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Yammer - San Francisco, London At Yammer, our mission is to change the way people work, and that mission starts with us. We use our own product every day to promote and encourage o…

CouchDB uses SHA-1 hashes for passwords - you've got to be kidding me. What is the rationale for that over bcrypt?

I've found Lanyrd to usually be the best bet for finding conferences - unfortunately, they don't list any either. http://lanyrd.com/topics/common-lisp/

It's not that easy though, for example, Jacobellis v. Ohio - how would you go about defining the threshold of pornography? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it

Also, don't forget about Google Books. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Book_Search_Settlement_A...

Technically, it is not at all. Socially however, I'd wager that fewer people would let you take a picture of their card compared to swiping it. People are simply used to having cre…

The numbers on cards become a lot harder to read after the coloring wears off of the numbers. Even as a human it can be hard to read them at times depending on the lighting. Card l…

Sorry, I never realized that - it is still interesting in any case.

If you've never seen it, their pitch deck is also pretty interesting: http://www.slideshare.net/hnshah/mintcom-prelaunch-pitch-dec...

Since this article doesn't have much substance, if you're looking to do something similar, check out this article on CSS rotation transformations. http://snook.ca/archives/html_and…

A heads-up for anyone upgrading - 2.2.4 is now released. Warning, going to release 2.2.4 in seconds as I decided to change the semantics of OBJECT command to avoid problems in the …

Care to elaborate on what is so bad about them (or, what you'd like to see improved)?

I'm not sure what version of Redis you were using, but depending on the data you're storing, 2.2 uses significantly less space than previous versions. Some data from GitHub: http:/…

I've been thinking about how to make better news feeds lately - here are some other interesting talks/papers: http://blog.basho.com/2011/03/28/Riak-and-Scala-at-Yammer/ http://rese…

From the last release of news.arc (which may have been a while ago but should be somewhat close to what news.yc is running): ; Ignore the most recent 5 comments since they may stil…

While Ev certainly deserves plenty of credit for Twitter's success, I think you're giving him a little too much in this case. Twitter actually started out as a Rails project becaus…

Even easier, just create a bookmark to which points to: javascript:$('overlay').hide();$('gatewayCreative').hide();$(document.body).setStyle({overflow:'scroll'}); Ironically, I cou…