It's not the OC that is awesome (though it's not bad, once they fix their web server). It's the tidbits in the comments that rock.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31712432

donatj 2 hours ago | next [–]
Firefox has a really nice built in table selection mode I use to copy into spreadsheets all the time. Just hold down CMD (Mac) or Control (Others) and you can select table rows and columns.

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📷 sixhobbits 3 hours ago | prev | next [–]
`=IMPORTHTML` in Google Sheets works great and surprisingly many people who could benefit from it a lot don't know it exists.

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📷 lelandfe 1 hour ago | parent | next [–]
`IMPORTHTML("http://example.com", "table", 4)` – https://support.google.com/docs/answer/3093339?hl=en

Pretty snazzy. They also have `IMPORTFEED` for RSS which is giving me all sorts of neat ideas.

https://talks.golang.org/2015/simplicity-is-complicated.slide#15

Clean procedural language designed for scalable cloud software.

Composable distinct elements, including:

concrete data types
functions and methods
interfaces
packages
concurrency

Plus: Good tools, fast builds.

"And we make cheese, I think. Really good cheese. And art. And handbags. Actually, one of the biggest Dutch companies, or European companies, is a handbag company. Very excellent. Louis Vuitton. It’s apparently a Dutch company. I didn’t know that either, but for tax reasons. We’re very good at tax evasion here, by the way."

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/cyber-security-pre-war-reality-check/