, like many of us, had a bunch of time off f
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My one question for Steve Jobs in 2000
I’ll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I’ll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave ...
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Android
Roughly six months ago, I put up a blog post suggesting Android was going to be the dominant mobile phone operating system and that developers interested in the largest user bases ought to start developing for it in preference to iOS. As you might expect, I got a lot of heat from Apple fanboys for […]
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Enslaving your interns for evil and profit
I should be in the middle of an interview right now. About fifteen minutes into it, in fact. About the part of my interview where we stop talking about awesome stuff the candidate has worked on in the past and start diving into writing some actual code. A stack with O(1) data access that also always knows its maximum…
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Understanding the code inside Tornado, the asynchronous web server
If you see this page, the nginx web server is successfully installed and working. Further configuration is required.
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Peter Norvig on dance photography
What's wrong with this picture? On the plus side, it captures a lot of smiles and has a sense of motion. On the minus side are some technical and artistic problems:
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Thank You, Steve
<p>It's still early morning here in Sri Lanka; I was just starting the day passively glancing over my Twitter feed. In a stream filled w