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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 21,844 posts.
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How to Make Phone Calls from the Command Line
With Twilio, unite communications and strengthen customer relationships across your business – from marketing and sales to customer service and operations.
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On "magic", once again (from James Bennet, Django dev)
So it seems Giles Bowkett [is upset](http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2009/07/do-you-believe-in-magic.html) about use of the word "magic". I'm happy to agree with the general …
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ha ha only serious
[from SF fandom, orig. as mutation of HHOK, ‘Ha Ha Only Kidding’] A phrase (often seen abbreviated as HHOS) that aptly captures the flavor of much hacker discourse. Applied especially to parodies, absurdities, and ironic jokes that are both intended and perceived to contain a possibly disquieting amount of truth, or…
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Django 1.1 release candidate available
Posted by James Bennett on July 21, 2009
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Computing with JavaScript Web Workers
Web Workers are, undoubtedly, the coolest new feature to arrive in the latest version of web browsers. Web Workers allow you to run JavaScript in parallel on a web page, without blocking the user interface.
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Insurance on Rails
We've had several customers lately stuck in the same boat: they exist in a conservative industry (insurance), they have a large set of fixed costs for their ...
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Share HN: I wrote an app to help my paralyzed cousin type significantly faster.
Chirag Mehta - Personal Web Log - 'blog - Chime Softwares - Indian Blogger live from Saint Petersburg, Florida, St. Pete, FL
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Crowdsourcing Bruteforcing: Help me win the EngineYard challenge
Short term financing makes it possible to acquire highly sought-after domains without the strain of upfront costs. Find your domain name today.
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Most expensive javascript ever
The latest news about Opera web browsers, tech trends, internet tips.
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The Seven Stages of the Programmer
Before he takes the first step, the programmer does not know that programming exists. He is aware of computers, but has never considered how they actually work. He feels the process of making a video game is somewhat akin to making a film, or perhaps writing a book. If someone were to ask him how that actually works…
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Learn Emacs in Ten Years
Somebody emailed me the other day, asking about how to go about learning Emacs. This is my (edited and rearranged) reply.
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Mastering The Fourier Transform in One Day
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Unacceptable Browser HTTP Accept Headers (Yes, You Safari and Internet Explorer)
When browsers make requests they send headers. The Accept header tells the server what file formats the browser is looking for and can understand.
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Can your programming language do this?
In information theory, entropy is the measurement of the amount of randomness in a probability distribution. It's defined as In my code, it'...
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Tools of the Modern Python Hacker: Virtualenv, Fabric and Pip
Alex Clemesha is a full-stack software engineer based in San Diego, California.
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