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2019 update: Wow, people are still reading this! I wrote this 6 years ago. I’m going to leave it unedited + add some new thoughts. With the benefit of hindsight, I think… thinking about productivity apps is a sort of proxy approach to thinking about productivity itself. I never did…
Efficient memorization using the spacing effect: literature review of widespread applicability, tips on use & what it’s good for.
Does Google Alerts return fewer results each year? A statistical investigation
Blog article by Jeroen Janssens. Sep 19, 2013. 21 min read. Data science is OSEMN (pronounced as awesome). That is, it involves Obtaining, Scrubbing, Exploring, Modelling, and iNterpreting data. As a data scientist, I spend quite a bit of time on the command-line, especially when there’s data to be obtained, scrubbed…
Learn how a former Google PM transformed his productivity with an analog note-taking system. A practical guide to effective paper-based organization for startup leaders.
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Last week at JetBrains Day we talked a little bit about Upsource, a new platform we have been working on. In this post, we’d like to give you a bit of a deeper dive into it.For the past year or mo
I've been using *nix systems for quite a while. But there are a few commands that I somehow overlooked and wish I'd discovered years earlier.
Note: Results may vary, depending on distance from your Git servers. In my completely unscientific benchmarks using time, after the following steps, …
In short a lot of stuff is too expensive, isn’t a good fit, or is simply bad software. This ends up leaving an ops team with two options. They can whine about it, or create their own tools. So at Stack Exchange we build our own DevOps tools.
Ars Technica gave three experts a 16,000-entry encrypted password file, and asked them to break them. The winner got 90% of them, the loser 62%—in a few hours. The list of “plains,” as many crackers refer to deciphered hashes, contains the usual list of commonly used passcodes that are found in virtually every breach…
On your journey to Clojure mastery, your editor will be your closest ally. I highly recommend working with Emacs, but you can, of course, use any editor you want. If you don’t follow the thorough Emacs instructions in this chapter, or if you choose to use a different editor, it’s worthwhile to at least invest some…
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You’re an SEO. You’ve mastered Moz’s starter guide to Search Engine Optimization . You deal with botched site migrations, messy title tags across thousands of pages, earth-shaking Google algorithm changes, and more on the daily. Who would have thought that one of the toughest parts of your job would be getting your…
The video below is an update on the original post. At the time of the video’s recording, I had been standing for 5 years. cialis About me: I build Power 20, a suite of mobile exercise apps. It has now been two years since I started using a standing desk at work. No matter how long my...
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If you click the edit button today on OpenStreetMap, you will find a new, easier to use in-browser editor.
