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What is UseTheSource?
51 points by jgrahamc 65 days ago | 17 comments
Over on Hacker News someone described a piece of my code as "beautiful" (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1474963) and so I figured it would be good to have a place where we could all submit beautiful or fascinating code.

UseTheSource is intended to be the inverse of Daily WTF. We don't want to see examples of hideous coding. Come here to learn about interesting code, coding styles, and algorithms.

Another type of entry might be an explanation of how something works. For example, a detailed description of how Rails routes operate would be of interest.

UseTheSource is a sort of counterpart to Hacker News. UseTheSource is all about the code, and not about the business.

I've submitted a few pieces of my own code as examples. Submit away!



8 points by bbhavsar 64 days ago | link

This is very useful site!

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3 points by dario 63 days ago | link

There is any RSS feed as in HN? We'll love to recieve our daily "beautiful code" dose (alongside Daily WTF ones :)

Anyway, as said, it is a wonderful idea!

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2 points by jgrahamc 63 days ago | link

Feed added: http://news.usethesource.com/rss

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2 points by nloadholtes 63 days ago | link

Thanks!

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1 point by dario 62 days ago | link

Kudos! Thanks a lot :D

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2 points by nloadholtes 63 days ago | link

Seconded!

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3 points by yewweitan 63 days ago | link

This will be awesome if it continues to exist. It would probably need a slightly different UI (just to make it code friendly) and probably a wiki-like page (threaded into topics would be awesome) for various languages/topics/uses.

I'd imagine coming here for coding inspiration =)

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3 points by netaddict 64 days ago | link

I agree this site can be really useful if we get the word out.

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2 points by t3rcio 63 days ago | link

Great idea!

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2 points by juliend2 63 days ago | link

Thanks for this. It would be really nice if it can stay code-oriented as much as possible because that's the part of HN i like the most.

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1 point by whimsy 63 days ago | link

I know this site isn't intended to be a directory; it's intended to be more time-sensitive than that for discussion purposes.

Perhaps a page of links to those directories would be useful, though?

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1 point by austin 64 days ago | link

I feel like this can just be a compiled list of r/programming...

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6 points by akkartik 64 days ago | link

Except other sites aren't as focused on code. Like http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ckybw/i_cant_co... from the front page right now.

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1 point by zed 64 days ago | link

Why is this site so slow?

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3 points by jgrahamc 64 days ago | link

Sorry about that. Site got mentioned various places and came under lots of load and blew away the Apache MaxClients setting.

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-1 points by user222 63 days ago | link

This is fucking stupid. Ever hear of StackOverflow?

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5 points by krakensden 63 days ago | link

Be nice- you'll be happier for it.

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