Hacker Newsletter #229

If you ever find that you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room. //Austin Kleon

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Issue #229 // December 05, 2014 // View in your browser

Back this issue is the classics section, featuring older great reads from Hacker News. Look for some other small changes over the next couple weeks as well. Have any ideas on how to make this newsletter better? Hit reply! –kale #SPONSOR Stack - The Task Manager for Dev teams. Stack is a task management app that features a task list for Developers, where they can view their most critical tasks across all projects. Devs can get more done by focussing only on the tasks that matter and leaving the scheduling up to the Project Managers. Free for 30 days. #FAVORITES The Case for Slow Programming //ventrellathing comments→ The State of JavaScript in 2015 //breck-mckye comments→ “Invalid username or password” is a useless security measure //inburke comments→ Java for Everything //teamten comments→ Hard-won lessons about money and investing //mattcutts comments→ Front-end framework optimized for internal apps //getflakes comments→ My boys love 1986 computing //complete comments→ Introducing .NET Core //msdn comments→ Write the Docs //writethedocs comments→ What do all the controls in an aeroplane cockpit do? //quora comments→ Aliens in the Valley: The History of Reddit //mashable comments→ #ASK HN How or where to begin learning mathematics from first principles? //ycombinator Examples of profitable little free web tools? //ycombinator #SHOW HN Wire – Modern Communications Network //wire comments→ Docker Machine, Swarm, and Compose for Orchestrating Distributed Apps //dockercomments→ Extending Van Gogh’s Starry Night with Inpainting //wolfram comments→ PSequel – a free PostgreSQL GUI Tool for Mac OS X //psequel comments→ Pay It Forward Design Bundle – 100% to Watsi //payitforwardbundle comments→ How to Make Your Own Smart AC //github comments→ #CLASSICS Winter is coming //startuplessonslearned comments→ Ten Rules for Web Startups (also posted this week) //evhead comments→ Amazon’s $23,698,655.93 book about flies //michaeleisen comments→ Woodcut Maps: Handcrafted wood-inlay maps, designed by you //woodcutmapscomments→ #CODE Duktape: an embeddable JavaScript engine //duktape comments→ Hy – A dialect of Lisp that’s embedded in Python //hylang comments→ The Unreasonable Effectiveness of C (2013) //damienkatz comments→ PostgreSQL’s New LATERAL Join Type //heapanalytics comments→ Functional Programming Patterns //slideshare comments→ “Start Rails 5 development” //github comments→ Sailor – A Lua MVC framework //sailorproject comments→ #LEARN The Saddest Thing I Know about the Integers //scientificamerican comments→ How speakers make sound //animagraffs comments→ #BOOKS Nature makes all articles free to view //nature comments→ Best Books of 2014 //npr comments→ The Best Science Books of 2014 //brainpickings comments→ #WATCHING World's Simplest Electric Train //youtube comments→ Steve Wozniak remembers the early days //bloomberg comments→ Crazy Pool Vortex //youtube comments→ #WORKING Ask HN: Who is hiring? //ycombinator Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? //ycombinator Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? //ycombinator Immigration is about talent, not costs //aerofs comments→ Resumes suck for hiring engineers //alinelerner comments→ How to Get a Quant Job in Finance //financejobs comments→ #FUN Regex Crossword //regexcrossword comments→ Voxelstein 3d //sourceforge comments→ Building a Game with a 6-Year-Old //johnpolacek comments→

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