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New Dell XPS 13 developer edition now available
Last January the Dell XPS 13 developer edition (9370) made its debut. Today we’re excited to announce that one year later its successor, the XPS 13 developer edition (9380), is now available…
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 49,191 posts.
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I'm a former Miso engineer and the founders screwed me out of 10k
UPDATE 2: There's a few things I want to clear up here about certain assumptions made about what exactly happened. Prior to the database...
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The Idea of Lisp
How a programming language can be an idea.
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I Can't Do Anything for Fun Anymore; Every Hobby Is an Attempt to Make Money
I have hit the point where I can't do anything for fun anymore. Every hobby is not an attempt to make some extra money or turn it into profit.
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A Teenager’s View on Social Media
Written by an actual teen
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Ad Fraud on LinkedIn
LinkedIn Ads are awash in mistaken clicks and bot traffic that make the platform's value extremely dubious, according to a new study from RMG.
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Okay, I Like WezTerm
A guide to configuring WezTerm using its Lua API. Focuses on appearance, keybindings, multiplexing, workspace navigation, and status bar (powerline) setup.
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Second-Order Thinking
Second-order thinking is a mental model that smart people like Warren Buffett & Howard Marks use to avoid problems. Read this article to learn how it works.
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The Document Culture of Amazon
A look at Amazon's culture of writing and reading
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I don't like NumPy
it’s too hard
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Lessons I learned working at an art gallery
1. It is possible to turn a mediocre job into a great one
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The best $4 ever spent
Kids get excited about things that are very different from those of adults. You probably remember your kid's first birthday...
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Learning DNS in 10 Years
New talk: Learning DNS in 10 years
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Inappropriate Uses of Google Trends
Alternatively titled ‘Be aware of context, and maybe start using Google AdWords’ Instead
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The Beam Engine
See how a beam engine works through interactive 3D figures exploring steam, pressure, Watt's condenser, valves, linkages, and the governor.
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Image diffing using CSS
Since the last post [http://franklinta.com/2014/09/08/computing-css-matrix3d-transforms/] on CSS was popular here is another simple CSS trick that I found useful in the past. Let’s say we want to find the difference between these two images: You can do this by simply inverting the colors and then stacking them…
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I don't care how well your "AI" works
The other day I was sitting on the doorstep of a hackerspace, eating a falafel sandwich while listening to the conversation inside. The topic shifted to the use of “AI” for everyday tasks, people casually started elaborating on how they use “chat assistants” to let them write pieces of code or annoying emails. The…
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Web development is fun again
AI tools brought me back to levels of productivity I haven't felt in years. Web development is fun again.
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Go is not an easy language
Go is not an easy programming language. It is simple in many ways: the syntax is simple, most of the semantics are simple. But a language is more than just syntax; it’s about doing useful stuff . And doing useful stuff is not always easy in Go.
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Right to root access
right to repair laws should include provisions requiring manufacturers to unlock a device's bootloader (to provide root access) upon consumer request.
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MVC is dead, it's time to MOVE on
MVC is a phenomenal idea. You have models, which are nice self-contained bits of state, views which are nice self-contained bits of UI, and controllers which are nice self-contained bits of …
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How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years?
People still tell me that CPUs are boring. That nothing much happens anymore. Let us look at AMD Ryzen 7 processors from 2022 to 2024: the 5800X3D (Zen 3), the 7800X3D (Zen 4) and the 9800X3D (Zen 5). They are comparable 8-core chips with 3D V-Cache. I have written about them before, in How stagnant … Continue reading…
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My seatbelt rule for judgment
One of my formative childhood lessons came when I was playing in the garage one day. I went into my mom’s car and put the seatbelt on (probably to pretend I was flying a plane). I realized at one point that I could still lean pretty far forward. Far enough that my head could touch the dashboard. How ridiculous! What’s…
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What I wish someone told me about Postgres
I’ve been working professionally for the better part of a decade on web apps and, in that time, I’ve had to learn how to use a lot of different systems and tools. During that education, I found that the official documentation typically proved to be the most helpful.