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Valentine's Day Special: Bye Bye Tinder, Flirting in the Support Channel
... felt like a good idea for many of our male users as soon as they saw the photo of our support staff member for the first time.
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Life, Learning & Writing
The most popular blog posts about life, learning & writing on Hacker News. 1,197 posts.
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What's Wrong with Students?
Former philosophy professor and successful humorist Dennis Fried sent me some poignant comments on my piece in The Atlantic. Reprinted with Fried’s permission. Dear Dr. Caplan, I just read your article in Atlantic magazine and was blown away by the brutal honesty displayed there, especially coming from someone whose…
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Busyness is Not a Virtue
When you go on about being so busy, you’re often engaging in doublespeak. Here's what busyness really means and why it's not a virtue.
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How to Read an RFC (2018)
Requests for Comments (RFCs) are how we specify many protocols on the Internet. These documents are alternatively treated as holy texts by developers who parse them for hidden meanings, then shunned as irrelevant because they can’t be understood. This often leads to frustration and – more significantly …
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A bad design is a good reminder
Our new office has a dishwasher. It’s sleek, modern, and silent. It blends into the stainless cabinets and countertops just perfectly. It has the same handle style as the drawers and doors to the left and right. It has no buttons or lights or anything on the outside. You don’t even know…
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Can't start a business only eating a Tombstone pizza every day
The official blog of Inkling Markets. We make prediction market software for organizations to improve their forecasting and make better decisions.
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I have to think (and experiment) every single time
I have to think (and experiment) every single time I want to decipher one of these keyboard “shortcuts”. Why is it that only the command key (⌘) actually has the symbol printed on the key itself? And what’s up with the symbol for the option key (⌥)?
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Why I haven’t been blogging as much
News and announcements from your friends at Balsamiq.
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Saying "NO"
I saw this cartoon in a tweet today. It’s the story of how a boss corrupts the work of a professional. It’s a funny cartoon, and a sad story that happens all too often in our profession. But who, exactly, was at fault?...
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Developertown: Why Houses?
Experts share their industry and technology insights via the DeveloperTown blog.
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Nobody told me it’s impossible, so I did it
I just read this great post on Derek Sivers’s blog: There’s no speed limit. (The lessons that changed my life.) You should go and read it right now because what Derek says is so inspirational and so true. There is no limit to what you can achieve if you are motivated and inspired. I want to tell you how I started…
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This was a triumph.
Get the latest product news, company announcements, and user insights from the official Reddit blog.
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Some fun mathematical puzzles
Explore research at Microsoft, a site featuring the impact of research along with publications, products, downloads, and research careers.
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Steve wants us to make the Macintosh boot faster
We always thought of the Macintosh as a fast computer, since its 68000 microprocessor was effectively 10 times faster than an Apple II, but our Achilles heel was the floppy disk. We had limited RAM, so it was often necessary to load data from the floppy, but there we were no faster than an Apple II. Once we had real…
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