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You don't understand something until you think it's obvious.
I learned a valuable life lesson in the course of completing my MSci degree. It's not so much about mathematics as it is about understandin...
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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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Be careful what you put in an email
Posts about OMakase written by Om Malik
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3D printed coffee cups
One Cup a Day project is an experiment on creativity and rapid manufacturing, by ideating, designing, modeling and making available for production and purchase a coffee cup within 24 hours, everyday during one month.
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Brendan Eich on Ecma TC39, JavaScript.next, and Google Dash
I spoke at TXJS , a really excellent regional JS conference, in June. Thanks to @SlexAxton , rmurphey , and everyone else involved. My talk was concerned with the good, bad, and ugly of Ecma TC39 (and I mean those words in the best possible way!), mixing philosophy with historical events from the last 14 years.
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CES2011: The end of the PC era
At this year’s CES two unthinkable things happened: The abandonment of Windows exclusivity by practically all of Microsoft’s OEM customers. The abandonment of Intel exclusivity by Micro…
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The coming retail apocalypse: some axioms
Back to: Rudy #3: Looking For The Big Aha. | Forward to: Rudy #4. More on The Big Aha.
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Hacking Christmas lights
I went to Costco the other day with my wife to pick up some Christmas lights. While there, I found the most awesome christmas lights ever: the GE Color Effects G-35 .
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Rails is not MVC
There is a terminology problem in the Rails community. Everyone promotes Rails as a MVC framework. I did that as well. However, the truth ...
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Be aware of "morality" clauses from domain registrars
GoDaddy has received a lot of bad press for their support of …
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There's more to HTML escaping than &, <, >, and "
This was exaggeration for effect—there aren’t many cases where a simple XSS injection could actually empty a bank account—but I wanted to make a point.
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Your idea sucks now go do it anyway
Your idea probably sucks, and it doesn't matter because your business will probably turn out to be something completely different.
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Daring Fireball: Amazon's New Kindles
Apple and Amazon are approaching the tablet territory from opposing sides.
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Flash: 99% Bad
Flash reduces usability by: making bad design more likely, breaking the Web's fundamental interaction style, and consuming resources better spent enhancing a site's core value.
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The $150k Solution
An article was published yesterday in one of Austin's local papers about Austin's tech talent shortage . I was job hunting just a couple months ago and get a lot of calls from recruiters and hear about friends' companies who are hiring and I think it's pretty damned accurate. And by accurate I mean that it points out…
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Startup America -- Dead on Arrival
For its first few decades Silicon Valley was content flying under the radar of Washington politics. It wasn’t until Fairchild and Intel were almost bankrupted by Japanese semiconductor manufacturer…
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It's Insanely Hard to Make a Kick-Ass iPhone App
The best 25 books I’ve read since the last time I did one of these book roundups way back in 2024.
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Go Rocks - How Can We Avoid Something This Bad In The Future?
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