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Brian Eno: Composers as Gardeners
So for me, this was really a new paradigm of composing. Changing the idea of the composer from somebody who stood at the top of a process and dictated precisely how it was carried out, to somebody who stood at the bottom of a process who carefully planted some rather well-selected seeds, hopefully, and watched them…
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How Stripe teaches employees to code
Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.
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Is Every Speed Limit Too Low?
Americans nearly universally speed, and excess speed is a factor in many accidents. But what if higher speed limits made roads safer?
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Software Developers after 40, 50 and 60 Who're Still Coding
The median U.S. worker is 42. However, StackOverflow’s survey on age shows that there are just about 13% of developers after 40. Where are the others? Were they fired or moved up to a managerial role? Is software development really a dead end job after 40? Let’s listen to the stories of top software developers after…
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One Night in Rio: Vacation Photos from Plan9
This post is about experimenting with imitating and extending the window management concepts from the venerable Plan9, Rio. The backstory and motivation is simply that I’ve had the need for a…
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Introducing Increment
As software becomes more important in the world, the practice and art of software is becoming more important too.
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How I Used Twilio, Python and Google to Automate My Wedding
September 3, 2016 was just another day for most of the world but to me it will always be memorable as the day that I married my partner. There are many
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Forget coding, we need to teach our kids how to dream
Tom Goodwin on the five key attributes we should help kids develop instead of focusing on knowledge.
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Terms and Conditions, the Graphic Novel
When artist Robert Sikoryak put the iTunes Terms and Conditions into graphic novel format, he tapped a familiar problem. Most of us don’t read the terms
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The Logic Behind Japanese Sentence Structure
In this article, I break down Japanese sentence structure and show you exactly how Japanese sentences work. A solid understanding of this will save you a huge amount of time trying to make sense of Japanese grammar.
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How is team-member-1 doing?
People asked how team-member-1 is doing after the DB incident of Jan 31st - Feb 1st. We're here to tell you that.
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De-Location Package: Keep Your Career and Live Beyond the Bay Area
Learn about the most recent initiatives at Zapier.
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Anthony Bourdain on not having debt
Before he was the guy from Parts Unknown, he was 44, never had a savings account, hadn't filed taxes in 10 years, and was AWOL on his AmEx bill. That turned out to be a great financial education.
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The Man Who Almost Never Succeeded (2012)
## The Rather Sad Story of the Father of American Photography It’s been a long time since I did a photography history article. I generally prefer the early days of photography. People just were, I…
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Startup School – YC’s Online Class
[https://ycombinator.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/SSYC_Logo.png] We’re excited to announce our new online Startup School, with classes beginning on April 5. Anyone can sign up at StartupSchool.org [http://startupschool.org/] for the 10-week massively open online course (MOOC), starting today. We want to…
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Welcome to the New AWS AI Blog
If you ask 100 people for the definition of “artificial intelligence,” you’ll get at least 100 answers, if not more. At AWS, we define it as a service or system which can perform tasks that usually require human-level intelligence such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision making, or translation. On this…
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Sleep Debt
Have you heard of a sleep debt anytime in your life? Click to see what is it and how this sleep deficit can affect your everyday life.
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Can I Talk to that William Fellow? He was so Helpful (2009)
Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.
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How to start a startup without ruining your life
Startups are emotional roller coasters that one minute make you feel like you’re changing the world and the next minute, that everything is falling apart. This guide about how to start a startup may help.
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Flickr – A Year Without a Byte
One of the largest cost drivers in running a service like Flickr is storage. We’ve described multiple techniques to get this cost down over the years: use of COS , creating sizes dynamically on GPUs and perceptual compression . These projects have been very successful, but our storage cost is still significant. At the…
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