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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,923 posts.
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Find what's blocking sales with under a day of work
Uncover sales blockers in 24 hours with these 11 strategies.
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Where Lisp Fails: at Turning People into Fungible Cogs
A favorite conundrum of many Lisp aficionados is why the language appears to languish in disuse. Talk of cultural problems , "the library question" (which usually boils down to nonsensical circular reasoning), too many parentheses, and other absurdities simply dances around the blindingly obvious explanation - one…
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Why is programming fun?
Why is programming fun? An extract from Fred Brooks' (Frederick P. Brooks Jr.) book, The Mythical Man-Month. Fred Brooks coined the term "no silver bullet" that is famous in the field of computers.
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Technically speaking, what makes Google Chrome fast?
Earlier this year, we heard from many of you on how important speed is to your daily activities on the web. We kicked off a series of disc...
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Google To Cut 200 Jobs
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Properly Molding the Gamer Child
I grew up a serious gamer in a family of people who really, really weren't. I was, while loved, regarded as an oddity. A peculiar mutation. ...
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New iPhone app piracy over week one.
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The challenge: Don't speak in future tense
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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Insurance on Rails
We've had several customers lately stuck in the same boat: they exist in a conservative industry (insurance), they have a large set of fixed costs for their ...
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Audion - The Story behind Panic's 2nd product
Is it just me? I mean, do you ever wonder about the stories behind everyday products?
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The Seven Stages of the Programmer
Before he takes the first step, the programmer does not know that programming exists. He is aware of computers, but has never considered how they actually work. He feels the process of making a video game is somewhat akin to making a film, or perhaps writing a book. If someone were to ask him how that actually works…
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Djng - a Django powered microframework
djng is nearly two weeks old now, so it’s about time I wrote a bit about the project. I presented a keynote at EuroDjangoCon in Prague earlier this month entitled …
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Visualization of the Grammars of Ruby, Java and Javascript
As part of the momentum surrounding the Ruby implementer’s summit , I have decided to take on a pet project to understand Ruby’s grammar better, with the goal of contributing to an implementation-independent specification of the grammar. Matz mentioned during his keynote how parse.y was one of the uglier parts of Ruby…