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Go best practices, six years in
Generally good things to do when writing Go code, in 2016 and beyond.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,307 posts.
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What I Learned Selling a Software Business
Some lessons learned in selling a bootstrapped software business. Relevant to buyers or sellers.
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Pixels and voxels, the long answer
Retronator Do It Yourself
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Income inequality is not the problem, it's a symptom
Paul Graham today published two essays in which he challenges the idea that economic inequality is a problem. Since the 1970s, economic ...
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Code that will break in Python 4
With the end of support for Python 2 on the horizon ( in 2020 ), many package developers have made their packages compatible with both Python 2 and Python 3 by using constructs such as:
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How to contribute to an open source project on GitHub
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Microsoft Kills off ISVs by Foisting Its Own Products That Are No Better
Hi Folks! Meet David, the magnificent masterpiece sculpted by Michelangelo at the start of the 16th century. A photo of his face with that curious furrowed brow featured on our very first anti-cyber…
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Dear JavaScript
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Habits of highly mathematical people
The most common question students have about mathematics is “when will I ever use this?” Many math teachers would probably struggle to give…
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Stack Overflow: How We Do Deployment
This is #3 in a very long series of posts on Stack Overflow’s architecture.Previous post (#2): Stack Overflow: The Hardware - 2016 EditionWe’ve talked abou...
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SVG has more potential
A bunch of interesting techniques for using SVG to make unique responsive components.
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Is Facebook’s Massive Open Office Scaring Away Developers?
In Search of Silence Joel Spolsky is a well-respected figure in Silicon Valley. He created the popular Trello project manager software and is currently the ... Read more
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The Raspberry Pi Has Revolutionized Emulation
Every geek goes through a phase where they discover emulation. It’s practically a rite of passage. I think I spent most of my childhood – and a large part of my life as a young adult – desperately wishing I was in a video game arcade. When I finally obtained my
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How I built a keyboard by hand
I had spare mechanical keyboard switches and keycaps from other keyboard projects, and I wanted to see if it would be feasible to build a keyboard using only hand tools.
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BMW are complying with the GPL
The good news follow-up rarely gets as much attention as the original bad-news story. Earlier this month I accidentally kicked off a minor kerfuffle over whether BMW was respecting the GPL. Their i3 car contains a huge amount of Open Source Software and there was some confusion as to BMW's compliance with the licence…
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Running a Tor Exit Node for Fun and E-mails
The Tor Project is a non-profit organization in the United States that created Tor, The Onion Router, a free software that creates an open network of volunteers which helps people anonymize their traffic by routing it through three or more other computers before it reaches its final destination.
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Working remotely, coworking spaces, and mental health
This should be a hard blog post to write–after all, it’s the one where I openly admit I had an emotional breakdown and saw a mental health professional–but it’s actually easy. And it’s easy because it has a good ending: facing long odds and a frustrating situation, I ended up turning everything around and getting a…
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How to get hired at a startup when you don't know anyone
A few years ago I saw an early stage startup that I knew I had to be a part of. The only problem was that it was 900 miles away and I had no connection to them. The startup was Formlabs . At the time they had 10 employees, and like most startups reduced risk by hiring people they knew. They were also situated…