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A software canon, five great works: Word, Photoshop, Pac-Man, Unix, Emacs — The Great Works of Software — Is it possible to propose a software canon? To enumerate great works of software that are deeply influential—that changed the nature of the code that followed?| Google Commerce: |
Google Shopping Express expands same-day delivery to Manhattan and West Los Angeles — Suddenly realize that you're designated snack mom tomorrow and don't have time to run to the store? Or need to bring a new board game to this week's game night but would rather avoid traffic altogether?
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| Donnie Berkholz / Donnie Berkholz's Story of Data: |
GitHub language trends and the fragmenting landscape — A while ago, I wanted to get a little quick feedback on some data I was playing with, but the day was almost over and I wasn't done working on it yet. I decided to tweet my rough draft of a graph of GitHub language trends anyway, followed later by a slight improvement.| Fred Wilson / AVC: |
Square and Box face a combination of high valuations, equally high burn rates, and a disappearing IPO market — The Valuation Trap — There is a long article on Square and Box in TechCrunch this weekend. I am not sold on the arguments the author makes about the commodity nature of both products.
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Nokia investing $100M in smart-car technology — The Finnish technology company aims to make money off the profound transformation of driving made possible by the combining automobiles with computing and networking technology. — Fresh after selling its mobile-phone business to Microsoft …
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iOS 7 doesn't encrypt email attachments — Summary: A researcher has reported to Apple that email attachments stored on an iOS device are not encrypted at rest, contrary to Apple's claims. — In explaining the considerable measures Apple put in iOS to protect data, one claim the company makes …
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| Harry McCracken / TIME: |
Fifty Years of BASIC, the Programming Language That Made Computers Personal — Knowing how to program a computer is good for you, and it's a shame more people don't learn to do it. For years now, that's been a hugely popular stance. It's led to educational initiatives as effortless sounding … | Mike Isaac / Re/code: |
Facebook Woos Mobile Developers, but Is It Too Late? — Not so long ago, the key to building a successful app business required piggybacking on an existing big network like Facebook. — But relying on Facebook for your paycheck also meant being subject to the whims of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
App Tester uTest/Applause Acquires German's Testhub To Grow Its Presence In Europe — The crowdsourced app testing startup formerly know as uTest, which is rebranding to Applause and earlier this year took in a $43 million Series E funding injection led by Goldman Sachs …
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| David Segal / New York Times: |
Problem for advertisers: more than half of online video ads go unwatched below the fold, in tiny players, or played simultaneously with other ads — The Great Unwatched — Some of the biggest names in Internet media have been gathering in New York City at the third annual Digital Content NewFronts …
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Why Chinese URLs use Arabic numerals over Mandarin characters or Latin letters — Chinese Number Websites: The Secret Meaning of URLs — Decoding 4008-517-517.com — An American friend living in Beijing once said she refused to communicate with anyone whose email address consisted …
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17-year-old Michael Sayman on building 4Snaps, meeting Zuckerberg, his Facebook internship, and appearing at F8 — How a Florida kid's “stupid app” saved his family's home and landed him on the main stage at Facebook — Michael Sayman is not your average tech entrepreneur.| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
HANA Visionary Vishal Sikka Resigns From SAP — This afternoon, SAP announced in a statement that Vishal Sikka, Executive Board Member — for Products and Innovation, has resigned for personal reasons. The resignation was effective immediately. — At the same time, SAP named a couple of new executive board members, including
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