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How to answer questions in a helpful way (2017)
How to answer questions in a helpful way
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 615 posts.
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Pianojacq, an easy way to learn to play the piano
I’m pretty sure that the hardest choice in my life to date has been the one between my two loves: music on the hand and computer programming on the other. The programming won out, I figured it would be a much more lucrative field to pursue a career in, besides it was a much better match for my talents. From the age of…
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Beware the Casual Polymath
We live in times of great disaggregation, and yet, seem to learn increasingly from generalists. In the past, an expert in one field of Psychology might have been forced to teach a broad survey class.
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What Color Is This? Part 2
More info about the algorithms we use to detect our items' colors
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Don’t pay for 95% (2016)
Your car sits idle over 95% of the time. Your guest bedroom is occupied one week out of every 52. Your kids use the yard less than 40 minutes a week. Yet we consumers love to envision the maximum usage for a particular item - like a house or a car…
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Why you should write
Be a creator, not just a consumer.
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The Three Sides of Risk
I grew up ski racing in Lake Tahoe.
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Good sleep, good learning, good life
Author: Dr Piotr Wozniak Date: 2000-2018 For an extended modular version see: Science of sleep
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Asterisk
Challenged to write about a single Unicode character, I chose the humble asterisk. In this post, Julia takes a back seat but it’s working hard behind the scenes. [1] The font used for the examples is JuliaMono.
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Common Causes of Bad Decisions
Italian psychologist Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini was once asked why people keep making the same mistakes.
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Why I stopped reading HN (2010)
This post has been a long time in coming. I stopped reading HN over a month ago, so I’ve had some time to cool off. I’ve been struggling to put my thoughts into words, and so this pos…
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Teaching our five year old to code by cheating
Teaching our five year old daughter to code by cheating.
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Why I am building permapeople.org
Four years ago my grandfather gave me two potatoes. I had no idea what to do, so I put them in bought soil ...
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Why Life Can’t Be Simpler
We’d all like life to be simpler. But we also don’t want to sacrifice our options and capabilities. Tesler’s law of the conservation of complexity, a rule from design, explains why we can’t have both. Here’s how the law can help us create better products and services by rethinking simplicity.
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I built a lay-down desk
After spending part of the last 12 months travelling in Europe I'm now settling down around Paris and I need to adapt my multi-screens setup. You probably have seen an ads for the altwork desk a $7000 desk that let you work laying down. Spending a big part of my …
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On the destruction of America’s best high school
[C]hildren with special abilities and skills need to be nourished and encouraged. They are a national treasure. Challenging programs for the “gifted” are sometimes decried as “eli…
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Why I left my tenured academic job
The news is out : I left France, I'm no longer a professor at EURECOM, I joined the Malware Research Team at CISCO Talos, and I moved to beautiful Vienna. Big change :-)
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Color blindness
Color blindness is an inaccurate term. Most color-blind people can see color, they just don't see the same colors as everyone else. There ha...
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Enjoy the Best, Not the Latest, Media
Tried and tested beats new and marketed
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The internet needs our love
It’s noisy out there. We are inundated with sensational headlines every minute, of every day. You almost could make a full-time job of sorting the fun, i
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Writing a book: is it worth it?
My book, Designing Data-Intensive Applications , recently passed the milestone of 100,000 copies sold. Last year, it was the second-best-selling book in O’Reilly’s entire catalogue, second only to Aurélien Géron’s machine learning book . Machine learning is obviously a hot topic, so I am quite content with coming…
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I used the internet to painlessly relearn a foreign language
Things are totally different than when I first learnt Spanish back in 2003.
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