Rakudo Star - a useful, usable, "early adopter" distribution of Perl 6

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Ask HN: Share a gem. Teach me and you.

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Everyone Who Tried to Convince Me to Use Vim Was Wrong

Everyone Who Tried to Convince Me to use Vim was Wrong July 29th, 2010 A couple weeks ago, I took the plunge and switched to vim (MacVIM, to be precise). It wasn't the first time I tried to make the switch, and I had pretty much written it off entirely. Why? Because the past few times I tried swit

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Russian scientists have created a breed of domesticated foxes(costs $6K)

We work directly with the Institute of Cytology and Genetics (Russia) that bred tame foxes for over 50 years. We use the best animal transportation companies and airlines to ensure the animals are well cared for. SibFox official distributorship reference from the Russian Institute of Cytology and

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Lisp is Not an Acceptable Lisp

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What to do when pypi goes down

jacobian.org

Google Philosophy

Our Philosophy Ten things we know to be true "The perfect search engine," says co-founder Larry Page, "would understand exactly what you mean and give back exactly what you want." When Google began, you would have been pleasantly surprised to enter a search query and immediately find the right answ

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Red Hat, 16%. Canonical, 1% contribution to GNOME

gregdekspeaks.wordpress.com

Kindle is OK

Dave Winer, 55, is a visiting scholar at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. He pioneered the development of weblogs, syndication (RSS), podcasting, outlining, and web content management software; former contributing editor at Wired Magazine, research fellow at Harvard Law School, entrepre

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Why 37signals advice is irrelevant and unhelpful

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What does Ruby have that Python doesn't and vice versa

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Wikileaks To Leak 5000 Open Source Java Projects

EYJAFJÖLL, ICELAND ? Java programmers around the globe are in a panic today over a Wikileaks press release issued at 8:15am GMT. Wikileaks announced that they will re-release the source code for thousands of Open Source Java projects, making all access modifiers 'public' and all classes and members

steve-yegge.blogspot.com

What's wrong with 1975 programming

Notes from the Architect Once you start working with the Varnish source code, you will notice that Varnish is not your average run of the mill application. That is not a coincidence. I have spent many years working on the FreeBSD kernel, and only rarely did I venture into userland programming, but

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HN accounts for 12% of Social Bookmark referral traffic

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