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Withdrawing from Hacker News
Slightly surprisingly, I got a reply, in which he suggested that I submit the link to Hacker News[4]. I'd never heard of Hacker News, but had a look, thought it interesting, and submitted the link.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,905 posts.
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Nym Wars (Google+ "real name" rules)
I hadn't been paying much attention to the Google "Real Names" clusterfuck, because it was so obvious to me that they were going to lose this one in the press that it would all be over soon. But it's still not over, and the Google brass appear to be digging in their heels, despite the universally bad press they're…
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I Eliminated the Free Plan from my Web App for a Month: Here’s What Happened.
Background In January 2010 I launched Preceden, a free web-based timeline tool. In May I migrated to a freemium plan, where users could add a certain number of events for free but had to upgrade to…
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Turning the Internet Off
People who don't know me , and what I've spent my career doing, will think I'm some kind of Luddite, but of course I'm anything but that.
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A Perl Regular Expression That Matches Prime Numbers
Take a look at this Perl regular expression: perl -lne '(1x$_) =~ /^(11+?)\1+$/ && print "$_ is composite"' This regular expression matches only the composite numbers (and doesn't match prime numbers). Can you figure out how it works? I'll give the explanation below but try to figure it…
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Quake Engine source review
I happily dove into Quake World source code . Here is what I understood, hopefully it will help someone to swim. This article is in four parts : Architecture section Network section Prediction section Rendition section
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Standing Up For Android
Shifty Jelly’s counterargument to some of my Android opinions, which provides a concrete data point showing that money can be made on Android, concludes with this:
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Ruby is beautiful (but I'm moving to Python)
I'm a Product Manager at Google. I use data and UX to drive great products. And it turns out—the toughest problems are won in translation.
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Lessons Learned: The Lean Startup Book is here
I am no longer writing a book. The Lean Startup Book is done. Finally, really, truly, done. On July 4, I celebrated Independence Day by m...
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How to make $250 a day (and get banned from the Android Market)
A few weeks ago I did something which, in retrospect, was probably rather stupid. But it was surprisingly successful while it lasted. As I wrote earlier, I'
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Concepts The Emacs Newbie Should Master
A friend of mine asked me for some links/suggestions for learning Emacs . While, I was naturally excited that another soul was interested ...
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Subscriptions and the new In-App Purchase requirement
Apple’s new subscription-billing requirement has generated a lot of bad press and debate. The new rule, from the App Store Review Guidelines (developer account required):
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Open Letter to Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi (Chancellor of UC Davis)
18 November 2011 Open Letter to Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi Linda P.B. Katehi, I am a junior faculty member at UC Davis. I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of English, and I teach in th…
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The Procrastinating Caveman: Human Evolution and Procrastination
Survivor: Paleolithic Edition Rewind time 100,000 years ago: several different species of humans co-exist on earth.There was, of course, our own species, Homo sapien, but ... Read more
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Emscripten (LLVM-to-JavaScript compiler) 1.0
It's been almost a year since I started Emscripten (which, if you haven't heard of it, is a tool to compile LLVM to JavaScript), during whic...
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How I've started to contribute to open source
A couple of weeks ago, I read a post by Brandon Hays called '“Why I still don't contribute to open source”:http://brandonhays.com/blog/2011/05/03/why-i-still-dont-contribute-to-open-source/' wherein Brandon lays out his reasons for not yet having contributed to any OSS projects.
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(1) Keep it simple, (2) make it something you'd actually use, (3) iterate.
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
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