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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 8,944 posts.
Life, Learning & Writing
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The Gettysburg PowerPoint Presentation (2000)
Good morning. Just a second while I get this connection to work. Do I press this button here? Function-F7? No, that's not right. Hmmm. Maybe I'll have to reboot. Hold on a minute. Um, my name is Abe Lincoln and I'm your president. While we're waiting, I want to thank Judge David Wills, chairman of the committee…
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"How to Get Rich": an anti-self-help book by Felix Dennis
Getting Things Done GTD with Personal Development and…200874 points59 commentsTech Industry & Business details
One of the books I read whilst away in Portugal was the How to Get Rich book by Felix Dennis. I bought this book a few months ago following an Amazon
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Sleep hacks: How to Become an Early Riser
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom. – Aristotle
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Google Maps Street View capture... from a bike
I met this guy while I was walking around Beebe Lake . He says they're deploying people on bikes to capture images of trails where you can't take cars, but it's small-scale and experimental at this stage. A pedestrian version is also in development, and may come into use next year. He's excited…
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Anxiety, Depression, Technology, and Me
This is a personal story. I have never shared much of this. I am a regular blogger, but this felt too personal to write as myself. I neede...
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Black and white
So I'm pretty well-known for not exactly being a huge fan of the FSF and Richard Stallman, despite the fact that I obviously love the GPLv2 ...
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What I learned from screwing up my first ebook launch
JavaScript Performance Rocks! is my first ebook, written by me and my husband, Mr. Scriptaculous (legal alias: Thomas Fuchs).
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Making Nested Parens with My Homeboy, Donald Knuth
Your life is the best story! Just start your blog today!
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Confessions of a Math Idiot
A blog about computers, functional languages, Lisp, and Scheme.
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Optimize for now!
One of the easiest ways to shoot down good ideas, interesting policies, or worthwhile experiments is by injecting the assumption that whatever you’re doing needs to last forever and ever. Which means that the concept has to scale from 5 people to 5,000 or from 100,000 users to 100 million. Th…
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Lessons from the failure of Livejournal: when not to listen to your users
Your life is the best story! Just start your blog today!
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The Pragmatic Programmers release an online magazine
Plus: Welcome to PragPub, Up Front, Choice Bits, How Do We…?, Swaine’s World, The Quiz, Shady Illuminations, Calendar. See below for more.
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Rands In Repose: The Makers of Things
In the late 1800s, the Brooklyn Bridge was built with no power tools, no heavy machinery, and only a basic, evolving understanding of how to make steel. It's no
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A year with Python
Almost exactly a year ago I wrote here about giving Python a try as my main programming language. Before that I was mainly writing in Perl, and eying Ruby from time to time as the replacement.
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The Fun Scale (2014)
What is your idea of fun? Kelly Cordes details The Fun Scale, measuring the degrees of fun activities in the outdoors.
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