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Online Dating and the Death of the 'Mixed-Attractiveness' Couple
People tend to date people who are just as attractive as they are. And thanks to the rise of online dating, that is only becoming more true.
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Your Life
every rectangle represents one week
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Knuth versus Email (1999)
I have been a happy man ever since January 1, 1990, when I no longer had an email address. I'd used email since about 1975, and it seems to me that 15 years of email is plenty for one lifetime.
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Remote Work After 5 Years of Experience
Learning about working from home and location independent lifestyle was a true pivotal moment for me. Before that, I didn’t think much about the concept of “freedom at work” or anything like that. And even though the concept was a bit far-fetched for me at the time, I realized that it surely was something that I…
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Five hundred days using Ubuntu Phone
Today is my five hundredth day of using the Meizu MX4 Ubuntu Edition exclusively as my mobile phone. This is a nice piece of hardware (go...
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Your heart rate at gunpoint
It’s a beautiful evening, albeit a little cold. I’m heading home after a long day. I’m walking down a familiar street. I feel safe, I feel…
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A decade of writing at Mozilla
Today—April 3, 2016—marks the tenth anniversary of the day I started working at Mozilla as a writer on the Mozilla Developer Center project (now, of course, the Mozilla Developer Network or MDN). T…
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I Tried to Virtually Stalk Mark Zuckerberg
In late 2015, I finished reading Automate the Boring Stuff with Python and was very inspired to try to automate something in my life. At the same time, I have been always fascinated by Mark Zuckerberg…
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Years and lessons working at ThoughtWorks
I’ve been at ThoughtWorks for 12 years. Who would have imagined? Instead of writing about my reflections on the past year, I thought I would do something different and post twelve key learnings and observations looking back over my career. I have chosen twelve, not because there are only twelve, but because it fits…
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Side Projects
Back when we started USV in 2003/2004, we used to see a lot of side projects that had taken off and were turning into companies. We funded at least one such side project, Delicious, which ended up getting sold to Yahoo! a few years later. But I remember that we would see one or two […]
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For anyone who has been turned down by 38 companies
Learn about the journey navigating through over 100 job interviews, and finally achieving a highly coveted job opportunity at Booking.com.
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First Impressions of a $9 CHIP Computer
Even though the CHIP is much cheaper than the Pi, I've found that is actually much more convenient (less wires and configuration).
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The Search for the Perfect To-do List
Beware the to-do list rabbit hole. It starts off with one or two innocent reminders and ends up with you tumbling down a long hole of procrastination in search of the perfect system. After many years of trying different software I’m glad to say that I’m finally climbing back out of the hole wearing a rather dashing…
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Meeting People Is Easy, but Hard
I have been doing app development since 2009. Initially as a hobby, then as part time work, and now as my full time job. It wasn’t until last year, however, that I found out there was an entire developer community out there supporting one another. That’s when I discovered conferences.
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I switched to Android after 7 years of iOS
Monday of last week I was all excited. I had just gotten the green light to start prototyping a new Progressive Web App for a client I've been working with.
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My Passion Was My Weak Spot
For many years in the beginning of my career I’d been more than happy to work for free or even at a loss as long as the work was interesting. I was so totally in love with computer programming and the feeling I got from making something work and then seeing that creation be used by other people that I completely lost…
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Becoming an expert through deliberate practice
How do you become an expert? Here's an interview with the professor who created the 10,000 hours theory of expertise that will teach you how to be the best.
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The Importance of Acoustics in Food Storage
Deep in the archives of San Francisco-based Aquarius Records, buried between several days’ worth of “laptop glitchery” and “brutal industro-crunch,” lies this gem: Insect Noise in Stored Foodstuffs , (INRA, 2000, CD, 19:98).
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The Deep Roots of JavaScript Fatigue
Explore technical topics, solutions, and resources for building with Twilio – and beyond.
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A man overrides his camera's firmware to bring rare pictures of North Korea back
A collection of photos from my trip to North Korea, with historical context.
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Re: Obama on Fetishizing Our Phones
US President Obama had...
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Work for only 3 hours a day, but everyday
I am an indie iPhone developer, and I’ve been working for 3 hours everyday for almost 2 years now. It may not work for everybody, but I started this habit in early 2014, and I have continued to do it since have I found that this is the most productive way to work for me.
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I made my own clear plastic tooth aligners and they worked
10 Mar 2016 | self-Amos , making , orthodontics , laser-scanning , prototyping , somatic feedback