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What Do We Want, Really?
I was in Amish country last week. Several times a day I heard the clip-clop of horse hooves and the whirring of buggy wheels coming down the street and then receding into the distance–a rathe…
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 333 posts.
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How to Learn Efficiently
I am convinced that much of the gap between the best college students and the worst is explained by study habits. Frankly, most students study poorly. To make matters worse, most teachers are incapable of teaching good study habits. Learning is proportional with effort Sitting in a classroom listening to a professor…
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The best things and stuff of 2014
Great things and people that I discovered, learned, read, met, etc. in 2014. No particular ordering is implied. Not everything is new.
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“The Great Plate Count Anomaly” that is no more
by Gemma Reguera — For over a century, microbiologists have been using growth media solidified with agar to culture microbes from environmental samples. Individual cells are easily separated on th…
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Capsela, the game that changed my life
Father, husband and software developer. Ex @auth0
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When security goes right
A few weeks ago, I heard that my slow and unreliable ISP was raising their prices, and I decided to look around for a better ISP. I found one in the form of Novus , which has fibre runs to towers around the Vancouver area. I signed up; they came to the building and placed the necessary patch cable in the basement…
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Adventures in Piano Building
Turning a mouse house into a musical marvel.
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The Interview
Follow the Stripe blog to learn about new product features, the latest in technology, payment solutions, and business initiatives.
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Content, Forever
Got some time to kill and want to read a meandering essay by an algorithm with a short attention span? Tell us how many minutes you want to spend reading and a starting topic, and we'll whip something up.
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Negative comments
The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City.
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Lazy Expert Syndrome
We all eventually suffer from "lazy expert syndrome." The best way to snap out of it and grow is to mentor someone new to your field.
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You can't dig upwards
When I first learned to drive a car, shortly after turning 15, my mother insisted that I learn on my father’s Mazda Miata: a silver, two-door convertible with a soft-top roof.
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Why my book can be downloaded for free
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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The Case for Slow Programming
My dad used to say, “Slow down, son. You’ll get the job done faster.” I’ve worked in many high-tech startup companies in the San Francisco Bay area. I am now 52, and I progr…
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From hacker to hospice in seven weeks
If you would like to help Steven, please donate to his family. He will not live to see his child born. Any amount is greatly appreciated.
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An age-old question
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