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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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Puppy (or, details on Joel Spolsky's retirement from blogging)
At right, a picture of Taco, a ten-week-old siberian husky puppy who moved in with us last week! Some of you may have seen my final column in Inc., in which I announce my retirement from blogging …
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An Android Side Project
I want to be able to write apps for my phone in in something other than the Java language; for example Ruby or Python. This isn’t one of the things my group at Google has asked me to look at, but I think it’s worth doing and worth some of my time. I’m writing this today because I’m amused by the contrast with the…
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Abandoned open source projects
About some problems I'm having with old open source projects and a Github feature request to try and fix them.
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Marine Heavy Gunner dev notes - 'Nobody picked up that it was a parody'
So… I worked on this six years ago. If I see one now & then in a bargin bin I usually pay the $5 for it & pass it off on one of my friends as a reminder to myself about the boat tim…
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Clojure 1.3 First Impression (It's Fast)
Fractal Tree of the Gods A while ago , I was disappointed to discover that a certain fractal tree program was visibly slower in Clojure...
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GwtQuake: Taking the Web to the Next Level (HTML5+WebGL Quake)
Back in November of 2009, Joel Webber and I were at a GWT Summit focused on improving the Web and UI latency. Someone was giving a presentat...
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Homoglyph attacks: How to create an internet hoax
For decades, social psychologists have understood that the link between attitudes and conduct is convoluted, if not weak. Both online and offline, this is
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Start In The Middle
Middle in the start you shall.
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Interviewing programmers: coding test example explained
In Part 2 article I'll describe how I personally would write the code specified in Part 1. I'm not claiming this is in any sense objectively the best, and I'm certainly not suggesting it's the only.
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Richard Stallman: "I Wished I Had Killed Myself"
I received a review copy of Steven Levy's seminal book Hackers back in the 1980s, but never read it. I did, though, keep it, because it lo...
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Canonical, Ltd. On Record: Seeking Open Core
I've written before about my deep skepticism regarding the true motives of Canonical, Ltd.'s advocacy and demand of for-profit corporate copyright assignment without promises to adhere to copyleft . I've often asked Canonical employees, including Jono Bacon , Amanda Brock , Jane Silber , Mark Shuttleworth himself, and…
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Not disruptive, and proud of it
I remember "disruptive" when it was called a "paradigm shift." You should be worrying more about making something people want to buy, and less about disrupting everything.
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If you put your hand in the Large Hadron Collider...
Several physicists weigh in on what would happen if you were to place your hand in the proton stream of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. There’s not a definit
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Your Worst Enemy Is Yourself
One mistake I see startups make a lot is getting too focused on what is going on around them. They spend too much time trying to figure out what their competitors are going to do. They watch the next hot startup with jealousy and it reminds them of when they were that "shiny new thing" […]
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How I write and time-manage
I was asked a few times by some very nice people at WWDC this week how I manage my time between Instapaper and Tumblr, and how I write essays here that occasionally make sense. If you’ll forgive my auto-back-patting, here’s the answer I gave, and I think it’s worth sharing with you because you can do the same sort of…
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Xc.js - a Javascript framework for 2d games. Backends for HTML5 canvas and iOS
We help to build the next thing
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Women in tech - Stop talking, start coding
I read Out of the Loop in Silicon Valley in the NYTimes today, which explores how and why women are under-repesented in tech startups. From the number of retweets I saw and the clicks through bit.l…
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Why the iPhone will fail (2007)
The forthcoming (June 29) release of the Apple iPhone is going to be a bigger marketing flop than Ishtar and Waterworld (dating myself aga...