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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. 498 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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Building and Scaling a Startup on Rails: Things We Learned the Hard Way (by Posterous S08)
There are a bunch of basic functional elements to building out a popular Rails app that I've never really seen explained in one place, but we had to learn the hard way while building Posterous....
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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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GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal
AIX provides the highest level of performance, security, and reliability of any UNIX operating system.
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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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Python language moratorium is accepted
This PEP proposes a temporary moratorium (suspension) of all changes to the Python language syntax, semantics, and built-ins for a period of at least two years from the release of Python 3.1. In particular, the moratorium would include Python 3.2 (to b...
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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.