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Ask HN: Your "Keeper" articles.
This being Hacker News there are many articles here that are "of the moment," items absolutely worth reading, and interesting to see, but not ones that you would refer back to.
There are articles, however, that are worth filing away and coming back to read later, and I'd be interested in seeing the ones that others have kept hold of in this manner.
Recently we've had "Who Can Name the Bigger Number?"
( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1539538 )
as an example, an article that repays rereading, and I personally enjoyed Zed Shaw's "Ragel state charts" and PG's "The Top Idea in Your Mind"
( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1536356 )
I've filed those away with some tags to help me find them again. What articles are your keepers*?
- jonp 16y agoPG's "The Power of the Marginal" (http://www.paulgraham.com/marginal.html http://www.paulgraham.com/marginal.html).
- RiderOfGiraffes 16y agoCool - thanks. I also found these gems in your previous comments/submissions: http://norvig.com/sudoku.html http://norvig.com/sudoku.html http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html Would you be willing to have a chat with me by email? Address is in my profile.
- jonp 16y agoI would. I've sent you an email.
- mrduncan 16y agoI've found myself referring back to Evan Williams "Ten Rules for Web Startups" (2005!) on many occasions. http://evhead.com/2005/11/ten-rules-for-web-startups.asp http://evhead.com/2005/11/ten-rules-for-web-startups.asp
- DanielStraight 16y agoI can't say for certain these came from HN, but they most likely did, so here goes: Gojko Adzic's "TDD as if you meant it" article: http://gojko.net/2009/02/27/thought-provoking-tdd-exercise-at-the-software-craftsmanship-conference/ http://gojko.net/2009/02/27/thought-provoking-tdd-exercise-a... William Zinsser's "Writing English as a Second Language": http://www.theamericanscholar.org/writing-english-as-a-second-language/ http://www.theamericanscholar.org/writing-english-as-a-secon... Steve Yegge's "Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns": http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom-of-nouns.html http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom... Mencius Moldbug's "Wolfram Alpha and hubristic user interfaces": http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2009/07/wolfram-alpha-and-hubristic-user.html http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2009/07/wolfram...
- dhimes 16y agoRead before setting a price: http://chrisashworth.org/blog/2010/06/09/my-2-bucks-on-pricing/ http://chrisashworth.org/blog/2010/06/09/my-2-bucks-on-prici...
- bhousel 16y agoI keep going back to Venkatesh Rao's "Gervais Principle" essays. The other stuff he's written is really good too. http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office/ http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-o...
- bdickason 16y agoHow to Write Great Microcopy - http://huffduffer.com/thinkvitamin/22025 http://huffduffer.com/thinkvitamin/22025 Basecamp landing page breakdown - http://www.unmatchedstyle.com/gallery/basecamphqcom.php http://www.unmatchedstyle.com/gallery/basecamphqcom.php Using your Sign-Up Form as your Qualifier - http://bokardo.com/archives/using-your-sign-up-form-as-a-qualifier/ http://bokardo.com/archives/using-your-sign-up-form-as-a-qua... Mike McDermott talks Web App Marketing Metrics - http://carsonified.com/blog/business/mike-mcderment-of-freshbooks-on-web-app-marketing-metrics/ http://carsonified.com/blog/business/mike-mcderment-of-fresh... Seven Steps to Remarkable Customer Service - http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/customerservice.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/customerservice.html Obviously there are alot more but these are the ones I've saved in Evernote to go back to.