| 1. | | Emacs 24.4 released (lists.gnu.org) |
| 381 points by auvi on Oct 20, 2014 | 174 comments |
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| 2. | | Career planning: Where do old devs go to? (ayende.com) |
| 344 points by matthewwarren on Oct 20, 2014 | 317 comments |
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| 3. | | [dupe] Corpus of network communications automatically sent to Apple by Yosemite (github.com/fix-macosx) |
| 331 points by haywardsmyfault on Oct 20, 2014 | 104 comments |
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| 4. | | Hints for writing Unix tools (monkey.org) |
| 294 points by mariusae on Oct 20, 2014 | 125 comments |
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| 5. | | Facebook's software architecture (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com) |
| 295 points by colbyaley on Oct 20, 2014 | 22 comments |
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| 6. | | Building Good Docker Images (bergknoff.com) |
| 274 points by jaswilder on Oct 20, 2014 | 66 comments |
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| 7. | | Isaac Asimov Mulls “How Do People Get New Ideas?” (1959) (technologyreview.com) |
| 269 points by Dnguyen on Oct 20, 2014 | 49 comments |
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| 8. | | Virginia Police Have Been Stockpiling Private Phone Records (wired.com) |
| 240 points by driverdan on Oct 20, 2014 | 50 comments |
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| 9. | | Vote all you want. The secret government won’t change (bostonglobe.com) |
| 211 points by GuiA on Oct 20, 2014 | 96 comments |
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| 10. | | Writing C in Cython (honnibal.wordpress.com) |
| 195 points by syllogism on Oct 20, 2014 | 54 comments |
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| 11. | | Piccolo, a tiny CNC bot (piccolo.cc) |
| 188 points by ghosh on Oct 20, 2014 | 20 comments |
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| 12. | | The Ebola Wars (newyorker.com) |
| 192 points by cwal37 on Oct 20, 2014 | 107 comments |
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| 13. | | Y U NO commit?? (github.com/esneider) |
| 212 points by esneider on Oct 20, 2014 | 132 comments |
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| 14. | | Show HN: Using computer vision to detect birds in parks (flickr.net) |
| 195 points by sawthat on Oct 20, 2014 | 33 comments |
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| 15. | | Machine-Learning Maestro Michael Jordan on the Delusions of Big Data and Others (ieee.org) |
| 185 points by vkn13 on Oct 20, 2014 | 56 comments |
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| 16. | | Stripe – Apple Pay (stripe.com) |
| 183 points by Killswitch on Oct 20, 2014 | 58 comments |
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| 17. | | “You Don't Know JS” Book Series (github.com/getify) |
| 173 points by AllThingsSmitty on Oct 20, 2014 | 22 comments |
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| 18. | | Lab Notebook: Single Pixel Camera (gperco.com) |
| 167 points by mmastrac on Oct 20, 2014 | 45 comments |
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| 20. | | Amazon’s Monopsony Is Not O.K. (nytimes.com) |
| 146 points by constantinum on Oct 20, 2014 | 199 comments |
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| 21. | | PicoBrew – Counter-top home brewing machine (picobrew.com) |
| 142 points by cek on Oct 20, 2014 | 87 comments |
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| 22. | | In conversation with Marc Andreessen (nymag.com) |
| 138 points by npalli on Oct 20, 2014 | 67 comments |
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| 23. | | Programming by Voice: Staying Productive Without Harming Yourself (extrahop.com) |
| 133 points by tgrosinger on Oct 20, 2014 | 77 comments |
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| 24. | | The Woman Who Filmed Snowden (vice.com) |
| 122 points by dsr12 on Oct 20, 2014 | 6 comments |
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| 25. | | Please don't make us use iCloud anymore (mosx.tumblr.com) |
| 131 points by chmars on Oct 20, 2014 | 60 comments |
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| 26. | | IBM Plunges as CEO Abandons 2015 Earnings Forecast (bloomberg.com) |
| 118 points by orin_hanner on Oct 20, 2014 | 100 comments |
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| 27. | | Sacrificial Architecture (martinfowler.com) |
| 120 points by resca79 on Oct 20, 2014 | 32 comments |
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| 28. | | Pandas 0.15 has been released (pydata.org) |
| 116 points by jvm on Oct 20, 2014 | 35 comments |
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| 29. | | SmileBASIC for Nintendo 3DS (smilebasic.com) |
| 110 points by niconii on Oct 20, 2014 | 34 comments |
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| 30. | | Haskell Is Exceptionally Unsafe (2012) (existentialtype.wordpress.com) |
| 107 points by kirkbackus on Oct 20, 2014 | 122 comments |
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I've always been very busy (one of the main reasons I don't post on HN as much any more). I don't have a resume. I'm not on LinkedIn. If I ever ran low on work, it would probably take me a day or two and a few phone calls to find something.
I don't work on anything unless I find it incredibly compelling. I write applications. I've seen tons of different technologies, many old ones I still use. But I also get very jazzed learning new stuff and incorporating it into my toolbox.
I know tons of programmers in my age group. I'd classify them into 2 groups:
25% - just like me. You don't see our resumes because we're very happy building cool stuff and rarely look for work. We've also seen it all and can smell something we're not interested in a mile away. You don't see us at many events because we're so busy with work and life, we only pick the ones with the most promise of bang for the buck. Most of the programmers I know in this group would make phenomenal additions to many startups, but don't recognize this as a compelling alternative to what they're already doing. The best way to engage us is to seek us out, make friends, and share some stories about something cool you're working on.
75% - one year's experience 30 times, not 30 years experience. Unaware of modern technology. Couldn't write Hello World in anything other than BASIC, FORTRAN, or COBOL (and would probably misspell 50% of the words). No imagination. Limited ability to visualize the possibilities. Hiding under the radar in some enterprise. You don't want these people.