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Teaching Linear Algebra
In a recent Hacker News post I made reference to an interesting teaching experience I had in the mid-90s. This is a longer explanation of ...
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You're our customer. We Hate You
It is axiomatic in modern American life: the longer you are a customer, the more some of our most common, everyday corporations come to disdain you.
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JWZ: that "duct tape" silliness
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JWZ Unable to Distribute Two Free Pre Apps
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Django ponies: Proposals for Django 1.2
I’ve decided to step up my involvement in Django development in the run-up to Django 1.2, so I’m currently going through several years worth of accumulated pony requests figuring out …
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Find what's blocking sales with under a day of work
Uncover sales blockers in 24 hours with these 11 strategies.
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Python Library for Google Translate
I have extended my xgoogle library with a Python module for Google Translate. The new module is called "xgoogle.translate" and it implements two classes - "Translator" and "LanguageDetector". The "Translator" class can be used to translate text. It provides a function called "translate" that takes three arguments -...
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Mono not Chasing Tail Lights
I've been on vacation and just got back and heard about this whole Richard Stallman spouting nonsense about Miguel being a traitor thing and...
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The Three Projections of Doctor Futamura
Introduction The Three Projections of Futamura are a sequence of applications of a programming technique called 'partial evaluation' or 'sp...
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And if only 1% of those people...
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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A full TCP/IP stack in under 200 LoC (and the power of DSLs)
(Note: This is the third and final part of a series. Part one appeared Monday and part two appeared yesterday.)
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The last word on Lily Allen and her anti-filesharing campaign
Honestly, the viral existence of this, the brilliance of it, the effort put in to write and perform it, the humour, the sentiments expressed...
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Tales of a Bottom Feeder Recruiting Agency
I'm a moron. At least according to the well formed opinion of one Kevin Higgins of H.T. Associates. He formed this opinion after I repeatedl...
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Does your company really want to hang out with me?
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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Keynes, Explained Briefly
If you read the economic textbooks, you’ll find that the job market is a market like any other. There’s supply (workers) and demand (employers). And the incredible power of market competition pushes the price (wages) to where those two meet. Thus massive unemployment is about as likely as huge unsold piles of wheat…