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Issue #245 // March 27, 2015 // View in your browser

Plenty of good reads from all over the place and a really neat sponsor for this week's issue. Lastly - we passed over the 30k subscriber mark, thank you! kale

#Sponsor


A modern DevOps workflow for the Internet of Things
Resin.io leverages open source technologies including containers and the git version control system to allow you to deploy, update, and maintain code running on a fleet of IoT devices.

#Favorites


Fear of Apple
//elischiff comments

Ravens Offensive Lineman Publishes Math Paper
//npr comments

Make Money Online: Documenting 10 Years of Failure
//johnathanward comments

The Shut-In Economy
//medium comments

JavaScript's world domination
//medium comments

Ever wondered how device drivers are reverse engineered?
//linuxvoice comments

Plugging a 1986 Mac Plus into the Modern Web (2013)
//keacher comments

How I taught my dog to text me selfies
//twilio comments

Startups That Launched at Y Combinator Winter 2015 Demo Day 2
//techcrunch comments

GitHub Flow Like a Pro with These 13 Git Aliases
//haacked comments

#Ask HN


I Am Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator. AMA //ycombinator

I am the dumbest person in the room. What should I do? //ycombinator

#Show HN


The User Is Drunk //theuserisdrunk comments

Stripe Connect v2 //stripe comments

Pigeon.ly, a Startup Focused on Serving the U.S. Prison Population, Joins YC //techcrunch comments

Rabbits – Send an email to get any grunt-work programming job completed //ilikerabbits comments

httpdiff – diff responses to two HTTP/HTTPS requests //github comments

Pencil code (Lego Movie fan? Everything is Awesome.) //pencilcode comments

The ASUS Zenbook UX305 Review //anandtech comments

The Chromebook Pixel Review //anandtech comments

#Classics


John Carmack's comment on Doom 3's code style //kotaku comments

An acquisition is always a failure //pandodaily comments

Code Fearlessly //cam comments

#Code


React Native is now open source //github comments

Bazel – Correct, reproducible, fast builds for everyone //bazel comments

Vim is moving to GitHub //github comments

A Primer for Building Single Page Applications with React //github comments

#Design


Primer – CSS toolkit and guidelines that power GitHub //primercss comments

Purple – Heroku UI Kit //herokuapp comments

#Learn


Why Does the International Space Station Have That Shape? //gizmodo comments

Hacker's guide to Neural Networks //github comments

The history of barbed wire //slate comments

#Books


Learn Prolog Now //learnprolognow comments

Eloquent JavaScript, The Annotated Version //google comments

'Mountaineer' Is a Must-Read of Soviet Sci-Fi //npr comments

Discrete Mathematics and Functional Programming //wheaton comments

‘I Would Prefer Not To’: The Origins of the White Collar Worker //longreads comments

#Watching


The Visual Microphone: Passive Recovery of Sound from Video //mit comments

Ponte Tower //vimeo comments

#Working


After Jobs Dry Up, What Then? //nytimes comments

My Interviews with Airbnb, Dropbox, Posterous, Reddit, Weebly and Wufoo //posthaven comments

#Fun


Early Posts From Tech Founders Who Changed The World //carlcheo comments

12-minute Mandelbrot: fractals on a 50 year old IBM 1401 mainframe //righto comments

Animated vector map //github comments

How a Lousy Football Game Led to the Greatest Hockey Game //readonlymemory comments