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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 514 posts.
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Apple removes Scratch from iPad/iPhone/iTouch
A real bummer — Apple removed Scratch from the iTunes store, so it’s no longer available for iPad, iPhone, or iTouch. Why? Discussion on the Scratch forums suggests that it’s be…
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Whatever happened to programming?
I’ve been posting much longer articles than I meant to, so today’s will be short. [Later: but, as it turns out, not as short as I intended.] When I was fourteen, I wrote space-invader …
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Python 2.7 released
The official home of the Python Programming Language
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Visual Guide to NoSQL Systems
There are so many NoSQL systems these days that it's hard to get a quick overview of the major trade-offs involved when evaluating relational and non-relational systems in non-single-server...
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Knuth's 'Earthshaking Announcement' due tomorrow
(I'm still looking for the catchiest way to appreciate the number MMXXVI. Exercise 7.2.1.6–122 gives 1234+.5*6+789 and -1+2345*6/7+8+9 and 1+(2/3)*45*67.8-9 ; other suggestions are welcome. The most elegant that I've seen so far is a beauty that was suggested independently by Arnaud Lefebvre and by Evangelos…
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Developer Income Report #5 (Gave up a day job)
It is high time for my another income report. I used to write my total developer income reports (last one “Gave up a day job! Now what? – Income report #3”) and last month I have summed…
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Math library functions that seem unnecessary
Functions include in the standard C math library that seem unnecessary at first glance and why they are necessary.
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Visual Studio 2010 released
Visual Studio dev tools & services make app development easy for any developer, on any platform & language. Develop with our code editor or IDE anywhere for free.
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A table that should exist in all projects with a database
Links to social profiles of Ioannis Cherouvim
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DHH: How do I learn to program?
It took me some twenty-plus years to really learn how to program. It wasn’t for a lack of trying either, it was just that I was trying the wrong way. I tried to learn to program by following tutorials that created programs I didn’t have the slightest interest in keeping. I was trying to…
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12 Months with MongoDB
As previously blogged , Wordnik is a heavy user of 10gen’s MongoDB . One year ago today we started the investigation to find an alternative to MySQL to store, find, and retrieve our corpus data. After months of experimentation in the non-relational landscape (and running a scary number of nightly builds), we settled…