ID Thieves Loot Tax Checks, Filing Early and Often
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MIAMI — Besieged by identity theft, Florida now faces a fast-spreading form of fraud so simple and lucrative that some violent criminals have traded their guns for laptops. And the target is the…
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Facebook IPO controversy in a legal gray area
3 days ago
By Benjamin Pimentel, MarketWatch Continued from page 1 But Bowers argued that, given the importance of the disclosure, Facebook should have delayed the IPO to give investors more time to digest the…
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3 days ago
Facebook Releases a Photocentric App for Apple Devices - NYTimes.com
3 days ago
RT @marcprecipice: So, buying the best photo app and then launching your own anyway is Yahoo's old strategy, right? ...
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3 days ago
Twitter / dwlz: Check out this picture I m
4 days ago
Check out this picture I made on @picfoolery
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4 days ago
After Facebook fails
5 days ago
Making the rounds is The Facebook Fallacy, a killer essay by Michael Wolff in MIT Technology Review. The gist: At the heart of the Internet business is one of the great business fallacies of our…
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5 days ago
Getting to Retirement With Minimal Financial Risk
5 days ago
JPMorgan Chase’s giant trading loss began as an effort to manage the bank’s risks — a move that turned into something that now looks more like a speculative bet. But don’t think this is solely a…
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Twitter / dwlz: Check out this picture I m
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Check out this picture I made on @picfoolery
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5 days ago
Twitter / dwlz: Check out this picture I m
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Check out this picture I made on @picfoolery
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5 days ago
Apartment Hunting Made Easy | Acquire
6 days ago
This is an awesome deal if you're looking for an apartment in NYC.
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6 days ago
(404) http://t.co/A4N
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RT @katskii: So.. its a dog.. dressed as 2 pirates carrying a treasure chest. I can't even fathom how brilliant this is. ...
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9 days ago
Trying to Find the Best Way to Send Files Online
11 days ago
RT @davidhan: My vote goes to LetsCrate and Minus...but here's a great list to review: Best Way to Send Files Online
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11 days ago
TestFlight » Meme Your Friends Beta Invitation
12 days ago
I'm opening up our beta test to the world! Next ten people who sign up are in. Go (but only if you have an iPhone)!
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12 days ago
Untitled (http://friendsme.me/m/X2)
13 days ago
if my calculations are correct, i am cat
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13 days ago
Untitled (http://twitter.com/dwlz/status/202628928068788225/photo/1)
13 days ago
if my calculations are correct, i am cat
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13 days ago
ROBGO.ORG
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Think Twice Before Starting a Company May 14, 2012 I sent a tweet out last week that resulted in some healthy debate: “three years ago, I was telling everyone I met to start companies. These…
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How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet
13 days ago
Web startups are made out of two things: people and code. The people make the code, and the code makes the people rich. Code is like a poem; it has to follow certain structural requirements, and yet…
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13 days ago
Observing traffic prioritization in Comcast's network
14 days ago
Thank you to everyone who commented on my previous post here and elsewhere. Much of the feedback I received was along a few related lines: The DiffServ field (which contains a packet’s DSCP…
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14 days ago
img.ly photo sharing service for twitter
14 days ago
RT @pdparticle: . @SamsungMobileUS uses an iPhone.
