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Ask HN: What are your favorite articles/blog posts of all time?
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#22I think this one is very insightful and is one of my favorites: http://mindingourway.com/what-sort-of-thing-a-brain-is/
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#23This article made me carry a bottle of water with me: http://lifehacker.com/how-to-trick-yourself-into-drinking-mo...
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#24"The Right to Privacy" by Warren and Brandeis.
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/priva...
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#25A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
1964 - John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz create BASIC, an unstructured programming language for non-computer scientists.
1965 - Kemeny and Kurtz go to 1964.
http://james-iry.blogspot.co.uk/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and...
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#26Two great articles from TDWTF: * Programming Sucks! Or at least, it ought to! [0] * The Oracle Effect [1] EDIT - formatting again [0] http://thedailywtf.com/articles/Programming-Sucks!-Or-At-Lea... [1] http://thedailywtf.com/articles/the-oracle-effect
"Programming Sucks! Or at least, it ought to!" is one of the best ever written. I make sure to read it every 6 months or so to keep myself grounded
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#27"The Duct tape Programmer" By Joel Spolsky is a good one.
It always reminds me that we are here to build software, not design the perfect system. The quote from Zawinski is great
"It was decisions like not using C++ and not using threads that made us ship the product on time."
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#28There is a well known open ended interview question - "what happens when you type a url in a browser and hit enter?". I have many a times imagined (I have never been asked this exact question) overwhelming the interviewer with details, that comes in waves, by going deeper and deeper, by asking rhetorical questions like "but what happens there" loudly and not caring what he answers, almost channeling Sheldon Cooper. I…
This is probably the best version of this that I know of: https://plus.google.com/+JeanBaptisteQueru/posts/dfydM2Cnepe
A few months/years ago there was a Github repo that tried to crowdsource this in excruciating detail.
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#29The verses and the wit from the Irish-Princetonian poet Paul Muldoon on YouTube never fail to bring a broad smile to my face. https://m.youtube.com/results?q=paul%20muldoon
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#30There is a well known open ended interview question - "what happens when you type a url in a browser and hit enter?". I have many a times imagined (I have never been asked this exact question) overwhelming the interviewer with details, that comes in waves, by going deeper and deeper, by asking rhetorical questions like "but what happens there" loudly and not caring what he answers, almost channeling Sheldon Cooper. I…
https://github.com/alex/what-happens-when also great