Hacker News 23
Hacker news 23 has a few interesting items, although it was much weaker than usual.
The Cicada Principle, by Alex Walker shows an interesting way to make seamless tiles in CSS.
Suffering-Oriented Programming, by Nathan Marz - the most thought inspiring piece in this issue. The basic principle is that for any problem, make it possible, then make it beautiful, then fast.
The basic idea is that trying to generalize when in a new problem domain tends to go badly and waste time because you don't understand all of it at first. Making a quick hack to solve it can be more effective - you can create a good solution later, when you have more detail. And only at that point you should optimize.
Automate Everything, by Tom Blomfield - a look on the way they used to automate expense reports. Short, but clever.
Uncloaking a Slumlord Conspiracy with Social Network Analysis, by Valdis Krebs - this may sound like a Facebook thing, but it actually shows how to data was visualized to show how the players in the conspiracy were related. Pretty interesting.
The Cicada Principle, by Alex Walker shows an interesting way to make seamless tiles in CSS.
Suffering-Oriented Programming, by Nathan Marz - the most thought inspiring piece in this issue. The basic principle is that for any problem, make it possible, then make it beautiful, then fast.
The basic idea is that trying to generalize when in a new problem domain tends to go badly and waste time because you don't understand all of it at first. Making a quick hack to solve it can be more effective - you can create a good solution later, when you have more detail. And only at that point you should optimize.
Automate Everything, by Tom Blomfield - a look on the way they used to automate expense reports. Short, but clever.
Uncloaking a Slumlord Conspiracy with Social Network Analysis, by Valdis Krebs - this may sound like a Facebook thing, but it actually shows how to data was visualized to show how the players in the conspiracy were related. Pretty interesting.
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