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Issue #252 // May 15, 2015

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# FAVORITES

Lily – Drone camera //lily comments

Be Kind //boz comments

Take the Money and Run //nate comments

The Failure of Agile //toolshed comments

Under the hood: Facebook’s cold storage system //facebook comments

A re-introduction to JavaScript //mozilla comments

Show HN: This page exists only if someone is looking at it //durazo comments

Google Moves Its Corporate Applications to the Internet //wsj comments

Anti-Patterns Every Programmer Should Be Aware Of //sahandsaba comments

How Googlebot crawls JavaScript //searchengineland comments

# SHOW HN

Wait, Google Sent Me //google comments

Deck of Cards – A playing card API //deckofcardsapi comments

Think – Fast mobile whiteboarding //fiftythree comments

Wego: a weather app for the terminal //github comments

Hasura – A Batteries-included App Development Platform //hasura comments

# CODE

Node.js and io.js are merging under the Node Foundation //github comments

Microsoft TouchDevelop //github comments

Code Review Best Practices //kevinlondon comments

Django 1.8 and Python 3: Complex app tutorial, end-to-end //marinamele comments

Anko – Pleasant Android development in Kotlin //github comments

Keras: Fast Deep Learning Prototyping for Python //github comments

# DESIGN

A Pixel Artist Renounces Pixel Art //dinofarmgames comments

Scroll Back: The Theory and Practice of Cameras in Side-Scrollers //google comments

Facebook Visual Identity //officeofbenbarry comments

# LEARN

Learn SQL Interactively on Khan Academy //khanacademy comments

Guide for Technical Development //google comments

Alberto Santos-Dumont //wikipedia comments

There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom (1959) //wikipedia comments

# BOOKS

An Overview of Ramanujan's Notebooks [pdf] //uiuc comments

The Machine Stops //wikipedia comments

New book: Thing Explainer – xkcd //xkcd comments

# WATCHING

Using Go at The New York Times //youtube comments

Kids hack their Dad's computer on her Raspberry Pi //youtube comments

BBS the Documentary //youtube comments

# WORKING

210 Zappos employees – 14% of the staff – take buyouts after CEO ultimatum //businessinsider comments

Why so many Dutch people work part time //economist comments

Every freelancer starts out undervaluing their work //kenwestgaard comments

# LONGREADS

My Dad Tried to Kill Me with an Alligator //outsideonline comments

Game theory’s cure for corruption //aeon comments

The Real Mayors of 'SimCity' //vice comments

# FUN

Twenty //frenchguys comments

Typedrummer //typedrummer comments

Turn GNU command line tools into SaaS – Stupid Hackathon Project //github comments

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