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Black and white
So I'm pretty well-known for not exactly being a huge fan of the FSF and Richard Stallman, despite the fact that I obviously love the GPLv2 ...
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 126 posts.
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Hacking Education
I spent a lot of time on this blog in the past month exhorting everyone to give teaching tools to the neediest public schools. I did that because education is possibly the most important thing we can do for our world and our children. But I also believe the the public school system in this […]
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Jim Hefferon's Linear Algebra: A free textbook with fascinating applications
Random code snippets, projects and musings about software from Eric Kidd, a developer and occasional entrepreneur.
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The One Thing in Life You Can Control: Effort
I remember the time well. I was 27 years old. I finally had my own apartment for the first time. I still hadn’t bought a new car yet, but I was jazzed that I had a 4 year old Mazda RX 7. 4 Years old was as good as new to me, and driving a gold RX 7 back in the day was fun as well.
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Knuth: The Bank of San Serriffe
(These account balances reflect only the rewards for errors reported since the beginning of 2006. Many reward checks were issued during 1968--2005, too numerous to mention here.)
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A programmer's view of the Universe, part 1: The fish
Bravo. Here's hoping I never reach the end of that vine. I like to think there's always more.
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The not to do list: 9 habits to stop now
"Not-to-do" lists are often more effective than to-do lists for upgrading performance.
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What's your story? Why start Balsamiq?
News and announcements from your friends at Balsamiq.
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Make an Extraordinary Effort
> "It is essential for a man to strive with all his heart, and to understand that it is difficult even to reach the average if he does not have the i…
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Horrible
I can turn a phrase. High school journalism is where I discovered this. Mrs. Wickett kept bringing stories to me in my junior year "Needs a clever headline." I
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Lessons from the failure of Livejournal: when not to listen to your users
Your life is the best story! Just start your blog today!
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Grad School Enrollment vs. Unemployment Rate
Link to Piled Higher and Deeper
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I don't use my iPhone as a computer
I bought my iPhone on June 29 last year, the first day they were available. A couple of months later, I realized I wasn't using my Blackberry and a couple of months after that, I turned it off. I don't miss it, even though I loved it when I was using it because it meant I didn't have to lug around my laptop to be in…
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Outsourcing Cooking with Craigslist for $60/week
T hat’s right – for just $60 a week, I’ve bought myself some time to chase after some dreams: working out, playing guitar, and of course writing.
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Failure must always be an option
An essay I wrote six years ago about some of my experiences working for NASA has gotten some recent attention on Reddit and Hacker News . ...
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Do you know any programmers who exhibit these personality traits?
I’ve been observing an unusual programmer friend of mine for some time now. (Yeah… a “friend”, that’s it….) He has such a strange combination of potential and in…
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"How to Get Rich": an anti-self-help book by Felix Dennis
Getting Things Done GTD with Personal Development and…200874 points59 commentsTech Industry & Business details
One of the books I read whilst away in Portugal was the How to Get Rich book by Felix Dennis. I bought this book a few months ago following an Amazon
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