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14 days ago
Be Cordial or Be on Your Way
14 days ago
Contributing to Open Source can be stressful. By opening a Pull Request to a popular project, you're inviting the maintainers and all of their users to analyze and scrutinize your code. Often, they…
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14 days ago
a tornado of razorblades
15 days ago
As hackers, we’re familiar with the need to scale web servers, databases, and other software systems. An equally important challenge in a growing business is scaling your development team.…
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15 days ago
What the Hell These Game Developers Did with Your Kickstarter Money
15 days ago
The folks at War Balloon Games thought that they had it made. After asking for 20 grand on the web's most popular crowfunding site, backers shoveled all of that and 16,000 more to help make the dev…
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15 days ago
The Coming Meltdown in College Education & Why The Economy Won’t Get Better Any Time Soon
15 days ago
This is what I see when i think about higher education in this country today: Remember the housing meltdown ? Tough to forget isn’t it. The formula for the housing boom and bust was simple. A…
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15 days ago
Accuracy and Precision
15 days ago
In conversation, the terms accuracy and precision are used interchangeably. But they mean different things, and the difference can play a big role in the growth of a business. Before getting into…
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15 days ago
Men In Tech
17 days ago
The tech industry, like many, is rife with sexual discrimination and muted policies towards equality in the workplace. I used to let it ride. No longer - this is my story. The Boner This all started,…
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17 days ago
Are users more likely to make a purchase in a free app than pay up front for one? - img.ly
18 days ago
RT @eeen: Are users more likely to make a purchase in a free app than pay up front for one?
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18 days ago
Interviews Can Be a Terrible Way to Identify Good Programmers
23 days ago
After reading this article and comments, I really really wanted to laugh. Or maybe cry. Or even throw up. In a nutshell the author of the article seemed to think you should hire a programmer on the…
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23 days ago
The Cab Ride I’ll Never Forget — www.zenmoments.org — Readability
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The Cab Ride I’ll Never Forget via @readability
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26 days ago
The Big Doubt Over Facebook's IPO - WSJ.com
26 days ago
RT @WSJ: $1 mil = 125 million ad impressions on Facebook, 10 full page color NYT ads, 2 30-second ads on "Idol"
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26 days ago
I'm that guy...
26 days ago
I'm that guy. The guy that everyone hates. The guy who made it so difficult to open your bag of potato chips. It was my first job right out of school. I was working for Hercules Chemical, a company…
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26 days ago
What every programmer should know about memory, Part 1
26 days ago
[Editor's introduction: Ulrich Drepper recently approached us asking if we would be interested in publishing a lengthy document he had written on how memory and software interact. We did not have to…
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26 days ago
The Cab Ride I’ll Never Forget
26 days ago
I don t think that I have done anything more important in my life Twenty years ago, I drove a cab for a living. It was a cowboy s life, a life for someone who wanted no boss. What I didn t realize…
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26 days ago
The Socially Awkward Founder
27 days ago
Some people are born socially adept, they make friends easily, deal well with crowds and generally like to talk to other people. I am not one of those individuals. I’m the type of guy…
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27 days ago
Probabilistic Data Structures for Web Analytics and Data Mining
27 days ago
Statistical analysis and mining of huge multi-terabyte data sets is a common task nowadays, especially in the areas like web analytics and Internet advertising. Analysis of such large data sets often…
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27 days ago
Everything I wish someone had told me (about freelancing)
27 days ago
I’m putting together a talk about freelancing at my old school, the Art Institute of Vancouver, for the new grads. Why not share it here, too! What is freelancing? Freelancing working for a…
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27 days ago
Which is better: Many customers at low price-point or few at high price?
27 days ago
The results of a serendipitous live experiment were recently published as guest posts on this blog. Sacha demonstrated the benefits of selling many copies of an eBook at a low price, while…
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27 days ago
Ridiculously Easy File-Sharing: Let's Crate - Crate+
28 days ago
RT @letscrate: We just posted about our latest updates on our blog. In a nutshell: everything is better. Happy sharing!
