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| 91. | Discover Meteor (discovermeteor.com) | |
| 182 points | 2013 | author sgdesign showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for the summary! Just a small clarification: the book doesn't teach you how to build Telescope, it teaches you how to build Microscope, a simplified version of…” | ||
| 92. | Soviet College Admission — My Dad's Story (1970) (ivolo.me) | |
| 178 points | 2013 | author ivolo showed up | their comment | thread
“As far as I understand, the Jewish quotas were not proportional to the population. The other significant difference is that all these policies were completely opaque,…” | ||
| 93. | Isomorphic JavaScript: The Future of Web Apps (nerds.airbnb.com) | |
| 177 points | 2013 | author frontendbeauty showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Good point. TBH, I have no idea what "isomorphic" means in the mathematical sense. I was inspired to use "isomorphic" from a 2011 article by Nodejitsu [1]. It seemed…” | ||
| 94. | Best Practices for Designing a Pragmatic RESTful API (vinaysahni.com) | |
| 176 points | 2013 | author veesahni showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Those tags only address mutations to a URL. What about adding a field, removing a field or updating the type of data stored on a field? HATEOAS doesn't offer anything…” | ||
| 95. | The Day our investors came to see the office (2011) (thedayseries.tumblr.com) | |
| 174 points | 2013 | author angilly showed up | their comment | thread
“I saw a few comments coming in this morning and had no idea what was going on. Gotta love Google Analytics :) I'm glad you enjoyed the story. I enjoyed the experience :)” | ||
| 96. | Bitcoin's UK future looks bleak (scirra.com) | |
| 174 points | 2013 | author TomGullen showed up | their comment | thread
“thank you! It's tiring meeting all the resistance I do when trying to investigate these issues. As cheesy as it sounds any thanks I do get really does motivate me.” | ||
| 97. | An engineer's emergency kit business card (boldport.blogspot.co.uk) | |
| 173 points | 2013 | author boldport showed up | their comment | thread
“The blog is hosted on blogger (Google). When I decided to use blogger I wrongly assumed that it will 'just work' across platforms, but it hasn't been the case,…” | ||
| 98. | Twitter? It’s Not Fun Anymore (thetwitcleaner.com) | |
| 172 points | 2013 | author sidawson showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“sigh Yeah, you're both right. I'll move the images local. Not intending to leach. Just trying to lighten up an otherwise kinda depressing post. Seeing four years of work…” | ||
| 99. | Staring at the Sun: Dalvik vs. Asm.js vs. Native (blog.mozilla.org) | |
| 170 points | 2013 | author kannanvijayan showed up | their comment | thread
“The "regular JS scores" do REALLY well on several benchmarks (faster than native, even), for one primary reason: the transcendental math cache (which every JS engine…” | ||
| 100. | Natural Language Processing for the Working Programmer (nlpwp.org) | |
| 169 points | 2013 | author danieldk showed up | their comment | thread
“we wrote this during the Pragmatic Programmer's writing month in 2010 and some more in 2011. Then I got caught up writing my PhD thesis, and now a new job (as an NLP…” | ||
| 101. | Teaching Square Roots to a Five Year Old (dlewis.net) | |
| 168 points | 2013 | author DanLivesHere showed up | their comment | thread
“Glad to take any questions. (and why'd it come up now? I wrote it a month or so ago.)” | ||
| 102. | Flat design is great for mediocre designers like me (whoo.ps) | |
| 168 points | 2013 | author libovness showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“-) I agree with you @lucisferre, and for this reason I think the flat design trend will become obsolescent at a faster rate than most design trends usually do. I also…” | ||
| 103. | Kartlytics: Applying Big Data Analytics to Mario Kart (joyent.com) | |
| 167 points | 2013 | author dap showed up | their comment | thread
“That's an approach we considered as well, but we didn't want to have to use an emulator to play the game. Still, you could potentially get much richer information with…” | ||
| 104. | PostgreSQL Exercises (pgexercises.com) | |
| 167 points | 2013 | author AlisdairO showed up | their comment | thread
“just wanted to say thanks for the feedback and kind words. I know there's a couple of rough UI edges in there yet, but I figured it was about time I just shipped…” | ||
| 105. | The Taxonomy of Terrible Programmers (aaronstannard.com) | |
