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C++ in Coders at Work
One of the topics I asked most of my Coders at Work interviewees about was C++. I am not an expert, or even a competent C++ programmer and recognize that my own opinions about C++ are not well-info…
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,717 posts.
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Why I Will Never Feel Threatened by Programmers in India
[UPDATE: To all those who got here by clicking a link entitled “Why I Will Never Feel Threatened by Programmers in India”, that title has been retired as an unfortunate misfire on my pa…
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Coming soon: make your phone your wallet
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Vim is hard, I just want to click around
Jeff Kreeftmeijer's Vim configuration
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DigiNotar Damage Disclosure (with full list of issued certs)
About an hour ago I was contacted by the Dutch Government with more details about the DigiNotar...
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A New Name for Stack Overflow (with surprise ending)
It's been a while since we've done something arbitrary, complicated, and confusing, so today I'm happy to announce that the name of the company has been changed, effective immediately, to Stack Exchange Inc !
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Patent 5,893,120 reduced to mathematical formulae
I have previously argued that the Bilski ruling renders all software unpatentable in the US because any method of manipulating information ...
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Play on Heroku
Developers with experience in both Java and Ruby web development often ask the question: Why is web app development so complicated in Java, and so much...
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Iran blocks Tor; Tor releases same-day fix
The short version: Tor relays and bridges should upgrade to Tor 0.2.2.33 or Tor 0.2.3.4-alpha so...
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Ubuntu and GNOME jump the shark
I upgraded to Ubuntu 11.04 a week or so back in order to get a more recent version of SCons. 11.04 dropped me into the new “Unity” GNOME interface. There may be people in the world for whom Unity is a good idea, but none of them are me. The look is garish and ugly, and it takes twice as many clicks as it did before to…
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A Look Inside the Process of One of the World’s Most Efficient Studiers
Scott Young’s Graduation Gift to Study Hacks I have to give credit to Scott Young: it was talking blogs with him back in 2007 that ... Read more
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IPv6 Day Has Started
SANS.edu Internet Storm Center. Today's Top Story: The Classics Return: Vulnerable E-Mail Scripts;
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How GitHub Works: Hours are Bullshit
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.