top 50% 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

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

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

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

CSS-Only Clickjacking

http://jsfiddle.net/gcollazo/UMyEm/embedded/result/

14 years ago

104 upvotes – 35 comments

Observing traffic prioritization in Comcast’s network

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

14 years ago

104 upvotes – 27 comments

Why I Desperately Needed to Learn to Code

http://influencehacks.com/why-i-desperately-needed-to-learn-to-code

14 years ago

104 upvotes – 23 comments

A Mathematical Challenge to Obesity

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/15/science/a-mathematical-challenge-to-obesity.html

14 years ago

101 upvotes – 92 comments

CEOs Who Should Have Already Been Fired

http://www.forbes.com/sites/adamhartung/2012/05/12/oops-5-ceos-that-should-have-already-been-fired-cisco-ge-walmart-sears-microsoft/3/

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 95 comments

Facebook’s business model

http://cdixon.org/2012/05/15/facebooks-business-model/

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 55 comments

Underscores are stupid

http://devblog.avdi.org/2012/05/15/underscores-are-stupid/

14 years ago

95 upvotes – 127 comments

Plagiarism, the plot thickens

http://jacquesmattheij.com/Plagiarism,+the+plot+thickens

14 years ago

93 upvotes – 12 comments

Here’s why the Facebook iOS app is so bad (UIWebViews and no Nitro)

http://blog.mobtest.com/2012/05/heres-why-the-facebook-ios-app-is-so-bad-uiwebviews-and-no-nitro/

14 years ago

91 upvotes – 61 comments

Quora's $50 million

http://dcurt.is/quoras-50-million

14 years ago

87 upvotes – 57 comments

If you're seeing ads on Wikipedia, your computer probably has malware

http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/05/14/ads-on-wikipedia-your-computer-infected-malware/

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 31 comments

Full Distributed Teams: are they viable?

http://www.pixelmonkey.org/2012/05/14/distributed-teams

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 54 comments

Finnish court: open WiFi owners not responsible for copyright infringement

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/05/finnish-court-rules-open-wifi-network-owner-not-liable-for-infringement/

14 years ago

81 upvotes – 9 comments

Why the San Francisco Bay Area should have 11 million residents today

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timothylee/2012/05/10/why-the-bay-area-should-have-11-million-residents-today/

14 years ago

76 upvotes – 127 comments

Anatomy of a Reducer

http://clojure.com/blog/2012/05/15/anatomy-of-reducer.html

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 7 comments

Hiring experiment: hiring experts in 20 minute chunks

http://apps.glittle.org/pomhire

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 24 comments

First draft of HTML img srcset for responsive images

http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/embedded-content-1.html#attr-img-srcset

14 years ago

73 upvotes – 77 comments

State Machines

http://blog.markwshead.com/869/state-machines-computer-science/

14 years ago

67 upvotes – 31 comments

How To Find Startup Ideas

http://wesleytansey.com/how-to-find-startup-ideas/

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 23 comments

Protocols over APIs

http://blog.superfeedr.com/protocols-over-api/

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 17 comments

You Have To Get Good Before You Get Better

http://danshipper.com/you-have-to-get-good-before-you-get-better

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 11 comments

SS-Lisp — run Lisp in your browser (IDE + compiler + VM)

http://mihai.bazon.net/blog/ss-lisp-run-lisp-in-your-browser

14 years ago

64 upvotes – 10 comments

Lightbox is joining Facebook

http://blog.lightbox.com/post/23107101360/lightbox-is-joining-facebook

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 44 comments

If You Can Copyright an API, What Else Can You Copyright?

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/05/api-copyright/

14 years ago

59 upvotes – 33 comments

Let's Code: Test-Driven Javascript

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/188988365/lets-code-test-driven-javascript

14 years ago

56 upvotes – 23 comments

Python is a voluntary language

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2011/10/26/python-is-a-voluntary-language/

14 years ago

55 upvotes – 60 comments

SocialCam's shady secret

http://mgalligan.com/post/23113579600/socialcams-shady-secret

14 years ago

54 upvotes – 14 comments

N Reduce opens up as alternative to ultra-elite startup incubators

http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2012/05/14/n-reduce-opens-up-as-alternative-to-ultra-elite-startup-incubators/

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 21 comments

Silicon Valley Is Stuck In An Uncanny Valley Of Density

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timothylee/2012/05/11/silicon-valley-is-stuck-in-an-uncanny-valley-of-density/

14 years ago

53 upvotes – 55 comments
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