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| 31. | Scala school (twitter.github.com) | |
| 185 points | 2011 | author mariusae showed up | their comment | thread
“the scala school is mostly intended to be used in conjunction with a course we teach. we're working on moving it towards being more self-contained, independent from the…” | ||
| 32. | Edw519 wrote a book compiling his best HN Comments (edweissman.com) | |
| 184 points | 2011 | author edw519 showed up | their comment | thread
“This was a little side project to have some fun and maybe spread a little value. I frantically threw this together over the weekend to be ready for the traffic Marc…” | ||
| 33. | Sharding and IDs at Instagram (instagram-engineering.tumblr.com) | |
| 183 points | 2011 | author mikeyk showed up | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“I think this should also be possible with MySQL's stored functions, but one huge benefit to PostgreSQL is the schema/tablespace feature, since it means all our logical…” | ||
| 34. | New string search algorithm (volnitsky.com) | |
| 181 points | 2011 | author lvvlvv showed up | their comment | thread
“You are right. I've updated the page.” | ||
| 35. | Why God Hates German Words (techno-anthropology.blogspot.com) | |
| 180 points | 2011 | author KennethMyers showed up | their comment | thread
“You're right about "smart." There are other minor inaccuracies that other people pointed out. The origin of "fuck" isn't clear. Were the anglo-saxons actually enslaved?…” | ||
| 36. | Why I Will Never Feel Threatened by Programmers in India (blog.jpl-consulting.com) | |
| 178 points | 2011 | author jplarson showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“great conversation, gang. To be clear, I don't mean to dump on India specifically, but rather offer up a narrative that counters the notion of overseas talent being an…” | ||
| 37. | David Kadavy's "Design for Hackers" now on Amazon (amazon.com) | |
| 174 points | 2011 | author kadavy showed up | their comment | thread
“and I am blown away that it currently ranks #36 on all of Amazon[1], right behind the very deserving Eric Ries, who is also launching today. Thank you so much to the…” | ||
| 38. | Fear and Loathing in Debian/Ubuntu (or: who needs /etc/motd) (deadmemes.net) | |
| 156 points | 2011 | author baughj showed up | their comment | thread
“I thought I'd respond to a few things. I tend to write posts on my blog in a particular style. It tends to run towards bombastic, deliberately, for effect. My point with…” | ||
| 39. | When operating "at web scale", users often simply don't have "real names" (plus.google.com) | |
| 155 points | 2011 | author saurik showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“and consider the title I assigned to it here on Hacker News to be its official title; this is also the title that I used when I linked to it on my Facebook Page. Why,…” | ||
| 40. | Redis at Disqus (bretthoerner.com) | |
| 153 points | 2011 | author bretthoerner showed up | their comment | thread
“What about a junior developer with an interest in Redis? This stuff isn't hard; I have recommendations. E-mail in profile. :)” | ||
| 41. | A reboot of PHP: keep the philosophy, improve the syntax with the jvm (code.google.com) | |
| 149 points | 2011 | author remi_forax showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi guys, I'm the author of PHP.reboot and also one of the guys that worked on JSR 292 (invokedynamic in Java). First, I don't know based2 and please don't be too…” | ||
| 42. | How much money can you make in the iOS App Store? (blog.riverofnewsapp.com) | |
| 148 points | 2011 | author DylanG showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for the interest and thoughtful replies. I certainly have complaints about the dev process Apple has created but I stand by my statement that Apple has allowed me…” | ||
| 43. | Apple is professional, the web is amateur (dave.is) | |
| 148 points | 2011 | author davidbalbert showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“It's possible I didn't make my point as clearly as I could have in my post though. Also re: phone prices, I agree with you. I think the pundits were wrong and pre-judged…” | ||
| 44. | Groupon May Expire Sooner Than Expected (seekingalpha.com) | |
| 148 points | 2011 | author techystocks showed up | their comment | thread
“I wrote the article and can vouch this effectively was the business model of Commerce One. I didn't do into gory detail in the article as that wasn't the point.…” | ||
| 45. | Fakecall: helping polite introverts stay productive (fakecall.net) | |
