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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 14,547 posts.
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A Collection Of Redis Use Cases
Interested in Redis? You might be interested in the Redis Handbook I’m currently working on.
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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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The Most Useful Objective-C Code I’ve Ever Written
Actually, it’s the most useful code I’ve extended ; credit for the core idea goes to Dave Dribin with his Handy NSString Conversion Macro .
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IE’s big leap forward; CSS3 selectors fully supported
In the past few days I’ve been revising the CSS compatibility table with information about the latest crop of browsers. There’s no doubt about it: this is IE9’s show. It just supports nearly everything. No hassle, no buts.
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Veracity: The next step in DVCS
One week from today, at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention , SourceGear will be making a big announcement. Today I'm giving you an early preview. We've been building something new. :-)
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The Instapaper Default.png dilemma
iOS apps display a prerendered, static image when they launch called Default.png . Developers can set it to anything they like. This is Instapaper ’s:
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Memoirs of a Poker Bot Developer
Posts about Poker Bot written by Mazur
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Yahoo Pipes compiled to Python now run on Google App Engine
Yahoo! Pipes is an excellent tool for processing data. It provides a visual way to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web. It's very much like plumbing with data and is a great metaphor. I'm convinced that this approach is just the beginning, and look forward to connecting systems using pipes in…
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Bup 0.01: It backs things up
I just spent a few days of my Christmas vacation writing a new program, bup. bup is a program that backs things up. It's short for "backup...
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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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Gave up a day job. Now what? - Income report #2
I know that many of my blog readers have subscribed my RSS Feed only for my monthly income reports. And as I want to make you happy here is my report from last month. April have ended over two week…
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The Python IAQ: Infrequently Answered Questions
A question is infrequently answered either because few people know the answer or because it concerns an obscure, subtle point (but a point that may be crucial to you). I thought I had invented the term for my Java IAQ , but it also shows up at the very informative About.com Urban Legends site. There are lots of Python…
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Why I prefer no tabs in source code
I notice several people have been referred to this page from http://derkarl.org/why_to_tabs.html , which tries to counter my arguments against tabs. (I also notice that the author rather ungracefully failed to inform me of the page's existence, thereby conveniently not giving me a chance to respond. Kind of makes his…
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Linus Torvalds' Greatest Invention
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus