The Stack - Week 42/2014

Algorithms

• clarkduvall/hyperloglog

CAP

• Mnesia and CAP

CMS / Racket

• Pollen: the book is a program

Databases

• Sqitch by theory

Debian

• cAPTain — captain documentation

Docker

• Create your own Heroku on EC2 with Vagrant, Docker, and Dokku

Education

• Why Germany Is So Much Better at Training Its Workers

Game Development

• Reverse Engineering Star Wars: Yoda Stories
• rezoner/unfinished-asteroids
• cristicbz/rust-doom

Games

• Bepaw
• Manyland | Hacker News (HN)

History

• Wiktenauer, the world's largest library of Historical European Martial Arts books and manuscripts
• What The Hell Was Megadeth, Arizona?

HTTP

• Life of a HTTP request, as seen by my toy web server

IRC

• magne4000/quassel-webserver

Linux

• naelstrof/maim
• tcpdump advanced filters

Linux/Terminal

• Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

Lua

• State of the Lua ecosystem

Papers

• Best Papers vs. Top Cited Papers

PHP

• lastguest/pixeler
• The Journey of a Thousand Bytecodes

Postgres

• Postgres full-text search is Good Enough!

RSS

• RSS Reader for Developers

Rust

• Why your first FizzBuzz implementation may not work: an exploration into some initially surprising but great parts of Rust
• Rust Means Never Having to Close a Socket

Science

• Nobel Prize: How English beat German as language of science
• This Widely Cited Physicist Is A Total Asshole. He Also Doesn't Exist.
• The Physics of Doing an Ollie on a Skateboard, or, the Science of Why I Can't Skate
• WTF flat ground tricks (1000 fps slow motion)
• Beautiful Chemistry

Shell

• Rich Command Shells

Startup

• Travel planning software: The most common bad startup idea

Storm

• History of Apache Storm and lessons learned

Web Development

• What technical details should a programmer of a web application consider before making the site public?