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Hoplon: A Simpler Way to Program the Web
Overview Hoplon in a nutshell.Hoplon provides a number of libraries promoting a simpler model for web applications. The project can be divided into three main components: the HTML evaluator, the...
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Success at Work, Failure at Home
One of the differences between being a CEO and a venture capitalist is that I obviously meet with many more CEOs now than I did then. As such, it has become more apparent that many of my struggles as a...
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Major setbacks for two new smartphone OSs, Tizen and Ubuntu Touch
Jan. 17, 2014 - 1:45 AM PST Jan. 17, 2014 - 1:45 AM PSTWill 2014 be the year when scrappy new challengers take on the might of Android and iOS? Never say never, but the challenge won’t come from Tizen...
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Cities & Ambition
May 2008Great cities attract ambitious people. You can sense it when you walk around one. In a hundred subtle ways, the city sends you a message: you could do more; you should try harder.The surprising...
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How Radians Work in 30 Seconds
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Disconnect: open source extension makes the web more private, secure, faster
Disconnect | Online Privacy & SecurityDisconnectAs seen on 60 Minutes…Click the Get Disconnect button below to install!Private browsingPrivate searchKids privacyAbout usNewsletterLike...
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Emails From Schmidt And Sergey Brin Show Agreements Not To Hire Apple Workers
AP/Paul SakumaApple CEO Steve Jobs, left, and Google CEO Eric Schmidt, right, smile as they introduce the iPhone during Jobs' keynote address at MacWorld Conference & Expo in 2007.Google and Apple...
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Why don’t designers take Android seriously?
If you’ve talked to me in the past few months, you’ll have heard me explain that I think Android is the dominant platform of the next decade. There are two main reasons.AdoptionGraph via AsymcoAndroid...
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The Brutal Ageism of Tech
“I have more botox in me than any ten people,” Dr. Seth Matarasso told me in an exam room this February.He is a reality-show producer’s idea of a cosmetic surgeon—his demeanor brash, his bone structure...
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Steve Marquess and Stephen Henson of OpenSSL
Justine Zwiebel / BuzzFeedIt was the last thing Steve Marquess and Stephen Henson wanted to hear. In 2006, three years into a struggle to get a key component of OpenSSL validated as secure by the U.S....
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Getting Started, circa 1983
Like most folks who started programming in the 70's and 80's, I began on mainframes. It was years before I programmed a desktop computer.And while I strive to avoid damn-kids-get-off-my-lawn graybeard...
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Some thoughts on Go and Erlang
I’m going to attempt to leave out my subjective opinions for disliking parts of Go, such as syntax or lack of pattern matching, and explain objective reasons for the language and runtime not being fit...
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Software of the Apollo guidance computer was hand-woven into rope core memory
LikeSign in with your Google Account (YouTube, Google+, Gmail, Orkut, Picasa, or Chrome) to like oisiaa's video.Sign in with your Google Account (YouTube, Google+, Gmail, Orkut, Picasa, or Chrome) to...
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Classy: Cleaner class-based controllers for AngularJS
StructureAs your Angular controller grows, it can start to get unwieldy and difficult to structure.Classy uses a class-based approach and steals some neat ideas from AngularDart to make controllers a...
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Brazilians welcome genetically-modified mosquito to help fight dengue fever
When a major dengue outbreak hit Jacobina, a farm town in northeastern Brazil, last year, retired cleaning woman Luzia Rosa de Jesus spent a week in bed with a fever and body aches.On the seventh day,...
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Co-routines as an alternative to state machines (2009)
Observation:Co-routines are to state machines what recursion is to stacksWhen you have to traverse some sort of a nested data structure (say, a binary tree), one approach is to create a stack that...
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Glacier redux
Reactions to the post on Amazon’s Glacier secret were varied and sometimes enlightening – with one savvy observation that I wish I’d made. The post made Hacker News (h/t to Mark Watson for the alert)...
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Web Fundamentals: A handbook for best practices
Build great multi-device web experiencesWeb Fundamentals is a comprehensive resource for multi-device web development. We're just getting started and want your help, if you see something amiss or have...
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Introducing Anonymous Login and an Updated Facebook Login
Today at f8, we announced Anonymous Login, a brand new way to log into apps without sharing any personal information from Facebook, along with a new version of Facebook Login with even better privacy...
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TDD, Straw Men, and Rhetoric
Posted by Gary Bernhardt on 2014-04-30In a blog post called Slow database test fallacy, David Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of Rails, begins:The classical definition of a unit test in TDD lore is one...
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