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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 8,944 posts.
Life, Learning & Writing
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The Basement
Somewhere in Portland, there’s a very old building, and that very old building has a very, very old basement. An incredible basement, a video-game-level basement, a set-decorator’s drea…
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How do we read code?
I recently got to participate in a psychological experiment for programmers. A friend of mine, Mike Hansen, is doing research on how people comprehend programs.…
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The Gift
It's often said that you should live every day as though it's your last. That always seemed a little impractical to me. But when my brothe...
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Humble Beginnings
t's easy to forget the humble beginnings that great companies start from, and it's tempting to gloss over the fact that companies, now on the global stage, were once small projects with ugly designs and hacky implementations. Rarely do people set out with grand visions to create a
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Why I learned to "make things"
Two years ago this week, I started working at 37signals. I couldn’t make a web app to find my way out of a paper bag. When I started working here, my technical skills were in tools like Excel, R, and Matlab, and I could muddle my way through SQL queries. I had the basic technical skills tha…
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Thinking the unthinkable
mental health, mental illness, parenting, writing, online courses
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Building my Own Laptop
We are building an open laptop, with some wacky features in it for hackers like me.
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Why we still love board games
In a sprawling convention centre in Essen, western Germany, the busiest day in the German board games calendar – Saturday at “Spiel” – is about to begin. Hall after hall of stands are piled high wi…
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ITunes 11 and Colors
iTunes 11 is a radical departure from previous versions and nothing illustrates this more than the new album display mode. The headlining feature of this display is the new view style that visually matches the track listing to the album’s cover art. The result is an attractive display of textual information that…
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Everything is my fault
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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Most lives are lived by default
Jamie lives in a large city in the midwest. He's a copywriter for an advertising firm, and he's good at it. He's also good at thinking of reasons why he ought to be happy with his life. He has hea...
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How I ended up with so much Hacker News karma
On the Hacker News leaderboard I'm currently in position #12 with 32,360 points. I was curious to find out how I ended up in that position...
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My Education in Machine Learning via Cousera, A Review So Far
As of today I’ve completed my fifth course at Coursera, all but one being directly related to Machine Learning. The fact that you can now take classes given by many of most well known researchers i…
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You don't have to be local
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.