| 166 points | 2013 | author Aaronontheweb showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“as I state in the article, every programmer is at least one of these at some point in their career, myself included. I was definitely an Island as recently as a few…” | ||
| 106. | Why Maybe Is Better Than Null (nickknowlson.com) | |
| 164 points | 2013 | author nickknw showed up | their comment | thread
“that's it exactly.” | ||
| 107. | Where do Github users live? WebGL visualization (aasen.in) | |
| 164 points | 2013 | author aaasen showed up | their comment | thread
“sorry about the spikes where people do not actually live. A lot of users put only their country and not city, and I didn't want to throw that data away. I probably…” | ||
| 108. | Dear Mozilla, stop watching me (emilis.github.io) | |
| 163 points | 2013 | author emilis_info showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“My purpose with this post is not to expose Mozilla, but to show how deep many of us are in this business. I admit I am guilty of similar practices myself. I think we…” | ||
| 109. | Faster, Better DOM manipulation with Dommy and ClojureScript (blog.getprismatic.com) | |
| 162 points | 2013 | author aria showed up | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions/concerns.” | ||
| 110. | Why does Ember.js rock? (kerricklong.com) | |
| 162 points | 2013 | author Kerrick showed up | their comment | thread
“I wrote that contrived example to show off computed properties. In idiomatic Ember.js, I would have written the template as follows, with no Computed Property (indeed,…” | ||
| 111. | Toxic workplace, what do I do? (pastebin.com) | |
| 161 points | 2013 | author fingerDevnull showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“out of curiosity, what is the first and last letter of the city you think this org is in ?” | ||
| 112. | JSLinux rewritten to be human readable, deobfuscated and annotated (github.com) | |
| 160 points | 2013 | author alevskaya showed up | their comment | thread
“There is a difference in spirit between publicly accessible and published. I did this in a burst of mania over a few days more than a year ago and only pushed it to…” | ||
| 113. | Interviewing as a Front-End Engineer in San Francisco (css-tricks.com) | |
| 160 points | 2013 | author philipwalton showed up | their comment | thread
“I agree 100% that HTML and CSS are not programming languages. However, any application that you build on the front-end is going to require your JavaScript code to…” | ||
| 114. | Don’t drown in email: How to use Gmail more efficiently (klinger.io) | |
| 159 points | 2013 | author andreasklinger showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I have the same angst about interface changes. I am so extremely dependent on being effective in gmail. If they ever force me to use one of the new interfaces of Gmail,…” | ||
| 115. | Tracking down a memory leak in Ruby's EventMachine (blog.nelhage.com) | |
| 158 points | 2013 | author nelhage showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Yeah, there are a lot of such tools, and they can be invaluable. In my experience, though, if you're working with a large, complex system, including pieces like Ruby and…” | ||
| 116. | Learn Python in minutes (learnxinyminutes.com) | |
| 158 points | 2013 | author Loadin showed up | their comment (+4 more) | thread
“Sorry for that. I know they are objects but if you consider everything an object then really you have no primitives except object itself. Certainly this has a place in…” | ||
| 117. | If It's Important, Don't Hack It (insideintercom.io) | |
| 158 points | 2013 | author destraynor showed up | their comment | thread
“it seems to have been very well received. I've read your 5 paragraphs and I can't really understand what you're saying.” | ||
| 118. | ”No one at Google is Returning Our Calls” (digitstodollars.com) | |
| 156 points | 2013 | author d2dadvisory showed up | their comment | thread
“And I do know what I'm talking about. OHA doesn't even begin to solve the problem at hand. The subjects of my piece have access to AOSP, and could join OHA if they…” | ||
| 119. | Tiny, cheap, and dangerous: Inside a fake iPhone charger (righto.com) | |
| 155 points | 2013 | author kens showed up | their comment | thread
“it was a surprise to see this old article on HN. To reply to your comments, even if you fix the safety problems, this charger would generate really terrible power.…” | ||
| 120. | Json.human.js: Json Formatting for Human Beings (marianoguerra.github.io) | |
| 155 points | 2013 | author marianoguerra showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“let me know if you have any questions” | ||
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