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The Python Standard Library - Where Modules Go To Die
If you’ve done Fourier series approximations of functions, you had three reactions to today’s XKCD comic :
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What Amazon's ebook strategy really means
It seems to me that a lot of folks in the previous discussion don't really understand quite what makes Amazon so interesting—and threatening, for that matter—to the publishing industry.
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GNU grep is 10x faster than Mac grep
That's likely all you need to do to install and make default GNU grep, which on my machine is a ~10x speedup over the grep that ships with Mac OS.
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Introducing Qubes 1.0 ("a stable and reasonably secure desktop OS")
After nearly three years of work, I have a pleasure to announce that Qubes 1.0 has finally been released! To see the installation instructio...
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4 Months Of eBook Sales
System programming for Ruby programmers.
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Coroutine Event Loops in Javascript
Web performance monitoring is the process of tracking and analyzing the speed, uptime, and overall performance of a website to ensure an optimal user experience.
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Fear and Loathing at Zigfu: My Y Combinator Experience
Applications for YCombinator's winter 2013 cycle are due October 30. Let me tell you about my experience in YCombinator with Zigfu . Zigf...
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Why Startups Die
Startups die due to a variety of causes. Over the course of the last three years, I've watched many of my friends pour their hearts and souls into companies that, for one reason or another, just fizzled out of existence. In 2007, Paul Graham gave a variety of causes for…
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The Founder's Lie About Comfort Zones
There is a lot of talk going on about the endurance and struggle that startup founders go through. How long the hours are, we all...
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Airship Tails
Our team at Google got the opportunity to fly in a Zeppelin yesterday. This is the first Zeppelin to fly in the US since the Hindenburg. I had been looking forward to this flight for several years. The photos are spectacular.
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Why the cloud isn't for your startup
BlueScripts is a boutique Clearwater software studio. We build custom software, web apps, iOS apps, and APIs for startups and SMBs across Tampa Bay. Senior engineers, no juniors, no offshoring.
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Things That Turbo Pascal is Smaller Than (2011)
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
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Mobile is Where the Growth Is
If you look at any of the top web properties on comScore, Quantcast, Alexa or any other third party reporting service you will see that they all have been fairly flat over the first half of the year. You might think that all these big web services are flatlining. We have seen this in our […]
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How To Build A Blog Readership
Discuss this post on Hacker News Despite the recent success of this blog over the past year (250,000 uniques, hundreds of new subscribers, republished in L
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The Hacker Way
I don't normally comment on the day's news, but I want to make an exception today to share something from Facebook's S-1 filing . Over the n...
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A Design Primer for Engineers
For a word that can so vastly change the fortunes of a company, it's worth noting that no generally accepted definition of the word design exists. This means wh