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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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Secret language
Microsoft Careers: “If you’re looking for a new role where you’ll focus on one of the biggest issues that is top of mind for KT and Steve B in ‘Compete’, build a complete left to right understandin…
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Why kids don't program
Behold, in its full glory, a program that I ran on my ZX Spectrum nearly 30 years ago: 10 FOR n=0 TO 255 20 PLOT n,88+80*SIN (n/128*PI) 30...
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Living in an RV as an Internet Nomad- 3G, solar, cost savings, and flexibility.
When I first bought an RV to live in last year a lot of people thought that it was a phase I would quickly snap out of. Part of me thought the same thing. Would a move from a 2000....
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Why You Should Quit Your Job and Travel around the World
It happens to me every time I travel overseas. I talk with people who hear about where I’m going, and they always say the same thing: “That sounds amazing!
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The problems with url shorteners
URL shortening services have been around for a number of years . Their original purpose was to prevent cumbersome URLs from getting fragmented by broken email clients that felt the need to wrap everything to an 80 column screen. Addendum: They're useful in print , too. But it's 2009 now, and this problem no longer…
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Yegge, Clojure, and Arc
This post was discussed thoroughly on Hacker News . Even Mr. Graham was kind enough to comment – though not in the affirmative. There was moderate discussion on Reddit as well.
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How Professional Writers Write
[UPDATE: 2/18/08] Welcome new readers! If this is your first time here, Study Hacks is a blog that focuses on hacks to help you do ... Read more
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Paul Buchheit: Evaluating risk and opportunity (as a human)
Our lives are full of decisions that force us to balance risk and opportunity: should you take that new job, buy that house, invest in that ...
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Sid Meier's Rules
The following was published in the January 2009 issue of Game Developer magazine… Most game developers are familiar with Sid’s dictum that “a good game is a series of interesting choice…
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The best unknown activist investment of 2009
In keeping with our penchant for stories about idiosyncratic investors who trade in odd securities found off the beaten track, we bring you perhaps the best unknown activist investment of 2009. Wit…
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What You Learned About How Planes Fly Was Probably Wrong
So we all know how planes fly, right? The top of the wing is rounded and the bottom of the wing is more straight. Air takes longer to travel over the top of the
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SciPy - the embarrassing way to code
I’ve programmed in many languages before, indeed I’ve spent at least a year working in Basic, C, C++, C#, java, assembler, modula-2, powerhouse and prolog. One thing I’ve never done before is Matlab, well except a few basic exercises for some course I did way back. A couple of years ago I started using python and more…
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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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Starting a business isn't as crazy and risky as they say
If you're thinking about starting a new venture right now, you need to understand the risks, but you need the real risks. The truth (as always) lies between baseless off-hand remarks about how "95% of businesses fail" (false!) and those startup blogs that show only the rosy side of things.