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Is Every Speed Limit Too Low?
Americans nearly universally speed, and excess speed is a factor in many accidents. But what if higher speed limits made roads safer?
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Why don't schools teach debugging? (2014)
In the fall of 2000, I took my first engineering class: ECE 352 , an entry-level digital design class for first-year computer engineers. It was standing room only, filled with waitlisted students who would find seats later in the semester as people dropped out. We had been warned in orientation that half of us…
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Software Developers after 40, 50 and 60 Who're Still Coding
The median U.S. worker is 42. However, StackOverflow’s survey on age shows that there are just about 13% of developers after 40. Where are the others? Were they fired or moved up to a managerial role? Is software development really a dead end job after 40? Let’s listen to the stories of top software developers after…
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Websites people say have changed their lives
I asked Kottke.org readers if they had ever seen, heard, or read something on the web that literally changed their lives. Fourteen people said no. Sixteen said
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How to Remember More of What You Learn with Spaced Repetition (2016)
Using spaced repetition in conjunction with other study techniques can help you memorize information much, much more quickly. Here's how to do it.
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I Stopped Attending Programming Meet-ups
I’ve decided I’m no longer attending programming meet-ups. The reason I’m no longer attending is because they’re free.
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One Night in Rio: Vacation Photos from Plan9
This post is about experimenting with imitating and extending the window management concepts from the venerable Plan9, Rio. The backstory and motivation is simply that I’ve had the need for a…
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How not to monetise a popular blog
The story of how I created a hugely popular meme website and then failed (fail being the operative word throughout this article) to make any money from it. Warning: also includes lolcats. </p> It started when I read something about a girl making $70,000 a month from a MySpace graphics service. This...
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2017 Camera News
Herewith some reportage on the most interesting cameras in the world, with opinions to provoke er entertain people who are up on this stuff, and a basic survey of the landscape for people who like pictures and wonder about cameras.
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Reasons blog posts can be of higher scientific quality than journal articles
The Dutch toilet cleaner ‘WC-EEND’ (literally: 'Toilet Duck') aired a famous commercial in 1989 that had the slogan ‘We from WC-EEND a...
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Arturo Di Modica has a point
I got metaphorically spanked a couple of days ago. Folks have been talking about the Fearless Girl statue ever since it was dropped in Manhattan’s Financial District some five weeks ago. …
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Introducing Increment
As software becomes more important in the world, the practice and art of software is becoming more important too.
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The Shamanic View of Mental Illness (2010)
Discover direct, fluff-free relationship advice, conflict resolution strategies, and insights on modern manhood from Jayson Gaddis. Build a marriage worthy of your ambition.
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How I Used Twilio, Python and Google to Automate My Wedding
September 3, 2016 was just another day for most of the world but to me it will always be memorable as the day that I married my partner. There are many
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Umberto Eco's Anti-Library (2015)
How to become an “antischolar” in a culture that treats knowledge as “an ornament that allows us to rise in the pecking order.”
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Removing Home Internet Is the Most Productive Thing I've Done
Earlier this year I made the conscious decision to remove all Internet service from my home...
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Photos from Inside North Korea (2014)
I visited North Korea for 16 days in 2014. Here are 100 photos I took inside all corners of this secretive socialist nation.
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Textbook manifesto (2016)
Allen Downey's textbook manifesto: students should read and understand textbooks, so why are so many textbooks written as if nobody expects them to?
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Forget coding, we need to teach our kids how to dream
Tom Goodwin on the five key attributes we should help kids develop instead of focusing on knowledge.
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In love with the BBC micro:bit
I finally got my hands on the micro:bit , the BBC ’s new educational computer and spiritual successor to the legendary BBC Micro , and I’m absolutely in love with its potential as a platform for learning how to code.
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Terms and Conditions, the Graphic Novel
When artist Robert Sikoryak put the iTunes Terms and Conditions into graphic novel format, he tapped a familiar problem. Most of us don’t read the terms
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I made our office play personalized entrance theme music
How I hacked the office WiFi to play entrance theme music for my colleagues (and myself!)
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Keeping David MacKay's 'Sustainable Energy – without the hot air' up-to-date
As the anniversary of Sir David MacKay’s untimely death approaches, I think we should honour his memory by trying to update Sustainable Energy as a crowd-sourced project. I have made an initial attempt to suggest how we might develop the section on photovoltaics but others will want to suggest other
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Why I Stopped Using Multiple Monitors
A Single Monitor Manifesto
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There’s no glory in overworking, it’s just imminent burnout
it’s just imminent burnout.