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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 14,545 posts.
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Encouraged Commentary (cool use of jQuery to enhance blog commenting)
My first major experiment has been in improving the commenting system on this blog.
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JavaScript: The Good Parts
I found a really nice video lecture on JavaScript. I'm a JavaScript journeyman myself so I decided to review it to learn something new. I have written about JavaScript in the past -- the previous post on JavaScript was "Learning JavaScript through Video Lectures". This lecture is given by JavaScript guru Doug...
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Picking Time
It’s not often that new user interface conventions are born – or popularized. Even less so within the realm of web development. I’d argue that Sparklines and Lightbox are two of the best examples of UI conventions that were popularized on the web.
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Pattern: Back ends for front ends
With the advent and success of the web, the de facto way of delivering user interfaces has shifted from thick-client applications to interfaces delivered via the web, a trend that has also enabled the growth of SAAS-based solutions in general. The benefits of delivering a user interface over the web were huge …
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Regular Expression Matching: the Virtual Machine Approach
Name the most widely used bytecode interpreter or virtual machine. Sun's JVM? Adobe's Flash? .NET and Mono? Perl? Python? PHP? These are all certainly popular, but there's one more widely used than all those combined. That bytecode interpreter is Henry Spencer's regular expression library and its many descendants.
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Why Vim uses hjkl keys as arrow keys
I was reading about vim the other day and found out why it used `hjkl` keys as arrow keys. When Bill Joy created the vi text editor he used the ADM-3A terminal, which had the arrows on hjkl keys. Naturally he reused the same keys and the rest is history. Here is how the `hjkl` keys looked. ADM-3A keyboard's hjkl…
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Python vs Ruby, slightly more in-depth
Disclaimers Edit (2009/08/04): It is not obvious for many readers that this blog and its articles are meant as opinion piece. It is also not obvious that I like both languages. Just to be clear, I …
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Google homepage doesn't close html tags, on purpose
Photo sets logged as they come in, newest first. Browse the deck or search the manifest.
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"HTML5" versus Flash: Animation Benchmarking
The Man in Blue showcases the writing and Web design of Cameron Adams.
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Mono not Chasing Tail Lights
I've been on vacation and just got back and heard about this whole Richard Stallman spouting nonsense about Miguel being a traitor thing and...
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Where I Program - Independent Developer's Cribs
whereiwrite.org is a photographic project showing science fiction writers and their offices. I started wondering what the offices of other microISVs and small software companies look like. Were the…
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Embedding a Web Browser in Emacs
My musings on Emacs, economics, technology, and spiders.
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Condition Handling in the Lisp Language Family (2001)
This paper appears in Advances in Exception Handling Techniques , edited by A. Romanovsky, C. Dony, J.L. Knudsen, and A. Tripathi. This book, published in 2001, is part of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 2022 , published by Springer .
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MacBook Multitouch
I've turned off that old server. If you're missing something, ping me and I'll dig it up.
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Compleat: Programmable bash completion for human beings
Compleat is an easy, declarative way to add smart tab completion for any shell command. It’s written in Haskell but requires no programming knowledge. See the GitHub repository for a quick description, or read on for a complete explanation.
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