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| 61. | Wiki inventor Ward Cunningham develops federated wiki (wired.com) | |
| 148 points | 2012 | author klint showed up | their comment | thread
“and I can see why people got confused. I don't think Max Ogden was implying that it's a bad thing that you have to give up your view point on Wikipedia - and Ward…” | ||
| 62. | PostgreSQL vs MySQL: an apples to oranges comparison (ledgersmbdev.blogspot.co.uk) | |
| 148 points | 2012 | author einhverfr showed up | their comment | thread
“Mysql - Model is in your code. PostgreSQL - Model is at least partially in your database. Also your code can be at least partly in your database which is what makes this…” | ||
| 63. | Stackoverflow Is A Difficult Community to Participate In (theexceptioncatcher.com) | |
| 147 points | 2012 | author monksy showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“The global recalc happened arround Feb10. They applied the new policy retroactively. My reaction was ffs.. how can I actually get credit for the participation. Theres no…” | ||
| 64. | Learn Linux The Hard Way (β version) (nixsrv.com) | |
| 145 points | 2012 | author mwargh showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“sorry for 502. I wasn't really anticipating this much interest. I'm doing something about it now. Also you can blame me for including vim, but I'm conviced that basic vi…” | ||
| 65. | OAuth 3.0: the sane and simple way (tav.espians.com) | |
| 144 points | 2012 | author tav showed up | their comment | thread
“I wrote this draft a few years ago after getting frustrated with OAuth 2.0. And, whilst I am grateful for llambda for posting it to HN, it was never meant to be…” | ||
| 66. | The "Work" Trap (notes.unwieldy.net) | |
| 143 points | 2012 | author endtwist showed up | their comment | thread
“lift the title—had no idea there was an article of a similar name already.” | ||
| 67. | Jq - a lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor (stedolan.github.com) | |
| 143 points | 2012 | author stedolan showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I haven't tried to build on a mac in a while, bison there seems to support fewer options (must be an older version). For now, I've just checked in the autogenerated…” | ||
| 68. | Accurate remake of Pac-Man in JavaScript (shaunew.github.com) | |
| 140 points | 2012 | author undershirt showed up | their comment | thread
“The framerate you see at the bottom right corner only indicates how often it is drawn. The game loop is actually sophisticated enough to keep the game updating at a…” | ||
| 69. | A static website generator in Python (github.com) | |
| 140 points | 2012 | author koenbok showed up | their comment | thread
“I haven't looked too much at Pelican, but Cactus was built for designers (eg. be simple). The goal was to get them from nothing to a fully hosted site on s3 in under a…” | ||
| 70. | Emacs under Clojure (github.com) | |
| 139 points | 2012 | author hraberg showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for the support everyone! Seems like there is an interest in such a thing, so I'll better start hacking on this again. There are two parts to this. First, pure…” | ||
| 71. | The Best Time to Post on Hacker News (nathanael.hevenet.com) | |
| 138 points | 2012 | author Nathanael showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I'm going to transgress my no-HN rule this one time because I did in fact look at HN Pickup very closely and I already have a follow-up post planned in which I was going…” | ||
| 72. | Feynman's Clock (danwin.com) | |
| 137 points | 2012 | author danso showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“missed the point. The headline is "Feynman's Clock" and how he thought through the stopped clock is the example of his always logical mind. But considering I kind of…” | ||
| 73. | Why I Gave Up A Million Dollar Consultancy (planscope.io) | |
| 137 points | 2012 | author bdunn showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Trust me — I completely understand where you're coming from. With Planscope (my SaaS product) I'm getting to engineer a really rewarding product with Backbone.js and…” | ||
| 74. | Why I’m not backing you on Kickstarter (danshapiro.com) | |
| 136 points | 2012 | author danshapiro showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I appreciate both your perspectives; not all writing can be for everyone, of course. As it happens I'm in the middle of writing a very long essay in a much more…” | ||
| 75. | Big Data: principles and best practices (new book) (manning.com) | |
| 132 points | 2012 | author nathanmarz showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“If you have any questions about the book, I'm happy to answer them here.” | ||
| 76. | Protecting a Laptop from Simple and Sophisticated Attacks (grepular.com) | |
| 130 points | 2012 | author mike-cardwell showed up | their comment | thread
