| 1. | | Web Standards (dcurt.is) |
| 358 points by maccman on Feb 10, 2012 | 195 comments |
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| 2. | | The Story of 2 $1 Million Projects in 24 Hours (kickstarter.com) |
| 345 points by zachh on Feb 10, 2012 | 78 comments |
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| 3. | | Dreamliner spells out "787" & Boeing logo over US during test flight (flightaware.com) |
| 315 points by ChrisArchitect on Feb 10, 2012 | 80 comments |
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| 4. | | V for Vendetta and the Rise of Anonymous - by Alan Moore (bbc.co.uk) |
| 298 points by waitwhat on Feb 10, 2012 | 86 comments |
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| 5. | | I am a great programmer, but horrible algorithmist (leftnode.com) |
| 291 points by leftnode on Feb 10, 2012 | 178 comments |
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| 6. | | Germany refuses to sign ACTA (for now) (panarmenian.net) |
| 271 points by bjoernbu on Feb 10, 2012 | 32 comments |
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| 7. | | Rules of a Zen programmer (grobmeier.de) |
| 264 points by karterk on Feb 10, 2012 | 42 comments |
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| 8. | | 99 Problems But Money Ain't One (37signals.com) |
| 186 points by tptacek on Feb 10, 2012 | 76 comments |
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| 9. | | GitHub: About This Week's Availability (github.com/blog) |
| 182 points by remi on Feb 10, 2012 | 54 comments |
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| 10. | | Pandas 0.7.0 released: Python data analysis library (pydata.org) |
| 182 points by wesm on Feb 10, 2012 | 26 comments |
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| 11. | | The Future of JavaScript (chromium.org) |
| 170 points by JoshTriplett on Feb 10, 2012 | 109 comments |
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| 12. | | PyPy 1.8 - business as usual (morepypy.blogspot.com) |
| 167 points by bivab on Feb 10, 2012 | 22 comments |
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| 13. | | VEVO Execs Must Face Criminal Charges For Copyright Infringement (uncrunched.com) |
| 162 points by ed on Feb 10, 2012 | 56 comments |
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| 14. | | Running Dropbox affiliate ads cost me my Adwords account (gravitronic.blogspot.com) |
| 158 points by gravitronic on Feb 10, 2012 | 112 comments |
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| 15. | | How the Boehm Garbage Collector Works (discontinuously.com) |
| 120 points by int3 on Feb 10, 2012 | 37 comments |
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| 16. | | High performance libraries in Java (vanillajava.blogspot.com) |
| 117 points by javinpaul on Feb 10, 2012 | 21 comments |
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| 17. | | My experience of runnning Google Ads for Dropbox referrals (tim-rogers.co.uk) |
| 108 points by timrogers on Feb 10, 2012 | 46 comments |
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| 18. | | VEVO CEO tries to explain their hypocritical act of piracy at Sundance (techcrunch.com) |
| 100 points by msencenb on Feb 10, 2012 | 18 comments |
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| 19. | | Be better at math: Running causes neurogenesis in spatial reasoning region. (highiqpro.com) |
| 96 points by upwardbound on Feb 10, 2012 | 25 comments |
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| 20. | | The dirty secret of IP calling, and how it will change the phone industry (theverge.com) |
| 96 points by ops7eng5 on Feb 10, 2012 | 29 comments |
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| 21. | | Inbound.org: Community-curated Marketing News (inbound.org) |
| 90 points by InfinityX0 on Feb 10, 2012 | 58 comments |
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| 22. | | WebKit Isn’t Breaking the Web. You Are (webmonkey.com) |
| 89 points by bootload on Feb 10, 2012 | 63 comments |
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| 23. | | Does Facebook Have a Secret Paper Fetish? (collectorsweekly.com) |
| 87 points by tbgvi on Feb 10, 2012 | 19 comments |
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| 24. | | Scale of Universe (scaleofuniverse.com) |
| 82 points by sun123 on Feb 10, 2012 | 26 comments |
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| 25. | | Getting started with iOS development on Heroku (heroku.com) |
| 83 points by instakill on Feb 10, 2012 | 15 comments |
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| 26. | | BitTorrent Piracy Doesn’t Affect US Box Office Returns, Study Finds (torrentfreak.com) |
| 77 points by dazbradbury on Feb 10, 2012 | 23 comments |
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| 27. | | There is No Root Cause (kitchensoap.com) |
| 77 points by themcgruff on Feb 10, 2012 | 19 comments |
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| 28. | | Cathode: A terminal app for mac that looks really cool (itunes.apple.com) |
| 72 points by blktiger on Feb 10, 2012 | 60 comments |
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Not sure I agree. Architecting/Maintaining huge systems and inventing very smart algorithms are very different skills. Both can be learned to some extent, and a programmer should learn both to some level, but it is totally possible that one person is very stong in one but not that strong in the other.
Look at the source of the splay tree:
http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/link/ftp-site/splaying/
It is short, a programmer usually writes this amount of code in a day. Coming up with this made its creator famous.
Algorithmization is like short distance running. You prepare a lot (think a lot) but probably write little code, and you have to be quite math-focused.
Building huge systems is long distance running: you have to be strategical, you write lots of code, (and put together lots of third party components), you have to be 'wise'...
In essence good progammers are usually good enough in both (I am sure this is true for the poster), but he/she can be particularly strong in one or the other.