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I miss Microsoft Encarta (2019)
Microsoft Encarta came out in 1993 and was one of the first CD-ROMs I had. It ...
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 8,937 posts.
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If you don’t finish then you’re just busy, not productive
One of the biggest realisations I’ve come to as part of my PhD, is how little people care about how I spend my time, they only care about what I am able to deliver. Yet in order to deliver, you need to finish. I was recently reading an article on this topic, and I think the advice can be best summed up as:
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Amazon's ML University is making its online courses available to the public
Classes previously only available to Amazon employees will now be available to the community.
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Do I really need to get out the soldering-iron again?
So I had this idea that it would be nice to listen to music when I get home from work everyday, so I put all my ripped music onto my phone, and I bought some good quality over-ear headphones.
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One week of empathy training (2019)
I've spent a week cosplaying as a disabled user. And I hate it. A couple of months ago, I attended a private talk given by a disabled colleague of mine. "Everyone should believe disabled people's stories about accessibility problems," she said. "But, given that people don't, here's what I want you to do. Spend one…
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How I Used Twilio, Python and Google to Automate My Wedding
September 3, 2016 was just another day for most of the world but to me it will always be memorable as the day that I married my partner. There are many
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Why I Procrastinate (2019)
A look into me, my awful procrastination habit, and how I fixed it. (spoiler alert: it was ADHD)
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Social media may prevent users from reaping creative rewards of profound boredom
Pandemic study shows distraction of social media may suck up the time and energy that allow us to find new passions
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Hard comp-fi reading list
This resource lists a bunch of stories which in some way, explore the beautiful ideas behind computer science, software engineering and even plain old programming.
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Taskwarrior, where have you been all my life?
I’ve been thinking a lot about task management lately. I’ve actually been thinking about it for years. I’ve always been searching for the optimal way to sort through the bajillion things I have to do and remain productive.
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Why things might have taken so long
I asked why humanity took so long to do anything at the start, and the Internet gave me its thoughts. Here is my expanded list of hypotheses, summarizing from comments on the post, here, and here. …
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How to think in writing
The thought behind the thought
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Making small games, which is fun in itself
Creating small games is an enjoyable endeavor in itself. So what constitutes a small game? According to the 'Small Game Manifesto', 1 it refers to games that conclude within 10 minutes and can be easily played on browsers.
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Career advice I wish I’d been given when I was young
Seventeen recommendations from someone we think had a big impact with their career.
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How to get better at painting without painting anything (2015)
John Wooden died in 2009. But if you’re a basketball coach today, you’re still living in his shadow.
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Why I Quit Tech and Became a Therapist
The story of an unusual career transition.
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I'm dialing back my LLM usage
From the Zed Blog: Alberto Fortin shares his honest reflection on the reality of using LLMs in production code and why he's taking a more measured approach.
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Ideas That Changed My Life
David shares 50 ideas that changed his life. Read here.
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Reasons to Quit Social Media
You either use social media, or you're used by these insidious platforms. Here are 20 reasons to quit social media.
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Reflections on 10k Hours of Programming
I'm certainly not a world-class expert, but I have put my 10,000 hours of deliberate practice into programming. Here are 31 of my reflections on programming.
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Arturo Di Modica has a point
I got metaphorically spanked a couple of days ago. Folks have been talking about the Fearless Girl statue ever since it was dropped in Manhattan’s Financial District some five weeks ago. …
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We overestimate our short-term ability, but underestimate our long-term ability
My way of thinking about long-term habit building
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Paul Buchheit: Serendipity finds you
Here is an interesting comment from Hacker News, on a story about someone turning down an early Google offer: Similar thing happened t...
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