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Climbing the wrong hill
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,923 posts.
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Ask and It Shall be Given
Once I recovered from burnout at Zilog, I was working less and accomplishing more. I even had time to find a girlfriend who was a contractor to the company. One of her first comments was, “I…
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Clojure N00b Tips from Tim Bray
Clojure is the new hotness among people who think the JVM is an interesting platform for post-Java languages, and for people who think there’s still life in that ol’ Lisp beast, and for people who worry about concurrency and state in the context of the multicore future. Over the last few days I’ve been severely…
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Google Docs Liberated
When Google Launched DataLiberation ,Brian Fitzpatrick, Data Liberation engineering manager said in a blog post: We've already liberated ov...
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Heroku: Best money ever spent
Get a new domain name for your startup. Quick and professional service. Seamless domain transfers.
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IT Concepts That Non-IT People Don’t Get
Where tech meets curiosity
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Make More Than GPA
25% Drop in free playtime for 6-to-8-year-olds from 1981 to ’97, while homework more than doubled. Time 30Nov, p.57.
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Why Isn't Paypal More Successful?
I just bought a replacement part at an online store I've never shopped in before. I was dreading the checkout process since I have not committed my various credit cards to memory. But thankfully this store offered checkout with Paypal. I clicked on it, entered my paypal credentials, and was out of the store in […]
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The Shocking State of Contemporary "Mathematics"
I just came back from attending the 1052nd AMS (sectional) meeting at Penn State, last weekend, and realized that the Kingdom of Mathematics is dead. Instead we have a disjoint union of narrow specialties , and people who know everything about nothing, and nothing about anything (except their very narrow acre). Not…
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Tim Ferris: Beginner's Guide to Lucid Dreaming
From 1994-1995 I had the great pleasure of training with wrestling legend John Smith, 2-time gold medalist and 4-time world champion (domestic freestyle record of 80-0; international freestyle record of 100-5).
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Lies Entrepreneurs Tell Themselves
For the next few months I’ll be posting a series of posts on family, startup culture and careers. These vignettes are about how I’ve lived my life trying to make my dent in the universe and trying …
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Release Late, Release Rarely (2006)
When you look at something you’re working on, no matter what it is, you can’t help but see past the actual thing to the ideas that inspired it, your plans for extending it, the emotions you’ve tied to it. But when others look at it, all they see is a piece of junk.
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You Aren't Average
Do you ever think that SEO is "obvious"? "Common knowledge"? "Pretty easy, really"?
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