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Hi, HN! Author here. A friend mentioned this was on the front page so I wanted to stop by and make explicit that this advice is OUT OF DATE as far as I'm concerned. It's way too mu…

Things are changing, slowly but surely. Those of you interested in this sort of work should check out http://rse.ac.uk/ , and also https://software-carpentry.org/ (Run a workshop! …

Very Von Neuman! http://www.primepuzzle.com/leeslightest/howfar.html

This is something I've been giving some thought to recently. I came to the conclusion that the best way to go currently is git-clean filters built using jq. It's still a bit hacky …

Have you tried turning on pipelining in ansible.cfg? Details here: http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/intro_configuration.html#pip...

See also (if you're happy working in Python): https://flask-restless.readthedocs.org/

I call Poe's law!

While I see what you're saying, I doubt you would claim to 'use' assembly when writing a C++ codebase - because (unless you're doing very low-level hand optimizations of the kind t…

Interesting dilemma. I had assumed that re-writing in another language basically meant you were copyright free (as long as you're not literally transcribing or automatically transl…

It'll be a bit more expensive than your local store, but you could try ordering (decaf) beans online. Weirdly this seems to be a much bigger thing over here in the UK, but I did fi…

tl;dr: A competitor to Virgin Galactic (space tourism) using what appears to be a more traditional booster rocket / parachute pod arrangement - except that the booster rocket self-…

I disagree about this being worse for beginners - if we're teaching a new programmer about functions, surely a basic print function is a great introduction? Whereas before it was a…

'Deep Six' (short story anthology) and 'Wind-up Girl' by Paolo Bacigalupi.

While I'll be interested to see how the blockchain gets exploited for new tech, there are a couple of problems with your statement. First, right now there is a problem with how we …

For anyone else who was wondering about their Nalgene, they're BPS free, apparently: http://nalgene.com/why-nalgene/ (funny smells aside)

Minor correction on income tax: 0-10K: Untaxed, 10-40K: 20%, 40K+: 40%,

Well, mostly: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/30/science/30manh.html?pagewa...