My shared links for April 5th through April 6th: Why I still program – "I believe that the rejection of programming as a lower activity can be explained by the Theory of the leisure class. In effect, we do not seek utility but prestige. There is no prestige in tool-making, cooking or farming. To maximize [...]

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My shared links for April 4th: Stuart’s “Law of Networkdynamics” – Flattr – Social micropayments – An interesting model that I hadn't heard of. You set a monthly amount to spend and when you see a flattr button, you click on it. They then divide your monthly amount among the people you clicked on that [...]

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My shared links for March 30th through April 3rd: Magic Maps: Now You See It. – Very cool app for working with maps and time series data How Not To Sort By Average Rating – Shows the best way to sort by positive/negative rankings that is robust to small sample sizes terrorism hardly existential threat. [...]

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Holistic UI is smarter UX – They use notifications as an example of why small pieces loosely joined might not be great UI. It’s really interesting to see how common UI devices such as notifications have evolved across various platforms. Someone should do a gallery of notifications over the years – bonus points if you [...]

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My shared links for March 18th through March 26th: 7 Years of YouTube Scalability Lessons in 30 Minutes – Notes from a PyCon talk about the very pragmatic design philosophy at YouTube. bkad/discoball · GitHub – shell tool to match and colorize lines of text The Pragmatic Bookshelf | The Developer's Code – How to see [...]

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My shared links for March 5th through March 17th: CodeMirror – "CodeMirror is a JavaScript library that can be used to create a relatively pleasant editor interface for code-like content ― computer programs, HTML markup, and similar. If a mode has been written for the language you are editing, the code will be coloured, and [...]

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My shared links for March 1st through March 5th: python – Does PyPY translate itself? – Stack Overflow – An informative answer about how PyPy works On reviewing research papers « Lars Bergstrom – So, PL has a culture of really useful reviews, huh? How to Do What You Love – "If you think something's [...]

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My shared links for February 27th through March 1st: Pretty Lisp | Hacker News I don’t like this. Great comment thread though – lots of people agree with me. I think maybe enthusiasm for structure editors is a sign of youthful optimism and inexperience. 2004 Rob Pike Q&A Interview – Slashdot – "(And speaking of [...]

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My shared links for February 23rd: Strategic Frugality If you’re just starting to build a… – where you can skimp! Dealing with Crap apps in the catalog… – chuq on the tough problem of policing app stores. JSLint,The JavaScript Code Quality Tool – From Douglas Crockford JavaScript Lint – Jison – javascript bison with a [...]

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Sometime in January, a Skim user asked the developers if we’d submitted it to the Mac App Store. We hadn’t. The app listed for sale for $29 on the store as “PDF Reader” is actually our free and open source Skim app, although no mention of the Skim Sourceforge project is made in the description, [...]

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