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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 498 posts.
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This must already exist
I encounter this feeling frequently. I have a sudden need (or idea) and I realize that such and such a tool or service must already exist. As a software engineer, I’ve learned to not let that feeling pass. Usually, it’s a chance to learn something (because usually it does exist) and sometimes it’s a chance to to build…
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High Quality Ruby on Rails Example Applications
a digital agency
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Paul Buchheit: Applied Philosophy, a.k.a. "Hacking"
Every system has two sets of rules: The rules as they are intended or commonly perceived, and the actual rules ("reality"). In most complex ...
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Release Late, Release Rarely (2006)
When you look at something you’re working on, no matter what it is, you can’t help but see past the actual thing to the ideas that inspired it, your plans for extending it, the emotions you’ve tied to it. But when others look at it, all they see is a piece of junk.
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Critical Django security updates released (0day, exploit in the wild)
Posted by James Bennett on Oct. 9, 2009
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LOOP for Black Belts
In Chapter 7 I briefly discussed the extended LOOP macro. As I mentioned then, LOOP provides what is essentially a special-purpose language just for writing iteration constructs.
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Miguel de Icaza responds to latest RMS article
Miguel de Icaza's Blog
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You Could Have Invented Monads! (And Maybe You Already Have.)
A more permanent version of this article is stored at GitHub . Please link to that rather than to here. If you hadn't guessed, this is about...
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A performance comparison of Judy to hash tables
Numerous claims about Judy's performance are made in the Judy whitepaper . I don't think any of those claims are wrong. However, it does not appear that sufficient effort was put in benchmarking Judy against other data structures. Now, it is unlikely there is another data structure that is both as fast and as small as…
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Free Computer Science Courses
More great news! I started my own company: Browserling - Cross-browser testing .
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Django ponies: Proposals for Django 1.2
I’ve decided to step up my involvement in Django development in the run-up to Django 1.2, so I’m currently going through several years worth of accumulated pony requests figuring out …
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GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal
AIX provides the highest level of performance, security, and reliability of any UNIX operating system.
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