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| 151. | Why I Was Fired From a Tech Startup and What My Boss Had to Say About It (fdpod.com) | |
| 129 points | 2013 | author FDpod showed up | their comment | thread
“Hi there. I'm the author of the piece (my friend just emailed me to tell me I'm on here - which is all sorts of cool and weird). I didn't run the Full Disclosure site at…” | ||
| 152. | On Ansible (benscofield.com) | |
| 128 points | 2013 | author bscofield showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“Absolutely -- I developed my entire setup in Vagrant. It was fantastic, especially in the early stages where I'd just share my playbook folder into the guest machine and…” | ||
| 153. | My Product Has Failed (ironconversions.com) | |
| 127 points | 2013 | author Rakathos showed up | their comment | thread
“I wondered where the random burst of traffic came from. For those who haven't read the more recent posts, I received a ton of great feedback from HN and other…” | ||
| 154. | SpoofMAC - Spoof your MAC address in Mac OS X (feross.org) | |
| 126 points | 2013 | author feross showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks, nh, for sharing this. To those wondering why you would use SpoofMAC when you can just do `sudo ifconfig en1 ether 00:11:22:33:44:55:66`, let me explain why I…” | ||
| 155. | WhiteDB – Lightweight NoSQL database written in C, operating in main memory (whitedb.org) | |
| 126 points | 2013 | author tammet showed up | their comment | thread
“A few answers quickly. It does write to disk: you can either dump memory or write all changes to log (turn it on/off yourself). Sure it has a global read/write lock,…” | ||
| 156. | Common JavaScript Gotchas (jblotus.com) | |
| 125 points | 2013 | author jblotus showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“it wasn't about hiding private variables. i was demonstrating using closures to avoid global namespace collisions which i think is generally a big problem for beginners.” | ||
| 157. | Scoop – A command-line installer for Windows (scoop.sh) | |
| 125 points | 2013 | author lucajona showed up | their comment | thread
“I use Chocolatey too, although not so often recently. Scoop is more focused on open-source command-line developer tools. I expect Scoop will appeal more to…” | ||
| 158. | Lawsuit Filed Against NYPD Street Body Scanners (tsaoutofourpants.wordpress.com) | |
| 121 points | 2013 | author tsaoutourpants showed up | their comment | thread
“thanks for posting! :) I filed the first lawsuit against the TSA's nude body scanners when they became primary screening in 2010, and you may also remember me from my…” | ||
| 159. | Bringing functional to the frontend – Clojure and ClojureScript for the web (blog.getprismatic.com) | |
| 120 points | 2013 | author aria showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Happy to answer any questions or comments.” | ||
| 160. | Beware of these lame App Store techniques (neotokyo.vg) | |
| 120 points | 2013 | author akirareiko showed up | their comment | thread
“I am the author of this post and if anyone have a question I am more than happy to answer it.” | ||
| 161. | How I got into YC S13 (aelag.com) | |
| 120 points | 2013 | author aelaguiz showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“FWIW I didn't have Alumni in my network until I decided to apply and then I started seeking them out. I went so far as to cold-email people on AngelList. Also I live in…” | ||
| 162. | Typo: A programming language that runs in Haskell's type system (github.com) | |
| 119 points | 2013 | author seliopou showed up | their comment | thread
“Besides creating Typo as an exercise in implementing a language, it's also the punchline to a seven-year-old joke[1] about implementing RSA in Haskell's type system,…” | ||
| 163. | A Simplified Modern Approach to Stoicism (philosophy-of-cbt.com) | |
| 118 points | 2013 | author solutionscbt showed up | their comment | thread
“Someone else kindly posted it here. I just noticed an awful lot of traffic suddenly coming from this link. So thought I'd say thanks! Also, if anyone has any questions…” | ||
| 164. | The anti-virus age is over (codeinsecurity.wordpress.com) | |
| 118 points | 2013 | author gsuberland showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I wrote this about a year ago, when the average salary of an Indian developer was significantly less, and there was a huge market in low-quality low-cost development…” | ||
| 165. | Show HN: importd – d is for django (pythonhosted.org) | |
| 116 points | 2013 | author amitu showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“as well as that of smarturls and fhurl mentioned there. I understand the concern about magic, and moving parts. I guess the right answer to that concern would be…” | ||
| 166. | Researchers publish Snapchat code allowing phone number matching (zdnet.com) | |
