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How to do hard things
A fully general system for learning to do things you currently find difficult, only somewhat tongue-in-cheek.
David R. MacIver
As some of you may know, I decided that the logical step after writing Hypothesis was to join Antithesis , and once here I pitched them on the idea that we should create an open source property-based testing library 1 called Hegel .
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It’s OK for your open source library to be a bit shitty (2015)
That half-finished thing you threw on PyPI and forgot about? The world is genuinely slightly better for it existing.
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How to read a mathematics textbook (2016)
Reading maths textbooks linearly doesn't work; here's what to do instead.
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Some things that might help you make better software (2016)
Assuming you're in the unusual position of actually having budget for quality, here's what to spend it on.
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A “perfect” voting system
A voting system that sidesteps Arrow's theorem entirely. The scare quotes around
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The economics of software correctness
You have probably never written a significant piece of correct software. Neither have I. Here's why that's not quite as bad as it sounds.