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| 31. | An Interactive Guide To The Fourier Transform (betterexplained.com) | |
| 218 points | 2012 | author kalid showed up | their comment | thread
“I totally agree. There are certain explanations out there which have orders-of-magnitude differences in ease of understanding (seeing i as a rotation, seeing radians as…” | ||
| 32. | Color: a color matching game done in d3.js and Raphael (color.method.ac) | |
| 216 points | 2012 | author duopixel showed up | their comment | thread
“not sure how it went through the repost filter. but glad to see it again. In addition to d3.js and Raphael, it uses an implementation of Lab for D3 by Jeffrey Heer, and…” | ||
| 33. | A good developer has a natural, almost visceral aversion to complexity (sigpwned.com) | |
| 215 points | 2012 | author sigpwned showed up | their comment | thread
“I actually use that exact Einstein quotation in the article, attributed to the big man himself. One of my favorites.” | ||
| 34. | Living in a Van (blog.priceonomics.com) | |
| 210 points | 2012 | author rohin showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“In the article I link to a 60 Minutes segment that follows around families in Florida that turn to living in their cars as a last resort. Worth checking out as it offers…” | ||
| 35. | Some web development tips from a former Digg developer (duruk.net) | |
| 208 points | 2012 | author cancan showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Glad you like it. Are you sure that is still the case if you have the HTML5 doctype?” | ||
| 36. | Vim: Buffers, Windows, and Tabs (blog.sanctum.geek.nz) | |
| 207 points | 2012 | author tyrmored showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I generally recommend against Janus because I think there's much more value in learning Vim's core behaviour thoroughly, which is best done by starting with a relatively…” | ||
| 37. | Show HN: Clojure DSL for pattern-matching, parsing and generic programming (scattered-thoughts.net) | |
| 204 points | 2012 | author jamii showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Strucjure has much more expressive power. Strucjure views are first-class values and can call other views (or recursively call themselves). This allows them to recognise…” | ||
| 38. | About 33 bits (33bits.org) | |
| 201 points | 2012 | author randomwalker showed up | their comment | thread
“Much of my previous deanonymization research has been discussed on HN; see Also, if you find the premise of the blog interesting check out the sitemap linked from the…” | ||
| 39. | C++11 and Boost - Succinct like Python (fendrich.se) | |
| 201 points | 2012 | author daivd showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“The program is I/O-bound, so the only speed improvement comes from not having to start up the Python interpreter. If the task was CPU bound, you would get a great…” | ||
| 40. | Airbnb Releases Infinity.js: A Javascript Library for Smoother Scrolling (airbnb.github.com) | |
| 198 points | 2012 | author reissbaker showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“The utility is just to improve scroll smoothness (aka repaint times) of very-expensive-to-render pages, like infinite feeds with nice CSS effects. If you check out the…” | ||
| 41. | Windows 8 Tells Microsoft Everything You Install, Not Very Securely. (log.nadim.cc) | |
| 193 points | 2012 | author magikarp showed up | their comment | thread
“Let me ask you something: Have you checked if SSLv2 connections are actually dropped? The point of my article isn't SSLv2, it's privacy concerns. Also, I did actually…” | ||
| 42. | In-memory key-value store in C, Go and Python (darkcoding.net) | |
| 186 points | 2012 | author graham_king_3 showed up | their comment | thread
“The difference has nothing to do with epoll, these comments are correct. Thanks particularly to codeape for his pull request which made me realise this. Sorry everyone.…” | ||
| 43. | Kickstarter, Trademarks and Lies (arduino.cc) | |
| 186 points | 2012 | author mbanzi showed up | their comment | thread
“The objective of the post is to ask Kickstarter to provide a more direct way to report either trademark violations or lies (like this guy claiming to be a former…” | ||
| 44. | A Better Javascript Date Picker/Calendar (github.com) | |
| 178 points | 2012 | author ChiperSoft showed up | their comment | thread
“I do have a time picker in the works but I was planning to have it be a separate project. I suppose it could be a good idea to bundle it with this to avoid duplicating…” | ||
| 45. | I Don't Have Time (swanson.github.com) | |
| 178 points | 2012 | author swanson showed up | their comment | thread
