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The truth about Lisp (2006)
In which the truth about lisp is revealed, and some alternatives are enumerated.
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Platform wars: the final score
The platform wars and over and Apple and Google both won. So, what's the score, how many smartphones and tablet are out there, and what should we think about next?
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Born for it – How the image of software developers came about
Where did the common image of the socially-awkward, white, male programmer come from?
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The Lack of Options for Startup Employees’ Options
One of the many tradeoffs that early startup employees choose to make is between cash, and options. For some employees however this may end up being a Faustian bargain of sorts. At first glance, the calculus seems simple: the employee will take more stock options for less cash, because over time the payoff could be...
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Vector is now called Riot
Three months ago we launched the public beta of Vector at the electric atmosphere of the Decentralized Web Summit, bringing our…
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My Experience with Nix on OS X
Some time ago, I’ve moved this jekyll-based blog from GitHub Pages to a self-hosted NixOS server. A few weeks ago, I’ve also moved some parts of my local OS X environment from homebrew over to nix.
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All Software is Legacy
In what may be judged in years to come as a moment of madness, I have volunteered to be the primary maintainer of the Perl CGI module (CGI.pm). For the non-technical readers of this post: CGI.pm is a few thousand lines of code that in the mid to late nineties, and even some years later, was helping many websites…
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NayuOS – Chromebooks without Google
NayuOS is a Free and Open Source operating system, designed for developers. It is based on Chromium OS and is intended to run on Chromebook devices.
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Scala’s Types of Types
This blog post came into being after a few discussions about Types in Scala after some of JavaOne’s parties in 2013. After those discussions I figured that many questions are often repeated by different people, during their learning of Scala. I though that we didn’t have a full list of all tricks what we can to with…
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The 3DS Cryptosystem
I think one of the biggest challenge for system engineers is designing security. Recently, at the 32c3 conference, plutoo, derrek, and smea presented a series of hacks that completely defeated the security of the 3DS. As a result, people have implemented boot-time unsigned code execution (called “arm9loaderhax” in the…
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Google Calendar for Android: Find a time for my meeting
Starting today, if you use Google Apps for Work or Edu, you can schedule meetings from anywhere with "Find a time" in Google Calendar for Android.
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What is the roundest country?
We can define roundness in many ways. For example, as you may know, the circle is the shape that given a fixed perimeter maximizes the area. This definition has many problems. One of the problems is that countries generally have chaotic perimeters (also known as borders), so they tend to be much longer than they seem…
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Why cities keep growing, corporations and people die, and life gets faster
This is in complete contrast to companies. The Google boys in the back garage so to speak with ideas of the search engine, were no doubt promoting all kinds of crazy ideas and maybe having even crazy people around them.
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Marc Andreessen at Startup School [video]
Read more on Y Combinator's blog.
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When Is a “Mark” Not a Mark? When It’s a Venture Capital Mark
Venture capital marks are highly variable based on different valuation methods. These are the main "mark" valuation methods used by venture firms.
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How to Name Clojure Functions
This is a guide on naming Clojure functions. There are exceptions to every rule. When you’re defining something based on natural language, there are more exceptions than rules. I break these rules more often than I follow them. This guide is just a starting point for thinking about how to name things.
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A Minimum Viable Product Is Not a Product, It’s a Process
Read more on Y Combinator's blog.
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GitLab Enterprise Edition price change
We are announcing an update to pricing for GitLab Enterprise Edition. We have replaced the three subscription plans with one simplified plan.
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Introduction to Mean Shift Algorithm
Its been quite some time since I wrote a Data Mining post . Today, I intend to post on Mean Shift – a really cool but not very well known algorithm. The basic idea is quite simple but the results a…
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How to Value a SaaS Business
Discover the top SaaS metrics that drive real valuations. Learn how to track, optimize, and present your KPIs to attract serious buyers and maximize your SaaS exit
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