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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 7,743 posts.
Life, Learning & Writing
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If You Want to Go Broke, Listen to a Billionaire
I see that the chairman of another major private equity fund has graced us with his wisdom on investing. I’ll summarize it for you:
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Hard comp-fi reading list
This resource lists a bunch of stories which in some way, explore the beautiful ideas behind computer science, software engineering and even plain old programming.
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In Defense of Richard Stallman
Richard Stallman has had a rough month. This article is a decent summary of the events. In short: Stallman made some technically-correct-but-utterly-tactless comments on a private mailing list, most…
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My OpenStreetMap Workflow: Mapping the Village of Marmari, Evia
A general OpenStreetMap editing workflow, with the example of Mapping the village of Marmari, Evia in Greece (Μαρμάρι, Εύβοια).
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How to Succeed as a Poor Programmer
In a previous post I outlined why programmers should strive to be good at one thing rather than everything. In this post I discuss how to ...
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Cross the world four times
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them (2009)
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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Putting Victimhood Behind You
The primary goal of this site is to help people put victimhood behind them and craft a future of their choosing. "Living well is the best re...
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Travel without a phone
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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The Church of Interruption
A conversation with a Wizard
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Breaking Pills
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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Too Much Dark Money in Almonds
Everyone always talks about how much money there is in politics. This is the wrong framing. The right framing is Ansolabehere et al’s: why is there so little money in politics? But Ansolabehe…
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What's Our Problem? A Self-Help Book For Societies
Available today
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A Love Letter to Personal Websites
This is a declaration of love for personal websites, written from years of thinking on the subject, reviewing thousands of portfolios, building websites for friends and bookmarking those of strangers. It’s a subject I’m so passionate about, I built my business on it. And recently, it’s become a matter of principle…
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How to Be a Professional Author and Not Die Screaming and Starving
Your reading today comes in the form of this Medium article by Heather Demetrios: “ How To Lose A Third Of A Million Dollars Without Even Trying .” It’s a good article. I feel deeply for the writer, because this shit we do comes with no real map. No creative map, no story map, no industry map, no money map. “HERE IS A…
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Against Against Pseudoaddiction
I. “Pseudoaddiction” is one of the standard beats every article on the opioid crisis has to hit. Pharma companies (the story goes) invented a concept called “pseudoaddiction”…
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Our Brains Are Not Multi-Threaded
In computer programming, it’s common to split your program into multiple different threads that run simultaneously, as this often simplifies application design. Imagine, for example, ... Read more
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An Apple Developer for 10 Years
This is a personal website, at the outskirts of the web, away from social media and publishing platforms.
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Sorry, we can't join your Slack
A positive way of looking at the value we provide for our clients.
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There are no adults in the room
Dear new developer, One of the most shocking things I learned when I started working in a professional capacity is that there are no adults in the room. That is not to denigrate everyone at your co…