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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 498 posts.
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Python vs Ruby, slightly more in-depth
Disclaimers Edit (2009/08/04): It is not obvious for many readers that this blog and its articles are meant as opinion piece. It is also not obvious that I like both languages. Just to be clear, I …
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Bowline - A Ruby GUI Desktop Framework
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Vim Plugins You Should Know About, Part IV: snipmate.vim
This is the fourth post in the article series "Vim Plugins You Should Know About". This time I am going to introduce you to a plugin called "snipmate.vim". If you are intrigued by this topic, I suggest that you subscribe to my posts! For the introduction and first post in this article series, follow this link - Vim...
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From TextMate to Vim
TextMate is an excellent editor, but it is beginning to show its age. It has a few squeaky wheels that have yet to be oiled, and it looks as though the author may be getting bogged down in the minutiae of his next release. With the next version apparently due sometime after the colonization of Mars, it seemed an…
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An almost perfect real-world hack
Almost immediately after we bought our house I received a letter in the mail. The local school district was appealing the tax assessment of my house. The issue in question was the value of my property in 2002 (don’t ask, it’s a long story, and a silly law). My property tax is some percentage of the 2002 value of my…
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Why Dijkstra suggested Premature-Loop-Exit Prohibition
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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The best way to load external JavaScript
The Official Web Site of Nicholas C. Zakas
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Embrace technical debt
Financial debt plays an important and positive role in our economy under normal conditions. Yet, especially in times like these, it’s easy t...
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Emacs 23 is very near
Emacs 23(.1) has been released ! After only just over two years since the previous version, emacs 23 has been released on July 29 200...
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Where I Program - Independent Developer's Cribs
whereiwrite.org is a photographic project showing science fiction writers and their offices. I started wondering what the offices of other microISVs and small software companies look like. Were the…
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How to Make Phone Calls from the Command Line
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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 ...