top 20 hacker news stories for 2012-05-15

Please don't learn to code

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/05/please-dont-learn-to-code.html

14 years ago

746 upvotes – 266 comments

Please Don't Become Anything, Especially Not A Programmer

http://learncodethehardway.org/blog/MAY_15_2012.html

14 years ago

670 upvotes – 218 comments

Please Learn to Code

http://sachagreif.com/please-learn-to-code/

14 years ago

654 upvotes – 146 comments

OpenShift by Red Hat

https://openshift.redhat.com/app/

14 years ago

329 upvotes – 112 comments

GM Says Facebook Ads Don't Work, Pulls $10 Million Account

http://www.forbes.com/sites/joannmuller/2012/05/15/gm-says-facebook-ads-dont-work-pulls-10-billion-account/

14 years ago

308 upvotes – 257 comments

Wil Wheaton: Yo Hollywood, Let Me Download Ubuntu

http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnbackup/2012/05/an-example-of-the-usefulness-of-bittorrent-for-entirely-legal-purposes.html

14 years ago

288 upvotes – 163 comments

On Atwood's Please Don't Learn to Code

https://gist.github.com/0f61db65bbd2d2cb681a

14 years ago

206 upvotes – 60 comments

WTFWG

http://timkadlec.com/2012/05/wtfwg/

14 years ago

205 upvotes – 36 comments

My Raspberry Pi Thinks It's a Mainframe

http://www.designspark.com/content/my-raspberry-pi-thinks-its-mainframe

14 years ago

198 upvotes – 65 comments

Steve Ballmer's Microsoft

http://dcurt.is/steve-ballmers-microsoft

14 years ago

179 upvotes – 117 comments

Android Fragmentation Visualized

http://opensignalmaps.com/reports/fragmentation.php?

14 years ago

168 upvotes – 84 comments

Wrong man was executed in Texas, probe says

http://news.yahoo.com/wrong-man-executed-texas-probe-says-051125159.html

14 years ago

157 upvotes – 83 comments

Google Green - The Story of Send

http://www.google.com/green/storyofsend

14 years ago

142 upvotes – 60 comments

Memory Reordering Caught in the Act

http://preshing.com/20120515/memory-reordering-caught-in-the-act

14 years ago

137 upvotes – 32 comments

2012 Salary Guide for Creative and Technology Professionals [pdf]

http://s3.amazonaws.com/DBM/M3/2011/Downloads/TCG_SalaryGuide_2012.pdf

14 years ago

131 upvotes – 90 comments

Focus.py

http://amoffat.github.com/focus/

14 years ago

112 upvotes – 57 comments

What my 11 year old's Stanford course taught me about online education

http://gametheorist.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/what-my-11-year-olds-stanford-course.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed:+GameTheorist+(Game+Theorist)

14 years ago

108 upvotes – 41 comments

PostgreSQL 9.2 beta adds JSON

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/PostgreSQL-9-2-beta-improves-scalability-adds-JSON-1573815.html

14 years ago

108 upvotes – 24 comments

This is probably why everyone still relies on Google

http://robotmay.com/post/23096164275/these-are-the-crawl-stats-for-the-last-month-for

14 years ago

105 upvotes – 38 comments

Observing traffic prioritization in Comcast’s network

http://ber.gd/post/23025893856/comcast-traffic-prioritization

14 years ago

104 upvotes – 27 comments
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