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How I Spend My Attention
What you pay attention to becomes your life.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,290 posts.
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On the Loss of a Cofounder
Here’s the rough chronology: On April 22, 2015, Christian Brink and I, two tech entrepreneurs in our early thirties, incorporated the…
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A Month of Terraform
I took Heroku for granted, and a month into setting up my own infra, I now know how much it bought me.
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We’re Optimizing Ourselves to Death (2019)
Burnout is the inevitable result of our endlessly accelerating pace of life Illustration: Jutta Kuss/Getty Images Author’s Note: I’ve recently partnered with Project DigInThere, an onli…
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Building a roam-like, networked, heavily-customized realtime editor, part 1
I can build this. — every developer at least once
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Booting from a vinyl record
Most PCs tend to boot from a primary media storage, be it a hard disk drive, or a solid-state drive, perhaps from a network, or – if all else fails – the USB stick or the boot DVD comes to the rescue… Fun, eh? Boring! Why don’t we try to boot from a record player for a change?
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How much is YouTube worth today?
Google acquired YouTube for US$1.6bn in 2006. In 2022, YouTube could be worth over US$180bn achieving a +110x return. Analysis of YouTube revenue and usage statistics and financial metrics.
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GoDaddy employees used in attacks on multiple cryptocurrency services
Fraudsters redirected email and web traffic destined for several cryptocurrency trading platforms over the past week. The attacks were facilitated by scams targeting employees at GoDaddy , the world’s largest domain name registrar, KrebsOnSecurity has learned.
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Startups: The Very Beginning
This was the talk I gave at Y Combinator's Future Founders Conference for women. I've given a lot of advice to startups over the past 15 years, but today I'm going to focus on just the advice...
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Interview like an asset, not a beggar
You're not asking for a job, you're selling a service. The true question behind every interview is "How can you help us?"
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Our Immune System
(On this page in Dutch I post daily bits of realistic but hopeful Corona news. Here is a somehat rough translation of an article on our immune system I posted there, because I think it might also be useful for people that don’t speak Dutch). Wednesday, April 1st COVID-19 can only live thanks to us. Viruses cannot…
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Optimizing Your Web App 100x Is Like Adding 99 Servers
A lot of tech discussion these days is focused around scaling infrastructures to handle huge traffic. But it's important not to forget how far simple optimizations can go.
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Test for Divisibility by 13
How to manually test whether a large number is divisible by 7, 11, and 13 all at the same time.
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Why are there so many cats in Istanbul?
After visiting Istanbul, I wondered why there were so many cats in town. This piece dives into the history & culture of stray cats in Turkey.
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Eight Years at Roblox
I joined Roblox at the end of 2012 as a rendering engineer; I had just spent more than a year working on various titles from FIFA franchise after years of console game development and was becoming a bit tired of the “big game development”. My work on FIFA was as a contractor and I got an offer for a full-time…
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Cheap Router Table and Lift
A budget-friendly router table setup that combines a low-cost router with DIY modifications including 3D-printed parts for lifting and adjustable base plates.
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Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla and the Unfortunate Implications
Bret Devereaux (A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry)2020352 points302 commentscited by 5History & Retro Computing details
We’re going to be a bit silly this week (in part because the ending of this compressed semester has left me with little time) and talk about the recently released historical action-RPG comput…
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Windows Subsystem for Linux: The lost potential
If you have followed Windows 10 at all during the last few years, you know that the Windows Subsystem for Linux, or WSL for short, is the hot topic among developers. You can finally run your Linux tooling on Windows as a first class citizen, which means you no longer have to learn PowerShell or, god forbid, suffer…
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Writing a Postgres Foreign Data Wrapper for Clickhouse in Go
Postgres(hereinafter mentioned as PG) is a pretty cool database with lots of nice features, one of them little known ones is the ability of having Foreign data wrappers (hereinafter mentioned as FDWs). Clickhouse(hereinafter mentioned as CH) is another amazing database with an altogether different set of features…