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What is Chess? What to think and for how long
Your knight for my pawn, and you have to take it.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 7,743 posts.
Life, Learning & Writing
Any year
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I learned Unity the wrong way
I spent 3 years building Unity games by copying tutorials and stitching forum scripts together. Then an interviewer asked me what Queue<T> was. I could not answer.
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Anatomy of an internet argument
Social media isn't toxic, most people just haven't figured out the game (yet)
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On-demand learning comes at the cost of conceptual understanding
Everyone has heard about the so-called “types of learning styles” auditory, visual, kinesthetic, and so on. And almost everything has been said about it. But what if there is a different categorization of learning? Maybe one that gives more inside? Well, I think there is. This time we split the act of learning just…
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Being Slow to Criticise
This post is not about that story. This post is about a comment made by one of the readers in the forum where I saw it.
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When Should I Interrupt Someone?
How many times have you sat there trying to work through a technical problem, and thought:
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Cheap Thrills, an album cover by Robert Crumb (2020)
Created in late 1960s in the style of underground comics, Cheap Thrills is one of the most iconic album covers in history. This is the story of the art and the artist behind it.
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My Time at MIT
Twenty years ago, in 2004-2005, I spent a year at MIT’s Computer Science department as a postdoc working with Professor Nancy Lynch. It was ...
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How to record and retrieve anything you've ever had to look up twice
Stop re-learning things you've already figured out. Two simple ways to document any process, and find it again when you need it.
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Incremental note-taking
I’ve been delving deeper into the vast and strange world of knowledge organizing tools (notes apps, contact organizers, personal search engines). During this rather abstract expedition, one of my goals has been to emerge with some opinionated thesis about the way these tools should be designed to harbor and extend our…
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I Hired a Freelance Editor for My Blog (2017)
It’s surprisingly easy to hire a blog editor, and it provides tremendous value.
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Tom Williams: Hired by Apple at 14. His full story.
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.
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Writing a technical book: from idea to print
Ever wanted to know what it's like to write a technical book? This post details my experience co-authoring an O'Reilly book with my colleagues Lak and Mike. Our book, Machine Learning Design Patterns, is available to order now and all royalties go to Girls Who Code.
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Illustrated Notes for “Building a Second Brain”
Illustrated notes on the Building A Second Brain course
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Cranking
This domain is parked. There is no active website here.
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Hacking is Important
Back in the early 90s, Borland International was the place to be an engineer. Coming off the purchase of Ashton-Tate, Borland was the third largest software com
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Jef Raskin's final gift to Aza (2010)
Studying how an individual's thoughts, emotions, ideas, and aspirations are formed through their interactions with others is the focus of social psychology as
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Feeling Sad about AI
Coding in Rust and others; making coding videos.
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How to Drop Out (2004)
People who work get bored when they don't work. People who don't work never get bored.
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My next main browser: a review of Orion
Orion is currently my favourite browser, and has replaced Safari entirely on one of my primary Macs. Here's why.
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Will AI Replace Human Thinking? The Case for Writing and Coding Manually
Learning to Think Again, and the Cost of AI Dependency.
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I want to be left alone (2024)
Seriously. Please just leave me alone.
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A science fiction obsession led me to psychological war
I've spent the past three years researching and writing a book about the history of psychological warfare in the United States. It’s called Stories Are...
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Twenty years of blogging
Twenty years... a significant chunk of a human's adult life; while so many things in my life have changed since May 2003, the blog has remained a constant companion. This milestone inspired me to do some archaeology using the amazing Wayback Machine . It didn't have the very first post, but I dug up one from just a…