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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,717 posts.
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Developing Multiplayer HTML5 Games with Node.js
Introducing osmus, a multiplayer HTML5 game written with web sockets, canvas and a game engine that runs shared code on the client and server.
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An update on attempted man-in-the-middle attacks
Posted by Heather Adkins, Information Security Manager Today we received reports of attempted SSL man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks again...
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Play on Heroku
Developers with experience in both Java and Ruby web development often ask the question: Why is web app development so complicated in Java, and so much...
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Learn Vim Progressively
tl;dr : You want to teach yourself vim (the best text editor known to human kind) in the fastest way possible. This is my way of doing it. You start by learning the minimal to survive, then you integrate all the tricks slowly.
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steve yegge - five-essential-phone-screen-questions
The Five Essential Phone-Screen Questions Stevey's Drunken Blog Rants™ I've been on a lot of SDE interview loops lately where the candidate failed miserably: not-inclined votes all around, even from the phone screeners who brought the person in initially. It's usually pretty obvious when the
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Misadventures in VC Funding: The $24 Million Moz Almost Raised
Marketing, entrepreneurship, and the ongoing study of how influence spreads (with the occasional interlude on travel, pasta, TV -- the important stuff) from founder Rand Fishkin.
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Just fixed a 20-year-old bug…
Read Java blog posts to learn how to save on license fees, get better performance, use more secure Java, and optimize cloud costs.
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Think Stats: Probability and Statistics for Programmers
This HTML version of is provided for convenience, but it is not the best format for the book. In particular, some of the symbols are not rendered correctly.
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So you want to be a video game programmer? - The Specs
There are a couple of broad categories of programmers working on video game teams. If programmer is your player class, then the following types are your spec. Programmers are all warlocks and mages…
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How Apple Works
Who takes over for Steve Jobs? 1 John Gruber recently posted his argument for thinking it will be COO Tim Cook. The biggest point in Cook’s favor is simple: “He’s already run the company while Jobs has been on leave.” That’s true, but it’s less meaningful than it sounds. But to understand why, you need to understand…
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What does $1265 of bugs look like?
To start with, there's a lot of spelling mistakes — 53, by my count. Within a few hours of my announcing the bug bounties, someone had run a spell checker against all of the comments in the Tarsnap source code and found about half of these; the rest, consisting mostly of cases where one English word was replaced by…