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2013If only Borland had stuck with Turbo Modula-2 for CP/M (techtinkering.com)
133 points | 3 years ago with 88 comments
2011Simple Made Easy (infoq.com)
133 points | 5 years ago with 30 comments
2004The Graphing Calculator Story (nucalc.com)
133 points | 7 years ago with 21 comments
2014How Bad Is Your Colormap? (jakevdp.github.io)
133 points | 6 years ago with 22 comments
2013Computer Simulations Suggest War Drove the Rise of Civilisations (ua-magazine.com)
133 points | 9 years ago with 100 comments
1982A Simple Guide to Five Normal Forms in Relational Database Theory (bkent.net)
133 points | 11 years ago with 65 comments
2018Introduction To Program Synthesis (people.csail.mit.edu)
132 points | 4 years ago with 20 comments
2018A Case for an Open Source CS Curriculum [pdf] (homes.cs.washington.edu)
132 points | 3 years ago with 14 comments
2019What was the last breakthrough in computer programming? (quora.com)
132 points | 4 years ago with 223 comments
2003The -a to -z of Command-Line Options (catb.org)
132 points | 6 years ago with 64 comments
2017Against Willpower (nautil.us)
132 points | 6 years ago with 67 comments
2008Brain foods: the effects of nutrients on brain function (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
132 points | 8 years ago with 27 comments
1997All People in Canada are the Same Age (math.toronto.edu)
132 points | 5 years ago with 91 comments
2015Relax for the Same Result (sivers.org)
132 points | 5 years ago with 47 comments
2018Docker is a dangerous gamble which we will regret (archive.is)
132 points | 5 years ago with 125 comments
2017One-on-one meetings are underrated, whereas group meetings waste time (smashcompany.com)
132 points | 6 years ago with 49 comments
1996Peter's Evil Overlord List (eviloverlord.com)
132 points | 6 years ago with 54 comments
2014Why don’t software development methodologies work? (typicalprogrammer.com)
132 points | 2 years ago with 142 comments
1937The Nature of the Firm (en.wikipedia.org)
132 points | 3 years ago with 56 comments
1988Let's Build a Compiler (xmonader.github.io)
132 points | 2 years ago with 19 comments
2011In defense of the Google Chef (blog.rongarret.info)
132 points | 11 years ago with 86 comments
1984Thinking Forth (thinking-forth.sourceforge.net)
132 points | 2 years ago with 49 comments
2012Massive Zurich building completes 19-hour trip (swissinfo.ch)
132 points | 9 years ago with 28 comments
1986You and Your Research (cs.utexas.edu)
132 points | 3 years ago with 33 comments
1994Ways to implement computer languages on 6502s (dwheeler.com)
132 points | 9 years ago with 37 comments
2007Undercover restorers fix Paris landmark's clock (theguardian.com)
132 points | 10 years ago with 19 comments
2011Are Current Web Design Trends Pushing Us Back to 1999? (sixrevisions.com)
132 points | 12 years ago with 85 comments
2009Guy Steele Interviews John McCarthy, Father of Lisp (infoq.com)
132 points | 14 years ago with 3 comments
2016How many x86 instructions are there? (fgiesen.wordpress.com)
132 points | 4 years ago with 87 comments
2012Working on The Witness, Part 1 (mollyrocket.com)
132 points | 11 years ago with 21 comments
2000Inventing an Operation to Solve x^x = y (mathforum.org)
132 points | 5 years ago with 63 comments
1974What Is It Like to Be a Bat? (www2.warwick.ac.uk)
132 points | 8 years ago with 95 comments
2003P-Values are not Error Probabilities (uv.es)
132 points | 10 years ago with 35 comments
1996Hydrofluoric Acid: An Invisible Fire (discovermagazine.com)
132 points | 7 years ago with 62 comments
1993TCP in 30 instructions (pdl.cmu.edu)
132 points | 11 years ago with 38 comments
2013The Birth of Standard Error (www2.dmst.aueb.gr)
132 points | 6 years ago with 35 comments
1978The Theory of Interstellar Trade (princeton.edu)
132 points | 10 years ago with 57 comments
2000The wet bird (oyonale.com)
132 points | 2 years ago with 33 comments
1988The Minitel system in France (fermatslibrary.com)
132 points | 3 years ago with 62 comments
2016Writing Linux Modules in Ada (nihamkin.com)
132 points | 2 years ago with 83 comments
1934Was My Life Worth Living? (ucblibrary3.berkeley.edu)
132 points | 12 years ago with 101 comments
2013Beyond Bézier Curves (bosker.wordpress.com)
132 points | 5 years ago with 40 comments
1968Mr. Rogers Introduces Kids to Experimental Electronic Music (openculture.com)
132 points | 10 years ago with 26 comments
2016The Tragic Story of Vernon and Oswald (chrisgliddon.com)
132 points | 4 years ago with 17 comments
2011The Coming War on General Computation (opentranscripts.org)
132 points | 8 years ago with 10 comments
2006The great Polish Sea or We forgot Poland (devblogs.microsoft.com)
132 points | 2 years ago with 31 comments
2012Don’t Know What to Do with Your Life? Seek Bargains (calnewport.com)
132 points | 7 years ago with 85 comments
2015Maslow's Pyramid of Code Review (dein.fr)
132 points | 4 years ago with 82 comments
2000Paul Erdős (mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk)
132 points | 4 years ago with 81 comments
1998U.S. Torpedo Troubles During World War II (historynet.com)
132 points | 5 years ago with 84 comments
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