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Life, Learning & Writing
The most popular blog posts about life, learning & writing on Hacker News. 52 posts.
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I Build Supercomputers in My Spare Time
Brian Guarraci is a software engineer at Twitter and in his spare time he’s building a Parallella cluster with a design that was inspired by two of the most iconic supercomputers ever made.
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Negative comments
The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City.
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Ways to avoid using the word 'very'
Good writers avoid using words like 'very' and 'really too often. Use these 45 alternatives to 'very. to make your writing stronger, clearer, and more interesting to read.
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Mistakes we've made
The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City.
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Habits of a Happy Node Hacker
This post is from 2013 - check out the update! For most of the nearly twenty years since its inception, JavaScript lacked many of the niceties that made...
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The Economics of Writing a Book
Self-publishing is on the rise. Ebooks sales are exploding. Authors have more options than ever. Is making money still one of them?
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Adm. McRaven Urges Graduates to Find Courage to Change the World
Discover groundbreaking research, inspiring student stories and more from The University of Texas at Austin.
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Reading Lamport, again
We’ve just kicked off an internal distributed-systems seminar. Our inaugral paper was Lamport’s classic “Time, Clocks and the Ordering of Events in a Distrib...
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Why Can't I Take an Orange Through Customs?
Fruit flies, agroterrorism, and how a healthy snack became a threat to national security.
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New study shows we work harder when we are happy
Happiness makes people more productive at work, according to the latest research from the University of Warwick.
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“The Great Plate Count Anomaly” that is no more
by Gemma Reguera — For over a century, microbiologists have been using growth media solidified with agar to culture microbes from environmental samples. Individual cells are easily separated on th…
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