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| 61. | Haskell improves log processing 4x over Python (devblog.bu.mp) | |
| 114 points | 2011 | author jamwt showed up | their comment | thread
“It's important to note that this particular job is largely bound on a.) I/O and b.) format serialization tasks. Both Python's BSON and JSON libraries are mature and have…” | ||
| 62. | Secure your browsing using a home VPN (sriramk.com) | |
| 114 points | 2011 | author sriramk showed up | their comment | thread
“Like I said in the post, the third constraint I had was something that would work with dd wrt - and that doesn't support l2tp. Thanks for the bit on the offline cracking…” | ||
| 63. | Elsevier's profits alone could fund all academic publications as open access (svpow.wordpress.com) | |
| 114 points | 2011 | author MikeTaylor showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“As other commenters have pointed out, PLoS do have costs. What's easy to overlook here is not just the editorial work and infrastructure costs associated with the…” | ||
| 64. | Japan: We're losing to Apple, and here's why (globalvoicesonline.org) | |
| 112 points | 2011 | author shioyama showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thanks for your thoughts, which I agree with entirely. I actually think that although the post I translated is interesting, it is in fact missing the point, in a sense.…” | ||
| 65. | The failure of Second Life (bbot.org) | |
| 108 points | 2011 | author sbierwagen showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I know, I know! The graphs are auto-scaled by windows task manager, since they're designed to be a UI element, not to be compared between sessions like I did. However!…” | ||
| 66. | A CoffeeScript Intervention (pragprog.com) | |
| 107 points | 2011 | author TrevorBurnham showed up | their comment | thread
“JavaScript can be pretty overwhelming to newcomers. You mention scope, which is a good example of where CoffeeScript actually clarifies rather than hides the underlying…” | ||
| 67. | MoonScript - A programmer friendly language that compiles to Lua. (moonscript.org) | |
| 107 points | 2011 | author leafo showed up | their comment | thread
“You're right about the resemblance to CoffeeScript. I added some recognition at the bottom. Thanks for pointing it out, I just got the site up within the last hour so…” | ||
| 68. | MIT develops new tool that can interrupt infinite loops (bostinnovation.com) | |
| 106 points | 2011 | author mcarbin showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm one of the authors of this paper and this comment pretty much hits it on the head. Jolt is an investigation in developing tools to help users get more use out of…” | ||
| 69. | The Don Stewart Method: write code every day, release a project every week (shimweasel.com) | |
| 104 points | 2011 | author mwotton showed up | their comment | thread
“so, this was an object lesson in not running every single one of your services on a single ec2 micro instance. sorry about that.” | ||
| 70. | Pointfree style in Python (markshroyer.com) | |
| 104 points | 2011 | author Niten showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Yeah, I admit part of me felt dirty implementing this by commandeering operators. But my brief time with Haskell and F# has biased me enough toward this style of…” | ||
| 71. | Force Multipliers and Japanese Programmers (tokyomuslim.com) | |
| 102 points | 2011 | author jbm showed up | their comment | thread
“I upvoted you because I see how you may have misunderstood what I wrote. I agree with you in part because I'm a 32 year old and over-the-hill if you go by some things I…” | ||
| 72. | Agile Scrum: Delivering Broken Software Since 1991 (writemoretests.com) | |
| 102 points | 2011 | author peteretep showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I once started a contract at a company where I was working with a permie on this hugely popular site running off the God-awful blogging software. Everything was a fire…” | ||