nickloewen

This is a plain-text version of Bret Victor’s reading list. It was requested by hf on Hacker News.

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Highly recommended things!

This is my five-star list. These are my favorite things in all the world.

A few of these works have had an extraordinary effect on my life or way of thinking. They get a sixth star. ★

frankamp

/* LED Blink, Teensyduino Tutorial #1
   http://www.pjrc.com/teensy/tutorial.html
 
   This example code is in the public domain.
*/
#include <Wire.h>
// Teensy 2.0 has the LED on pin 11
// Teensy++ 2.0 has the LED on pin 6
// Teensy 3.0 has the LED on pin 13
const int ledPin = 13;

selenamarie

#!/usr/bin/env python

import tweepy
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup as parser
import urllib
import sys


import argparse
import ConfigParser

colindean

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require "open-uri"
require "json"
#get the data
j = JSON.parse open("http://bitcoincharts.com/t/markets.json").read
#only USD, only active exchanges, and only where there's a bid and ask
j.select! {|x| x["currency"] == "USD" and x["volume"] > 0 and !x["ask"].nil? and !x["bid"].nil?}
#sort, need lowest ask and highest bidder
ask = j.sort {|x,y| x["ask"] <=> y["ask"]}
bid = j.sort {|x,y| x["bid"] <=> y["bid"]}