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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,905 posts.
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Timeboxing: You Will Work Like Never Before
Don’t miss the latest posts Learn to Remember Everything: The memory palace technique or Remembering Facts: USING Mental associative chains If you are an avid self-improvement reader, you know already what timeboxing is. But maybe you don’t harness all its potential For the rest, timeboxing is a time management…
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Neil Gaiman: Why defend freedom of icky speech?
This is a bit long. Apologies. I'd meant to talk about other things, but I started writing a reply this morning to the letter that follows...
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How to Ace Calculus: The Art of Doing Well in Technical Courses
Tangent Troubles Calculus is easy. Or at least, it can be. The key is how you digest the material. Here’s an example: when you’re first ... Read more
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Code School is Amazing
My thoughts on Code School, an interactive online marketplace where you can learn to code directly in the browser.
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Parallelism is not concurrency
In an earlier post I mentioned that one goal of the new introductory curriculum at Carnegie Mellon is to teach parallelism as the general case of computing, rather than an esoteric, specialized sub…
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Hi My Name is John…and I am addicted to analytics
…and I am addicted to analytics. It all started when I was a wee lad. I quite enjoyed playing Tecmo NBA Basketball, among other games. One day, while…
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Mainstream Failure
The media’s telling of the Japan story has been inexcusably bad. I can’t count the number of pieces about confinement breaches and radiation surges; where they are not information-free they are wrong, and where they are not wrong, they bypass what matters. Here are a few specifics.
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Bag of hurt
In 2008, Steve Jobs was asked 1 if and when Macs would play Blu-ray movies. He responded candidly :
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Amazon shuts down Lendle
Link to: https://twitter.com/lendleapp/status/49919939456409601
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iPad 2: Thoughts from a first time tablet user
Well I picked up an iPad 2 and have finally come to the conclusion that my years of gadget yearning should have taught me long ago. It is all about the apps and experience.
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Programming is a Super Power
Programming Zen is a blog about programming and emerging technologies, authored by Antonio Cangiano, a Software Development Manager and AI Evangelist at IBM.
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Succinct Data Structures: Cramming 80,000 words into a Javascript file
<img src="http://zwibbler.com/shared/1024.png"/> jQuery creator John Resig needs a little help storing lists of words in his side project. Let's go overkill and explore a little known branch of computer science called Succinct Data Structures.
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