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Fictional Cryptocurrencies
I said they were fictional! Stop trying to invest in them!
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,497 posts.
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Abusing the Chromium Devtools Scope Pane
tl;dr — Abusing the Chromium Devtools Scope Pane to track debugging of specific javascript functions
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Learning how to think (2015)
Thinking better isn't about learning more; it's about doing a few simple things that really help create unstoppable progress.
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Reverse-Engineering NES Tetris to Add Hard Drop
Tetris for the NES is one of my favourite versions of Tetris. My only complaint is that it lacks the ability to “hard drop” - instantly dropping the current piece and locking it into place.
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Does QE Cause Wealth Inequality?
Originally published: November 2021 One of the most polarizing topics today is wealth inequality. I think a better description is to refer to it as wealth concentration. Nobody should expect wealth to be equal in a society, but when wealth becomes extremely concentrated (way more unequal than usual), it’s often a sign…
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F# is gaining independence from .NET
F# is a language that will make you sleep better
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Find the Hard Work You're Willing to Do (2018)
I like this passage from John Urschel Goes Pro , about the former NFL player who is pursuing a Ph.D. in math:
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Towards a more Elvish vision for Technology
This essay is telescopic . It can shrink or expand, depending on how much attention you are willing to give. This is the original version (3344 words). Show other sizes .
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All Futurama Opening Quotes
All Futurama Opening Quotes in order, Futurama is the whipping boy of modern prime time cartoons, Made by the creators of Simpsons.
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GPT-3 tries pickup lines
Once upon a time I decided to train a neural net to generate pickup lines. Once I started collecting the training data I began to regret it when I saw how awful the existing lines were. Turns out I needn’t have worried. The neural net I used was so small and clueless that
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Euler's Fizzbuzz (2020)
FizzBuzz is a common coding problem asked in technical screenings or interviews. It goes something like this:
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Fun with Unix domain sockets
A small enhancement to Datasette this week: I’ve added support for proxying via Unix domain sockets. This started out as a feature request from Aslak Raanes: #1388: Serve using UNIX …
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How to Raise Investment
<p><b>Update: I am no longer personally angel investing - I’m focussed on other things at the moment. Please don’t ask me to invest in your co...
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Doom Rendered via Checkboxes
WebAssembly meets 16000 HTML checkboxes.
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Metakovan, the mystery Beeple art buyer, and his NFT/DeFi scheme
At the end of the day, this is a straight-up ICO-style index fund to speculate on NFTs.
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How to Become a Bad Developer
Discover the most efficient way to not succeed as a developer.
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PostgreSQL, Memory and the Cloud
This post explains how Linux memory overcommit and OOM-killer behavior can turn a single runaway query into a full PostgreSQL crash, and why many managed cloud database services fail to disable overcommit the way self-hosted PostgreSQL recommends.
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Avoid buying in HOA neighborhoods (2014)
Let's focus on a factor that puts even more extreme limits on home ownership - HOAs. And more specifically why you should avoid buying in HOA neighborhoods.
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Git email flow vs. GitHub flow
Comparing the Github and Gitlab pull request workflow to the Git built-in email workflow.
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More than you want to know about gift cards
Gift cards are a loosely-regulated quasi-financial product and frequently misunderstood. Here's how they operate under the hood.
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Multi-User Dungeons (MUDs): What Are They? and How to Play
Before the days of 40-man raids, flashy cosmetics, and server firsts, the MMO players of the world embarked on quests in another way.
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The Unstoppable Momentum of Outdated Science
Much of climate research is focused on implausible scenarios of the future, but implementing a course correction will be difficult
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One Tenth of a Second
Notes on Jimena Canales book
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