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Text Is All You Need
Personhood appears to be simpler than we thought
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 7,742 posts.
Life, Learning & Writing
Any year
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We need technology that is less immersive, not more
How come so many of the most talented engineers of our time work on making our entertainment more immersive?
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How I retired in 9 years on a corporate programmer salary
I have been asked many times to provide some more gritty details on how I became Mr. Money Mustache at such an early age. Commenters and email writers have asked me to provide Salaries and Savings …
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Thoughts on Daylight Computer
on the Amtrak from Denver to Sacramento When I get to write or read on a screen that’s reflecting the sun back at me instead of needing to be shielded from it, I get a dose of this feeling that this is what all computing could feel like. I want so much more of this in my life. This is a piece of hardware that makes me…
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Hacker's Guide to Tea
All tea comes from Camellia sinensis. In this no-bs guide to tea, we explore what is tea and what isn’t as well as how to best prepare tea.
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Mise-en-place for knowledge workers
Knowledge work is unique among skilled professions in that we lack a culture of systematic improvement. Other skilled trades – from carpenters to welders
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Look at yourself objectively
In the 1840s, hospitals were dangerous places. Mothers who went in to give birth often didn’t make it out. For example, at Vienna General Hospital’s First Obstetrical Clinic, as many as 10% of mothers died of puerperal fever after giving birth. But there was some good news: at the Second Clinic, the number was just…
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Believe you can change
Carol Dweck was obsessed with failure. You know how some people just seem to succeed at everything they do, while others seem helpless, doomed to a life of constant failure? Dweck noticed that too — and she was determined to figure out why. So she began watching kids, trying to see if she could spot the difference…
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The Lego Great Ball Contraption
The Great Ball Contraption is a class of machines built with Lego that transport small balls from place to place in many different ways. The otherwise pointless
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Build It Yourself
We need a vibe shift on dependencies in programming.
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How to Be More Agentic
On a supposedly difficult thing
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I am mesmerized by our new robotic vacuum (2019)
Disclaimer: this is more a rant than anything else. Maybe more #crazydudewontstoptalkingavoidthewate...
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Ted Chiang: The Secret Third Thing
I really like Ted Chiang’s writing.
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Why don't they just..?
It seems every time I come across a story about the Mars Curiosity rover there will be many people commenting on the technology used start...
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The one-year anniversary of my total glossectomy
One year ago today, I went into surgery expecting that I’d lose half my tongue to a squamous cell carcinoma recurrence. The evening before, Bess and I got legally married;[1] it was a short, but ch…
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How to draw ideas
Great ideas are hard to find. Drawing makes it a lot easier. And fun. How? In a creative process drawing can play four different roles. Let’s say, we want to come up with ideas for…
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A set of top Computer Science blogs
This started out as a list of top Computer Science blogs, but it more closely resembles a set: the order is irrelevant and there are no duplicate elements; membership of this set of blogs satisfies…
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Learning Haskell is no harder than learning any other programming language
It has still often been difficult to find answers to my questions. I think this is largely due to the fact that when discussing things with the average Haskell programmer, I feel like I have a fourth-grade education.
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I'm a laptop weirdo and that's why I like my new Framework 13
It turns out I've always done weird things to my laptops.
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Canceling "Hey"
cancelling-my-hey - Chad Nauseam Home
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Peter Naur's view of programming
To answer this question, let me take you a few years back, when I worked with a small high tech startup. We were working on a pretty complex augmented reality system spanning all layers from low-level computer vision components to cross-platform mobile and web apps. Especially for the lower-level components, a good…
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No-one knows what they are doing
When I was a child I assumed that all the adults running the world knew what they were doing. Now that I am an adult, I am under no such illusions. Just look at the current British government. They…
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Tools for Thinking
Tools & hacks I use to do complex processing with my brain.
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Not a real engineer (2019)
A short, dark prose poem on being told you are not a real engineer, and the monstrous thing you become instead.
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The origin of the cargo cult metaphor
The cargo cult metaphor is commonly used by programmers. This metaphor was popularized by Richard Feynman's "cargo cult science" talk with a...
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You’re probably using the wrong dictionary (2014)
The way I thought you used a dictionary was that you looked up words you've never heard of, or whose sense you're unsure of. You would never look up an ordinary word -- like example , or sport , or magic -- because all you'll learn is what it means, and that you already know.