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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,456 posts.
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The Myth of Japanese Longevity
Bioinformatics, genomics, and Javascript
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Why Haskell Is Worth Learning
Why Haskell? It's an incredibly powerful tool to use with other langues. And learning it will make you a better, smarter, more-versatile programmer.
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Twenty dollars in an envelope
People are happy to pay for things that are good. Don’t be afraid to charge for your services. - Jason Fried, 37signals
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A Day in the Life of a Freelance Journalist
A Day in the Life of a Freelance Journalist—2013 Here is an exchange between the Global Editor of the Atlantic Magazine and myself this afternoon attempting to solicit my professional service…
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Real pixel coding (2011)
Tutorials and articles of Inigo Quilez on computer graphics, fractals, math, art, demoscene, shaders and more.
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Gravitational Lensing to Observe Ancient Earth
I was at SFMOMA with Erika a few weekends ago and we saw an exhibit showing the work of Lebbeus Woods – a futuristic architect and illustrator.
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Back Row
Back Row is a private framework used in the Apple TV user experience. Rather than waiting for Apple to open up the Apple TV SDK, one can take matters into their own hands.
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Fear of a WebKit Planet
I must confess, I was neither surprised nor disturbed by last month’s announcement that the Opera web browser was switching to the WebKit rendering engine. But perhaps I’m in the minority among geeks on this topic.
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One day offices will be a thing of the past
Richard Branson's blog - where he shares his thoughts on business, Virgin news, leadership, life, family and the global issues he cares about the most
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Commit that changed my life
Votre quotidien décrypté avec intelligence et curiosité
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The Jobs Are Never Coming Back
I just watched former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm’s TED Talk. She provides some nice insight as to what it is really like as a politician trying to grapple with the new realities of t…
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The Apprentice Programmer
I dropped out of school when I was 16 years old. School was not for me. To me, computers were so much more interesting. Right or wrong, I felt like I wasted my time there and my real education was starting when I came home. I lost respect for the institution and of course this meant that I no longer bothered to put any
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Exponential Economist Meets Finite Physicist
[ An updated treatment of some of this material appears in Chapter 2 of the Energy and Human Ambitions on a Finite Planet (free) textbook, also mirrors a 2022 article in Nature Physics . . ]
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Today's Outage Post Mortem
This morning at 09:47 UTC CloudFlare effectively dropped off the Internet. The outage affected all of CloudFlare's services including DNS and any services that rely on our web proxy.
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(Presumably) Apple engineer comment on Lightning AV adapter design
We’ve been doing significant testing lately with video out using various iOS devices for an upcoming project. In doing so, we waded right in the middle of a strange video out mystery. It’s time to unravel that mystery. (Chung-chung!)
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What the smartest people do on the weekend, everyone else will do in 10 years
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups