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Mark Bolas , a professor at USC, an astonishingly prolific innovator, has invented or co-invented many things. One of those things was FOV2GO, an ingenious way to make a very inexpensive, very wide angle virtual reality display.
There have been almost as many proposals for spelling reform as there are rewrites of Esperanto. (Tellingly, there has been precisely one success in each category-- Noah Webster and Ido-- and neither caught on universally.) Most of these proposals spend their energy fixing what isn't broken . For instance, they search…
The first question any thoughtful person might ask when reading the title of this essay is, "Hard for whom?" A reasonable question. After all, Chinese people seem to learn it just fine. When little Chinese kids go through the "terrible twos", it's Chinese they use to drive their parents crazy, and in a few years the…
Much has been written about employee motivation and retention. It's written by folks who actively use words like motivation and retention and generally don't ha
How one inventor went from making Frisbees to one of the world's best coffeemakers.
The blog of &yet, a design and web software company that strengthens your customer relationships through creative technology.
Fate has made me the “money guy” for OpenSSL so I’m going to talk about that for a bit.
Last fall, work on my coding side projects came to a head: I wasn’t making adequate progress and I couldn’t find a way to get more done without sacrificing my ability to do effective work at Khan Academy .
I'm 99.99% sure that my writing this letter will have no effect, but my conscience tells me to write it anyway. Danziger's cartoon has pushed me out of my lethargy.
I recently heard a story about a friend-of-a-friend who had a decent consulting career. Instead of leveraging his skills to make as much money as possible, he took a different approach. Each year he would accept consulting projects starting in January. His skills were in demand and so he was able to work extended…
Why we should really be quoting fuel consumption figures as 'gallons per mile' and not 'miles per gallon'.
A list of early warning signs that a software team is in survival mode, such as constant urgency, missing context, no time to reduce risk and long stress.
I’ve kept it to myself for years, but now I believe the only way to fight the stigma of mental illness is to talk about my own.
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The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City.
Happiness makes people more productive at work, according to the latest research from the University of Warwick.
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.
