Steve Jobs on programming, craftsmanship, software, and the Web http://t.co/c3TlDNQN by @foresmac

Bridge is a new RPC framework for building modular services and scalable cross-language applications.   Watch the Screencast Simple No configuration files or IDLs. Exposed functions are immediately accessible without compiling or code generation. Quick to learn, easy to use. Cross-language…

Appendix, the "useless" organ that has been the butt (heh) of jokes for ages (like the function of the appendix is to rupture, thus ensuring your doctor would be able to pay for his summer vacation - bursting with laughter yet?), turns out not to be so useless after all: The US scientists found that…

This is an exclusive update for pledgers only. Sign In or Pledge to access. Hi, everyone. I am going to make my first all-covers album and I hope you will follow me here as it happens. Once I begin recording, I will be updating you with photo, video and audio documenting my progress. I am humbly…

Last time around, I wrote about buying hardware. This post is about finding a place to put it. But I have to start with a kind of meta-cautionary note: When you run an active website by yourself, you will come across many opportunities to geek out. This stuff is fascinating at every level of…

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In early stage development flexibility in your data model can be fundamental to your ability to iterate quickly. Structured data models may evolve as your application matures, though in some applications it may never be necessary. Often when users need schemaless it devolves into NoSQL versus SQL…

“Australia has nothing like San Francisco, and Silicon Valley. The tech culture there is insane” ... Lachy Groom. He's founded four online start-ups, sold three and helped create 15 jobs in the United States with an average salary of $79,000. Not a bad resume for somebody who hasn’t had their 18th…

C.K. Sample linked to this gorgeous picture of Tony Stark which showed how the Iron Man movie would look if it had been done by Pixar instead of Marvel. It made me wonder what Marvel movies would be like if Pixar made all of them, so I speculated in a bunch of tweets using the hashtag…

Merida, the heroine of Pixar's Brave, doesn't want to marry. Not now, she repeatedly tells her mother, Queen Elinor, and perhaps not ever. Faced with the prospect of being forced to wed one of a trio of loutish suitors, she runs away from home in search of some way to change the "fate" she was born…

How we reduced our cancellation rate by 87.5% http://t.co/rujQlNox

@jacobian I documented SQS usage here: http://t.co/HnH7RWY2

November 21, 2010 | A sous vide device shouldn’t be just a popular trend in restaurants and foodie kitchens. It can be a practical and essential addition to any home. In fact, it’s not so unlike a convection oven, the only difference is that it uses water to conduct heat and is more precisely…

After running through various HIV experiments, scouring job boards and contacts for potential job opportunities, and taking care of Natalie, brewing beer has become a once a month occasion. Planning brews becomes all the more difficult, with some beers being planned a full season ahead of…

Two gadgets enter, one leaves. It’s that simple. Welcome to the TC Gadget Review Battle where two competing products are pitted against each other. No wishy-washy conclusion based on an arbitrary numbering system, just a reliable buying recommendation. Bowers & Wilkins is making a smart play for…

Our Mini-Guide to Modernist Ingredients on http://t.co/7Efvp7XU http://t.co/6Hmln7Yq

25.5.05 56 comments TINY MUSIC MAKERS: Pt 3: The THX Sound "I like to say that the THX sound is the most widely-recognized piece of computer-generated music in the world," says Andy Moorer. "This may or may not be true, but it sounds cool!">> You can hear the sound here. It's called 'Deep Note'. >>…

Greg Brockman — May 24, 2012 Today we're happy to release Einhorn, the language-independent shared socket manager. Einhorn makes it easy to have multiple instances of an application server listen on the same port. You can also seamlessly restart your workers without dropping any requests. Einhorn…

Darrell Etherington June 6, 2012 Toronto-based Wattpad, an online community revolving around the creation and sharing of free ebooks,today announced a new Series B round of funding that weighs in at $17.3 million. It’s a big round by any standard, but especially for a Canadian company from notable…

Bill Atkinson, the author of Quickdraw and the main user interface designer, who was by far the most important Lisa implementor, thought that lines of code was a silly measure of software productivity. He thought his goal was to write as small and fast a program as possible, and that the lines of…

