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2007Introduction to the Common Language Runtime (github.com)
143 points | 9 years ago with 61 comments
2007What was the role of MS-DOS in Windows 95? (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
142 points | 7 years ago with 43 comments
2007A Computer Scientist's guide to cell biology (cs.cmu.edu)
142 points | 8 years ago with 13 comments
2007The Foundations of Mathematics (math.wisc.edu)
141 points | 6 years ago with 34 comments
2007Why Why Functional Programming Matters Matters (weblog.raganwald.com)
141 points | 9 years ago with 34 comments
2007The art of sharpening pencils (matthewjamestaylor.com)
138 points | 1 year ago with 25 comments
2007Nailing jelly to a wall: is it possible? (greem.co.uk)
138 points | 9 months ago with 49 comments
2007Sleep and Mortality: A Population-Based 22-Year Follow-Up Study (fermatslibrary.com)
138 points | 6 years ago with 37 comments
2007A Visual, Intuitive Guide to Imaginary Numbers (betterexplained.com)
137 points | 5 years ago with 76 comments
2007How to hire the best people you've ever worked with (pmarchive.com)
137 points | 8 years ago with 48 comments
2007The origin of circuits (damninteresting.com)
136 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 25 comments
2007Jewish Calendar Demystified (stevemorse.org)
136 points | 1 year ago with 90 comments
2007What things cost in Ancient Rome (constantinethegreatcoins.com)
134 points | 2 years ago with 69 comments
2007Undercover restorers fix Paris landmark's clock (theguardian.com)
132 points | 9 years ago with 19 comments
2007Software Is Hard (gamearchitect.net)
130 points | 4 years ago with 51 comments
2007So You Think You Have a Power Law (bactra.org)
130 points | 6 years ago with 35 comments
2007Man discovers that his wife is the best Tetris player (archive.boston.com)
130 points | 2 years ago with 28 comments
2007Apollo 13: the Towing Invoice (web.archive.org)
128 points | 6 years ago with 19 comments
2007Encrypted E-Mail Company Hushmail Spills to Feds (wired.com)
127 points | 10 years ago with 46 comments
2007Multi-Touch Systems that I Have Known and Loved (billbuxton.com)
127 points across 2 posts | 8 years ago with 0 comments
2007Stuff (paulgraham.com)
127 points | 11 years ago with 94 comments
2007Homeland security reaches the anus (thelancet.com)
126 points | 1 year ago with 45 comments
2007Scalable Bloom Filters (citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)
126 points | 6 years ago with 34 comments
2007Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours (en.wikibooks.org)
124 points | 4 years ago with 6 comments
2007My Life Countdown (kk.org)
123 points | 3 years ago with 54 comments
2007The Art of Programming Contest (comp.nus.edu.sg)
123 points | 7 years ago with 11 comments
2007Apple iPhone Will Fail in a Late, Defensive Move (bloomberg.com)
123 points | 10 years ago with 125 comments
2007Never use a warning when you mean undo (alistapart.com)
121 points | 1 year ago with 85 comments
2007HTML Design Principles (w3.org)
119 points | 8 months ago with 41 comments
2007Please think architecture (lists.freebsd.org)
115 points | 4 years ago with 27 comments
2007Ray-Strips: A Compact Mesh Representation for Interactive Ray Tracing (gamma.cs.unc.edu)
114 points | 5 years ago with 16 comments
2007Admitting That Functional Programming Can Be Awkward (prog21.dadgum.com)
112 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 144 comments
2007A Visual Explanation of SQL Joins (codinghorror.com)
111 points | 10 years ago with 13 comments
2007Mocks Aren't Stubs (martinfowler.com)
111 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 29 comments
2007How Useful Is Tufte for Making Maps? (makingmaps.net)
110 points | 6 years ago with 36 comments
2007Thoughts on the Social Graph (bradfitz.com)
108 points | 7 years ago with 15 comments
2007History of Symbolics Lisp Machines (danluu.com)
108 points | 5 years ago with 11 comments
2007Weird and Innovative Chips (cpushack.com)
108 points | 4 years ago with 21 comments
2007Scroogled (blogoscoped.com)
108 points | 12 years ago with 26 comments
2007A History of Erlang (dl.acm.org)
107 points | 4 years ago with 48 comments
2007A Short Course in Thinking About Thinking (edge.org)
106 points | 8 years ago with 5 comments
2007A Case of the MUMPS (thedailywtf.com)
106 points | 10 months ago with 109 comments
2007Upside-Down-Ternet (ex-parrot.com)
104 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 9 comments
2007How Good Was Napoleon? (historytoday.com)
104 points | 9 years ago with 79 comments
2007What’s Your Permanent Age? (dilbertblog.typepad.com)
103 points | 12 years ago with 37 comments
2007The Bipolar Lisp Programmer (shenlanguage.org)
102 points | 7 years ago with 57 comments
2007When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth (craphound.com)
102 points | 9 years ago with 18 comments
2007Bytecode interpreters for tiny computers (dercuano.github.io)
101 points | 2 years ago with 14 comments
2007Why the iPhone will fail (suckbusters2.blogspot.com)
100 points | 13 years ago with 87 comments
2007The dark legacy of Carlos Castaneda (salon.com)
99 points | 6 years ago with 60 comments
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