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Paul Buchheit: Serendipity finds you
Here is an interesting comment from Hacker News, on a story about someone turning down an early Google offer: Similar thing happened t...
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Requiem For A Roommate
And, when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of Heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun. Wil…
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Every day I learn something new... and stupid.
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Stop Googling
Yesterday, one of my inter-web buddies IM’d me and asked if I had used Typhoeus before. I said yes, so he asked me if it was possible to follow redirects…
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The interruptible programmer
I’m 37, and I’ve been a (professional) developer for 16 years. You would have thought that in that time, I’d have figured out an effective work style which delivered the desired outcomes (code cut, products shipped etc) without causing detrimental knock-on effects - but, sadly, you’d be wrong. I think the style in…
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How to Solve Hard Problem Sets Without Staying Up All Night
I Have all the Time in the World… Last weekend, I sat down for a cup of coffee with Jake from College Chronicles fame. We ... Read more
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1,000 (bad) ideas
Tidying up my messy corner in the basement I unearthed one of my older "ideas books" in which I write down the random ideas that flit throug...
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How to Make Visa Obey Your Every Desire: The Credit Card Concierge Experiment
The following post is a guest post by John Hargrave, whom I met in 2007 at SXSW. If you find large-scale pranks (Super Bowl, anyone?), impersonating celebrities, and other clever mischief amusing, he’s the king of the domain. His book Prank the Monkey is a guide to unleashing your inner Loki. Given my interest in […]
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The Real Problem with Waiting for Superman
Waiting for “Superman” , in case you haven’t heard, is the hot new film from Inconvenient Truth director Davis Guggenheim. While his last film capitalized on liberal guilt over destroying our planet (and maybe voting for Ralph Nader?), “Superman” (yes, the film is weirdly insistent on those unnecessary quotation…
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A minimalist lifestyle does not make you a better person
A minimalist lifestyle can have many legitimate motivations. Sanctimonious anti-consumerism isn't one of these, nor is saving money. A laptop computer with a sizeable hard drive replaced my desktop computer, all my DVDs, all my CDs, all my books and (given a scanner too) all my p...
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Memoirs of a Bullied Kid
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Why I Love the Khan Academy
Salman Khan, the principal behind the Khan Academy material, understands something very important that emanates throughout all of his lectures whether they be on calculus, projectile motion, or thermodynamics: There is a difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
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Thank you, Ubuntu
Ubuntu 10.10, the Maverick Meerkat, will be released in just a couple of weeks. That got me reflecting on the fact that I have been a happ...
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I'll Tell You What is Causing Pain for Almost Everyone in the Western World
If you're one of the millions of knowledge workers slaving away in your cubicle all day, you deserve to work pain free. This article...