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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 498 posts.
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How to be a better programmer in 6 minutes
Remember how Justice Gray started that little fad about becoming a better developer in 6 months?
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Summary of all the MIT Introduction to Algorithms lectures
As you all may know, I watched and posted my lecture notes of the whole MIT Introduction to Algorithms course. In this post I want to summarize all the topics that were covered in the lectures and point out some of the most interesting things in them. Actually, before I wrote this article, I had started writing an...
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Erlang: A Generalized TCP Server
In my last few articles about Erlang we've covered the basics of network programming with gen_tcp and Erlang/OTP's gen_server, or generic server, module. Let's combine the two.
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The Duct Tape Programmer (Response from Uncle Bob Martin)
In Joel Spolsky’s recent blog he talks about “Duct Tape Programmers”. These “pretty boys” don’t use complex tools like C++, Templates, COM , Multiple Inheritance, etc. They don’t waste their time going to “goddamn Design Patterns meetups”. They don’t do all the fancy things that speakers at conferences talk about…
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Zsh: The last shell you will ever need
Introduction Last week, the all-knowing Mako inspired me to give zsh a shot. He started me off with a .zshrc file, and now a week later, I’ve been spreading the word to as many people as I ca…
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Working on It (TextMate)
Over the past two years, posts on this blog have slowed to just a trickle, and a number of TextMate users have asked about TextMate’s status, or publicly worried about its future. This blog post, the first I’ve written here in a long time, is an attempt to assuage those concerns and answer some of the most frequent…
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Why I like Redis
I’ve been getting a lot of useful work done with Redis recently. Redis is typically categorised as yet another of those new-fangled NoSQL key/value stores, but if you look closer …
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Frequently Forgotten Fundamental Facts about Software Engineering
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Comet is dead, long live websockets
I've just had a chance to play with the implementation of websockets in Googles Chrome browser. This post started me off. After a small am...
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How we use IRC at Last.fm
Everyone that works at Last.fm is typically connected to our IRC server. We have different channels per team, as well as a company-wide channel, and a few channels dedicated to automated monitoring.
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Magic Ink
This draft was released March 15, 2006. Please email comments to bret worrydream.com . You can also download the PDF .
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Obfuscated Erlang Competition Results
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This must already exist
I encounter this feeling frequently. I have a sudden need (or idea) and I realize that such and such a tool or service must already exist. As a software engineer, I’ve learned to not let that feeling pass. Usually, it’s a chance to learn something (because usually it does exist) and sometimes it’s a chance to to build…