| 142 points | 2011 | author scottw showed up | their comment | thread
“The number is put through a regex first and only digits are allowed.” | ||
| 46. | Bitcoin is Not Anonymous (anonymity-in-bitcoin.blogspot.com) | |
| 135 points | 2011 | author feral showed up | their comment | thread
“This work is about looking at the Bitcoin transaction history as a network, and investigating privacy and anonymity, in practice, on it - something there's been a good…” | ||
| 47. | Importance of Side Projects (rawsyntax.com) | |
| 132 points | 2011 | author rawsyntax showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“will answer any questions / criticisms of the post. Thanks for the upvotes” | ||
| 48. | Stop A/B Testing and Make Out like a Bandit (untyped.com) | |
| 131 points | 2011 | author noelwelsh showed up | their comment | thread
“We have a beta implementation of the idea available. Drop me a line (noel at untyped dot com) if you're interested in trying it out.” | ||
| 49. | Experience porting 4k lines of C code to go (blog.kowalczyk.info) | |
| 130 points | 2011 | author kkowalczyk showed up | their comment | thread
“That's not an easy question to answer. If you were to do a faithful port i.e. using using the same techniques as C/Go code, it would be very close. upskirt uses a…” | ||
| 50. | So you think you own your Twitter name? (ac31004.blogspot.com) | |
| 129 points | 2011 | author acobley showed up | their comment | thread
“For the record, ac31004 is a module in internet programming I teach at the University of Dundee. Hence the odd name.” | ||
| 51. | Should Tumblr care? David Karp tells users who complain to "go away" (postdesk.com) | |
| 125 points | 2011 | author samengland showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm the author of the article and I can honestly say that "SEO for keywords related to the founder, his company's name, and related variables" is not what we're trying…” | ||
| 52. | Usefulness of inventing programming languages (emilis.github.com) | |
| 125 points | 2011 | author emilis_info showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thanks for the time you put into your comment. I think there may be both advantages and disadvantages in unifying function calls and dictionary queries. The reason I am…” | ||
| 53. | Roy — small functional language that compiles to JavaScript (roy.brianmckenna.org) | |
| 125 points | 2011 | author pufuwozu showed up | their comment | thread
“that's the plan! :)” | ||
| 54. | Recurly.js library released for secure, customizable checkout forms (js.recurly.com) | |
| 124 points | 2011 | author emery showed up | their comment | thread
“I'll be sure to put a notice at the top of the readme that it requires jQuery. Also, I agree with you. The jQuery dependency will be removed eventually. It was a time…” | ||
| 55. | Ruby is beautiful (but I'm moving to Python) (wit.io) | |
| 122 points | 2011 | author djacobs showed up | their comment | thread
“I wrote this article almost a year ago as a tribute to my favorite language at the time. (That title now belongs to Clojure.) It feels like if you want to do scientific…” | ||
| 56. | IOS vs. Android from the Trenches (devblog.bu.mp) | |
| 121 points | 2011 | author ikhare showed up | their comment | thread
“What aspects do you think I missed that you'd like to know more about? My first draft was much longer with a lot more details but I was worried about a writing a book…” | ||
| 57. | Infrastructure Debt (littlehart.net) | |
| 120 points | 2011 | author grumpycanuck showed up | their comment (+2 more) | thread
“Yeah, I figured it has been around a lot longer than 20 years but I thought the 20 year thing would get the point across.” | ||
| 58. | Storm - the Hadoop of realtime processing (tech.backtype.com) | |
| 119 points | 2011 | author nathanmarz showed up | their comment | thread
“Your criticism is totally fair. People have been curious about Storm so we wanted to provide a little bit of information about it. We'll have demos soon, and of course…” | ||
| 59. | On (Startup) Chile (hervalicio.us) | |
| 119 points | 2011 | author herval showed up | their comment | thread
“And I was here at HN, 4 months ago, defending it EXACTLY like you are now :)” | ||
| 60. | Computer vision (online book) (computervisionmodels.blogspot.com) | |
| 116 points | 2011 | author drsjdprince showed up | their comment | thread
“If you can't download, just wait a day or two - there aren't so many people interested in this that the server will be struggling for ever. Please don't torrent it as I…” | ||
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