| 116 points | 2013 | author gibsonsecurity showed up | their comment | thread
“, and the exploit we primarily talked about (find_friends) isn't really an issue with the protocol as a whole. We understand the need to support legacy clients, but…” | ||
| 167. | Running PostgreSQL on Compression-enabled ZFS (citusdata.com) | |
| 114 points | 2013 | author cwsteinbach showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Believe it or not I originally had the compression ratio graph rotated 90 degrees, and had manually modified it to run from 0.00 to 1.00. Google docs for some god awful…” | ||
| 168. | An introduction to libuv (nikhilm.github.io) | |
| 112 points | 2013 | author nsm showed up | their comment | thread
“It's because it uses the Haiku standard theme shipped with the sphinx documentation generator, which does come from the Haiku project :)” | ||
| 169. | Writing HTTP Middleware in Go (justinas.org) | |
| 112 points | 2013 | author sjustinas showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for your input, but I'd like to clarify some points. The blog post's intent was not to show how to implement your own middleware mechanism in a web framework…” | ||
| 170. | The Slash Programming Language (slash-lang.org) | |
| 111 points | 2013 | author charliesome showed up | their comment | thread
“I wasn't expecting Slash to show up here so soon - the website's pretty out of date and the language itself still needs a bit more polish before it's ready for use.…” | ||
| 171. | A Billion Rows per Second: Metaprogramming Python for Big Data [video] (thenewcircle.com) | |
| 109 points | 2013 | author vtuulos showed up | their comment | thread
“Fortunately HN works even in the Finnish countryside. I am happy to answer any questions.” | ||
| 172. | Haskell Beats C Using Generalized Stream Fusion [pdf] (research.microsoft.com) | |
| 108 points | 2013 | author mainland showed up | their comment | thread
“The dot product example was compiled with GCC 4.7.2 -O3 -msse4.2 -ffast-math -ftree-vectorize -funroll-loops; see the caption to Figure 5. What compiler options would…” | ||
| 173. | Notes on computer science, math, research, programming, and industry (yz.mit.edu) | |
| 108 points | 2013 | author xyzzyrz showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“It's just a set of reference notes I mainly keep for myself, but it's not really private - I share it as-is in case others can extract value from it (I'm surprised that…” | ||
| 174. | Musings about Debian and Python (notes.pault.ag) | |
| 108 points | 2013 | author paultag showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“D'aw, thanks so much. I really appreciate that. I identify as a OS-level hacker, and very focused on code, not design, so it means a lot to hear such kind words when I…” | ||
| 175. | The Economics of a Hit TV Show (priceonomics.com) | |
| 107 points | 2013 | author jonnathanson showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I don't disagree with you, especially in the second paragraph. To some degree I think it was smart for Netflix to make a big splash this early on. But the perception…” | ||
| 176. | A Crash Course In Awk (blog.bignerdranch.com) | |
| 107 points | 2013 | author billjings showed up | their comment | thread
“You're right that awk is a limited tool. That's exactly why I wanted to write about it. It just wouldn't be possible to make a comprehensive case for perl in a blog post…” | ||
| 177. | Actualvim – Sublime Text 3 input mode powered by Vim itself (github.com) | |
| 107 points | 2013 | author lunixbochs showed up | their comment | thread
“This works using Vim's NetBeans control protocol (inside Vim, do `:help netbeans` to get an overview. Also see the VimSocket class in vim.py) and minimal help from a…” | ||
| 178. | Understanding Clojure's Persistent Vectors, Part 1 (hypirion.com) | |
| 106 points | 2013 | author JeanPierre showed up | their comment | thread
“I think you talk about the persistent hashmaps, not the persistent vectors. I've been looking for papers explaining Clojure's persistent collections, and Bagwell seems…” | ||
| 179. | Show HN: I've used Go to build a daemon for the Raspberry Pi (jondot.github.io) | |
| 105 points | 2013 | author jondot showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“It was made out of several reasons * For fun (as said here) * Scratching my own itch - I needed a way to remotely run commands though a nice UI, and a way to see how my…” | ||
| 180. | Raphters: A web framework for C (thechangelog.com) | |
| 105 points | 2013 | author DanWaterworth showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I completely agree. I wrote this just because I could and because I was going through a phase of writing everything in C. I wouldn't recommend anyone actually try to use…” | ||
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