Sometime around 1988, my landlady and I cut a deal. She would purchase a Macintosh computer, I would buy an external hard drive, and we would leave the system in the living room to share. She used the device most, since I did my computing on an IBM 286 and just wanted to keep up with Apple…

Last Thursday I jumped over to Twitter and saw this via my friend John Exley: “Consider this a job offer to work at @42Floors“: 42floors.com/blog/posts/con… – by @jasonfreedman. Written TO my brother @DanShipper. Beyond legit. — John Exley (@JohnExley) April 26, 2012 I was blown away by the post and…

As a co-founder and an occasional freelance product manager, designer, and developer, I’ve worked on both sides of the table: as a developer being managed, and as a manager working with a developer. So, if you’re a founder, product manager, or anyone working with a technical team—I want to share a…

When I started working on “Finding Nemo” (or “Toy Story 2,” or the big software projects I directed at Pixar), one of the first orders of business was to pull together an inspiration reel, a collection of moments that represents the tone and spirit of what we were hoping to create. Recently, I asked…

Monday, March 26, 2012 at 9:15AM If you started out building a dating site and instead ended up building a video sharing site (YouTube) that handles 4 billion views a day, then it’s just possible you learned something along the way. And indeed, Mike Solomon, one of the original engineers at YouTube,…

It could easily be the title of a Peter Greenaway movie. Every software project that is remotely successful needs all four of these. If you can embody all of them in one person in the same project then all I can say is 'lucky you'. But over the years I've found that depending on the project that can…

A few words about Adam Yauch... http://t.co/0q6pZxal

Machine Learning in Python Has Never Been Easier http://t.co/tj1UGFCp

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Using Python's built-in defaultdict we can easily define a tree data structure: That's it! It simply says that a tree is a dict whose default values are trees. (If you're following along at home, make sure to from collections import defaultdict) Now we can create JSON-esque nested dictionaries…

On Tuesday we launched Instagram for Android, and it’s had a fantastic response so far. The last few weeks (on the infrastructure side) have been all about capacity planning and preparation to get everything in place, but on launch day itself the challenge is to find problems quickly, get to the…

Wired just ran an exclusive on Firebase: http://t.co/esjHsxK4

It was one of the most ambitious computer product announcements in history. On April 2, 1987, at twin press conferences in New York and Miami, IBM unveiled its plans to reinvent the PC industry which it had jump-started less than six years earlier with the introduction of the first IBM PC. The…

service@boundary.com Boundary unlocks the intelligence needed to manage these applications by offering lightning fast analysis on an ultra-fine resolution of data. To achieve this speed and resolution of data, Boundary employs software meters, installed on your application servers, that examine the…

I like to think Requests is mostly analogous to Werkzeug in terms of purpose, functionality, and goals. One is for servers while the other is for clients. Werkzeug and Flask were huge inspirations for Requests' design. As a matter of fact, Requests contains a decent bit of Werkzeug's internal data…

Somewhere along the lines, ending one’s workday before 8:00 p.m. became a source of shame and sign of laziness — or at least that’s what many of us have tricked ourselves into believing. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg is familiar with the funny, uncertain feeling that comes with checking out soon…

The successor to the PlayStation 3, apparently codenamed "Orbis," will use an AMD x86 processor with an AMD "Southern Islands" GPU, according to rumors emerging last week. Xbox 360's replacement, purported to be named "Durango", is also rumored to use an AMD GPU—either a Southern Islands variant or…

Some thoughts and advice from my recent Kickstarter campaign. NOTES ON THE HARD STUFF (FACTS AND FIGURES) :: This campaign was created to help re-start an online video blog I had done in 2006. It was fairly popular and there was a significant amount of interest in my doing it again. I have a fairly…

What started out as a retro chat environment became a full scale iPad game catalog without the AppStore that recieved an official Cease and Desist by Activision and finally become an authorized game portal with a bright future. Sarien.net is an adventure on its own, so it’s about time I put things…

How OMGPOP scaled to 36 million users in three weeks. http://t.co/sS5txMID