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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,420 posts.
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The Two-Hour Rule
This all-content, junk-free website's biggest source of support is when you use those or any of these links to approved sources when you get anything, regardless of the country in which you live. Thanks for helping me help you! Ken.
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Microsoft makes patent claim for sparklines
A forum moderated by author and artist Edward Tufte, including discussion and questions dealing with information design.
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Beautiful plots of roots of polynomials
Click on the picture for bigger view. Roots of quadratic polynomials are in grey; roots of cubics are in cyan; roots of quartics are in red and roots of quintics are in black. The horizontal axis of symmetry is the real axis; the vertical axis of symmetry is the imaginary axis. The big hole in the middle is centered…
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Twisted Python's lead hacker discusses Tornado
Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.
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Why There Are No Girls In San Francisco
Not long ago an academic named Richard Florida made a small ruckus by scientifically proving that the San Francisco Bay Area (along with L...
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Tables vs CSS: CSS Trolls begone
First mistake, drinking the CSS Kool-Aid Several weeks ago, I started designing the layout for my threaded comments on a social news site that I'm building. I had created a down and dirty layout using nested tables. It was ugly, and used nested tables but it worked. I was then paralized by guilt. I couldn't let the…
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Bill Gates sums up Microsoft's abusive history
The latest news about Opera web browsers, tech trends, internet tips.
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Why PHP won
When I first learned to program on the web, Perl + CGI was the dominant platform. But by the time I was building my first websites for com...
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The impact of language choice on github projects
Although I spend a lot of my play-time fooling about with other languages, my professional and released code consists of Python, C, C++ and, alas, Javascript. I've lived in this tiny corner of the magic garden of modern software development for 10 years, and I'm itching to strike out in a different direction for my…
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Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable
Back in 1993, the Knight-Ridder newspaper chain began investigating piracy of Dave Barry’s popular column, which was published by the Miami Herald and syndicated widely. In the course of tracking down the sources of unlicensed distribution, they found many things, including the copying of his column to…