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Now that's what I call selling pickaxes!

Understood! I'd looked at Keyczar in the past as a component of a system to manage secrets/keys, but I see it's actually providing about 0% of what Keywhiz does.

I'd love to hear from some of the team who built this about differences between Keywhiz and Keyczar, which to my mind was the best-practice open-source cross-platform solution to d…

The advice on min-width vs min-device-width strikes me as controversial: Therefore, you should avoid using *-device-width, since the page won’t respond when the desktop browser win…

This is probably a new HN record in mistakenly ascribing bad intentions, which is pretty impressive. Perhaps people are interested in watching some awesome founders speak.

Agreed. To quote Colin Percival's excellent article which addresses both topics: "Assessing the security of software via the question "can we find any security flaws in it?" is lik…

There's a bunch of research suggesting that using "he" as a neuter pronoun makes women feel excluded: - First experiment/study I found: http://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewconten…

We're used to looking at a pronoun's antecedent to determine its subject. In the sentence, "Jacob finally published a post he'd been mulling for a long time," we don't object that …

In the most meaningful way, it could be Android for consoles. It's "freely licensable" for hardware manufacturers, so companies will be able to build new consoles without building …

Imagine being a single mother with a young child. You're a great programmer. But you spend 90% of your time outside work raising your kid, so you can't make the time to make signif…

A few suggestions: - Use Vagrant and some bootstrap scripts (or Docker) to make giving them a dev environment easy - Get them to use a git GUI like SourceTree (free & good: http://…

That investment amount seemed low, as it suggested you weren't exercising your pro rata rights. If the initial $400k bought 10% of the company, USV would need to buy 10% of each su…

cloud-init for programmatically configuring new instances https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CloudInit

Anyone who complains about how they can't trust the Posthaven team because Posterous was shut down has to put $10 into the 'poor reading comprehension' pool.

tl;dr version: his recommendation algorithm stored an amount of data that was Θ(n^2) + Θ(n*m) for # of users, beers. He optimized that to put a constant limit on the storage space …

Game development is hard. The average engineering role at a games company involves a lot of work on hard deadlines. It's also tough for some engineers because there's usually a ver…

What's "classical" in your book? Search trees, dynamic programming, and reducing an algorithm's worst-case runtime are about as "classical" as you get; that's why they're in every …

5% - but it's the very important 5% where I'm optimizing existing code. The "classical algorithmic problems" you reference are almost all optimization problems; there's a naive sea…

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