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28 days ago
Website taken down due to non payment
28 days ago
RT @zachinglis: Feel the wrath of a designer unpaid:
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28 days ago
Here's Why Google and Facebook Might Completely Disappear in the Next 5 Years
28 days ago
A tag cloud (a typical Web 2.0 phenomenon in itself) presenting Web 2.0 themes. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) We think of Google and Facebook as Web gorillas. They’ll be around forever. Yet,…
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28 days ago
Disruptions: With No Revenue, an Illusion of Value
29 days ago
The gears of Silicon Valley continue to mesh and turn because of money, not necessarily technological innovations. And there are certain things about that money machine that denizens of the Valley…
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29 days ago
Moving Django to GitHub: the postmortem
29 days ago
We finally moved Django to GitHub late yesterday. Here's a postmortem, to keep the community updated and for the benefit of any projects that take this leap in the future. Background We've used…
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29 days ago
Asiajin » Uroboros Programming With 11 Programming Languages
4 weeks ago
A Japanese blogger Ku-ma-me made an interesting program code. It is a variation of Quine program . The Ruby code generates Python code, which generates Perl code, which generates Lua code, which…
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4 weeks ago
Reid Hoffman And Peter Thiel In Conversation: The College Days
4 weeks ago
Peter Thiel and Reid Hoffman reminisce about their college years 25 years after meeting at Stanford. (Brian Valdizno/Forbes) This is the first post of a five-part series from a conversation between…
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4 weeks ago
Urban Buzz: A New Bee That Sips Sweat
4 weeks ago
NEW YORK—A new bee is buzzing in Brooklyn: The tiny insect, the size of a sesame seed, sips the sweet nectar of the city—sweat. "They use humans as a salt lick," said entomologist John…
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4 weeks ago
Using Origami To Mock-Up Ingenious Gestural Interfaces
4 weeks ago
Gestural user interfaces may be the future, but we’re not quite comfortable with them yet--as users or designers. Their tactile simplicity makes them efficient once you get the hang of them,…
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4 weeks ago
6 secrets for building a super team
4 weeks ago
Every tech company tries to hire the best talent available, but there is a lot more to building a great team than just putting a group of talented individuals in a room. I’ve worked on a number of…
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4 weeks ago
django/django · GitHub
4 weeks ago
RT @adrianholovaty: All set. Django is now officially developing on GitHub. More info/writeup coming soon.
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4 weeks ago
Cargo Cults and Interview Questions
4 weeks ago
Bob filled the espresso group with ground coffee and carefully tamped it before clamping it into the machine. Ted handed him two warm espresso cups, and moments later the rich coffee was streaming…
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4 weeks ago
Untitled (http://twitter.com/dwlz/status/195898056762343424/photo/1)
4 weeks ago
Destroy all the evidence
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4 weeks ago
GMail: designer arrogance and the cult of minimalism
4 weeks ago
It looks like Google has finally pulled the plug on the old GMail UI. There’s no more “revert to the old look temporarily” button, so I guess they’re finally forcing us…
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4 weeks ago
Chris Stucchio
4 weeks ago
A High Frequency Trader's Apology, Pt 2 Posted: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 In a previous post I discussed the mechanics of HFT. If you haven’t read it, go read it now. Now I’ll discuss…
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4 weeks ago
How Twitter’s secret offer for Instagram made Facebook pay $1B
4 weeks ago
The secret details of the $1 billion deal between Facebook and Instagram are more convoluted than anyone thought. VentureBeat has learned that Instagram chief executive and co-founder Kevin Systrom…
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4 weeks ago
I will legally change my name to yours for a WWDC ticket
4 weeks ago
RT @gruber: “I will legally change my name to yours for a WWDC ticket - $1600”
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4 weeks ago
If We Told You That, We Would Have to Shoot You
4 weeks ago
What product can you buy that is expensive, works with your PC, does things that could be critical to your health, but the salesman can't tell you how to use it? Sounds stupid, huh? A lot of medical…
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4 weeks ago
"That's Why You Don't Have Any Friends."
4 weeks ago
Yesterday, I was at the gym. ...Don't worry. This isn't a gym story. This is a story about a boy who needed to hear something important. But it happened at the gym. So that's why I started with the…
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4 weeks ago
I have no idea what I'm doing by Nathan Kontny
5 weeks ago
Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end. -Somebody pretty wise Justin Kan recently posed the question: What good is experience? The ultimate good that comes from…
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5 weeks ago
The Billion Dollar Mind Trick: An Intro to Triggers
5 weeks ago
Note: I’m proud to have co-authored this post with Jason Hreha, the founder of Dopamine, a user-experience and behavior design firm. He blogs at persuasive.ly Yin asked not to be…
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