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1.Twitter Introduces Innovators Patent Agreement (github.com/twitter)
542 points by shill on April 17, 2012 | 107 comments
2.Prince of Persia source code released (Apple II assembly) (github.com/jmechner)
379 points by andrewf on April 17, 2012 | 70 comments
3.A High Frequency Trader's Apologia, Part 1 (chrisstucchio.com)
375 points by yummyfajitas on April 17, 2012 | 317 comments
4.IKamasutra: Apple Hates Brunettes (ikamasutra.com)
355 points by varl on April 17, 2012 | 158 comments
5.I have 404,772 users. Now what? (pud.com)
345 points by pud on April 17, 2012 | 189 comments
6.Semicolon: A language of semicolons (pksunkara.github.com)
286 points by pksunkara on April 17, 2012 | 101 comments
7.Going With The Flow: Google’s Secret Switch To The Next Wave Of Networking (wired.com)
262 points by nsns on April 17, 2012 | 89 comments
8.The 501 Developer Manifesto (501manifesto.org)
224 points by tomstuart on April 17, 2012 | 116 comments
9.How we run our agile dev process using only Trello and Google Docs (uservoice.com)
163 points by rrwhite on April 17, 2012 | 54 comments
10.Pricing in reverse: use a product's price to figure out what you need to build (ninjasandrobots.com)
153 points by nate on April 17, 2012 | 44 comments
11.A calculator that only shows the answer after you give a suitable estimate (qamacalculator.com)
144 points by ColinWright on April 17, 2012 | 53 comments
12.First hundred days of Clojure (niclas-meier.de)
143 points by pron on April 17, 2012 | 42 comments
13.Pocket Released (Formerly Read It Later) (getpocket.com)
142 points by simplon on April 17, 2012 | 78 comments
14.Repository Structure and Python (kennethreitz.com)
125 points by llambda on April 17, 2012 | 36 comments
15.Never Stop Hacking (rdegges.com)
119 points by b14ck on April 17, 2012 | 12 comments
16.The Slow Web Movement (idonethis.com)
116 points by smalter on April 17, 2012 | 8 comments

Hi guys, just wanted to tag along with this thread, because I'm a huge fan of Semicolon! One thing I've always found aggravating though... Those darn semicolons! So I'm creating CoffeeColon, because all these semi-colons are such a hassle. It's probably easiest if I just show you the language in action, rather than going through a long diatribe. So here's my hello world!:

" "

^ Pretty elegant, right?

let's try something a little more complex:

" "

^ As you can see, the goal of this new language is to take the best of Semicolon and just make it more succinct, and to round out some of the minor historical abnormalities that have been dragged along in the language spec for a while now.

So my hope is that you all enjoy CoffeeColon as much as I do. It's just like Semicolon, maintaining it's expressiveness and dynamic nature, with just a little bit of smoothing out of the kinks.

Thanks!

18.Making shit work is everyone's job (37signals.com)
111 points by ph0rque on April 17, 2012 | 50 comments
19.BlackMagic 2.5K Cinema Camera with 12bit RAW for $3000 (eoshd.com)
110 points by salimmadjd on April 17, 2012 | 37 comments
20.Shouldn't Robots Be Doing My Taxes By Now? (sunlightlabs.com)
113 points by luigi on April 17, 2012 | 148 comments
21.PhoneGap vs. Native: Some Thoughts on Going Native (groups.google.com)
110 points by alifaziz on April 17, 2012 | 39 comments
22.NumPy on PyPy progress report (morepypy.blogspot.com)
108 points by llambda on April 17, 2012 | 1 comment
23.Why Every Ruby Developer Should Learn Smalltalk (victorsavkin.com)
106 points by bitops on April 17, 2012 | 66 comments
24.RasberryPi review (bit-tech.net)
100 points by nl on April 17, 2012 | 37 comments
25.Day 1 of Oracle v. Google trial (groklaw.net)
95 points by grellas on April 17, 2012 | 19 comments
26.Add SPDY support to your Apache server with mod_spdy (googledevelopers.blogspot.com)
93 points by joedevon on April 17, 2012 | 33 comments
27.When Will The Social Sharing Button Madness Stop (craigagranoff.com)
89 points by craigagranoff on April 17, 2012 | 61 comments
28.VC Signaling Coming Home To Roost (eladgil.com)
90 points by eladgil on April 17, 2012 | 14 comments
29.Minesweeper implemented in DCPU-16 (0x10co.de)
86 points by switz on April 17, 2012 | 33 comments

Can't believe someone at Twitter wrote this. It's riddled with semicolons.

(ducks)


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