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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,717 posts.
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Create a Game Character with HTML5 and JavaScript
William Malone: Part 1 in a journey in developing a game character.
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A Philosopher Every Programmer Should Know: Susanne K. Langer
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Clojure on Heroku
We're very excited to announce official support for Clojure, going into public beta as of today. Clojure is the third official language supported by Heroku
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A git Primer
Definitions git‘s Index Branches Remote Repositories Merges Managing a Website Using git Tags Essential Commands git is a wicked-powerful distributed revi
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What Alan T. did for his PhD
We’ve all been there before: by the time you start graduate school in Princeton, you’ve already invented the Turing machine, pioneered the concept of computational universality, and pro…
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V8: a tale of two compilers
wingolog: article: v8: a tale of two compilers
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Why WSJ Mobile App Gets 2 Star Customer Reviews
A confusing startup screen that offends existing subscribers dooms The Wall Street Journal's iPhone app to low ratings.
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The Capacitive Button Cult Must Be Stopped
In an essay titled "The Capacitive Button Cult Must Be Stopped" , Jon Bell writes:
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Why your company should have a single email address
Most startups run (or believe they must run) a hodge-podge of email-slash-communication tools like person email, CRM, ticketing, etc.. But everything gets easier if you just have one email address and one system.
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The Rise of "Worse is Better"
Previous: Lisp's Apparent Failures Up: Lisp's Apparent Failures Next: Good Lisp Programming is Hard
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What every programmer should know about time
This is a trade-off: you can't represent a leap second, and your time is guaranteed to go backwards. On the other hand, every day has exactly 86,400 seconds, and you don't need a table of all previous and future leap seconds in order to format Unix time as human-preferred hours-minutes-seconds.
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The 'intellectual property' oxymoron
“ If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of everyone, and the…
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Web Intents - the future of web apps
Web Intents is a new project designed to solve the problem of web application integration. Inspired by Android's intent system, it allows developers to build features without needing to integrate with every possible 3rd party service. Web Intents lets users choose their preferred service for actions like image editing…
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Pure CSS GUI icons (experimental)
84 GUI icons created with CSS
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Why I'm Rooting For Google+
The day Google+ launched, I sent a friend at Google who was involved in building the service an email requesting an invite. I got the invite late that day and started playing with the service. Here's my profile. I'm not sure if this page is public or you need a Google+ login to see it. […]