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Writing code with multiple overlapping side effects with a straight face
Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 359 posts.
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Why Should I Start a Startup?
A lot of people ask themselves this question. They often mull over one or more of the following facts: 1. The vast majority of startups are not successful 2. For talented technical people, it’s relatively easy to get a job and make a large salary 3. Large companies offer opportunities to work on very difficult…
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Why I left Japan after 10 years
It's a year to the day since I left Japan after exactly 10 years and 1 day of living there.
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Kindness is Underrated (2014)
Rapidly release code with confidence on CircleCI’s modern continuous integration and delivery platform. Offered on hosted cloud, Enterprise, and macOS platforms.
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An introduction to Stoic philosophy and resilience-building [video]
Your free ten-minute introduction to Stoic philosophy and its application to modern living
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Lessons learned teaching data analysis with Python
A San Diego State journalism professor shares her experience with “First Python Notebook”
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University of Waterloo Systems Design Engineering 2017 Class Profile
Sometimes a yearbook doesn’t quite cut it. In our final semester of university, the Systems Design Engineering class of 2017 was curious…
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I do whatever I want at work and I haven’t been fired yet
A few of us at Basecamp were recently discussing how decisions get made to “green light” new projects, and I came to the conclusion that it boils down a simple rule: If you can make a decision and …
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How to make a friend fast
Believe-it-or-not, we actually know exactly how to create friendships in the lab!
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How I failed to land a remote position
I started looking for a remote position, telecommuting in other words, as a software engineer last November. It took me 3 months to apply to…
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The language of programming
Coding as a non-English speaker, or what Excel, Illustrator, and functional programming can teach us about names.
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Enough
This guy never had enough, is that really you?The underpinning tenet of chasing exponential growth is that anything less than “all of it” is never enough. If there’s more possible, more out there, …
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70 job interviews in 17 days
When I was but a wee lad, I dreamed of being a janitor for NASA. There's just something awesome about playing a part, no matter how sma...
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Apple and LaTeX
Apple is apparently not eating its own dogfood when it comes to equations.
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Denied Entry
- Sorry, you're not allowed entry to the US on your ESTA. The lady who delivered this message to me this early Monday morning, worked behind the check-in counter at the Arlanda airport. I was there, trying to check-in to my two-leg trip to San Francisco to the Mozilla "all hands" meeting of the summer … Continue…
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Sorting 2 Tons of Lego, Many Questions, Results
The machine is now capable of running un-attended for hours on end, which is a huge milestone. No more jamming or other nastiness that causes me to interrupt a run. Many little things contributed to this, I’ve looked at all the mechanics and figured out all the little things that went wrong one by one and have come up…
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The internet as existential threat
Some days I wonder if we are completely screwed. So today’s post is a perhaps slightly hysterical outburst.
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How I learned to code in my 30s
Immerse, get mentorship, and don’t look back.