The two cultures of mathematics and biology
I’m a (50%) professor of mathematics and (50%) professor of molecular & cell biology at UC Berkeley. There have been plenty of days when I have spent the working hours with biologists and…
Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 415 posts.
I’m a (50%) professor of mathematics and (50%) professor of molecular & cell biology at UC Berkeley. There have been plenty of days when I have spent the working hours with biologists and…
I've been doing all of my real (paid) work on VMs / containers for a while now but when it comes to writing Java code...
I've seen a lot of discussion of great programmers, usually centering on how to find them, but usually what people really want to know is how to become one. Since I'm widely considered to be a great programmer, I'll give some advice. First of all there's raw coding ability. For this, practice makes…
So many weird little demands on time, mostly spinning out of the Signal groups set up to counter ICE and now being used for general community stuff.
NOTE: malware is now using this as their User-agent. I haven't run a scan now for over two days. I'm running a scan right now of the I...
I have been doing interactive programming in ClojureScript recently. After having spent some time with it, I can easily say that when I return to projects that don’t have an interactive workflow I feel like I am in the stone ages.
Devcards is a ClojureScript library that helps developers interactively lift code examples out of their source files into an organized set of cards in the browser.
Topics : monads, Common Lisp, functional programming Author : Marijn Haverbeke Date : July 11th 2008
During WWII, statistician Abraham Wald told the RAF to add armor where it didn't seem planes needed it. But he was right.
Give behavior the flexibility of data by encoding it as instructions for a virtual machine.
토토사이트가 새로이 출시되고 있습니다. 신규 인기 플랫폼에서는 페이팔, 넷텔러, 신용카드, 한화 계좌 이체, 암호화폐 등의 결제 수단을 이용할 수 있습니다. 또한, 라이브 스트리밍, 베팅 빌더, 배당률 부스트 등의 혁신적인 기능을 제공하여 더욱 편리한 스포츠 베팅을 할 수 있습니다.
A guide to visual aesthetics, written by a nerd
Yesterday (Feb 5 2014) On February 4th, NBC News ran a story claiming that if you bring your mobile phone or laptop to the Sochi Olympics...
The problem with most programming languages is they’re designed by language geeks, who tend to worry about things that I don’t much care for. Safety, type systems, homoiconicity, and so forth. I’m sure these things are great, but when I’m messing around with a new project for fun, my two concerns are 1) making it work…
Today marks five years since I launched the website that my mom still refers to as ' the other bedbugs '. Happy business birthday to me!
The tips and tricks below originally appeared as one of Google's "T esting on the Toilet" (TOTT) episodes. This is a revised and augmen...
In the old days In the old days we had some really awful JS being written on pages in a pretty ad-hoc fashion and it caused us huge problems. Presumably most people still do this but they're the same...
To say this post pains me would be an understatement. More than any other technology, Evernote is part of me, having evolved from habit to instinct over several years and nearly seven thousand notes. Every day ideas flit through my head, ideas for essays, for characters, for jokes. Just now I catch a glimpse of […]
Two years ago I launched Storemapper an embedded store locator service that runs on any website or ecommerce platform. Today around 500 brands use Storemapper to help their customers find the closest place to buy their stuff. The service has grown from bootstrapped to over $50,000 per year. It’s not cool like a…
Butterick’s Practical Typography
Last week, Yishan Wong resigned from reddit. The reason was a disagreement with the board about a new office (location and amount of money to spend on a lease). To be clear, though, we didn’t...
We are going to send out YC summer 2014 interview decisions (both yes and no) before 10 pm PDT tonight. The worst part of our job at YC is rejecting companies. It leaves me feeling down for many...