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An API is only as good as its documentation
Your APIs are only as good as the documentation that comes with them. Invest time in getting docs right. — @rubenv on Twitter
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,895 posts.
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What happens when Betelgeuse explodes?
It’s one of the nearest red supergiants to us, and a supernova is only a matter of time. What are we in for when it happens?
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DIY FPGA-based HDMI ambient lighting
Ambient lighting is a technique that creates light effects around the television that correspond to the video content. It has been pioneered...
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Unexplored Areas in Data Compression
A good colleague of mine, Rich Geldreich put up a interesting article talking about his viewpoints in future directions in lossless…
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Web App Speed
When Apple originally released the iPhone SDK in 2008, I was extremely excited about it, and immediately started working on multiple different iPhone apps. By 2009, though, I had become so uncomfortable with Apple’s stewardship of its mobile platform that I released the one game that was furthest along, and…
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A curl cheat sheet
MOAR DOX! Whenever we ask curl users what they lack in our project and what we should improve, the response is always clear: documentation. Here are the most common curl command line options when doing HTTP operations. This is the web page rendered as an image, click it to get to the web version. The … Continue…
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Reversing NvAPI to Programmatically Overclock Nvidia GPUs
After spending most of the past decade without a decent computer, all laptops with GPUs more able at toasting bread than proper gaming, I finally cracked the spare Bitcoin piggy-bank and built my d…
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How to contribute to the Haskell ecosystem
Easy wins for Haskell beginners
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How to Write with Style (1985)
Newspaper reporters and technical writers are trained to reveal almost nothing about themselves in their writings. This makes them freaks in the world of writers, since almost all of the other ink-stained wretches in that world reveal a lot about themselves to readers. We call these revelations, accidental and…
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The great Medieval water myth (2013)
A food history blog, focusing mainly on early medieval food and French bread history, written by Jim Chevallier (visit chezjim.com for more). .
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A magic getopt
Enter magic getopt . Via a little bit of macro magic, the above options-handling code turns into this:
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Growing One's Consulting Business (2012)
How I got started consulting and the advice which changed my (business) life.
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Deep Learning vs. Probabilistic Graphical Models vs. Logic
A Blog about Deep Learning, Computer Vision, and the algorithms that are shaping the future of Artificial Intelligence.
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An Investor Wanted to Give Me $50,000. Here’s Why I Said No
It was money they needed, but it came with strings attached.
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First 26 pages of Neal Stephenson's new novel Seveneves
The personal website of author Neal Stephenson, unless it's been hacked.
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What Can You Put in a Refrigerator?
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
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The Texas Instruments TMX 1795: the first, forgotten microprocessor
The first 8-bit microprocessor, the TMX 1795 had the same architecture as the 8008 but was built months before the 8008. Never sold commerci...
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High Frequency Trading Strategies
Discusses performance characteristics of high frequency trading strategies and the requirements for implementation