Hacker Newsletter #225

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Issue #225 // November 07, 2014 // View in your browser

What gadget, book, or tool is on the top of your Christmas wish list this year? –kale #SPONSOR Real-time Data from the Things You Care About. Librato works with the open-source tools you use today. Measure, visualize, and alert on metrics that are critical to the projects you engineer. #FAVORITES The Sixth Stage of Grief Is Retro-Computing //medium comments→ Reverse OCR //reverseocr comments→ Principles of Rich Web Applications //rauchg comments→ How I reverse-engineered Google Docs to play back any document's keystrokes //jsomers comments→ The Art of Not Working at Work //theatlantic comments→ The Other Side of Diversity //medium comments→ Ask HN: What small webapps do you know that have a large audience? //ycombinator The Internet Arcade //textfiles comments→ Vim After 11 Years //statico.github.io comments→ 2D gaming using Processing.js //nihongoresources comments→ #SHOW HN Amazon Echo //amazon comments→ “Install on DigitalOcean” button for open source apps //github comments→ A database for browsing and discovering movies //movieo comments→ Google Launches Managed Service for Running Docker Apps on Its Platform//techcrunch comments→ StackShare – discover and discuss software stacks //stackshare comments→ Wall of Text //walloftext comments→ Interbot – Get work done right from your chat app //interbot comments→ #CODE Mozilla: The First Browser Dedicated to Developers Is Coming //mozilla comments→ C4 – C in 4 functions //github comments→ OS X 10.10 – Source Code //apple comments→ A programming language in 450 lines of JavaScript //jsfiddle comments→ Winamp 2 in HTML5 //jordaneldredge comments→ Immutable.js – Immutable Data Collections //github comments→ #DESIGN How To Scroll //ocks comments→ Adobe Brackets hits 1.0 //github comments→ Colores – A simple app I built to find color palettes based on words //manugarricomments→ #BOOKS How I made the print and eBook versions of my web book //stuffwithstuff comments→ Destroying Medieval Books //medievalbooks comments→ The Art of Google Books //theartofgooglebooks comments→ #WATCHING The Hammer-Feather Drop in the world’s biggest vacuum chamber //thekidshouldseethiscomments→ A Programming Language for Games: Demo //youtube comments→ #WORKING Ask HN: Who is hiring? //ycombinator Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? //ycombinator Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? //ycombinator On the phenomenon of bullsh!t jobs //libcom comments→ Weekly Coding Interview Problems by Email //interviewcake comments→ #FUN Balls – Game I’ve made while I was learning Swift //gameofballs comments→ Airport ABCs: An Explanation of Airport Identifier Codes (1994) //skygod comments→

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