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Note Taking in 2021
[Update 2021-06-22] If you’re more interested in the Tiddlywiki aspect of this post you can also check this Tiddlywiki Google Groups thread. [Update 2021-06-18] This post caught some attention on this Hackernews thread. You might want to check the comments. Based on the recommendations in the thread I’ve put together…
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Apple unveils the best photos from the Shot on iPhone Macro Challenge
Today Apple revealed the 10 winning Shot on iPhone Macro Challenge photographs shot all over the world on iPhone 13 Pro.
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Programming trick questions
Note: me telling you up front that these are trick questions rather gives the answers away in most cases, but oh well. Questions Question 1 What's the fastest way to sort a jumbled array, given that the array has length N and contains all the integers from 1 to N inclusi...
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Things I learned after getting users
last month, i posted about my website basement community on hacker news and it sorta blew up. you can view the post here. it blew up so much, i was totally u...
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The 1 Percent Rule: Why a Few People Get Most of the Rewards
You don't need to be twice as good to get twice the results. You just need to be slightly better. Learn how to use the powerful 1 Percent Rule to get ahead.
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Why your blog still needs RSS
Back in the early days of blogging, the tech press bashed RSS out of existence as it was supposedly too complex for ordinary users. To th...
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Toward a Predictive Theory of Depression
[Epistemic status: Total wild speculation] I. The predictive processing model offers compelling accounts of autism and schizophrenia. But Surfing Uncertainty and related sources I’ve read are…
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How to replace 30 laptops (and $10,000) with 150 sheets of paper
There’s a provincial general election here in Prince Edward Island on October 3 this fall, and over the past month here at Reinvented we’ve been ramping up the technology side of the Elections PEI operation as planning and preparation for the election is now in full swing.
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Life advice from NYC chess hustlers
Marcel, E.G.G.S. and Nathaniel Tell All
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How to answer questions in a helpful way (2017)
How to answer questions in a helpful way
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South Pole Water Infrastructure
Fresh water from snow, at 70 below!
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Multi-Layered Calendars
Calendars cover the entire spectrum of time. Past, present and future. They are the closest thing we have to a time machine. Calendars allow us to travel forward in time and see the future. More importantly, they allow us to change the future.
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Woz on Creativity: Work Alone
“I don’t believe anything really revolutionary has ever been invented by committee… I’m going to give you some advice that might be hard to take. That advice is: Work alone……
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Can Dell’s 6K monitor beat their 8K monitor?
For the last 10 years, I have been interested in hi-DPI monitors, and recently I read about an interesting new monitor: Dell’s 32-inch 6K monitor (U3224KBA), a productivity monitor that offers plenty of modern connectivity options like DisplayPort 2, HDMI 2 and Thunderbolt 4.
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Career advice no one gave me: Give a lot of notice when you quit
2 weeks notice is the gold standard when quitting. But giving more notice (a lot more notice) actually has a lot of benefits.
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Truths about video game stories
I shouldn't care, but I do.
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Becoming a Chess Grandmaster
How exactly can one become a Chess Grandmaster? And who is the youngest ever Grandmaster? These and more questions I answer in this article.
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My best techniques for evaluating character
These methods have helped me enormously—and can save you much heartache and anxiety
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Paul McCartney's Freakish Memory
And what it tells us about his creativity