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A “perfect” voting system
A voting system that sidesteps Arrow's theorem entirely. The scare quotes around
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You Guys Are Millionaires Right?
People often ask, “What’s it like to be an independent developer?”, “You guys are millionaires right?”, “Your job sounds awesome, tell me more!”. So let…
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135 Terabytes for $12,000
Sobriety time. Here are all the reasons why you SHOULD NOT roll your own backblaze storage pod.
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Clojure & Python, Side by Side
Function order has been rearranged here and there to appease Clojure's single-pass compiler.
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Applying to YC as a Single Founder
In a comment I made on Hacker News , I expressed my desire to write an article about the differences and misconceptions between being a single-founder and having co-founders. This is not that article, but it is related. The application for YC W12 is open, and in response to my comment I received a few emails asking…
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Don't give bullshit advice
I chatted with a young guy last night about his new startup idea. He’s got a vision for a social commerce app with a few cool spins on it. As I listened to him, I was thinking about how I had heard this exact pitch half a dozen times before. I also knew I had a lot to offer him in terms of help. I have a good friend…
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Twitter and Me
This is the story of Twitter and the last four years of my life. It's a pretty long story, but one that needs to be told.
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What it's like building a real website in Node.js
Tech Nerd. CEO.
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Dealing with Timezones in Python
The problems with timezones and Python’s datetime object and how you would properly use them.
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Fantastic summary of some of the math pertinent to theoretical computer science.
This web page is a revised and extended version of Appendix A from the book Conceptual Structures by John F. Sowa. It presents a brief summary of the following topics for students and general readers of that book and related books such as Knowledge Representation and books on logic, linguistics, and computer science.
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Finding memory leaks
Over lunch last week Mikhail Naganov (creator of the DevTools Heap Profiler ) and I were discussing how invaluable it has been to have the ...
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Git is Inconsistent
Zooko provides a nice example of the problems with most distributed version control systems merge algorithms. He gives an example of a merge situation that most version control systems, including git, get wrong, but that darcs, Codeville, SCCS, and perhaps BitKeeper get correct.
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Google releases OnePass, a payment system for publishers
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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L-Theanine: a 4,000 Year Old Mind-Hack
Monks have been drinking tea for thousands of years to maintain a state of “mindful alertness” during long periods of meditation. But only in the last few years have studies shed light on why tea has this effect on the mind. The two elements responsible for this are caffeine and L-theanine, and it is the combination…
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Ode to the App Review team
I wasn’t always a fan of Apple’s requirement that all App Store submissions be reviewed by a fairly opaque process before release, which often led to confusing or unfair rejections.
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The Coding Zone
There are a few things you'll need for a productive programming session.
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When free markets make it worse: new TLDs
Free markets don't always produce optimal results, or even desirable ones. As entrepreneurs, our job shouldn't only be to create profits, but to do something useful in the world.
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Wizards of bullshit: How Forbes turned $6.5 million into $20 billion
Forbes is reporting that Facebook’s Zuckerberg is now richer than the Google’s Sergey and Larry. How did that happen? By using the most naive form of financial extrapolation and calling it fact. Here’s how the financial alchemy works: GSV Capital spent $6.5 million to buy 225,0…
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Undeletable Cookies
A couple of weeks ago Wired reported the discovery of a new, undeletable, web cookie: Researchers at U.C. Berkeley have discovered that some of the net’s most popular sites are using a tracking service that can’t be evaded—even when users block cookies, turn off storage in Flash, or use browsers’ “incognito”…
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