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Your Life in Weeks
All the weeks in a human life shown on one chart.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 8,944 posts.
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Gell-Mann Amnesia
"Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so…
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E.W. Dijkstra Archive: On the cruelty of really teaching computing science (EWD 1036)
The second part of this talk pursues some of the scientific and educational consequences of the assumption that computers represent a radical novelty. In order to give this assumption clear contents, we have to be much more precise as to what we mean in this context by the adjective "radical". We shall do so in the…
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A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden
A newly revived philosophy for publishing personal knowledge on the web