I'm tired of the opportunists and their hackathons
The billion dollar tech startup valuations and acquisitions are starting to attract a lot of opportunist to the industry. A lot of these people are not technical and they know they need a CTO to get to get to MVP . I don't have any problem with non-technical founders teaming up with developers t
I took Scott Hanselman's advice on productivity, and now look at me...
About a month ago, I watched Scott Hanselman's awesome productivity talk, It's not what you read, it's what you ignore , and it spurred me to take a hard look at my daily Internet usage. As a result I've finished several projects that were previously languishing on my todo list, and I've improved
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Show HN: My 1-year project, iPad IDE with GitHub and Heroku integration
In the case of GitHub operations, no, we don't upload your project data to our server. Your project files are sent directly to GitHub. However, when you deploy your project to Heroku, we upload it to our server for the deployment. This is strictly done because of a technical limitation. Heroku only a
Debt Strike and Debt Forgiveness - Debt Strike /Kick-Stopper
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Everything You Wanted To Know About Caching
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Behind the Scenes: The NYT Facebook IPO Graphic
Amanda Cox and countrymen chart the Facebook I.P.O. On Thursday Facebook had the third-largest I.P.O. ever . In the week leading up it, my colleague Amanda Cox spent some time thinking how to best explain and contextualize this offering to readers. What follows is a series of sketches from Amanda,
Printed books existed nearly 600 years before Gutenberg's Bible
Forget About the Mythical Lone Inventor in the Garage
The world's first HTML5 SIP client
Source code freely provided to you by Doubango Telecom ® under GPL v3 terms. Foreword Features Getting started Technical help Demo videos Foreword This is the world's first open source HTML5 SIP client (May 12, 2012) entirely written in javascript for integration in social networks (FaceBook,
How do I get started with Node.js
First, learn the core concepts of Node.js: You'll want to understand the asynchronous coding style that Node encourages . Async != concurrent. Understand Node's event loop ! Node uses CommonJS-style require() for code loading; it's probably a bit different from what you're used to . Familiarize you
Ancient life, millions of years old and barely alive, found beneath ocean floor
Their strategy for staying alive is to be barely alive at all. Their metabolism is dialed down to almost nothing, an adaptive advantage in a place with so few resources. The bacteria that survive are the ones that can satisfy themselves with minute traces of oxygen and a parsimonious diet of organic