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Eliezer Yudkowsky: That Alien Message
Imagine a world much like this one, in which, thanks to gene-selection technologies, the average IQ is 140 (on our scale). Potential Einsteins are o…
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Why Zappos Pays New Employees to Quit—And You Should Too
Find new ideas and classic advice on strategy, innovation and leadership, for global leaders from the world's best business and management experts.
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Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years
Why is everyone in such a rush? Walk into any bookstore, and you'll see how to Teach Yourself Java in 24 Hours alongside endless variations offering to teach C, SQL, Ruby, Algorithms, and so on in a few days or hours. The Amazon advanced search for [ title: teach, yourself, hours, since: 2000 and found 512 such books…
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Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine
The Long Now Foundation fosters long-term thinking. Our work encourages imagination at the timescale of civilization — the next and last 10,000 years — a timespan we call the long now.
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Advice to the Bright and Young
One perspective on school, achievement, meaning, and life. An article on one bright young man, Moshe, recently appeared on Hacker News. For a long time I’ve been meaning to write about the su…
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Wanna learn JavaScript? Here are 15 video lectures (with key ideas written out)
I decided I wanted to get better at JavaScript. I've been programming in it for a while but I never really developed any good skills in it. I was just mostly copy pasting examples together and adjusting code to get it working. I recently found a bunch of really good programming video lectures on JavaScript and…
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Processing ported to JavaScript
As a sort-of reverse birthday present I’ve decided to release one of my largest projects, in recent memory. This is the project that I’ve been alluding to for quite some time now :
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Code on the Road: Laid off? The one thing you absolutely need to do on the first day
Here is my one piece of advice to you. The single most important thing to do as soon as you make it back to your house with that box full of stuff:
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[Moz Ranking Factors] Ranking Factors Home
Every two years, Moz surveys the opinions of dozens of the world's brightest search marketers and runs correlation studies to better understand the workings of search engine algorithms. We gather this data to gain insight into the factors that may help—or hurt—a website's visibility in search engines.
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Sneaking Ruby Through Google App Engine (and Other Strictly Python Places)
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Sleep deprivation is not a badge of honor
Forgoing sleep is like borrowing from a loan shark. Sure you get that extra hours right now to cover for your overly-optimistic estimation, but at what price? The shark will be back and if you can’t pay, he’ll break your creativity, morale, and good-mannered nature as virtue twigs. N…
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Architecture astronauts take over
It was seven years ago today when everybody was getting excited about Microsoft’s bombastic announcement of Hailstorm, promising that “Hailstorm makes the technology in your life work t…