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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 514 posts.
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Maze Generation: Eller's Algorithm
Algorithms, circle mazes, hex grids, masking, weaving, braiding, 3D and 4D grids, spheres, and more!
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Vim plugin makes Ruby blocks into text objects
Ever since learning about Vim’s text-objects I have wished that there was a way of selecting blocks in ruby code. Well, now there is. Today I am releasing a plugin that creates a custom text object for selecting ruby blocks . Merry Christmas!
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Common Mistakes as Python Web Developer
A short list of common mistakes in Python web applications in terms of security and architecture.
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Write code like you just learned how to program
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
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How a Vim user converts to Emacs
For many years I thought that the heretics of the Emacs clan [1] were clearly insane – the followers of Vim were obviously following the True Path. And then I was snared by the dark side. My …
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First we built an API, then we built a CMS
API design has been a point of discussion on Hacker News recently. The discussion has been focused on the process of adding on an API to your app. With our S...
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Impact HTML5 Game Engine released
My HTML5 Game Engine Impact is now ready. It took some time, but I think it was worth it. I'm proud of what I have achieved and I hope you'll like it too.
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Writing clean, testable, high quality code in Python
AIX provides the highest level of performance, security, and reliability of any UNIX operating system.
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A crazy Ruby quine: a spinning globe.
RubyConf に参加するためには、やっぱり 山手 quine みたいに東京限定ネタは通じにくいですよね。これからは Quine もグローバルでないといけないと感じました。 でも世界的に有名な環状線とか知らないので、世界的に有名な回るものを書いてみました。 v=0000;eval$s=%q~d=%!^Lcf<LK8, _@7gj*LJ=c5nM)Tp1g0%Xv.,S[<>YoP 4ZojjV)O>qIH1/n[|2yE[>:ieC "%.#% :::##" 97N-A&Kj_K_><wS5rtWk@*a+Y5 yH?b[F^e7C/56j|pmRe+:)B "##% ::#########…
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Building blocks of a scalable webcrawler.
In my last semester as a student, I had the chance of working for an awesome company ( Acquia ) on a very interesting project. It all started with a post over at Dries Buytaert's blog. He is the CTO and co-founder of Acquia (and Mollom), inventor of Drupal, open-source celebrity and also knows a thing or two about…
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What to Read to Get Up to Speed in JavaScript
Updated: 10/7/2016 I wanted to offer up what I felt were good books/resources to carry you through learning JavaScript. Note that some resources will overlap between levels. That should be expected…
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Git in layman's terms: isomorphic contours in source-code phase space
A website devoted to oneself has been described — by my own Father, no less — as the greatest act of hubris. Welcome aboard!
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Down the 'ls' Rabbit Hole
By: Adam Fletcher ( @adamfblahblah ) From ls(1) to the kernel and back again. Too often sysadmins are afraid to dive into the sou...
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Vmail - A Gmail client in Vim
Why Vmail? Because some people are 1000 times more productive and happy in Vim than in any web browser or GUI program.
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It's about time to start fighting against the Rails “magic” myth
When I first got into Ruby and Rails development, I was impressed about how everything worked. A few lines of code and so much got done. At that time, if I was reading a book or blog post that said: "just do X and Y will automagically work". I would gladly accept those instructions. However, after a while,
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Everything you never wanted to know about file locking
1. Nobody really knows how to do it 2. If you think you have a reliable system for doing it, you're probably doing the computer's job -- "...