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Responsive Dashboard (ehesp.github.io) |
| 242 points | 2014 | author aliasell showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm really a backend developer so my knowledge of Angular really isn't that great. I'll look into what you suggested, however I didn't want it to be too complex; quick…” |
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The Star Trek Economy (medium.com) |
| 241 points | 2014 | author rickwebb showed up | their comment | thread
“1) No trolling, just sarcasm. Not a comment on my personal beliefs, more along the lines of "wouldn't wash with a bunch of American TV writers during the cold war." I…” |
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2048 – multiplayer (emils.github.io) |
| 240 points | 2014 | author Oculus showed up | their comment | thread
“Sorry for the buggyness, this is my first stab at realtime. I can confirm that everybody you're playing is a real person. I wasn't sure how to simulate latency for…” |
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Everyday hassles in Go (crufter.com) |
| 239 points | 2014 | author friendly_chap showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I think that is a very valid point. However, a lot of features I mentioned are present in other imperative languages, like Rust. The Go authors however picked other…” |
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Breaking the Silk Road's Captcha (github.com) |
| 238 points | 2014 | author mieko showed up | their comment | thread
“Here's the corresponding proggit thread:” |
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Mbox – A lightweight sandboxing mechanism (pdos.csail.mit.edu) |
| 233 points | 2014 | author tsgates showed up | their comment | thread
“Since I got too many emails regarding mbox, here are a few things to clarify. - naming: pkgfile mbox || echo looks like a good name - support: sorry, I don't have Mac or…” |
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UX Crash Course: Fundamentals (thehipperelement.com) |
| 231 points | 2014 | author JoelMarsh showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Thank you for pointing out my mistake: I TOTALLY AGREE about the new tab/window issue, and I have now fixed it. That must have been brutal on a mobile device. It was…” |
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TLS/SSL implementation in Haskell (github.com) |
| 231 points | 2014 | author vhz showed up | their comment | thread
“Getting around timing attacks is not too different in Haskell from doing the same thing in C. First, there's 2 different classes of timing issues: 1) cryptographic ones…” |
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Python 3 is killing Python (medium.com) |
| 228 points | 2014 | author postfuturist showed up | their comment | thread
“I've never worked at Microsoft (where did you get that?). I'm a Linux guy. The "lazy people" you refer to is 98% of the Python community. Python 3 didn't "gain" static…” |
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An Opinionated Guide to Modern Java, Part 3: Web Development (blog.paralleluniverse.co) |
| 226 points | 2014 | author pron showed up | their comment | thread
“As I explain in the article, I cannot recommend any framework that encourages asynchronous code. It's simply the wrong approach, no matter what functional tricks are…” |
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Command-line file sharing (transfer.sh) |
| 226 points | 2014 | author z24z showed up | their comment | thread
“Thanks for your comment and I have reduced the gif size quite a lot. Please take a look.” |
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Recruitment Process for a Google Site Reliability Engineer (blog.lambda-startup.com) |
| 224 points | 2014 | author voidptr showed up | their comment | thread
“I just want to say that I appreciate the overwhelming feedback and all the positive and encouraging statements to not take that rejection too seriously. Furthermore, I'm…” |
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How I Start: Erlang (howistart.org) |
| 221 points | 2014 | author mononcqc showed up | their comment | thread
“I've used it professionally as a trainer and course developer (teaching Erlang), in Real Time Bidding systems for advertisement, and I'm currently at Heroku, where we…” |
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Elvish – An experimental Unix shell in Go (github.com) |
| 221 points | 2014 | author xiaq showed up | their comment | thread
“Wow, I completely didn't expect this to hit HN this early. I did a talk at FUDCON Beijing 2014 (slides:) and warned that "this might eat your ~, so don't post this on HN…” |
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Notes on bookmarks from 1997 (notes.pinboard.in) |
| 220 points | 2014 | author vitovito showed up | their comment | thread
“You're right, of course. Of the 77 210 OK But Gone URLs, 35 had copies in the archive (more had copies than that, but only 35 were from the right year), but 5 (three…” |
