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How Professional Writers Write
[UPDATE: 2/18/08] Welcome new readers! If this is your first time here, Study Hacks is a blog that focuses on hacks to help you do ... Read more
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Focus Hard. In Reasonable Bursts. One Day at a Time.
Dissertation Hell Writing a doctoral dissertation is a peculiar endeavor. There’s a general understanding, suspended out there in the stress-fraught ether of graduate student life, ... Read more
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The 3 key parts of news stories you usually don’t get
Time to stop breaking the news, and start fixing it.
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Eulogy to _why
Unfortunately I’m short on time at the moment (trying to launch a project this week) but I have to say, at least, a few words about the hacker and artist _why .
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How to Create a Self-Referential Tweet
Yesterday Mark Reid posted on Twitter a challenge : create a self-referential tweet (one that links to itself). He later clarified that the tweet should contain in its text its own identifier (the number after " /status/" bit should be its own URL). I decided to take up the challenge ("in order to learn a bit about…
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Why There Are No Girls In San Francisco
Not long ago an academic named Richard Florida made a small ruckus by scientifically proving that the San Francisco Bay Area (along with L...
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An almost perfect real-world hack
Almost immediately after we bought our house I received a letter in the mail. The local school district was appealing the tax assessment of my house. The issue in question was the value of my property in 2002 (don’t ask, it’s a long story, and a silly law). My property tax is some percentage of the 2002 value of my…
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Confessions of a Math Idiot
A blog about computers, functional languages, Lisp, and Scheme.
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Google Maps Street View capture... from a bike
I met this guy while I was walking around Beebe Lake . He says they're deploying people on bikes to capture images of trails where you can't take cars, but it's small-scale and experimental at this stage. A pedestrian version is also in development, and may come into use next year. He's excited…
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Goodbye, Apple
I've owned a lot of iPods. My wife has owned a lot of iPods. Not anymore. For the longest time, I could use gtkpod to seamlessly access my ...
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My Life Offline
Everyone wants to know how my month offline was. They ask it casually, like “How’s work going?” or “What’d you do this weekend?” But it’s not a casual question. It was a huge, incredible, transformative experience. Those 30 days felt like six months. My habits changed, my relationships changed, my identity changed, my…