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Writing a Technical Book
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 8,943 posts.
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Free Data Science Books
I've been impressed in recent months by the number and quality of free datascience/machine learning books available online. I don't mean fre...
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Remembering Johannes Doerfert
It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of Johannes Doerfert, on September 17, 2026, at the age of 36, after a battle with cancer.
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We are going to kill "unalive"
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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Seriously?
Business of Software has long stood as a unique conference for me: while nearly every tech conference I attend focuses on the technological side of delivering a solution, Business of Software focuses on actually delivering the goods . How do you reach people? How do you know you’ve reached people? How, if you’ve…
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Portrait of a N00b
Well, the typing issue is a thorny one. I think as a general rule, the reddit types are too eager to denounce it immediately and tell us all that Ruby is the answer, or whatever it is this week, and the Java purists and academics make the opposite argument. Coming from someone from a dynamic background, I didn't use a…
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That’s how it works when you’re a woman on the internet
Aubrey Hirsch on harassment and existing as a woman online
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Potato Diet Riff Trial: Sign Up Now, Lol
When we finished the Potato Diet Community Trial, we found ourselves in a pickle. The diet worked — people lost 10.6 lbs on average over only four weeks — and we had basically no idea why. No idea …
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I started taking English classes at the age of 46
Finding a tutor despite already being fluent.
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My Favorite Programming Problem to Teach: Digit Length
A function to return the number of digits in an input (natural) number provides many learning opportunities for a new programmer
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How To: Read more books
I’ve read a hundred books a year for the past couple years. Last time I mentioned this, a couple people asked how I could read so many books. Do I read unusually quickly? Do I spend an unusual amount of time reading? I did a simple calculation: The average person spends 1704 hours a year watching TV. If the average…
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Solar-based sleep patterns compared to modern norms
ex program, en farm
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The false god of coffee
If you are self-tracking for any reason — to answer a health question, achieve a goal, explore an idea, or simply because you are curious — you can find help and support here.
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Bear turns 10, and it still feels like day one
🐻🎂 Happy 10th bearthday! Join us for the stories behind our design principles, the tiny details hidden all over the app, plus some wonderful new features and Bear swag.
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No knives, only cook knives
Changing perceptions of value and a rude encounter with Ichabod Crane and Xavier Cugat at the flea market --by Josh Donald
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5 Important Things to Do Before the Market Bubble Bursts
Yes, you are living through a bubble in the financial markets. No, this is not an article about how to time the market. No, you don’t know when the bubble will burst (and neither do I). Yes, there are still things that you can do that will set you up for investing success.
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Why Tolkien Hated Dune
A short intro to the philosophy of ethics J.R.R. Tolkien maintained a very private, but very negative opinion of Frank Herbert’s Dune. In Tolkien’s Library, entry 964, Tolkien is quoted…
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Suicide is Cheaper
A lot of you may not know this, but I used to be an EMT-B. I volunteered on a 911 ambulance service, and spent most of my time running out o...
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Crony Beliefs
[Note: if you prefer audio, you can listen to this essay narrated by Grognor on his excellent podcast Second Enumerations . —Ed. ]
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The Curious Case of IKEA Vocabulary
Part of what makes IKEA unique is their product names. Each name means something, often in a funny or ambigious way. When IKEA went international, they decided to use the same Swedish names everywhere. This makes sense from an organizational sanity standpoint, but it deprives most of the world of this particular joy.
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You just gotta tell a good story
I’ve been studying storytelling for my whole adult life. Theatre, Film, Writing, Digital.. you name it, I’ve studied it. ( Literally I have…
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Rebuilding the Computer Room
We traded the physical boundaries of dedicated rooms for the convenience of our always-on digital lives -- but recently I've been building those walls back up.
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Ode to the 767
An Oldie but Goodie From Boeing.
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