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Painting in Clojure (tombooth.co.uk) |
| 212 points | 2014 | author tombooth showed up | their comment | thread
“I'm going to be knocking around if anyone has any questions, as I think you all deserve a finished post. If anyone wants to contribute or have a look at the code it is…” |
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Amazon has sold no more than 35,000 Fire phones, data suggests (theguardian.com) |
| 212 points | 2014 | author charlesarthur showed up | their comment | thread
“would love to hear all about your experience. Email easy to find.” |
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We are not normal people (justinjackson.ca) |
| 210 points | 2014 | author mijustin showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I appreciate your perspective. Which CTA, specifically did you find awkward? (As a side-note: I've had other posts with similar traffic and same landing URL. This one…” |
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WhatsApplebee's: the premiere Applebee's-based social chat app (whatsapplebees.com) |
| 210 points | 2014 | author lazerwalker showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“the app is absolutely not a PR campaign. However, I can't speak for.” |
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Brave New Phone Call (medium.com) |
| 210 points | 2014 | author steven showed up | their comment | thread
“One comment about the iPhone only issue. Of course I probed this with Ray -- a communications app is really handicapped if you can't share it with all the people you…” |
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Distributed Systems and the End of the API (writings.quilt.org) |
| 209 points | 2014 | author cemerick showed up | their comment (+5 more) | thread
“I'm not sure you read the whole piece. :-) (Modern) APIs are a very limited mechanism of state transfer that happens to be paired with often side-effecting operations.…” |
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Beginner's guide to OCaml beginner's guides (blog.nullspace.io) |
| 209 points | 2014 | author antics showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“I think it's totally fair. The whole reason I wrote this post is to help people decide which resources to not use. I love LYAH but I don't care who it was written for. I…” |
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Pgweb: Web-based PostgreSQL database browser written in Go (github.com) |
| 209 points | 2014 | author sosedoff showed up | their comment | thread
“Im still new to Go language and the way pgweb is structured is not the best, but it works for now. Pull requests are always welcome!” |
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TMSU is a tool for tagging your files (tmsu.org) |
| 209 points | 2014 | author oniony showed up | their comment | thread
“Windows support is in progress.” |
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Introduction to the Mill CPU Programming Model (ootbcomp.com) |
| 208 points | 2014 | author willvarfar showed up | their comment | thread
“The talks which Ivan has been giving - there are links in that intro - go into everything in much more detail. But here's a quick overview of your specific questions: 1:…” |
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Model Your Users: Algorithms Behind the Minuum Keyboard (minuum.com) |
| 207 points | 2014 | author wxs showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“That video is an in-house demo of an early prototype on a Samsung Galaxy Gear, so yes it works on those! Minuum isn't yet shipping on any smart watches, but we're hoping…” |
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Learning Curves for Different Programming Languages (github.com) |
| 207 points | 2014 | author Dobiasd showed up | their comment | thread
“Yes, the basic intention is to have similar scales on the y axis. But of course it's not to be taken seriously. :)” |
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AngularStrap v2.0 (mgcrea.github.io) |
| 206 points | 2014 | author olouv showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“the main difference is that AngularStrap has been rewritten from the ground up to leverage ngAnimate that came with AngularJS 1.2+, so it's leaner and brings way more…” |
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Pointer Pointer (pointerpointer.com) |
| 205 points | 2014 | author studiomoniker showed up | their comment | thread
“The find-the-closest-finger algorithm was taken from another project we did, where we needed much more speed. We use a voronoi diagram with a distinct color for each…” |
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Queues Don't Fix Overload (ferd.ca) |
| 205 points | 2014 | author mononcqc showed up | their comment | thread
“I use queues all the time. I program in Erlang and there is one unbounded queue in every single process' mailbox in every node. The problem is not queues themselves,…” |
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