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Japanese Death Poems
by haiku poets
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 8,940 posts.
Life, Learning & Writing
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On concepts and realities
It’s been really interesting seeing how people have responded to the idea of Light Table over the past week and understandably there have been a lot of questions as the ideas have sunk in (for me too). Many of these are questions about the details of exactly how this or that feature will work and that brings me to…
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My OpenStreetMap Workflow: Mapping the Village of Marmari, Evia
A general OpenStreetMap editing workflow, with the example of Mapping the village of Marmari, Evia in Greece (Μαρμάρι, Εύβοια).
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How the kids stole the show: Young Coders tutorial at PyCon
Throughout the planning phases of PyCon 2013, for everything we did, we did it bigger than last year. Attendance? We raised the cap to 250...
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Why isn't the external link symbol in Unicode? (2018)
I have frequently wanted to use the external link symbol ( ) in text that I’m writing, without having to resort to including an image. Normally the solution there would be to find the graphical symbol in Unicode and figure out how to type it.
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Life as a Service
I was born on a rainy morning, the 20th of March 1965, 3:15 am on the outskirts of a big European city. There wasn’t much to do for me other than to drink my milk so I’m kind of surprised that I don’t remember the man with the contract that I signed within a few hours of being born. Stupid me. I really shouldn’t have…
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What made Dostoevsky's work immortal
How Dostoevsky’s Crafted Timeless Art
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Writing code with multiple overlapping side effects with a straight face
Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.
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I plan to leave tech to pursue art
I've spent 240 hours the past 6 months drawing, and I'm eager to go all-in. I'm planning to apply to Sheridan's animation undergrad program in February, and have been busy preparing a portfolio for it. Here's some of my recent work, and a lil music video featuring my progress over the months.
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Smart people don't think others are stupid
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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Praising children for effort rather than ability (2021)
When parents praise their children's effort instead of natural ability, students learn that the work they put
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The Paradox of Abundance
David shares the paradox of abundance and how to make a healthy information diet for yourself. Read here.
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How Microsoft quietly built the city of the future
The latest news and stories about how technology is helping people around the world solve problems, innovate and do more each day.
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Ampersand (2015)
This & is called an AMPERSAND. And here's why...
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Don’t email me
Why I insist on people to keep issues on the mailing list(s) A recent twitter discussion I had with Andrei Neculau contributed to his blog post on this subject, basically arguing that I'm wrong but with many words and explanations. It triggered me to write up my primary reasons for why I strongly object to … Continue…
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Chesterton’s Fence: A Lesson in Second Order Thinking
A core component of making great decisions is understanding previous decisions. If we don’t understand how we got “here,” we run the risk of making things much worse.
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Two Years, Four Nanodegree Programs, and a New Career
Udacity's blog offers news and articles on the fastest, most effective way to gain job-ready expertise for the careers of the future.
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I converted a rotary phone into a meeting handset
As you may remember, or completely not know, I have a bit of a fascination with old rotary phones . Occasionally, when people learn about this fascination, they donate their old rotary phones to me, so I have ended up with a small collection.
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An introduction to Stoic philosophy and resilience-building [video]
Your free ten-minute introduction to Stoic philosophy and its application to modern living