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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 374 posts.
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Think Stats: Probability and Statistics for Programmers
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A hacker's guide to college
In most professions, a college degree is a prerequisite for a job, even if doing the job doesn’t strictly require one. Your degree is used as a proxy to figure out whether you’re qualified because there is no better measure: “Oh, he went to a good school, he must be smart. Let’s bring him in for an interview.”
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My one question for Steve Jobs in 2000
I’ll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I’ll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave ...
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Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least Twice)
I spent most of yesterday afternoon working on a paper I’m co-writing. It was one of those days when the writing came easy. I was moving from topic to topic, but then I realized that I was reaching too far backward – I was explaining things which I shouldn’t have had to explain to the audience I was trying to reach.
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An Intern Guide to a Summer in the Bay Area
Dear Future Intern, Welcome! You just got an internship at this amazing start-up, so you're starting to look for housing and are getting pumped for your summer. Rightfully so - the Bay Area is awesome! I spent my last two summers out here as an intern, first at Facebook and (am currently at my last day) at 2bkco, an…
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Why every programmer should have a Tiddlywiki
Why every programmer should have a Tiddlywiki A year ago, my good friend Casey Watson suggested that I try using a per...
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Coding backwards
For a while I’ve wanted to write some personal finance software. Call me crazy, but I can’t find anything currently in existence that allows me to project my earnings and expenses 1 , then summarizes the net effect over a period of time. Basically, I want to be able to propose a budget to myself and simulate how it…
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I am nothing
On a scale of one to ten, how good of a cog are you? How well do you function in your assigned role? How much of a man or woman are you? How...
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If PHP Were British
PHP, as the result of a spectacular error of judgement, appears to be written in US English. How do we developers ensure the traditions of the British Empire continue to be upheld, even in the digital age?
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I'm a phony. Are you?
pho·ny also pho·ney (fō'nē) adj. pho·ni·er, pho·ni·est 1. a. Not genuine or ...
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My ideas are shitty so I'm going on an Internet diet
Hi 👋 you're reading a pretty old post! I started writing on here back in high school and this page may not reflect my current views. Recommend checking out related articles and categories down below, I've likely published more recent thoughts on this topic.
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Moving On...
5GB Disk Space 50GB Monthly Bandwidth 2 MySQL Databases 0 Sub-domains & Addon Domains 5 E-mail Addresses
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Balls
Motorola knew they had Google by the balls.
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Do trees communicate? Networks, networks
I was unfamiliar with how mycorrhizal networks connect the roots of trees, facilitating the sharing of resources. Dr. Suzanne Simard writes: Graduate student Kevin Beiler has uncovered the extent a…
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Welcome to the Cloud - "Your Apple ID has been disabled."
Welcome Hacker News, Slashdot, DF and TechMeme. Be sure to read the follow up ...
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Why you don't steal from a hacker.
So during the London riots I return home the next morning to find my flat ransacked and my Macbook Pro laptop stolen! Police showed ...
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