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Hi, I’d Like to Add Myself to the New Yorker (2016)
Personal site of designer Frank Chimero
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Life, Learning & Writing
The most popular blog posts about life, learning & writing on Hacker News. 7,744 posts.
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How I knew I was done with my company
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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Retirement and Realignment
Effective today, I have resigned my employment at Microsoft, concluding an engaging and delightful 4½ years as part of the Xamarin documentation team. I will miss my co-workers immensely, and I hope to keep in touch with them on Facebook.
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The Joy of Fuck-You Money (2018)
According to Humphrey Bogart, the only good reason for making money is “so you can tell any son-of-a-bitch in the world to go to hell”.
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Yet another hot take on “folders versus tags”
I like folders due to their cross compatibility, future proofing, interoperability, flexibility, focus, clarity, automation management &etc.
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It Doesn't Work
8 AM. Like any other day, I take a quick glance at my GitHub notifications via Octobox.
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The YouTube revolution in knowledge transfer (2019)
Growing up as an aspiring javelin thrower in Kenya, the young Julius Yego was unable to find a coach: in a country where runners command the most prestige, mentorship was practically nonexistent. Determined to succeed, he instead watched YouTube recordings of Norwegian Olympic javelin thrower Andreas Thorkildsen…
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I ended up liking GNOME with the loss of one hand
I switched to Gnome after a bad injury on a hand and Gnome helped me a lot using the computer
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Jessamyn West, Technology Lady (2015)
The role of the modern librarian, and other things
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The future of independence is interdependence
Every one of us depends on others; the only difference is how visible that dependence is.
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Vitamin C is a bug that needs to be patched
So Maciej Cegłowski has updated his blog for the first time in four months. Upon encountering the novel task of "actually generating HTML", his gimcrack blogging software sprayed a couple random posts across his RSS feed, one of which was the venerable 2010 essay on scurvy in Antarctic exploration. Which, combined…
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So you want to write an “app” (2025)
I touched "every" OS so you don't have to
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Spaced repetition for efficient learning (2019)
Efficient memorization using the spacing effect: literature review of widespread applicability, tips on use & what it’s good for.
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Local man switches to Arch, tells no one
Yesterday, at approximately 5:05pm, a Seattle area man installed Arch Linux on his home computer and has yet to tell anyone.
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My New Year’s Resolution – read a research paper every weekday
… and post a write-up on this blog. That sounds crazy of course – who has the time to read a paper every weekday? Let alone write it up! I’ve done it for each of the last two calendar y…
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Without even knowing: the HN post I missed
On the day after Christmas, my city-mapping project Majuro.js appeared on the front page of Hacker News. It would be a few days before I found out, because I was out of internet, cell phone, or even radio contact on Arno Atoll, a razor-thin string of tropical islands in the Pacific Ocean.
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The Productivity Cycle
Alex Sexton lives in Austin, TX and works as a software engineer at Pierre.co.
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Let's Get Physical
This week has been… eventful. And when I say eventful, I can say this has been the funniest pentest I have ever been on in my life. Let me tell you about it!
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Mental Mountains
I. Kaj Sotala has an outstanding review of Unlocking The Emotional Brain; I read the book, and Kaj’s review is better. He begins: UtEB’s premise is that much if not most of our behavior is dr…
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The biggest losers: Metabolic damage or constrained energy?
Did the Biggest Loser contestants really damage their metabolism or was something else going on?
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Nicotine (2016)
On the benefits and lack of demerits of nicotine (research up to 2015)