“I'd be keen to hear if anyone has had success with different productivity systems for breaking done the big goals into smaller items. I've had varying amounts of success…” | ||
| 46. | What's That Programming Language? (wtpl.heroku.com) | |
| 177 points | 2012 | author andkerosine showed up | their comment | thread
“Sorry for nipping your adventure short, but I caught sight of how fast the logs were scrolling, noted the HN referrer, and decided it'd probably be best to stop…” | ||
| 47. | How To Become a Successful Freelance Web Developer (and Not Kill Your Career) (jamiebegin.com) | |
| 174 points | 2012 | author OptimusSubprime showed up | their comment | thread
“Using the model that I wrote about, you "downshift" from a full-time job that has you on the front line, doing billable work to someplace where you're supporting…” | ||
| 48. | On switching to Arch Linux (mikethecoder.com) | |
| 168 points | 2012 | author mcrittenden showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I think we're talking about two different things. By "nothing works out of the box" I mean that you need to set it up yourself. For example, the Beginner's Guide leads…” | ||
| 49. | Markdown: The Spec - it's coming and it's full of personalities (rumproarious.com) | |
| 168 points | 2012 | author voidfiles showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I haven't been able to find any public discussion about a spec from the parties involved other then Atwood's blog post.” | ||
| 50. | PHPPHP: a PHP VM in PHP (github.com) | |
| 165 points | 2012 | author ircmaxell showed up | their comment | thread
“I figured I'd answer a couple of questions as to why I wrote this. First, it was something that I always wanted to do. For no particular reason other than I wanted to do…” | ||
| 51. | Pay Too Much for everything (allentucker.com) | |
| 161 points | 2012 | author allentucker showed up | their comment | thread
“There are many good points here. The purpose of my article was to give a different perspective from the default "buy whatever is cheapest" method that I believe most…” | ||
| 52. | Neat Algorithms - Flocking (harry.me) | |
| 160 points | 2012 | author hbrundage showed up | their comment | thread
“I backed the book and have been eagerly following along. Really cool stuff.” | ||
| 53. | ChesSMS: Using Unicode to play Chess over SMS (twilio.com) | |
| 159 points | 2012 | author chadrs showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Sorry guys, it appears the traffic accidentally caused my balance to go too negative and my account got suspended! D'oit! Fixed now!” | ||
| 54. | Attention to Detail (martinsnyder.net) | |
| 153 points | 2012 | author Artius showed up | their comment | thread
“and while I was camping this hacker news post last night, I didn't want to be "one of those guys" that replies to everything instantly when it comes in. Thank you…” | ||
| 55. | Thoughts on Go after writing 3 websites (blog.kowalczyk.info) | |
| 153 points | 2012 | author kkowalczyk showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I would be much more uncomfortable running on uWSGI than on net/http. As far as I can tell () Go's uWSGI implementation is just a small wrapper over C code inside a dll.…” | ||
| 56. | Python Web Programming (docs.python.org) | |
| 152 points | 2012 | author LeonidasXIV showed up | their comment | thread
“While I agree that part of this guide are indeed outdated and could be worth an update (which I haven't had the time to since some years) I still think the general…” | ||
| 57. | Single page apps in depth (new free book) (singlepageappbook.com) | |
| 151 points | 2012 | author mixu showed up | their comment | thread
“- if you're at YC's startup school today and have questions, come talk to me. I've got a yellow tshirt and look like my Github pic.” | ||
| 58. | Real Time Multiplayer in HTML5 (buildnewgames.com) | |
| 150 points | 2012 | author SvenBergstrom showed up | their comment | thread
“Glad Etienne posted here, for some reason I couldn't find my login for HN.” | ||
| 59. | Facebook “Promoted Posts” have primarily foreign “Likes”: Why? (fetzervalves.com) | |
| 150 points | 2012 | author jaybna showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“yes, cr4zy, it seems to be isolated to Promoted Posts. I actually put two samples in the writeup. One is a contest and the other is just a status update. Both have the…” | ||
| 60. | Smoothie Charts: a small javascript charting library for live streaming data (smoothiecharts.org) | |
| 148 points | 2012 | author joewalnes showed up | their comment | thread
“An initial version of SmoothieCharts used SVG, but I switched to Canvas because I got slightly better performance (which actually surprised me). That's not strictly true…” | ||
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