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Star Trek as a purely symbolic artifact of past times
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,076 posts.
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A good developer has a natural, almost visceral aversion to complexity
Code should be simple. Code should be butt simple. Code should be so simple that there’s no way it can be misunderstood. Good code has no nooks. Good code has no crannies. Good code is a round room with no corners for bugs to hide in. We all know this. So why does most code suck? Because it’s written
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Lessons learned from cracking 2 million LinkedIn passwords
A community of security professionals discussing IT security and compliance topics and collaborating with peers.
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Charlie Stross on Girls Around Me
There is an app, currently on the Apple app store as a free download, called Girls Around Me .
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Agile: 5 years later and you're still doing it wrong
Which values of the Agile Manifesto do you find foolish? If you're going to tar and feather it(Agile), maybe you should start at the source.
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A Better Strategy for Hangman
Learn the optimal strategy for playing Hangman.
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The Google Nexus Q Is Baffling
David Pogue tests the Google Nexus Q home entertainment device and finds himself bewildered.
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The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode
Ever wonder about that mysterious Content-Type tag? You know, the one you’re supposed to put in HTML and you never quite know what it should be? Did you ever get an email from your friends in…
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Why Facebook is killing Silicon Valley
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energi…
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Fred Wilson's response to "Paul Graham's Letter to YC Companies"
I don't disagree with PG when he says that Facebook's IPO performance (or lack thereof) has the potential to impact valuations in startup land. I think it will be particularly impactful on the late stage and secondary markets where most of the IPO valuation speculation is happening. But let's put Facebook's current…
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How do we read code?
I recently got to participate in a psychological experiment for programmers. A friend of mine, Mike Hansen, is doing research on how people comprehend programs.…
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Getting Beaten By A Voting Bot In 50 Minutes
More apartments across the US and Canada than you can ever imagine!
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John Resig: Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja Update
Jeff Atwood wrote up a post today on the merits of writing a technical book in this day-and-age and specifically called out my past post on programming book profits and my work-in-progress Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja .
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Social Login Buttons Aren’t Worth It
Browse how-to articles on starting, running, and marketing your business, plus thought-provoking podcasts and films to inspire your inner entrepreneur.
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Why you should not be displaying relative dates.
Every time I see a web app display a date as "30 minutes ago" I cringe a little. This was cute 10 years ago when rapid publishing on the web was new, but there are a number of problems with this.
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Don't write on the whiteboard
Quill Grid: The Starlink for AI becomes a network. An optional, opt-in distributed AI grid where idle Quill One devices share spare capacity, earn credits, and donate AI hours.
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Great, Another Bootstrap Site
Download Free PNGs & Free PNG images to use for your creative needs. ✓ Millions of high quality free png images ✓ Transparent pngs ✓ New Free PNGs added everyday.
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Audacity 2.0 Released
Download Audacity for free. A free multi-track audio editor and recorder. Audacity is a free, easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. Audacity is free software, developed by a group of volunteers and distributed under the GNU General Public…
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