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Death Note: L, Anonymity & Eluding Entropy
Applied Computer Science: On Murder Considered As STEM Field—using information theory to quantify the magnitude of Light Yagami’s mistakes in 𝐷𝑒𝑎𝑡𝘩 𝑁𝑜𝑡𝑒 and considering fixes
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 8,944 posts.
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Vitamin C is a bug that needs to be patched
So Maciej Cegłowski has updated his blog for the first time in four months. Upon encountering the novel task of "actually generating HTML", his gimcrack blogging software sprayed a couple random posts across his RSS feed, one of which was the venerable 2010 essay on scurvy in Antarctic exploration. Which, combined…
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Ira Glass on the secret of success
On grit, storytelling, and bridging the gap between good taste and great work.
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The Markdown Mindset
Over the last year, I have moved all my non-code writing to Markdown format. I don’t even have Microsoft Word installed on my laptop anymore. Here’s why:
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The desks of 37signals
Perhaps it’s my inner engineer, but seeing behind the scenes of workshops, be they real or digital, always fascinates me. Maybe that’s why How it’s Made is so compelling. The show proves that there’s more than just the end product: the workspace and the process that surround…
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Woz on Creativity: Work Alone
“I don’t believe anything really revolutionary has ever been invented by committee… I’m going to give you some advice that might be hard to take. That advice is: Work alone……
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Thoughts on Growing Old
You spend the first part of your life trying to be old, trying to convince everyone that you're older than you are, that you're just as good...
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14 years ago: the day Teller gave me the secret to my career in magic.
Hey gang, Lately a lot of young magicians have been asking me for advice, which has caused me to...
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How To Crash A Party
In college I would crash expensive parties (even got to hang with Elton John & Lance Armstrong) with a few tricks I developed. I demonstrate them inside:
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Books every self-taught computer scientist should read
There are three books that I believe that every self-taught computer scientist should read. These are books that I often recommend to smart junior developers that learned their knowledge by doing instead of schooling. These are books that will close the gap for people that fall into the category of ...
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I Have No Idea [Why Apple Featured My App]
In early December, 2011, I was both surprised and flattered to discover that Apple had named Halftone as one of the best photo apps in its App Store Rewind 2011 . Since then, I’ve received a lot of e-mail asking me how I did it. That is, what did I do to “get” Apple to pick Halftone? I don’t know what kind of response…
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Back on Linux (after one year of Apple and OS X)
About a month ago I moved to Stockholm, Sweden and started working at Spotify . A month before starting I was asked about my preferred setup for working. Having used OS X for year as the primary operating system at work the choice was clear, I wanted to go back to Linux, in this case to Debian to be exact.
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Are You a Zen Coder or Distraction-Junkie?
Better ListView by Component Owl is a .NET WinForms control designed to replace the standard list view control included with C#/VB.net.
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