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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 360 posts.

2014
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Tower 2

Over 100,000 developers and designers are more productive with Tower - the most powerful Git client for Mac and Windows.

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Dart 1.5

It’s important for web experiences to work great on mobile devices. The latest release of the Dart includes a development version of Dar...

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How Does One Create A Gtk+ Application?

How does one go about creating a gtk+ working application? Is it even possible? Seriously. TL;DR: The Gtk+ ABI is broken so often that distribution-supplied binaries rarely work. * * * Imagine it is the time when Gtk+ 3.0 was released. You have a beautiful application with no bugs. For the sake of argument…

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Hybrid sweet spot: Native navigation, web content

When we launched the iPhone version of Basecamp in February of last year, it was after many rounds of experimentation on the architectural direction. The default route suggested by most when we got started back in early/mid-2012 was simple enough: Everything Be Native! This was a sensible recomm…