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Electronic Arts Hates Strong Passwords
EA does not allow passwords longer than 16 characters or passwords that contain symbols. However passwords like cool, pass and love are totally acceptable.
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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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When hard books disappear
[Translations: Japanese] Hard books are on their way to extinction. Biologists maintain a concept call a “type specimen.” Every species of living organism has many individuals of noticeable variety. There are millions of Robins in America, for instance, all of … Continue reading →
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The Type of Companies That Publish Future Concept Videos
I’m not arguing that making concept videos directly leads to a lack of traction in the current market. I’m arguing that making concept videos is a sign of a company that has a lack of institutional focus on the present and near-present.
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Google Acquires Over 1,000 IBM Patents
While Google may have lost the recent bidding for Nortel's patent portfolio, they did quietly acquire over a 1,000 patents from IBM this past month.
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Python 3.2 Released
The official home of the Python Programming Language
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Twitter and Facebook Both Quietly Kill RSS
Last year I shared how Twitter was moving more and more towards a closed, less-standards oriented model of sharing content as they upgraded their design to bring more people to the Twitter.com website. At that time, they removed the prominent RSS icons and made it only possible to access an RSS feed for an individual…
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IPhone 4 films final Discovery launch from 30,000 feet up.
Business travel can get a bit boring can’t it? (OK a LOT boring). Imagine looking out of the window on a flight to see Discovery launching on its final mission. That would be quite cool. Neil Monday just did. I once saw Comet Hale Bopp and the northern lights when flying to San Francisco. I […]
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A Business Insider retrospective
After reading Ryan McCarthy’s post at Reuters about Business Insider, I wanted to run some numbers.
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Design for Hackers (the book) is here
It was less than 10 months ago that I told you that I would be writing Design for Hackers. Less than 10 months, and the book is already available. In fact, I just signed a bunch of books for some of the amazing 138 backers of the Kickstarter campaign, and I’m also packing my bags
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Scala Feels like EJB 2
At Devoxx last week I used the phrase "Scala feels like EJB 2 to me". What was on my mind? Scala For a number of years on this blog I'v...
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Introducing the Gmail app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch
Posted by Matthew Izatt, Product Manager Waiting. Walking. Watching TV. Working out. Winding down. Waking up. We check email pretty much e...
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Firefox 8.0 is Released
v.8.0, offered to release channel users on November 8th, 2011 Check out what’s new, the known issues and frequently asked questions about the latest released version of Firefox. As always, you’re encouraged to tell us what you think , or file a bug in Bugzilla .
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Using Gmail, Calendar and Docs without an Internet connection
Posted by Benoît de Boursetty, Product Manager (Cross-posted on the Google Enterprise Blog ) The great thing about web apps is that you...
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Treating Students as Gifted Yields Impressive Academic Results, Study Finds
Schools that seek to help students who are underrepresented in advanced programs should treat them as gifted young scholars, an approach that can result in many of them actually performing at a gifted level within a few years, according to a U.S. Dept. of Education study of a North Carolina program.
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Wield Python's super() like a Jedi
If you aren’t wowed by Python’s super() builtin, chances are you don’t really know what it is capable of doing or how to use it effectively. Much has been written about super() and much of that wri…
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Sony Music Brazil hacked
I hate to pick on Sony, but they got hacked again (and no, I am not talking about the Lulzsec + sonypictures, this is another…
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The joys of maintenance programming
Introducing new web service to determine if a number is odd or not. No new code dependency in your npm modules. Can use with almost any programming language, not just Javascript under node.js. No license. Easy to test in a web browser