721
722
If your bank doesn’t like your startup’s blog, they may freeze your funds
Update: The Fabulis story had legs like I’ve never seen before. When I posted it to Hacker News it shot to number 1 in about 3 minutes and stayed there for 6 to 8 hours. A few hours later Robin Wauters from Techcrunch picked up on the story and since then it’s appeared everywhere from GigaOm and ValleyWag to FT.com …
723
724
EFF: Online Speech is Only as Strong as the Weakest Intermediary
Co-authored by Rainey Reitman and Marcia Hofmann The First Amendment to the Constitution guarantees freedom of expression against government encroachment — but that doesn't help if the censorship doesn't come from the government. The controversial whistle-blower website WikiLeaks, which has begun...
725
Hotlinking to jquery.com will be disabled on January 31, 2011
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
726
727
728
729
730
731
How to Snatch an Expiring Domain
I recently found myself in the position of wanting to register a domain which was owned by someone else. The domain was set to expire in a week, and I figured there was a decent chance that the person …
732
Today is the 15th Anniversary of the Apache HTTP Server
ASF Flagship Project is World’s Most Popular Web Server, Powering More than 112 Million Websites FOREST HILL, MD, 23 February, 2010 — The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) — developers, stewards, and incubators of 138 Open Source projects — today announced the 15th anniversary of the Apache HTTP Web Server.The ASF’s…
733
734
Visual Guide to NoSQL Systems
There are so many NoSQL systems these days that it's hard to get a quick overview of the major trade-offs involved when evaluating relational and non-relational systems in non-single-server...
735
736
Knuth's 'Earthshaking Announcement' due tomorrow
(I'm still looking for the catchiest way to appreciate the number MMXXVI. Exercise 7.2.1.6–122 gives 1234+.5*6+789 and -1+2345*6/7+8+9 and 1+(2/3)*45*67.8-9 ; other suggestions are welcome. The most elegant that I've seen so far is a beauty that was suggested independently by Arnaud Lefebvre and by Evangelos…
737
New Adobe Flash 0day, have a nice weekend
For the complete experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser. Thank you!
738
Developer Income Report #5 (Gave up a day job)
It is high time for my another income report. I used to write my total developer income reports (last one “Gave up a day job! Now what? – Income report #3”) and last month I have summed…
739
740
741
Questions you'd be crazy not to ask at the start of your next project
Download Blank Inception Deck Online course Udemy One area most agile methods are completely silent on is project chartering. Below is a lightweight you can use to fill this gap and get your projec…
742
Non-Apple's Mistake
I've been patient, I've been gracious And this mountain is covered with wolves Hear them howling, my hungry children Maybe you should stay and have another drink and think about me and you. Jonathan Coulton, "Skullcrusher Mountain"
743
The iPad Big Picture
This is Apple’s way of asserting that they’re taking over the penthouse suite as the strongest and best company in the whole ones-and-zeroes racket.
744
745
Why are technical recruiters so clueless?
Are there any recruiters working in technology who get it? Anyone putting in just a minimum of effort to appear even half-way competent? If so, they need to speak up. The reputation of their profession is being soiled by completely clueless hacks. Here’s a pitch I just got this morning: …
746
747
748
749
750
Facebook leaks user's IP addresses
Actually this is a common method of combatting spam, all of the various spam providers will block facebook as a whole if they don't include this information, which would obviously be a devastating annoyance. Go and send an e-mail from hotmail, or any kind of mailserver.. normal e-mail client, gmail, etc.. and you will…