“The laptop in question is a Thinkpad. The good thing about Thinkpads is they all look the same, and they don't look valuable. Well, not like a Macbook or a Sony Vaio. I…” | ||
| 77. | What happens when you ask people to pick the lowest unique prime number. (robinsloan.com) | |
| 129 points | 2012 | author robinsloan showed up | their comment | thread
“I am also fascinated by this sense of certain numbers sounding prime (or more prime than others). For instance -- maybe this is just me -- I think 109 (the first winner)…” | ||
| 78. | Coding skill vs. employee skill (mikecr.it) | |
| 127 points | 2012 | author mcrittenden showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I can promise that genders weren't chosen on purpose. I was thinking of names and the guitarist duo Rodrigo y Gabriella came to mind so I went with it. I probably should…” | ||
| 79. | What Level Programmer Are You? (whattofix.com) | |
| 126 points | 2012 | author DanielBMarkham showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“The funny thing is not that you're wrong about me, it's how completely wrong you are. I'm self-taught, and started programming Commodore Pets under PetBasic with,…” | ||
| 80. | Microsoft shows off universal translator that preserves your voice (extremetech.com) | |
| 126 points | 2012 | author mrsebastian showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Hey! I'm the author of the story. I think Technology Review got them mixed up (which is where I got the audio samples from). I first saw it in the TechFest keynote: I…” | ||
| 81. | The SIM-less Phone Is Coming. And It Should Scare The Shit Out Of You (shkspr.mobi) | |
| 126 points | 2012 | author edent showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I don't think that the nano-SIM is going to lock down devices any more than the micro-SIM. I'm saying that while everyone is battling it out over that standard, Apple…” | ||
| 82. | Do Not Advertise On Facebook Until You Read This (wahanegi.com) | |
| 123 points | 2012 | author erik_larson showed up | their comment | thread
“I am not claiming that these are bots or that Facebook is defrauding us in the strict legal sense. After a bunch of research, I believe they are real people, as Facebook…” | ||
| 83. | A 14-year-old could build 1998's Google using her Dad's credit card (paulbohm.com) | |
| 122 points | 2012 | author enki showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I was writing this more in the sense that kids at BioCurious (and the DIY Bio Movement in general) are doing electrophoresis to transfer DNA from glowing jellyfish to…” | ||
| 84. | How to Contribute to Open Source without Being a Programming Rock Star (blog.smartbear.com) | |
| 121 points | 2012 | author petdance showed up | their comment | thread
“and throwing away the tickets was suggested many times by different people. We had a pretty big discussion in #parrot about the value of this ticket set. People on the…” | ||
| 85. | How LinkedIn betrayed a 5-man startup (thenextweb.com) | |
| 120 points | 2012 | author jonrussell showed up | their comment | thread
“don't usually [ever] comment on my own work here - but am interested to hear if other devs have had similar or contrasting experiences working with LinkedIn.” | ||
| 86. | Features of Solr vs. ElasticSearch (solr-vs-elasticsearch.com) | |
| 118 points | 2012 | author superkt showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi! I'm the author of It's something I threw together in a couple hours, and figured I'd iterate and improve over the next couple days, so please bear with the mistakes.…” | ||
| 87. | Steve Jobs Solved the Innovator's Dilemma (blogs.hbr.org) | |
| 117 points | 2012 | author hype7 showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm working with Clay at the moment. Thanks for the comment. It's subtle, but I think that most people outside of companies assume that decisions get made as you're…” | ||
| 88. | The Case for a Git-Powered Project Gutenberg (neosmart.net) | |
| 117 points | 2012 | author ComputerGuru showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'm the author of TFA and I must completely agree with you on this point. Is there a human-friendly VCS out there? I don't care how featured or not it is, as Git can be…” | ||
| 89. | DoppioVM: a JVM in CoffeeScript (int3.github.com) | |
| 117 points | 2012 | author int3 showed up | their comment | thread
“Doppio's not the first JVM in Javascript, but I believe we have the most extensive support for the JRE among the lot. In particular, we can run Rhino and the Java 4…” | ||
| 90. | Show HN: Socrates.io - clean and shareable markdown (socrates.io) | |
| 116 points | 2012 | author ivolo showed up | their comment | thread
“We did realize this. This is a weekend hackathon project to allow the hacker news community to write nice clean markdown. Firebase offers security, but we just didn't…” | ||
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