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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,717 posts.
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The Clock in the Mountain
A work crane at the Clock site in western Texas. There is a Clock ringing deep inside a mountain. It is a huge Clock, hundreds of feet tall, designed to tick for 10,000 years. Every once in a while the … Continue reading →
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Advice From An Old Programmer
You've finished this book and have decided to continue with programming. Maybe it will be a career for you, or maybe it will be a hobby. You'll need some advice to make sure you continue on the right path and get the most enjoyment out of your newly chosen activity.
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Engineering hints you'll rarely hear
Explore the latest technologies and innovations on the architecture engineered for agility
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Pdf.js: Rendering PDF with HTML5 and JavaScript
Update: I updated the links again. pdf.js has moved to a new location on github. Why? While traveling to the Firefox 4 launch parties in Seoul and Taipei all the way from California, we killed a lo…
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A Look Inside the Process of One of the World’s Most Efficient Studiers
Scott Young’s Graduation Gift to Study Hacks I have to give credit to Scott Young: it was talking blogs with him back in 2007 that ... Read more
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Reddit Sees Massive Growth & Hires New Programmers
Get the latest product news, company announcements, and user insights from the official Reddit blog.
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ORM is an anti-pattern
ORM looks great early in a project but breaks down as complexity grows, forcing you to learn SQL anyway. Relations aren't objects. Either use NoSQL for object-like data or write a model layer with real SQL. ORM's abstraction is leaky, its efficiency poor, and the alternatives are better.
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Fantastic summary of some of the math pertinent to theoretical computer science.
This web page is a revised and extended version of Appendix A from the book Conceptual Structures by John F. Sowa. It presents a brief summary of the following topics for students and general readers of that book and related books such as Knowledge Representation and books on logic, linguistics, and computer science.
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Apple R&D (1989): Mousing is faster than keyboarding, but users don't believe it
Originally published in the AppleDirect, August, 1989 Republished as Chapter 6, in Tog on Interface
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The Next Bubble - Don't Get Fooled Again
My friend, Ben Horowitz, and I debate the tech bubble in The Economist. This post originally appeared as part 1 of 3 ———————————…
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The Difference Between A Developer, A Programmer And A Computer Scientist
How a computer scientist, a programmer and a developer differ in skills, focus and priorities, even though the terms are often used interchangeably.
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A possible flaw in open-source bcrypt implementations
[NOTE: See updates below and here .] I'm working on an application that requires a secure password hash. The state of the art is Colin Perc...
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What’s Up With All These Changes in Rails?
Yesterday, there was a blog post entitled "What the Hell is Happening to Rails" that stayed at the number one spot on Hacker News for quite a while. The post and many (but not most) the comments on the post reflect deep-seated concern about the recent direction of Rails.
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WTH is happening to Rails? I'll tell you.
I just read the blog post that got some traction on HN last night, entitled “ What the hell is happening to rails? ” It goes on to list a litany of complaints against changes in Rails 3.x, ranging from the default commenting of the catch-all route to, yes, of course, CoffeeScript. They all end up sounding a lot like…
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