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The Duct Tape Programmer
Jamie Zawinski is what I would call a duct-tape programmer. And I say that with a great deal of respect. He is the kind of programmer who is hard at work building the future, and making useful thin…
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The most popular blog posts about software engineering on Hacker News. 403 posts.
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Aaron Swartz: How I Hire Programmers
There are three questions you have when you’re hiring a programmer (or anyone, for that matter): Are they smart? Can they get stuff done? Can you work with them? Someone who’s smart but doesn’t get stuff done should be your friend, not your employee. You can talk your problems over with them while they procrastinate…
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Understanding Git
Git is quickly becoming one of the most popular version control systems in use. There are plenty of tutorials on Git already. How is this one different?
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Share HN: I wrote an app to help my paralyzed cousin type significantly faster.
Chirag Mehta - Personal Web Log - 'blog - Chime Softwares - Indian Blogger live from Saint Petersburg, Florida, St. Pete, FL
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Paul Buchheit: Applied Philosophy, a.k.a. "Hacking"
Every system has two sets of rules: The rules as they are intended or commonly perceived, and the actual rules ("reality"). In most complex ...
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Apple’s WWDC-Closing ‘Fuck You’ to iPhone Developers
Link to: http://www.marco.org/122990476
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Deep Tracing of Internet Explorer
After reading a recent post by Steve Souders concerning a free tool called dynaTrace Ajax , I was intrigued. It claimed to provide full tracing analysis of Internet Explorer 6-8 (including JavaScript, rendering, and network traffic). Giving it a try I was very impressed. I tested against a few web sites but got the…
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Most expensive javascript ever
The latest news about Opera web browsers, tech trends, internet tips.
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Node.js is genuinely exciting
I gave a talk on Friday at Full Frontal, a new one day JavaScript conference in my home town of Brighton. I ended up throwing away my intended topic (JSONP, …
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My 8 hour journey to a single character
I came into work on day not too long and was met with an unfortunate piece of information. The test we ran the previous night reported a 4% drop in accuracy (we found 4% fewer faces). I frowned. I had clearly screwed something up.
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Continuous Deployment at IMVU: Doing the impossible fifty times a day.
I recently wrote a post on Continuous Deployment : deploying code changes to production as rapidly as possible. The response on news.ycombinator was, well…
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Tools of the Modern Python Hacker: Virtualenv, Fabric and Pip
Alex Clemesha is a full-stack software engineer based in San Diego, California.
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Self-Enforcing Protocols
There are several ways two people can divide a piece of cake in half. One way is to find someone impartial to do it for them. This works, but it requires another person. Another way is for one person to divide the piece, and the other person to complain (to the police, a judge, or his parents) if he doesn’t think it’s…
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