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2011Technological Prudence: What the Amish Can Teach Us (baylor.edu)
45 points | 4 years ago with 11 comments
2011Notes from Michael Feathers’ “Brutal Refactoring” (thekua.com)
45 points | 6 years ago with 2 comments
2011The Point of Laziness (existentialtype.wordpress.com)
45 points | 10 years ago with 6 comments
2011How Software Architecture Learns (methodsandtools.com)
44 points | 6 years ago with 0 comments
2011A Look at Barbara Kruger and Jenny Holzer’s Use of Typography (catnormoyle.com)
44 points | 3 years ago with 3 comments
2011The Eunuch Admiral (alumni.berkeley.edu)
44 points | 1 year ago with 27 comments
2011How Do We See Art: An Eye-Tracker Study (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
44 points | 9 years ago with 5 comments
2011Your app shouldn't suffer SSL's problems (moxie.org)
44 points | 7 years ago with 21 comments
2011My travels: Judith Schalansky on remote islands (theguardian.com)
44 points | 8 years ago with 7 comments
2011Lessons from Dropbox - One Million Files Saved Every 15 minutes (highscalability.com)
44 points | 12 years ago with 16 comments
2011High speed Morse telegraphy using a straight key [video] (youtube.com)
44 points | 2 years ago with 34 comments
2011Why [“1”,“2”,“3”].map(parseInt) yields [1, NaN, NaN] in JavaScript (wirfs-brock.com)
44 points | 2 years ago with 80 comments
2011More shell, less egg (leancrew.com)
44 points | 2 years ago with 18 comments
2011The LMAX Architecture (martinfowler.com)
44 points | 10 years ago with 4 comments
2011That’s What She Said: Double Entendre Identification (aclweb.org)
44 points | 9 years ago with 15 comments
2011Is Hungarian notation a workaround for insufficient type systems? (programmers.stackexchange.com)
43 points | 11 years ago with 36 comments
2011Air gaps never exist (gse-compliance.blogspot.com)
43 points | 9 years ago with 49 comments
2011Number of species on Earth estimated at 8.7M (nature.com)
43 points | 9 years ago with 14 comments
2011GitHub and BitBucket (pocoo.org)
43 points | 11 years ago with 47 comments
2011The Floppy Disk (ibm.com)
43 points | 2 years ago with 42 comments
2011When Worse Is Better (susam.in)
43 points | 6 years ago with 13 comments
2011Definition of Simple (rebol.com)
43 points | 6 years ago with 2 comments
2011Moral causes of the collapse of the Soviet Union (foreignpolicy.com)
43 points | 9 years ago with 66 comments
2011How a handful of geeks defied the USSR (owni.fr)
43 points | 9 years ago with 12 comments
2011Loopy C Puzzle (susam.in)
43 points | 4 years ago with 26 comments
2011The Growth Ponzi Scheme (strongtowns.org)
43 points | 5 years ago with 29 comments
2011The Genius in My Basement (theguardian.com)
42 points | 5 years ago with 54 comments
2011Spreadsheet technology (itu.dk)
42 points | 9 years ago with 5 comments
2011The perils of relying on output streams in C (gnu.org)
42 points | 6 years ago with 8 comments
2011San Marino: The World’s Oldest Republic (slate.com)
42 points | 3 years ago with 23 comments
2011The Redis Manifesto (oldblog.antirez.com)
42 points | 4 years ago with 0 comments
2011Why most hiring processes suck (adammcfarland.com)
42 points | 10 years ago with 31 comments
2011All software sucks (harmful.cat-v.org)
42 points | 7 years ago with 50 comments
2011C4: The Continuously Concurrent Compacting Collector (azulsystems.com)
42 points | 10 years ago with 6 comments
2011Don’t Blink: The Hazards of Confidence (nytimes.com)
42 points | 9 years ago with 8 comments
2011The Foonly F1 Computer (dave.zfxinc.net)
42 points | 2 years ago with 14 comments
2011The Problem with Vanity TLDs (templetons.com)
41 points | 3 years ago with 66 comments
2011Chain World Videogame Was Supposed to Be a Religion (wired.com)
41 points | 10 years ago with 29 comments
2011Culture is not about esthetics (gwern.net)
41 points | 10 years ago with 55 comments
2011Facebook denies cookie tracking allegations (zdnet.com)
41 points | 2 years ago with 8 comments
2011Use of HD and DD drives, diskettes (retrotechnology.com)
41 points | 2 years ago with 2 comments
2011Why does subtracting these two times give a strange result? (stackoverflow.com)
41 points | 11 years ago with 24 comments
2011From Tower of Hanoi to Counting Bits (susam.in)
41 points | 5 years ago with 6 comments
2011Branchless Conditionals (blueraja.com)
41 points | 10 years ago with 23 comments
2011The Magical Island of Kanren – Core.logic Intro (objectcommando.com)
41 points | 10 years ago with 0 comments
2011The “Talent War” Revisited (mindtangle.net)
41 points | 9 years ago with 1 comments
2011Not a Luddite fallacy (baatz.io)
40 points | 10 years ago with 70 comments
2011The Logic of Failure (tersesystems.com)
40 points | 10 years ago with 8 comments
2011Insider Accounts of Computing and Life at BBN: A sixty-year report (walden-family.com)
40 points | 7 years ago with 12 comments
2011Bufferbloat: Dark Buffers in the Internet (queue.acm.org)
40 points | 10 years ago with 9 comments
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