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Cash Flow and Destiny
Ben Horowitz is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,456 posts.
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Farming hard drives: 2 years and $1M later
Get all of the latest cloud storage news and insights from Backblaze - the leading independent cloud storage provider.
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Android RNG Weakness Renders Bitcoin Wallets Insecure
We recently learned that a component of Android responsible for generating secure random numbers contains critical weaknesses , that render all Android wallets generated to date vulnerable to theft. Because the problem lies with Android itself, this problem will affect you if you have a wallet generated by any Android…
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Python's sad, unimaginative Enum
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Parallelism and concurrency need different tools
In this piece, I disagree with Joe Armstrong and Rob Pike, basing my argument on the differences between vending machines and gift boxes (illustrated with drawings carefully prepared in Microsoft Paint).
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Go 1.1 performance improvements
This is the first in a series of articles analysing the performance improvements in the Go 1.1 release.
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Product Strategy Means Saying No
Articles and Podcasts on Customer Service, AI and Automation, Product, and more.
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Farewell to Aaron Swartz
Yesterday Aaron Swartz, a close friend and collaborator of ours, committed suicide. This is a tragic end to a brief and extraordinary life. Aaron did more than almost anyone to make the Internet a thriving ecosystem for open knowledge, and to keep it that way. His contributions were numerous, and...
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Node.js and the new web front-end
The Official Web Site of Nicholas C. Zakas
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Why the world needs Haskell
This is a technical review of Haskell and why software developers should care about functional programming. For a non-technical review of why your company should be using Haskell you might want to watch this introduction to Haskell video by FP Complete.
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Node.js incorrectly parses HTTP methods
One who writes code
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Is Wine Bullshit?
How should we understand the robust findings that suggest that the price of wine is not only uncorrelated with how much people enjoy it, but that the different tastes we describe in wine may all be in our heads?
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Massive Dosing - the LSD Thumbprint
Honestly, I had no idea that such massive doses of LSD had been used. I came across a thread describing a "thumbprint" of LSD , a dose bas...
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