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| The best articles from johndcook.com, according to Hacker News. |
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| 2011 | | Software reuse is more like an organ transplant than snapping Lego blocks (johndcook.com) |
| 667 points | 3 years ago with 228 comments |
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| 2015 | | Organizational Skills Beat Algorithmic Wizardry (johndcook.com) |
| 268 points | 6 years ago with 98 comments |
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| 2010 | | Dumb and Gets Things Done (johndcook.com) |
| 217 points | 10 months ago with 142 comments |
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| 2015 | | The longer it has taken, the longer it will take (johndcook.com) |
| 159 points | 4 years ago with 46 comments |
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| 2008 | | What happens when you add a new teller? (johndcook.com) |
| 148 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 29 comments |
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| 2012 | | Ramanujan Factorial Approximation (johndcook.com) |
| 133 points | 1 year ago with 33 comments |
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| 2010 | | Don’t invert that matrix (johndcook.com) |
| 133 points | 7 years ago with 42 comments |
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| 2009 | | Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity (johndcook.com) |
| 123 points | 12 years ago with 76 comments |
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| 2011 | | A Bayesian view of Amazon resellers (johndcook.com) |
| 113 points | 10 months ago with 36 comments |
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| 2010 | | Where to wait for an elevator (johndcook.com) |
| 105 points | 1 year ago with 107 comments |
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| 2008 | | Selection bias and bombers (johndcook.com) |
| 103 points | 9 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 2015 | | Life lessons from differential equations (johndcook.com) |
| 102 points | 5 years ago with 20 comments |
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| 2009 | | Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity (johndcook.com) |
| 98 points | 6 years ago with 69 comments |
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| 2018 | | Viability of Unpopular Programming Languages (johndcook.com) |
| 83 points | 4 years ago with 73 comments |
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| 2011 | | Floating point error is the least of my worries (johndcook.com) |
| 77 points | 6 years ago with 44 comments |
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| 2009 | | I disagree with Linus Torvalds about C++ (johndcook.com) |
| 72 points | 5 years ago with 92 comments |
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| 2010 | | How to test a random number generator (johndcook.com) |
| 68 points | 6 years ago with 42 comments |
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| 2010 | | Lincoln Index: Estimating the number of bugs left to find (johndcook.com) |
| 61 points | 5 years ago with 18 comments |
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| 2009 | | Approximating a solution that doesn't exist (johndcook.com) |
| 52 points | 6 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 2011 | | How to fit an elephant (johndcook.com) |
| 50 points | 6 years ago with 23 comments |
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| 2010 | | Cosines and correlation (johndcook.com) |
| 49 points | 8 years ago with 17 comments |
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| 2019 | | What is an isogeny? (johndcook.com) |
| 22 points | 1 year ago with 10 comments |
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