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What Happened at NewsGator
I sat in the back of the bus the whole time and I don’t really know all the details. But here are the parts that I know about.
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Who or What Broke My Kids?
I am DesperateI am on a desperate search to find out who or what broke my students. In fact I am so desperate that I stopped class today to ask them who broke them. Was it their parents, a former…
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Side Tabs: Prototyping An Unexpected Productivity Hack
Writing and work from Darrin Henein — a designer, game developer, and photographer from Toronto.
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Watch Netflix in Ubuntu today
Thanks to recent efforts at Netflix and Canonical, Ubuntu now supports watching Netflix with Chrome version 37. Chrome is available to all Ubuntu users with up-to-date installations of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, 14.04 LTS and later. Netflix subscribers who already use Ubuntu can now watch simply by installing the Chrome…
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The economics of a web-based book
Butterick’s Practical Typography
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Service drains competitor's Adwords budget
The longer one lurks in the Internet underground, the more difficult it becomes to ignore the harsh reality that for nearly every legitimate online business there is a cybercrime-oriented anti-business. Case in point: Today’s post looks at a popular service that helps crooked online marketers exhaust the Google…
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Will It Optimize? (2010)
See how well you know (or can anticipate) gcc's optimizer. For each question, the left box contains some code, while the right box contains code that purports to do the same thing, but that illustrates a particular optimization. Will gcc apply that optimization? Put another way, will the code on the left be as fast as…
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YC Hacks – August 2-3
We’re hosting a hackathon this summer at YC in Mountain View. Our goal is to give smart hackers an excuse to get together and spend time building something they find interesting. We don’t have a theme—we want to leave it open to any good ideas. The hackathon will start Saturday, August 2 at noon, and end August 3 in…
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Why Does A Good Kettle Cost $90+?
Yesterday morning I woke up to a house without electricity - that meant I woke up in a puddle of sweat because the fan was no longer turned on. It turned out that my housemate, while making coffee, had tripped the mains of the house. The kettle had caused the trip. It was no longer safe to use the kettle and so I had…
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Java Pain
In 2014, it’s not OK if it’s hard for a developer to run a simple program from the command line.
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The failed economics of our software commons and what to do about it
Progress in the software industry has been crushed under the weight of technical debt accumulated over the last 40 years. The tools, languages, libraries, and platforms we all rely on suffer from massive incidental complexities responsible for billions of dollars in wasted productivity. Anyone who spends any amount of…
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Building My Own Home Router
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If SaaS Products Sell Themselves, Why Do We Need Sales?
BY MARK CRANNEY One of the myths of SaaS is that the products are so good, so easy to use, so quick to deploy … that the product sells itself. Given the popularity of try-before-you-buy and freemium-to-premium models for software as a service, it’s easy to see where that myth comes from. But as many...
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Your developers aren’t slow
“Why didn’t we ship last week?” As managers, it’s easy for us to blame our team for missing deadlines. But are slow developers really the reason you’re not shipping on time? At Sprintly, we have a lot of data on developer cycle time. We track how long it takes them to complete different types of …
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Everything You Need to Know About the CSS will-change Property
The latest news about Opera web browsers, tech trends, internet tips.
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Bitcoin Core switching from hard-coded to flexible fees in next major release
Latest crypto news, Bitcoin analysis, and clear insights into cryptocurrency. Independent coverage from BitcoinFoundation.
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Julia 0.3 released
We are pleased to announce the release of Julia 0.3.0. This release contains numerous improvements across the...