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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 7,746 posts.
Life, Learning & Writing
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Taming Doubt
An article that explores the feelings of doubt and how to tame them.
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Taming Perfectionism
An article that explores the idea of imperfect beauty - taming perfectionism with the Japanese art of Wabi-sabi.
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Edward Tufte Notebooks & Sketches
A forum moderated by author and artist Edward Tufte, including discussion and questions dealing with information design.
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Rands: A Disclosure
My management career began with a misunderstanding. "Rands, you're doing a great job on tools development and I'd really like you to Lead the effort." It soun
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How we roll in Amsterdam - A method of transportation you should use too
(82 pictures of bicycles taken during 73 minutes on 9/12/06 in Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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Paul Buchheit: Communicating with code
Some people can sell their ideas with a brilliant speech or a slick powerpoint presentation. I can't. Maybe that's why I'm skeptical of idea...
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Mind Hacks: Breaking the news of Eliza's creator's death to her
Hello, I am Eliza. Hi Eliza. I’m Vaughan. Did you come to me because you are Vaughan? I did. I am sad because I just found out that your creator, the computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum, has…
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Things I Learned the Hard Way: Ignore the Content
In this series, I’m exploring the stories I find myself coming back to in work and life. I call them Things I Learned the Hard Way .
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Peter Norvig's collection of quotes
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. - Mark Twain
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Time management tricks I learned from years of hating Tim Ferris (of the 4 hour work week)
I have hated Tim Ferriss for a long time. I have hated him since we both had editors at Crown Publishing who sat next to each other and I heard how difficult he is. I didn’t blog about it because first of all, I’m sure the buzz about me is that I’m difficult, too. And […]
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The question is wrong
On "Coding Horror", Jeff Atwood asked this question : Let's say, hypothetically speaking, you met someone who told you they had two childre...
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Debunking Daniel Tammet
Lately I've been encouraged to make more of my posts unlocked. I only do that under certain circumstances, but I feel this is an important occasion because I believe I have spotted a hoax and that I am unusually qualified to unmask it. I just watched The Boy With the Incredible Brain , a video that…
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A programmer's view of the Universe, part 2: Mario Kart
Very thought-provoking article. I especially liked the tie-in at the end to the questions modern science is considering about the Big Bang. You make a very valid point -- those sorts of questions are meaningless in the context of the embedded system. The whole time I was reading your Mario Kart analogy, I couldn't…
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