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Softlayer Cloud: An operations guy's rant about really bad service
Disclaimer: the information in this post is the author’s personal opinion and is not the opinion or policy of his employer. It was spring 2010 when we decided that even though Softlayer‘s server provisioning system is really great and it takes only a few hours to get a new server when we need it, it […]
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Peacetime CEO/Wartime CEO
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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How SmugMug survived the Amazonpocalypse
tl;dr: Amazon had a major outage last week, which took down some popular websites. Despite using a lot of Amazon services, SmugMug didn’t go down because we spread across availability zones a…
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Review: Learn You a Haskell for Great Good
Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! (A Beginner's Guide) by Miran Lipovača, published by No Starch Press (2011). No Starch was kind enough to send me an advance copy for review.
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Humble pie.
Thank you to everyone who has been supportive of me with this blog since I started it last year. Many of you have voiced your appreciation for posts that you’ve found helpful. It’s been a really fun experience and a nice way to pay it forward as so many people have mentored me on my own path. The fact that…
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232 sand dollars
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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How I Deal with Sexual Discrimination in a Positive Way?
CEO @strongholdpay. Alumni of @500GlobalVC @stellarorg @Walmartlabs. Fortune Ledger's 40 Under 40. #payments #fintech
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The Dilbert Black Swan Portfolio: a skeptical/practical guide to investing
If you are a young professional and you’re making your first savings, and wondering what to do with them, this post is for you. Disclaimer: I am not an economist. But that’s probably a good thing. Why? Read on.
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Ten Ways to Check if an Integer Is a Power Of Two in C
To write a program to check if an integer is a power of two, you could follow two basic strategies: check the number based on its decimal value, or check it based on its binary representation. The former approach is more human-friendly but generally less efficient; the latter approach is more machine-friendly but…
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Why aren't there any Open Source laser printers?
WordPress.com is the best place for your personal blog or business site.
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Why Donald Knuth Checks E-mail Only Once Every Three Months
E-mail Zero Redux Two weeks ago, I introduced E-mail Zero, the concept of living life with no e-mail. The motivation was to investigate innovative ways ... Read more
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How Github has changed the open source world
You've arrived at a unique corner of the web where the spheres of open-source development and theology intersect in fascinating ways.
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Compiling to λ-calculus
Though it contains forms only for function applications, variable references and anonymous functions, it is equivalent to a Turing machine.
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Hacking Twitter's Javascript
New Twitter uses a massive amount of javascript (for a webapp). Nearly 1 Megabyte of minified, obfuscated javascript powers the site's frontend.
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Elsevier's profits alone could fund all academic publications as open access
[This post is mostly a rehash of a comment I made on the last one, but I guess more people see posts than comments. Oh, and I will try to post something about sauropod vertebrae Real Soon Now.] &#…
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