Hacker Newsletter #241

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Issue #241 // February 27, 2015 // View in your browser

Awesome sponsors make Hacker Newsletter possible, and with this issue I'm experimenting with inline sponsored ads to find other options to work with great companies. Two things - they'll always be labeled as such, and my hope is that they'll link to things that are just as useful as everything else. As always, feedback is just a reply away. –kale #FAVORITES TDD: A Blueprint for Choosing Metrics //librato SPONSORED Side projects //antirez comments→ How crazy am I to think I actually know where that Malaysia Airlines plane is? //nymag comments→ Startup advice, briefly //samaltman comments→ The girl who gets gifts from birds //bbc comments→ How to pick startup ideas //defmacro comments→ Privacy is at a crossroads. Choose wisely //medium comments→ Introduction to Facebook's Flux architecture //ryanclark comments→ Contributing to Chromium: An Illustrated Guide //meowni comments→ The Ultimate (SaaS) Churn Rate Cheat Sheet //chartmogul comments→ Media for Thinking the Unthinkable //worrydream comments→ #SHOW HN Magic //getmagicnow comments→ Introducing Pebble Time //kickstarter comments→ Google announces Android for Work //googleforwork comments→ Flow Hive: Honey on Tap Directly from Your Beehive //honeyflow comments→ A daily aggregator of all remote jobs out there //remoteok comments→ A workshop on how to use Vim plugins //github comments→ Inside Airbnb: New York City //insideairbnb comments→ #CLASSICS What really happened aboard Air France 447 //popularmechanics comments→ Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund //ycombinator comments→ Where do you find the time for side projects? //justinjackson comments→ #CODE Proving that Android’s, Java’s and Python’s sorting algorithm is broken //envisage-project comments→ Highlight.js – Syntax highlighting for the Web //highlightjs comments→ Mastering Git submodules //medium comments→ Stenographer – A full-packet-capture utility //github comments→ #DESIGN Vivus, bringing your SVGs to life //github comments→ Astropad – Transform your iPad into a graphics tablet //astropad comments→ Origami – Design Prototyping //github comments→ #LEARN Netherlandish Proverbs //wikipedia comments→ Tweel – Airless Wheel //wikipedia comments→ #BOOKS An Introduction to Unix //oliverelliott comments→ Bookseller hides reading list for developers in its source //waterstones comments→ Building Microservices: Ebook from O’Reilly and NGINX //nginx comments→ Creative Scala: A New Introduction to Scala //underscore comments→ What Books Could Be Used to Rebuild Civilization? //openculture comments→ #WATCHING Richard Hamming: Learning to Learn //youtube comments→ The Psychology of Doing Nothing //youtube comments→ #WORKING Hired gives top developers more power in their job search //hired SPONSORED A histogram of salaries given to H1B workers //github comments→ My experience of interviewing for a job at Apple //lmjabreu comments→ The freelancer's guide to good jobs and great pay //thecreativeclass comments→ #FUN Sans Bullsh!t Sans //sansbullsh!tsans comments→ Cool-retro-term //github comments→ How a Handgun Works: 1911 .45 //animagraffs comments→

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