I was just a guy in a suit in an office with a vague startup idea. Then I decided to learn to code. I overheard some guy at a happy hour bragging about how easily he was able to automate his office workflows by using a language called Ruby. I
Sometimes growth hides the fact that a business is on the verge of failure. Here's how.
The 72nd World Science Fiction Convention, Loncon 3, has announced the 2014 Hugo Award winners. 3587 valid ballots were received and counted in the final ballot. BEST NOVEL Ancillary Justice, by An…
Earlier this week, I asked our engineering leads and release managers to take the Windows Metro version of Firefox off the trains. The team is solid and did good work, ...
Dive deep into the visual updates of Yosemite's icons with this comprehensive analysis. From shapes and grids to lighting effects, learn how Apple's new design language impacts icon creation and discover tips for making your icons stand out in the Yosemite environment.
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UPDATE (1/27/14) : Shepard says she reached out to the seller and was told they entered the wrong tracking number. She hasn't received the package yet. She also says the new tracking details show that it has now been sent to Seattle, but to the wrong zip code, and "didn't ship until after [she] got the original…
Groove is now Helply!
Hi, my name is Thorben and I work at Opera Software in Oslo, not at Mozilla. So, how did I end up writing for Mozilla Hacks? Maybe you know that ...
Update: On December 15, Judge Edward Shea issued his written opinion in United States v. Vargas, which you can read here. The public got an early holiday gift today when a federal court agreed with us that six weeks of continually video recording the frontyard of someone's home without a search...
I’m delighted to announce a promotion and three additions to the YC team. Kat Manalac has been our director of outreach since 2013. She’s done an incredible job, and we’re making her a partner. In addition to regular partner responsibilities, she’ll continue to be responsible for outreach to prospective founders and…
If you record every heap allocation and re-allocation done by Firefox you find some interesting things. In particular, you find some sub-optimal buffer growth strategies that cause a lot of heap churn.
Even though the speedometer in my car maxes out at 150 MPH, I rarely drive at that speed (and the top end may be more optimistic than realistic), but it is certainly nice to have the option to do so when the time and the circumstances are right. Most of the time I am using […]
Posted by Chris Evans, Exploit Writer Underling to Tavis OrmandyBack in this 1998 post to the Bug...
This is a guest post by Dmitriy Akulov and his project jsDelivr. – Editor's note. As a developer you are probably aware of Google Hosted Libraries. Google offers an easy ...
A primary goal of Vagrant is not only to provide easy-to-use development environments, but also to make it easy to share and collaborate on these environments. With Vagrant 1.5, we're introducing a feature that will allow you to share your running Vagrant environment with anyone, on any network connected to the…
