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How Universities Work, or: What I Wish I’d Known As a Freshman
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Every day I learn something new... and stupid.
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High Resolution Fundraising
September 2010 The reason startups have been using more convertible notes in angel rounds is that they make deals close faster. By making it easier for startups to give different prices to different investors, they help them break the sort of deadlock that happens when investors all wait to see who else is going to…
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Why I'm leaving Harvard (for Google)
The word is out that I have decided to resign my tenured faculty job at Harvard to remain at Google. Obviously this will be a big change in ...
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Squaring two digit numbers in your head
All my life I've done mental arithmetic the 'wrong way': I've calculated from left-to-right, instead of right-to-left. So when I do somethi...
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How to get a job at a kick-ass startup (for programmers)
When I finished college, I was incredibly naive when it came to finding a great job. I knew that I...
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PyPy 1.4: Ouroboros in practice
We're pleased to announce the 1.4 release of PyPy. This is a major breakthrough in our long journey, as PyPy 1.4 is the first PyPy release t...
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Open source Rails apps to study and learn from
If, like me, you learn best by studying other code here's five some open-source rails apps with something to teach. They're a great resource to study and improve your own code, or to use as the starting point for your own applications. All of these applications use Rails 2 but as they are open-source they are a great…
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There’s a rootkit in the closet
Part 1: Finding the rootkit It's monday morning and I am for coffee in downtown Thessaloniki, a partner calls: - On machine XXX mysqld is not starting since Saturday. - Can I drink my coffee and come over later to check it ? Is it critical ? - Nope, come over anytime you can... Around
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TextMate finally gets an update
Update 2010-11-14: Post about restoring ⇧⌥⇥ for shift left . Post about restoring interactive input functionality .
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Exercise More to Hack Better
Wherever the image came from of a productive hacker being a vitamin D deficient couch potato, fueled entirely by Ramen and Jolt, it needs to die.
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What people want (according to Google Suggest)
Mergesort and Quicksort are two well-known sorting algorithms, familiar to both researchers and practitioners. Both are typically presented as examples of divide and conquer . Other than this fact, they are usually not seen to be very closely related. Let’s look at Mergesort and Quicksort in a somewhat unusual way…
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What Microsoft gets for $2 billion
As a follow up to my post on Microsoft and Creative Destruction, it’s worth looking at this chart (from Silicon Alley Insider). It shows the quarterly operating expenses for Microsoft’s…
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Why You Should Start Marketing the Day You Start Coding
Photo by DeclanTM This article is #7 in a series about startup marketing. The first 6 (not required before you read this one) are available here: part 1 , part 2 , part 3 , part 4 , part 5 , part 6 . I've gone on and on about the subject of pre-launc
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Watch – A Useful Linux Command You May Have Never Heard Of
How many times did I want to watch a directory waiting for a file to appear in it? Constant ls, for example, quickly got boring. A quick Perl script that would reload ls every 5 seconds… yeah it works but it takes a while to type up, and often enough I'm too lazy for that. And then I found 'watch' – a utility that…
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Schneier on Security: Recording the Police
I’ve written a lot on the “War on Photography,” where normal people are harassed as potential terrorists for taking pictures of things in public. This article is different; it’s about recording the police: Allison’s predicament is an extreme example of a growing and disturbing trend. As citizens increase their…
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The creators of no-longer-with-us products explain what went wrong
Verifiable (shut down August 1, 2010) Stuart Roseman shut down Verifiable, a crowdsourced charting and data analysis site, to start SaneBox, a product that automatically identifies important email and separates them in a user’s inbox. Below, he explains how he knew when it was time to pull t…