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Official Release of Google+ Pages
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Dear Record Labels: Focus on Buyers, Not Thieves
Watch streaming video, find interesting podcasts, and discover classic music and new songs from independent artists.
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Free Printed Copies of "Version Control by Example"
The printed copies of Version Control by Example arrived last week. We moved seven tons of books into our fourth-floor office space and all the tenants on the third floor are still alive.
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The investment that didn't happen
The story of Modista.com — a young startup that was forced to shutdown before it even really got going because of a patent infringement lawsuit by Like.com.
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Understanding "Prototypes" in JavaScript
For the purposes of this post, I will be talking about JavaScript objects using syntax defined in ECMAScript 5.1. The basic semantics existed in Edition 3, but they were not well exposed. A Whole New Object In JavaScript, objects are pairs of keys and values (in Ruby, this structure
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Facebook's Three New Products
Learn about Meta: our mission, principles, leadership, who owns the company, apps (Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads) and products like Quest.
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Why I do my resume in LaTeX
I’m guessing most of you have seen the comic explaining how a programmer reads your résumé. No, I don’t do my résumé in LaTeX just to get the +12 bonus. There are a handful of reasons I think it is a good idea. It stands out My résumé isn’t written in 12 pt. Arial or Times New Roman, which sets it apart from 75% of…
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Dr. Stallman responded to my open letter
Whoa. Thanks for all the attention and feedback, everybody! In case you're curious: I ended up emailing the letter to RMS and got a reply earlier today. I am skeptical of advice from people who disagree with what I stand for. --Dr Richard Stallman Overall, commenters seem to have had fairly positive things to say, but…
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Why I Left Google
Jean Hsu - Fractional VP Engineering | Engineering Leadership for Startups
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The Rise and Fall of the Independent Developer
I’m old enough to remember a time before the Internet. I know what it’s like to develop software both with and without a worldwide network. Little has changed with the process of software development since the 1980’s. Of course there have been improvements in our tools and techniques, but the basic act of creating…
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Why Quora is in trouble
Browse 46 free 8 bit GIFs. Download and share them on GIFDB.com — works in WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, X and more.
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The daily lunch delivery of India's dabbawallahs
Every day, approximately 4,000 dabbawallahs deliver 160,000 home-cooked lunches from the kitchens of suburban wives and mothers direct to Mumbai’s workers in “the world’s most ingenious meal distribution system.” (Hey UPS, how’s that for logistics?) Dabbawallahs p…
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Peter Norvig's Sudoku solver: Clojure & Python side by side
As an exercise, I translated Peter Norvig’s Sudoku solver from Python to Clojure. There have been a couple other attempts before, but they both leaned on Clojure’s reference types as a …
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The Tragic Death of the Flip
The creators of the Flip resisted the urge to gunk it up with complexity. It was a wonderful device and getting better. Then Cisco killed it the day before a new one was supposed to ship.
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1TB Hard Drive Prices up 180% in a Month
The Newegg price charts on Camelegg sum this up illustratively:
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Counterfeit Game Sold on Apple's App Store
You may recall that two weeks ago we added Lugaru HD to the Mac App Store for $9.99 (the same price as on Steam, our own site, and all other…
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A Collection of Examples of 64-bit Errors in Real Programs
A portfolio of HPC tools help data scientists, researchers, and developers efficiently build cross-architecture applications.
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Meet the IOIO - USB breakout board for android w/48 digital+analog IO pins
I'm very excited to announce the launch of a new product I've been working on for the past months! IOIO (pronounced: yo-yo ) is a produc...
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Overview of Text Editors for Programming on the Mac
In the last 10 years many new text editors became available for Mac OS X. Since I have tried most of them I wanted to give an overview and a brief description about each one of them. This is for developers that are looking for decent editors on the mac to get their job done.