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20th IOCCC winners announced
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20th IOCCC winners announced on Twitter
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Clever blackout by Noisebridge
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Xkcd-inspired password generator
(github.com)
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15y ago
San Francisco, CA / Montreal, QC or REMOTE Xtranormal ( http://www.xtranormal.com/ ) is looking for someone who loves to build for the web and is happy owning projects and products from detailed definition through implementation (front- 
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Convert regex to sendmail rule (a losing ioccc entry)
(github.com)
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Who Buried Paul? (1999)
(ludix.com)
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16y ago
Thank you for reading & responding. I think I agree that yacc wasn't a great example for my purposes, but hang on. My point isn't that learning specific technologies isn't valuable, it's just that it is... specific. Even something as ge
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16y ago
I don't suggest just reading code, I suggest reading code critically, with an eye to how it can be improved. You're right that casually reading 10 blog posts doesn't help one's writing. But reading them carefully and critically, trying to
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Your point about studying code & improving it in isolation is good. The weakest part of the analogy, in my opinion, is that in tactical chess puzzles there's actually a right answer. On the other hand, if you have a chess puzzle but not
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Tactics, tactics, tactics
(dlowe-wfh.blogspot.com)
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What problems have you solved using genetic algorithms/genetic programming?
(stackoverflow.com)
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Ask HN: Examples of especially well-written C code?
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Perl, the first postmodern computer language
(perl.com)
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When to Forget: How to cope with being a coder with a sadly finite brain
(dlowe-wfh.blogspot.com)
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16y ago
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The No-Cry Software Development Methodology
(dlowe-wfh.blogspot.com)
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Poot Poot
(pootpoot.net)
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17y ago
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