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olliesaunders

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  1. Ask HN: Where should one go to discuss the higher topics of CS/programming?

    I know there are a lot of obvious answers to this question but so far I don’t like any of them. The biggest seems to be Stack Exchange: don’t like that because it’s totalitarian and only handles precise questions with…

    5 points 7
  2. Researchers say AI prescribes better treatment than doctors (gigaom.com)
    5 points 0
  3. How Paul Graham went from self-apprenticed hacker to half-billion dollar man (dailydot.com)
    1 points -1
  4. Backspace nagivates back in browsers, isn’t this silly (support.mozilla.org)
    1 points 0
  5. Nine Reasons You Should Boycott Apple (helpmyseo.com)
    16 points 2
  6. Ask HN: A decent competitor to RescueTime

    I used to use RescueTime to track how I was spending time on my computer as well as blocking things that were distracting but I had so many problems with it I gave up. I see there’s this thing ManicTime—about ManicTime…

    2 points 0
  7. TED Talk: Peter Norvig: teaching 150,000 at once (youtube.com)
    1 points 1
  8. WWWF Seeks to Find the Number of Pages on the Web (edition.cnn.com)
    1 points 0
  9. Ward Cunningham on Exploratory Parsing (c2.com)
    77 points 6
  10. Modern Logic Programming in Mercury (PDF Tutorial) (mercury.cs.mu.oz.au)
    32 points 0
  11. Linus Torvalds now on GitHub (github.com)
    324 points 76
  12. Intelligent Code Personalization (olliesaunders.com)
    6 points 0
  13. Latest PHP Release adds “traits” (php.net)
    3 points 2
  14. Wikipedia: Making of Doom (en.wikipedia.org)
    96 points 33
  15. Ask HN: What is the state of the art in OOP?

    I used to do a lot of object-oriented programming and found myself reading up a lot on how to do it well. When C++ was the dominant OOP language there was a very different set of best practices than have emerged since.…

    36 points 35
  16. Self-Improvement (olliesaunders.com)
    2 points 0
  17. Chromebook really wants you to use the cloud (video) (news.bbc.co.uk)
    5 points 0
  18. Stuff your pompoms. This isn't sport (guardian.co.uk)
    3 points 0
  19. Google Wants to Kill the JPEG: Meet WebP (mashable.com)
    3 points 1
  20. Is Consumerism Killing Our Creativity? (the99percent.com)
    17 points 1
  21. Compucast: A Computer Science Podcast (computersciencepodcast.com)
    2 points 0
  22. Converting Pi to binary: Don't do it (everything2.com)
    34 points 36
  23. Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags (shirky.com)
    3 points 0
  24. Female Anti-Rape Condom (nydailynews.com)
    29 points 37
  25. Dell in talks with Google over Chrome OS (reuters.com)
    12 points 0