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Issue #247 // April 10, 2015 // View in your browser

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#Favorites


I Quit: What really goes on at Apple
//roadlesstravelled comments

Myself – v1.0.3
//codepen comments

The 500-mile email
//mit comments

What I'd tell myself about startups if I could go back 5 years
//talkingquickly comments

John Resig annotates original jQuery source code
//genius comments

Ten Years of Git: An Interview with Linus Torvalds
//linux comments

WebGL Fundamentals
//webglfundamentals comments

Ten Commandments of Sushi
//medium comments

Consistency and discipline over motivation
//donnywals comments

Where a 90s tourist guide will take you in 2015 NYC
//hopesandfears comments

#Ask HN


How do you deal with professional jealousy and getting older? //ycombinator

Why do I have to struggle with everything? //ycombinator

#Show HN


Kaiwa, a Modern Open-Source XMPP Web Client //getkaiwa comments

Amazon Machine Learning – Make Data-Driven Decisions at Scale //amazon comments

Making an open-source 2D physics iOS game in 2 weeks //sparepartsapp comments

Redis-pipe – Use Redis lists like Unix pipes //github comments

#Code


Boltons: over 100 Python utilities //github comments

Skit – I built another JavaScript framework //medium comments

Lambda Nights: Learn Functional Programming by writing a simple compiler //lambda-nights comments

#Design


Responsive Tables in Pure CSS //livingsocial comments

Toolkit //titon comments

#Learn


A mysterious connection between number theory, algebra and string theory? //quantamagazine comments

Georgia: Why so many counties? //jimcofer comments

#Books


Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days? //ycombinator comments

Influence – The Psychology of Persuasion //2uo comments

“The GNU Make Book”: probably more than you ever wanted to know about make //jgc comments

Steven Weinberg: Science books for the general reader //theguardian comments

#Watching


Massive, Illicit Bust of Edward Snowden Stuck to a War Monument in Brooklyn //animalnewyork comments

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Government Surveillance [ft. Edward Snowden] //youtube comments

BeOS Demo Video (1998) //youtube comments

#Working


Where is “Who is hiring?” hiring? //whereis-whoishiring-hiring comments

Programming competitions correlate negatively with being good on the job //catonmat comments

Sick time is logarithmic //greatnotbig comments

#Fun


Bot accepts every pull request for its own code //github comments

The Mad Scientist of Bicycles //priceonomics comments