Best of 2011

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2011. 679 posts.

Software Engineering
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"Another World" (game) Code Review

I spent two weeks reading and reverse engineering further the source code of Another World ("Out Of This World" in North America). I based my work on Gregory Montoir's "binary to C++" initial reverse engineering from the DOS executable. I was amazed to discover an elegant system based on a virtual machine interpreting…

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Hitchhiker's Guide to Python

I first heard about The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python at PyCodeConf a few months ago. It's a fantastic idea: open source, community-driven documentation on how to do Python right: everything from how to learn Python, to how to write idiomatic code, to how to distribute your projects, to surveys of best-of-breed open…

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What's In A GIF

We sill start off by walking though the different parts of a GIF file. (The information on this page is primarily drawn from the W3C GIF89a specification .) A GIF file is made up of a bunch of different "blocks" of data. The following diagram shows all of the different types of blocks and where they belong in the…

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Pipe: Infix syntax for Python

สล็อต แตก ดี เว็บ ตรง ถูกพัฒนาให้ใช้งานได้สะดวกมากขึ้นผ่านระบบออโต้ของสล็อตวอเลท ที่ช่วยให้ทุกขั้นตอนตั้งแต่การเข้าเล่นไปจนถึงการรับเงิน