Ask HN: What are your favorite articles/blog posts of all time? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite articles/blog posts of all time?

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Post by IpV8 » Wed, Sep 07, 2016, 8:10 PM UTC

glial wrote: post #17

The problem is "Write a C program of 512 characters or less that returns as large a number as possible." This fantastic reddit comment[0] led me down a rabbit hole that I still haven't dug my way out of. [0] - https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/csuey/write_a_...

Woah, you don't read something like that every day.

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite articles/blog posts of all time?

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Post by davidy123 » Thu, Sep 08, 2016, 8:07 PM UTC

Clay Shirkey's "Situated Software" http://shirky.com/writings/herecomeseverybody/situated_softw...

It goes on a bit too much so it's not always on point, but at the time I read it I really appreciated it bringing to focus that not every piece of software has to be about millions of users.

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite articles/blog posts of all time?

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Post by HealthyTree » Fri, Sep 09, 2016, 1:01 PM UTC

Fred Brook's "No Silver Bullet". I've found it very useful to reason in terms of accidental vs essential complexity and constantly asking myself: is this truly hard or am I just making it hard by using the wrong tool/design/abstraction/architecture etc for the job.

http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~pszcah/G51ISS/Documents/NoSilverBu...

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite articles/blog posts of all time?

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Post by baccredited » Fri, Sep 09, 2016, 1:40 PM UTC

Watch a VC use my name to sell a con. https://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/11/watch-a-vc-use-my-name-to-s...

Getting Rich: from Zero to Hero in One Blog Post http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2013/02/22/getting-rich-from-...

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite articles/blog posts of all time?

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Post by marmot777 » Mon, Sep 12, 2016, 2:31 AM UTC

Here's one I read recently that I thought was very good in it's simple wisdom. http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2016/09/make-somethi...

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite articles/blog posts of all time?

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Post by marmot777 » Mon, Sep 12, 2016, 2:33 AM UTC

And this is a pretty damn good classic. http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/06/you-matter.h...

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite articles/blog posts of all time?

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Post by bjourne » Fri, Sep 16, 2016, 10:23 PM UTC

It's this one: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html! It should be required reading for everyone I think.

Re: Ask HN: What are your favorite articles/blog posts of all time?

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Post by baccredited » Thu, Sep 22, 2016, 2:46 PM UTC

baccredited wrote: post #34

Watch a VC use my name to sell a con. https://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/11/watch-a-vc-use-my-name-to-s... Getting Rich: from Zero to Hero in One Blog Post http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2013/02/22/getting-rich-from-...

Another favorite is so minimalist it fits in a tweet!

Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (Homebrew), but you can’t invert a binary tree on a whiteboard so fuck off. https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768?lang=en