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JavaScript: Function Invocation Patterns
Web Presense Of Barry Steyn - Software Engineer, Entrepreneur
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,098 posts.
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Such a Little Thing: The Semicolon in Rust
Look at a tiny syntax detail that shows up in current versions of rust that has profound implications on how the language deals with almost everything being an expression.
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Things I wish I knew about MongoDB a year ago
I’ve used MongoDB for over a year at scale at both Heyzap and Bugsnag and I’ve found it to be a very capable database. As with all databases, there are some gotchas, and here is a summary of the things I wish someone had told me earlier.
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Making Yourself a CEO
Ben Horowitz is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The
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OOCSS + Sass = The best way to CSS
Object-oriented CSS is awesome. But littering your markup with non-semantic classes is not awesome. Those classes sprinkled all over your HTML are going to change, and that’s not gonna be fun. But if you combine OOCSS and Sass you get the best of both worlds: modular CSS without bloated, hard-to-maintain HTML.
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A new kind of fractal?
Experimenting with the "divisibility" of complex numbers, I stumbled across this thingy. It looks like a fractal. Although the formula does not do any iterations. It reminds me of something. But I dont know what. Doing a Google image search brings up a couple of galaxies :) This image shows the region from (-1/-1) to…
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Scrap your type classes
How to implement type classes in terms of term-level data structures
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Google Earth Fractals
The following is a "photographic" gallery of fractal patterns found while exploring the planet with Google Earth. Each is provided with a KMZ file so the reader can explore the region for themselves. Readers are encouraged to submit their own discoveries for inclusion, credits will be included. Besides being examples…
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So You Want To Optimize Ruby
I was recently asked for a list of
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Master Keys
Earlier this month, a retired New York City locksmith was selling a set of “master keys” on eBay: Three of the five are standard issue for members of the FDNY, and the set had a metal dog tag that was embossed with an FDNY lieutenant’s shield number, 6896. The keys include the all-purpose “1620,” a master firefighter…
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Hacking ls -l
Greg Lehey's online diary
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Suicide is Cheaper
A lot of you may not know this, but I used to be an EMT-B. I volunteered on a 911 ambulance service, and spent most of my time running out o...
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Asshole Driven Development
[Since this was originally posted commenters have added 100+ addition methods – see the comments below. There’s more commentary on reddit] The software industry might be the world’…
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