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2011Steve Yegge's Google Platforms Rant (gist.github.com)
58 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 0 comments
2011Elinor Ostrom's Principles for Managing a Commons (onthecommons.org)
58 points | 5 years ago with 15 comments
2011Programming language development: the past 5 years (blog.fogus.me)
57 points | 9 years ago with 26 comments
2011The Lost Art of Pickpocketing (slate.com)
57 points | 12 years ago with 43 comments
2011The Geopolitics of the United States, Part 1: The Inevitable Empire (stratfor.com)
57 points | 9 years ago with 56 comments
2011Some Thoughts on Our Business (lettersofnote.com)
57 points | 8 years ago with 4 comments
2011Chord Transformations and Beethoven (minds.wisconsin.edu)
57 points | 5 years ago with 16 comments
2011Dot-dash-diss: The gentleman hacker's 1903 lulz (newscientist.com)
57 points | 10 years ago with 5 comments
2011Natural Language Processing with Prolog in the IBM Watson System (cs.nmsu.edu)
56 points | 3 years ago with 24 comments
2011On Pitman's “Special forms in Lisp” (kazimirmajorinc.com)
56 points | 3 years ago with 31 comments
2011Microsoft’s Bing uses Google search results–and denies it (googleblog.blogspot.com)
56 points | 7 years ago with 27 comments
2011A Harmony in Living: Happy families are indeed all alike (laphamsquarterly.org)
56 points | 8 years ago with 19 comments
2011On the impracticality of a cheeseburger (waldo.jaquith.org)
56 points | 4 years ago with 25 comments
2011Why We Can't Tell Good Wine From Bad (theatlantic.com)
56 points | 12 years ago with 79 comments
2011What’s the matter with airports? (askthepilot.com)
56 points | 4 years ago with 119 comments
2011Typography in 16 bits: System fonts (damieng.com)
56 points | 11 years ago with 2 comments
2011Fake Operator Overloading in JavaScript (2ality.com)
55 points | 10 years ago with 11 comments
2011Farther Away: “Robinson Crusoe,” David Foster Wallace, and Solitude (newyorker.com)
55 points | 4 years ago with 4 comments
2011Did Ken, Ritchie and Brian choose wrong with NUL-terminated text strings? (queue.acm.org)
55 points | 7 years ago with 55 comments
2011Static single assignment for functional programmers (wingolog.org)
55 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 3 comments
2011Who pollinates the daffodils? (honeybeesuite.com)
55 points | 8 years ago with 2 comments
2011Thoughts on Mark “diveintomark” Pilgrim's and _why's infosuicides (hanselman.com)
55 points | 2 years ago with 22 comments
2011Why Startups Fail: An Analysis of Post-Mortems (foundersblock.com)
55 points | 11 years ago with 17 comments
2011Loop Recognition in C++/Java/Go/Scala (days2011.scala-lang.org)
55 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 1 comments
2011Modulo of negative numbers (torstencurdt.com)
54 points | 2 years ago with 46 comments
2011What Would Feynman Do? (ericlippert.com)
54 points | 3 years ago with 13 comments
2011Jobs and Woz (filfre.net)
54 points | 6 years ago with 38 comments
2011Schooling in adolescence raises IQ scores (pnas.org)
54 points | 8 years ago with 46 comments
2011Is McKinsey and Co. The Root of All Evil? (ritholtz.com)
54 points | 3 years ago with 53 comments
2011There are no small changes (blog.intercom.com)
54 points | 8 years ago with 14 comments
2011How to Reverse Engineer a Schematic from a Circuit Board (instructables.com)
53 points | 4 years ago with 15 comments
2011The “Nonplussed” Problem (slate.com)
53 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 68 comments
2011Why Object-Oriented Languages Need Tail Calls (eighty-twenty.org)
53 points | 7 years ago with 71 comments
2011Open-source physics engines (ibm.com)
53 points | 10 years ago with 3 comments
2011Why Programmers work at night (swizec.com)
53 points | 10 years ago with 33 comments
2011Undefined behavior is often a thing for C programmers (blog.llvm.org)
53 points | 5 years ago with 99 comments
2011Logs Are Streams, Not Files (adam.herokuapp.com)
52 points | 11 years ago with 20 comments
2011High-Resolution Mandelbrot in Obfuscated Python (preshing.com)
52 points | 7 years ago with 6 comments
2011Yahui: The Chinese Art of Elegant Bribery (opendemocracy.net)
52 points | 5 years ago with 13 comments
2011The Blind Man Who Taught Himself to See (mensjournal.com)
52 points | 10 years ago with 5 comments
2011Naur’s “Programming as Theory Building” (catenary.wordpress.com)
52 points | 11 years ago with 14 comments
2011Apple (worrydream.com)
52 points | 11 years ago with 12 comments
2011Roguelikes: The Misnamed Genre (zorbathut.livejournal.com)
52 points | 3 years ago with 74 comments
2011Strange Examples of Soviet Design (popularmechanics.com)
52 points | 4 years ago with 16 comments
2011Atanasoff–Berry Computer (jva.cs.iastate.edu)
51 points | 7 years ago with 5 comments
2011What Happens to Asian-American Overachievers When the Test-Taking Ends? (nymag.com)
51 points | 11 years ago with 24 comments
2011Auto-vectorization for the masses (leiradel.github.io)
51 points | 5 years ago with 19 comments
2011Knots and Quantum Theory (ias.edu)
51 points | 5 years ago with 1 comments
2011Review of Lessons in the Fundamentals of Go by Toshiro Kageyama (allaboutgo.com)
51 points | 3 years ago with 37 comments
2011Supreme Court shields prosecutors in wrongful convictions (articles.latimes.com)
51 points | 11 years ago with 22 comments
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