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Git-getpull: Quickly find the pull request that merged your commit to master(news.rapgenius.com)
8 points by jsomers 13y ago|0 comments
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Pass the Rap Genius Tech Interview, Get $1,000 Cash(news.rapgenius.com)
33 points by jsomers 13y ago|54 comments
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by jsomers 13y ago
It's crowdsourced by our users, and vetted/edited by our moderators (also part of the community).
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Rap Stats: Breaking Down The Words in Rap Lyrics Over Time(news.rapgenius.com)
178 points by jsomers 13y ago|93 comments
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Díaz annotates his own novel on Rap Genius(gigaom.com)
11 points by jsomers 13y ago|7 comments
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by jsomers 14y ago
Nice! Curious to know what you're using to parse the essays into sentences. Isn't that quite difficult in the general case?
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Better Queuing Metrics With Updated New Relic Add-On(blog.heroku.com)
55 points by jsomers 14y ago|15 comments
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by jsomers 14y ago
Here's a little Ruby implementation I wrote a while back: https://github.com/jsomers/solitaire . I hope it's correct...
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More people should write(jsomers.net)
150 points by jsomers 14y ago|49 comments
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by jsomers 14y ago
Jon Gertner's recent book about Bell Labs talks about this. Having a monopoly was essential for the Labs' success. A few choice passages: Still, the contrasts between these organizations and Bell Labs are crucial. “This was a company that
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The words David Foster Wallace circled in his dictionary, with definitions(jsomers.net)
5 points by jsomers 15y ago|0 comments
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An introduction to pair programming: ramping up at Pivotal(pivotallabs.com)
1 points by jsomers 15y ago|0 comments
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by jsomers 15y ago
I wrote a response to this (in defense of philosophy) a few years ago at http://jsomers.net/pg-philosophy.html . And here's the yc discussion about it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=404707 .
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by jsomers 15y ago
I think jlees makes an excellent point, that PE manages to bridge the gap between the basic "hello world" stuff and the more "algorithmic-y" aspects of programming. In my case that was what really got me snowballing toward being a reasonabl
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How Project Euler taught me how to code, and what that might mean for education(theatlantic.com)
2 points by jsomers 15y ago|0 comments
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How traders get to play the world's most sophisticated, immersive video game(theatlantic.com)
5 points by jsomers 15y ago|0 comments
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by jsomers 15y ago
I am skeptical of advice from people who disagree with what I stand for. As a rule this is a pretty impoverished epistemic strategy.
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The Real Story Behind Google +1(ginzametrics.com)
3 points by jsomers 16y ago|0 comments
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A few quick SEO tips(ginzametrics.com)
4 points by jsomers 16y ago|0 comments
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Lean Products and Second-Order Sales: Startup Software in the Enterprise(ginzametrics.com)
3 points by jsomers 16y ago|0 comments
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by jsomers 16y ago
To a certain extent, yes. After the "it turns out" post I think some people went around to other parts of my site and started submitting different posts to HN. There was one point where I had three posts simultaneously on the front page (it
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Accidental SEO: How I got 400,000 page views without even knowing it(ginzametrics.com)
107 points by jsomers 16y ago|45 comments
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by jsomers 16y ago
Google Docs will show you a diff, but without your comments. They also don't have a live preview of what your changes will look like. It also takes a lot more clicks (and time) to generate the revision history. The overall point being that
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by jsomers 16y ago
I seem to do a lot of copyediting these days (of friends' papers, application essays, stories, letters, and the like), and keep wishing there was a super-simple way to track my changes and present them to the writer in a visually intuitive
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Show HN: A Simple Diff-Based Copyediting Tool(diffly.heroku.com)
5 points by jsomers 16y ago|3 comments
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Why do I gloss over Uppercase Things when I read? Exploring case and retention(jsomers.net)
1 points by jsomers 16y ago|0 comments
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Those maps at the beginning of books: a short essay on education(jsomers.net)
2 points by jsomers 16y ago|1 comments
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by jsomers 16y ago
I thought I was seeing all these Egypt Twitter stories because I get most of my news through nerd-channels like news.yc, but I s'pose they've invaded mainstream coverage as well. My initial reaction is to agree with Gladwell, even to go fur
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by jsomers 16y ago
There is a wonderful book edited by Carl Sagan called Communication With Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CETI), Proceedings of a conference held at the Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory, Yerevan, USSR, 5-11 September 1971 . The chief aims
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The Shoulders of Giants: Why learning to fly (or code) is easier than you think(theatlantic.com)
2 points by jsomers 16y ago|0 comments

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