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“Are you a minimalist? Do you take pride in a reductive life? Minimalists are actually extreme hoarders: they hoard space, and they’re just as odd as those people with seven rooms …

Kate Matsudaira is an amazing tech leader and writer who covers topics from culture and process, to Distributed Systems and Architecture, I cannot recommend her essays enough. Some…

"The world is going to crack wide open. There is something on the horizon. A massive connectivity. The barriers between us will disappear, and we’re not ready. We’ll hurt each othe…

Have you considered volunteering instead? Volunteering will look great on your resume and it will give you skills that you can apply in your next job. Also it will help you expand …

The main point I was trying to get across is that most software is indeed Hacky, not because Computer Science is terrible, but because the people who made it don't have a solid und…

Have you tried the jk chord? for me, it feels faster because the j key is where my right index finger parks. :inoremap jk http://learnvimscriptthehardway.stevelosh.com/chapters/10.…

" In Richard Feynman’s popular book “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!” he tells how during his college years he “often liked to play tricks on people”. Most of these tricks were …

I cannot recommend more Spare Parts by Joshua Davis (the book the movie is based on). It does a great job explaining the situation these kids live in. (How can a kid go to college …

The UI is the best since gasp Winamp. But their networking was terrible. I could never use the app while traveling abroad plus the Mobile streaming was useless to say the least. Ye…

Well, it looks like he's back on Microsoft. https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelb

Surprised no one has mentioned http://thetempleapp.com/

Avahi Daemon is the server side used in the Raspberry Pi. The client side is ZeroConf https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToZeroconf Both run freely on Linux. On Windows you can t…

AFAIK Fry's is the closest thing we have here in the valley.

I couldn't find any tests for the server. Was this really created without them? Interesting...

Wonder if the author has considered SSH Randomart as a good solution to this problem. IMHO our brains are better suited to finding differences on images than on word series, as ver…

Instagram uses a very customized Django. Ref - http://www.quora.com/Which-high-profile-web-startups-have-ch...

Looking at the new delicious.com it looks like they decided to throw the old bloated legacy system and create a new Minimal Viable Product from scratch. This looks like a bold move…

Rent in San Bruno or San Mateo, affordable, boring and close to public transport and the 101. Good enough until you find a good place in the city (It's been months and I'm still lo…

Actually, you should just do it. The polls tutorial is reply well written, and I am a firm believer that the best way to learn something is by hacking some project out of it. Good …

I'm a Python developer in the valley. You choose a coffee shop and let's get hacking.