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The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs
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The most popular blog posts about life, learning & writing on Hacker News. 280 posts.
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How I got to 200 productive hours a month
A tested approach to improve your focus and productivity
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The Depression Thing
the depression thing: a neat story about depression and mental health. By Zach Holman.
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How to make a friend fast
Believe-it-or-not, we actually know exactly how to create friendships in the lab!
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150 days of living and coding in a van
A developer on the road.
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“The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason”
Intriguing title, no? These are the first eleven words of Neal Stephenson's novel Seveneves, which set up the remaining 600 pages as an extended treatise on the future of humanity as it copes with certain annihilation. I thoroughly recommend it, as long as you can deal with hundreds of pages of orbital mechanics. In…
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How to Read Mathematics
Ranked a top 100 research university, VCU is a place where discovery and creativity go hand in hand. Located in downtown Richmond, Virginia, its more than 200 programs emphasize hands-on learning, creativity and engaging in the world around us.
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Windows for Linux Nerds
A guide describing what I learned about Windows and the Windows kernel in my first week at Microsoft.
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Just Say No
I grew up in Amsterdam, which is a pretty rough town by Dutch Standards. As a kid there are all kinds of temptations and peer-pressure to join in in bad stuff is something that is hard to escape. But somehow that never was a big factor for me, computers and electronics kept me fascinated for long enough that none of…
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I returned my 2016 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar
tl;dr: After two weeks of use, I returned my 2016 13" MacBook Pro with Touch Bar and bought one with Function Keys instead. Read on for detailed Battery stress tests, performance tests, and an exploration of how Apple's botched this year's Pro lineup. I've owned almost every generation of Mac desktop and laptop…
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Rejection Letter
I'd like to apologize in advance, but after consulting with my colleagues in other departments at Reality Publishing Corporation, I'm afraid we can't publish your book, "Zero Day: The story of MS17-010", as things stand. However, I'd like to add that it was a gripping read, very well written, and we hope to see more…
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If you can’t explain something in simple terms, you don’t understand it
In the early 1960s, Richard Feynman gave a series of undergraduate lectures that were collected into a book called the Feynman Lectures on Physics. Absent from
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I hate telephones
I hate telephones. Some rational reasons: lack of authentication, no spam filtering, forced synchronous communication. But also just a visceral fear.
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Why I left Medium and moved back to my own domain
When I’ve started writing my stories on Medium it felt really good. Medium was the perfect "medium" to share your thoughts with all your followers. However in couple of years it changed a lot and I didn’t liked those changes. What were these? 1. Setting up a domain
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Thinkpad X62
Back in January, I used an old Thinkpad while my 12” Macbook was being repaired. I found myself really enjoying some aspects of it. This nudged me down a path that ended with me modding a frankenpad…
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Why I switched from OS X to Linux
I'm not writing macOS because I switched before the new name came along. But let me start at the beginning.
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You are not 'behind'
Have you ever felt like you were behind? I used to feel that way. I would read articles about a 26-year-old entrepreneur with a billion-dollar company or a 16-year-old kid who invented a new kind o…
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