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Peter Martin: Google does something really good.
Rarely has one single decision done so much good. From now on when you type in the word "suicide" you get this: That's right. The Lif...
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The most popular blog posts about life, learning & writing on Hacker News. 7,746 posts.
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The Le Guin Precepts
Fabled author Ursula Le Guin had a sign over her desk: Is it true? Is it necessary or at least useful? Is it compassionate or at least unharmful? Not a bad place to begin.
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Akira Kurosawa’s Record of a Living Being
One of the first Japanese commercial features to directly address the fear of nuclear holocaust and the implications of the atom bomb, Record of a Living Being, which is better known as I Live in F…
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8 [Startup] Things I’m Better At Now That I’m 30
When you’re 21 years old and working on your first startup, you’re convinced that you’re so much smarter than everyone who tried this before you. You don’t need advice or he…
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Five Year Mission
Behind the scenes - how I'm making redblobgames.com - interactive explanations of game development algorithms and math
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Economics of Innovation: Detailed Reading List (2019)
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Ira Glass on the secret of success
On grit, storytelling, and bridging the gap between good taste and great work.
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Schadenfreude
"Magic the Gathering: Online Exchange" has magically gathered all your online bitcoins and exchanged them for ... something or other. More here . For once, do read the comments —it's hysterically funny, in a sad way, to watch the weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth.
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Mac OS Ventura Issues
It seems that Mac OS keeps regressing instead of improving…
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Bandersnatch Shows You What Depersonalization Disorder Feels Like
Can a new interactive movie shed some light on a strange disorder?
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A personal trainer is the best investment I've made
Advice to developers entering the industry: the best investment is in yourself.
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The cup-of-coffee pricing fallacy
If you’re lurking on HackerNews, or are interesting in entrepreneurship, you might occasionally bump into something like this Starbucks coffee is $2.45 + taxes. $100/mo is less than a cup of coffee a day. And it’s very tempting — and somehow logical — to consider how much money we might spend without thinking too much…
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Overnight Pizza and the Consistent Unreliability of Expert Guidelines
Author disclaimer: As always, keep in mind that I am at best some random guy on the internet.
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My experience at community college
It feels a lot of developers online either went to a prestigious computer science program in university or are self-taught. However, not many talk about community college in those communities. It’s very much a different experience, and I was in… Continue reading →
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Me an' Algernon – grappling with (temporary) cognitive decline
Originally published May 20, 2015.
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Why, oh why was this added?
In this post, I take you on a debugging journey and show you why it might be a good idea to add a comment next to a certain method.
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What is an emotion? William James’s theory of how our bodies affect our feelings
“A purely disembodied human emotion is a nonentity.”