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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,420 posts.
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The 75% answer
People often ask what I refer to as non-questions. What programming language should I learn? That’s not a real question. You need to probe further to figure out what they are really asking. Is it your first language? Do you want to get a job? Do you want to bend your brain?
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Why Did M.I.T. Switch from Scheme to Python?
Welcome to Ocean of Games where you can download free Ocean games, reviews and charts of best and top rated games by official oceanofgames 2025 get full, rip or compressed games setup with videos guides
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Bcrypt is now obsolete
I am speaking today at BSDCan'09 about my work on the scrypt key derivation function. In the context of hardware brute-force attacks, scrypt is thousands of times more secure than existing "best practice" solutions such as bcrypt and PBKDF2; in fact, under reasonable assumptions it is provably as strong as possible…
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Noam Chomsky: Education is Ignorance (1995)
The Noam Chomsky Website.
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Magic Ink
This draft was released March 15, 2006. Please email comments to bret worrydream.com . You can also download the PDF .
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Speeding up a Rails request by 150ms by changing 1 line
We’re pretty obsessed with performance at Gilt Groupe . You can get a taste for what we’re dealing with, and how we’re dealing with it, from our recent presentation at RailsConf .
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How to implement 'realistic' swordfighting in video games.
A few weeks ago, I talked about how the d20 system (You know: Hit points, damage rolls, and health potions) was great for tabletop games but terrible for video gaming. I suggested that developers would do well to come up with a new system for dealing with deadly combat rather than using the d20 system when it doesn’t…
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The 6502 in “The Terminator”
In the first Terminator movie, the audience sees the world from the T-800’s view several times. It is well-known that in two instances, there is 6502 assembly code on the T-800’s HUD, and many sites have analyzed the contents: It’s Apple-II code taken from Nibble Magazine. Here are HD versions of…
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Clocks, Kids, and General Relativity on Mt Rainier
In September 2005 (for the 50th anniversary of the atomic clock and 100th anniversary of the theory of relativity) we took several cesium clocks on a road trip to Mt Rainier; a family science experiment unlike anything you've seen before.
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Sid Meier's Rules
The following was published in the January 2009 issue of Game Developer magazine… Most game developers are familiar with Sid’s dictum that “a good game is a series of interesting choice…
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What MySQL Founder Michael Widenius said about Oracle acquiring Sun
Tonight at 4:30 AM, USA Pacific time, my phone started to ring; it was a call from a Sun employee saying that Oracle has bought Sun and he w...
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Milton Glaser: Ten Things I Have Learned
Milton Glaser (b.1929) is among the most celebrated graphic designers in the United States. He opened Milton Glaser, Inc. in 1974, and continues to produce an astounding amount of work in many fields of design to this day.
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Dear Mozilla community: I screwed up. Big time.
I screwed up. Big time. Not just with Adblock Plus users but with the Mozilla community at large.
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