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NoSQL is What?
I found myself reading NoSQL is a Premature Optimization a few minutes ago and threw up in my mouth a little. That article is so far off base that I’m not even sure where to start, so I guess…
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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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How to turn a biased coin into a Fair Coin
Fair Coins are the currency of Userland. A Fair Coin flips fifty-fifty with mathematical exactness. In the real world most coins are pretty fair, but you never know whether there might be a small bias to one side or another. This presents Lauren Ipsum , a girl who's lost in Userland, with a problem. No one wants her…
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Lisp inventor John McCarthy on human progress and its sustainability
The sustainability pages are essentially done, although I plan to improve them and respond to inadequacies people find. Having done my best to show that material progress is sustainable, I can justifiably turn my attention to the future and present ideas about what progress people will want and what can be achieved…
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Design for Hackers: Why You Hate Comic Sans
Everyone loves to hate Comic Sans. The child-like handwriting font is so infamous, there is a movement to try to ban it. Mention its name to the common layman (aside from a preschool teacher), and you will likely get a chuckle, mention it to a trained designer, and you’ll get a look of disgust. In […]
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Google penalizes original content site because of scrapers
In a recent comment someone shared the fate of Patrick Jordan , owner of justanotheripadblog.com.
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You're Using JSON, Why not MessagePack?
JSON is a fantastic format, anywhere people in your organization want to reach for XML, it’s always a good thing to ask the question “Why not JSON?”. The question I’d like you to ask the next time you’re reaching for your JSON hammer, is “Why not MessagePack?”.
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My Career Advice: Make Yourself Redundant
Early on in my professional life, I was given some fairly terrible career advice: make yourself indispensable .
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Jon Bentley's Programming Pearls: 25 years old, still brilliant
To my astonishment, I see that it’s been a whole year since the last installment in the Programming Books series (1, Coders at Work; 2, The Elements of Programming Style; 3, Programming the …
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Why Software Projects Are Terrible And How Not To Fix Them
If you are a good developer and you’ve worked in bad organizations, you often have ideas to improve the process. The famous Joel Test is a collection of 12 such ideas. Some of these ideas h…
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Why You Can't Hire Great Perl Programmers
Programming is a skill in demand. Programming can get you a job. A guide to finding good programmers, Perl and otherwise.
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Google: Patently Absurd
How is Google’s argument here different than simply demanding that Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, *et al* should simply sit back and let Google do whatever it wants with Android, regardless of the patents they hold?
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How to hide Ryanair
Take a company you have a problem with 1. Imagine you hate Ryanair. I do not btw they are just an example of a company this would work on. 2...
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Bitcoin is Not Anonymous
An Analysis of Anonymity in the Bitcoin System2011135 points53 commentscited by 3Crypto & Blockchain details
TL;DR Bitcoin is not inherently anonymous. It may be possible to conduct transactions is such a way so as to obscure your identity, but, ...
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App store shenanigans
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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The Final Answer For What To Do To Prevent Piracy [of Indie Games]
(For some reason, Blogger deleted this post. I have recreated it. Sorry for any comments that were lost.) This article is my decisive sta...
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Protocol Buffers, Avro, Thrift & MessagePack
Perhaps one of the first inescapable observations that a new Google developer ( Noogler ) makes once they dive into the code is that Protocol Buffers (PB) is the "language of data" at Google. Put simply, Protocol Buffers are used for serialization, RPC, and about everything in between .
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