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gizmodo.com 14y ago

Intel Lab Fashion: Miniskirts, Bunny Suits and Hippie Flare

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www.metafilter.com 14y ago

Demoscene - The Art of the Algorithms

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greenteapress.com 14y ago

Learn Perl the Hard Way

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c2.com 14y ago

No Silver Bullet

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curl.haxx.se 14y ago

The Art of HTTP Requests Scripting

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www.ibm.com 14y ago

Handbook of Text manipulation on Unix

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www.archlinux.org 14y ago

Arch Linux turns 10

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w3techs.com 14y ago

The probability of providing data to Google?

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altdevblogaday.com 14y ago

AltDevConf Session Videos

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www.hnsearch.com 14y ago

Hacker News Apps

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www.reddit.com 14y ago

So You Want To Be a Developer (Part 1)

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www.theatlantic.com 14y ago

How Genius Works

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ocw.mit.edu 14y ago

Performance Engineering of Software Systems (Lectures included)

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

An Introduction to Vi, by Bill Joy

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www.oracle.com 14y ago

Scaling a PHP MySQL Web Application

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citeseer.ist.psu.edu 14y ago

Online library of research papers.

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www.newfangled.com 14y ago

Prototyping for Designers

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addyosmani.com 14y ago

JQuery UI Bootstrap: A New Bootstrap-inspired Theme For Your Widgets

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mobilewebbestpractices.com 14y ago

Mobile Web Best Practices

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doc.cat-v.org 14y ago

Notes on Programming in C - Rob Pike, February 21, 1989

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confusedofcalcutta.com 14y ago

Reconstructing my (JP Rangaswami's) Grandfather

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cs193h.stevesouders.com 14y ago

CS193H: High Performance Web Sites

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omniti.com 14y ago

Thoughts on Web Application Deployment

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www.usenix.org 14y ago

Handling Flash Crowds from your Garage

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billyreisinger.com 14y ago

The Ridiculously Thorough Guide to Making Your Own Pizza

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wilsonericn.wordpress.com 14y ago

Find, grep, sed, and awk.

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tigerbeatdown.com 14y ago

The Percentages - A Biography of Class

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www.eff.org 14y ago

Guidelines for Securing Open Source Software

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www.brainpickings.org 14y ago

Richard Feynman on Beauty, Honors, and Curiosity

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www.reddit.com 14y ago

What you learnt on job, that you didn't learn in school

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No Podcast list is complete without mentioning Software engineering radio: http://se-radio.net

This compilation of podcasts by Skilldrick has some real good ones: http://skilldrick.co.uk/2011/08/podcasts-i-listen-to/ Especially, The Changelog and FLOSS weekly.

Also another small compilation from infoq: http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/09/archcasts I especially enjoy On Architecture with Grady Booch: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/computingnow/onarchitectu...

Stack Overflow (now stackexchange, you can find the old episodes on itconversations), and techzing podcasts are packed with wit and humor. Listening to Joel, Justin and Jason, brightens any day.

I also subscribe to Compucast: http://computersciencepodcast.com/podcasts.html and Channel9: http://channel9.msdn.com/

Herding Code: http://herdingcode.com/ and radio free python: http://www.radiofreepython.com/ are on my "to listen" list.

I guess the problem is that you added a bunch of strangers to Google+. That's not what Google+ is for.

Um... Isn't that the reason "circles" in Google+ exist? To draw lines?

It's why we read HN instead of Reddit or Slashdot: mostly to be different.

I don't think anyone only "reads" one community. According to interest, one participates in many?

Personally, I found all this quite confusing (and just when I figured how to "circle"; doh, limit has been reached for adding people. But, you can start adding tomorrow!)... and following the advice of sp332 and betterth, I avoided falling into blunders like Google adding all 1000+ contacts to my Gtalk or notifying each and everything that ever happens in G+ universe.

Moreover, since now people are split inside circles, am I supposed to update the circle manually everyday?

acquainting yourself with theory is acquainting yourself with new concepts. It gives you building blocks and labels that you can build on, and hang later concepts on. Without the scaffolding that theory gives you, you'll miss many opportunities for insight later.

So very true. The difference between the me one year back and the me now is that I know how and why certain things are the way they are. Understanding is enlightening.

Ultimately, it is that resistance you need to seek out. Look for things that will challenge you consistely (sic). Work at them until the resistance goes away, and then look for something new. That's how you'll grow your craft. That's what will make you better than you are today.

Amen.

"We know - we know - they are not going to take the time to find the bits that made it sing and hum and make those parts better. We know that on a basic animal level that they don’t get it."

"Delicious is a bitter lesson for everyone. It’s the difference between how people actually use a product versus how rich, out-of-touch knuckleheads think people should be using that product, all to further their own self-interests."

Well said.

Why am I belaboring the tuning thing? Because learning how to tune your guitar properly is basically a tools issue. Many guitarists are perfectly happy to get by with poor tuning, but then they sound bad even if they're playing well. Developers are often content to use whatever tools they've got, without digging in and figuring out how to "tune" the tools for maximum efficiency. Mastering the tools of the trade is an important part of every professional's ability to be effective. - Steve Yegge

http://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/practicing-programm...

Cobra effect 15 years ago

The term 'Cobra effect' stems from an anecdote set at the time of British rule of colonial India. The British government was concerned about the number of venomous cobra snakes. The Government therefore offered a reward for every dead snake. Initially this was a successful strategy as large numbers of snakes were killed for the reward. Eventually however the Indians began to breed cobras for the income.

When this was realized the reward was canceled, but the cobra breeders set the snakes free and the wild cobras consequently multiplied. The apparent solution for the problem made the situation even worse.

A similar incident occurred in Hanoi, under French colonial rule, where a program paying people a bounty for each rat pelt handed in was intended to exterminate rats. Instead, it led to the farming of rats.

If the intention was to decrease the incidents of Cobras/rats causing problems to humans, then isn't Cobra effect a success?

quote :"There are many reasons why engineers want to work for Facebook, from the potential windfall to learning just how they are able to ship so much technology so fast. It is an engineering dreamland."

What kinda innovations and technology is facebook shipping out so fast? To me, facebook is a streamlined and polished way to keep in touch with people and share information, which the internet already offered and was made for. Whats more to it than that?

Google, IBM, Intel, Research and development, etc would be some of the places which I would be interested in working, as I see them as innovators. Facebook, twitter etc are just "apps" for me

<quote> Also, but "this" I mean simply accepting that will power is limited and learning to focus it on the things you truly want out of life instead of the things you tell yourself that you want. </quote>

Spot on

"If you're like most people, you feel like a baby when it comes to visual design. You sometimes have a vague sense of what you want, but can't articulate it or make it come about. All you can do is point and cry." A very nice introduction!

Thanks a lot. Brief, to the point, good examples to supplement the text, with pointers for further reference to good books as well. Love it.

|"By your logic there is a problem with the automotive industry (people keep making new cars)"

But you don't see infinite procedures to make the same car. Web frameworks aren't solving new problems. They are competing with other frameworks which does the exact same thing.