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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 682 posts.
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Analysis of 50+ requests for my "Offer HN" conversion rate optimization help
Landing page optimization (LPO) is the process of optimizing landing pages to boost conversions. Learn tips & examples in this guide written by experts.
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Introduction to Pyjamas
Create, build, and maintain websites and web apps that run in a browser.
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A Personal Perspective on Machine Learning
Having a bit of history as both a user of machine learning and a researcher in the field I feel I have developed a useful perspective on the various trends, flavors and nuances in machine learning …
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mrjob: Yelp open sources its Elastic MapReduce framework for Python
mrjob: Distributed Computing for Everybody Dave M Search and Data-Mining Engineer Oct 29, 2010 Ever wonder how we power the People Who Viewed this Also Viewed… feature? How does Yelp...
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Stack Overflow results now included in MSDN Search
MSDN is Microsoft's mega huge developer information portal, and we're happy to announce that starting today, Stack Overflow search results will be incorporated into the results when you search for something on MSDN. That lets you see official Microsoft developer documentation alongside the community conversations that…
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Introduction to tmux (alternative to GNU screen)
tmux is similar to screen as it lets you run numerous TTY’s in the same terminal window. It supports some very cool and intuitive features natively as well as a much more readable configuration syntax (ever looked at a .screenrc file?). Why TMUX over Screen? Well according to the FAQ for tmux it has the following…
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Building an HTML5 Drag & Drop File Uploader Using Sinatra and jQuery: Part 1
Upon setting out to build a Drag & Drop uploader, I first trawled the web for prior art. Blog posts, examples, any information that would lead me down
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Firebug Metamorphosis
The story of Firefox and Firebug are synonymous with the rise of the web. We fought the good fight and changed how developers inspect HTML and debug JS in the browser. Firebug ushered the Web 2.0 era. Today, the work pioneered by the Firebug community through the last 12 years lives on in Firefox Developer Tools…
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How to hire a programmer when you're not a programmer
How do you hire a programmer if you’re not one yourself? Some things to look for… 1. How opinionated are they? Ask them about a juicy programming topic (e.g. Ruby or Python?). The tone and reasoning of the answer will reveal a lot. In our recent podcast on programming, Jeff said, &#…
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12 Months with MongoDB
As previously blogged , Wordnik is a heavy user of 10gen’s MongoDB . One year ago today we started the investigation to find an alternative to MySQL to store, find, and retrieve our corpus data. After months of experimentation in the non-relational landscape (and running a scary number of nightly builds), we settled…
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How to write cross-platform code
Get all of the latest cloud storage news and insights from Backblaze - the leading independent cloud storage provider.
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Defer, Panic, and Recover
An introduction to the Go's defer, panic, and recover control flow mechanisms.
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