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The most important question to ask before taking seed money (from VCs)
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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Joe Marshall's take on Guido Van Rossum's post on tail recursion
A blog about computers, functional languages, Lisp, and Scheme.
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Why Reddit uses Python
During Steve Huffman’s and Alexis Ohanian’s Pycon Keynote , someone asked why Reddit was moved from Lisp to Python . The reason for moving wasn’t too interesting, but why they have stayed is. Steve gave two “huge” reasons Reddit continues to use Python:
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This is your pilot speaking. Now, about that holding pattern...
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Announcing Ubuntu 10.04 LTS: The Lucid Lynx
Ubuntu is an open source software operating system that runs from the desktop, to the cloud, to all your internet connected things.
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Figuring out what your company is all about
What is your company about? Recently I got inspired by Kathy Sierra, whose blog Creating Passionate Users and Head First series of books revolutionized developer education. She kept saying the same…
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JWZ, on Garbage Collection
In a conversation at work about the architecture of a new product, someone made an assertion along the lines of, ``then we'd need to use a garbage collector, and that would hurt performance.''
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How to write untestable code
by Miško Hevery , Jonathan Wolter , Russ Ruffer, Brad Cross, and lots of other test infected Googlers This guide lists principles that will ...
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The natural evolution from side project to full-time business
Some have doubted our advice that you should hold on to your day job and start something on the side. They argue building a business requires such persistent effort that you need to devote all your time to it to do it right. And it’s true that building a business requires plenty of time an…
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Google Maps Street View capture... from a bike
I met this guy while I was walking around Beebe Lake . He says they're deploying people on bikes to capture images of trails where you can't take cars, but it's small-scale and experimental at this stage. A pedestrian version is also in development, and may come into use next year. He's excited…
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Some people like to pay. Let them.
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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Is RightJS really faster than jQuery?
My journey of mastering procrastination has led me to an interesting article on Hacker News today:
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Balsamiq - A look back at 2008
News and announcements from your friends at Balsamiq.
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A single line assignment filled with epic fail
Today I've been working with a piece of third-party software. I was having big problems getting it working and decided to delve into its ...
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Philip Greenspun's Economy Recovery Plan
Minimum steps necessary to give business investors confidence in the United States
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Anxiety, Depression, Technology, and Me
This is a personal story. I have never shared much of this. I am a regular blogger, but this felt too personal to write as myself. I neede...
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In which I stomp on some of our glorious “green shoots”
These are apparently America’s top under-25 entrepreneurs. Allow me to summarize: they are: A guy who rents airplanes to wealthy bored people. Not a bad idea, but … being the Avis of av…