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Some lessons learned
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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Hotelling’s Game, or Why Gas Stations Have Competitors Nearby
There are hundreds of gas stations around San Francisco in the California Bay area. One might think that gas stations would spread out to serve local neighborhoods. But this idea is contradicted by a common observation. Whenever you visit a gas station, there is almost always another in the vicinity, often just across…
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The 'why I am not worried' article, edited by MIT nuclear scientists
MIT NSE Nuclear Information Hub
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Mozilla Launches Firefox 4 for Android
Mozilla, a global, nonprofit organization dedicated to making the Web better, is excited to release Mozilla Firefox 4 for Android. Firefox delivers an intu
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Zero Day Vulnerability in many Wordpress Themes
Big News [April 24th, 2012]: I’ve launched Wordfence to permanently fix your WordPress site’s security issues. Read this now.
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Fighting micro-burn-out
Our emotions ride like a roller coaster -- we've all heard that phrase but it's different when you're actually living it. Noah Kagan believes that the real successful entrepreneurs are the ones that can deal with difficult times the best; here's some tips on how to do that.
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Rob Pike on regular expressions in lexing and parsing
Comments extracted from a code review. I've been asked to disseminate them more widely. I should say something about regular expressio...
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The Acceleration of Addictiveness vs Willpower, Productivity, and Flow
A year ago Paul Graham posted The Acceleration of Addictiveness , and I just re-read it thoroughly. It is a wonderful insightful post. I agree with the whole thing and if you haven't seen it yet go read it first.
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Whyday is Friday
Shopify powers millions of businesses in more than 175 countries with essential commerce infrastructure. Our engineers and developers work on challenging and impactful projects spanning frontend, backend, mobile and data.
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Engineering hints you'll rarely hear
Explore the latest technologies and innovations on the architecture engineered for agility
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How To: Spend your investors’ money
I’ve invested in two startups and advise, officially and unofficially, a dozen or so other startups. Recently, a company that I’m involved with, attachments.me , raised $500,000 from Foundry Group . Since their raise, the two cofounders, Ben and Jesse, have been on a tear adding features, solidifying the…
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IPad 2 introduces new headphone jack
Update: Just to clarify, this post is speculation, not fact. Based on the excellent iFixit teardowns it looks like the iPad 2 headphone jack has pins on both sides , which is more in line with Apple's typical cantilever design (roughly similar to the jack in the Macbook Air ). Interestingly, it looks like the…
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Google introduces Dart, a new programming language for web applications
By Lars Bak, Software Engineer, Dart Team Cross-posted on the Chromium Blog Today we are introducing an early preview of Dart , a class...