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The most popular blog posts about life, learning & writing on Hacker News. 615 posts.
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Stop Watching the News (2019)
Want someone else to think for you? Watch the news. Want to be distracted? Watch the news. Want something to get mad about? Watch the news. A recent passage in The Daily Stoic discussed the negative impact of hearing bad news – something like a tsunami destroying a village, or a terroris
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The longest train ride in the world (2019)
Depot69 merupakan jargonnya permainan pencari ikan koi jejer 3 dan gerbang paling sedap abad ini dengan berbagai macam jenis bonus menarik yang bisa anda dapatkan dengan mudah.
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Learn to read Middle English
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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How to Memorize Faster with the Spaced Repetition Learning Technique
The spaced repetition system is a learning technique based on the Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve. Learn more about why it is effective and how to use it.
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I accidentally built a spying app
A personal story about creating new products and their unintended consequences
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Building Cloudflare TV from Scratch
Cloudflare TV is a 24x7 TV channel that takes you behind-the-scenes and let’s you hear directly from the builders working on your favorite Cloudflare products. This blog post covers the story of why we decided to build Cloudflare TV in-house and some of the technologies that make it possible.
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A case for using punctuation in Slack
Or, a case for using punctuation in Slack
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Is macOS Becoming Unmaintainable?
Provision of maintenance procedures and tools is at the heart of software engineering, but not in macOS.
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The local timeline is the key to enjoying Mastodon
I'm sure you have already heard about Mastodon, typically marketed as a Twitter alternative. I will try to convince you that the word alternative doesn't mean here what you think it means, and why you may be using Mastodon wrong if you find it bori
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Don’t Fly During Ramadan (2013)
A couple of weeks ago, I tried to fly from New York (JFK) to Los Angeles on JetBlue. I was racially profiled, detained, and interrogated for hours.
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Legally Free Python Books List
Searching for the best legally free Python books can be overwhelming with so many broken links and outdated resources. This curated list provides over 80 high-q...
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The best things and stuff of 2020
Great things and people that I discovered, learned, read, met, etc. in 2020. No particular ordering is implied. Not everything is new.
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Mental models for designers (2019)
At Dropbox, our Brand Guidelines help us infuse everything we make with identity. From icons to illustration, logos to language, this collection is the foundation for how Dropbox looks, feels, and sounds like Dropbox.
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Writer: An Open Digital Typewriter (2018)
TL;DR: A digital typewriter based on a Raspberry Pi and an E-Ink screen. The code/build instructions are available on GitHub .
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Two epigenetic regulators interfere with healthy aging
It has long been assumed that lifespan and health are strongly correlated, but although there has been an overall increase in human life expectancy
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My 2020 desk setup
I generally enjoy reading the uses this blog, and recently people have been talking about desk setups in my bubble (and on my Twitch stream), so I figured I’d write a post about my current setup!
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A Pretty Good Mathematical Model of Perfectionism
I struggle with perfectionism. Well, not so much “struggle with” — I’m f*cking great at it. It comes naturally. There are some upsides, but perfectionism is also associated …
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I Replaced My MacBook Pro with a Raspberry Pi 4 8GB for a Day
Earlier this week, as part of my work doing a more complete review of the Raspberry Pi 4 (coming soon!), I decided I'd go all-in and spend one entire day working entirely (or at least as much as possible) from a Raspberry Pi. And not just doing some remote coding sessions or writing a blog post—that's easy to do on a…
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Why we need a book about naming
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. — Martin Fowler
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Ways to think long-term: a cognitive toolkit for good ancestors
None of these six ways is enough alone to create a long-term revolution of the human mind — a fundamental shift in our perception of time. But together — and when practised by a critical mass of people and organisations — a new age of long-term thinking could emerge out of their synergy.
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All the jobs I failed to get
A few years ago, Johannes Haushofer published a CV of failures. In it, he lists all the grants he wasn't awarded, positions he didn't get, papers rejected. I think that people need to be more open about failure. None of us are perfect - despite what our social media presence says - and all of us suffer rejection. But…
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Wiki Bankruptcy
An appropriately annoying strategy for dealing with wiki rot at a company.
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Mental Model Fallacy (2018)
The mental model fallacy is that it’s worth it to read descriptions of mental models, written and aggregated by non-practitioners, in the pursuit of self-improvement and success. It isn't.
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Why isn't the external link symbol in Unicode? (2018)
I have frequently wanted to use the external link symbol ( ) in text that I’m writing, without having to resort to including an image. Normally the solution there would be to find the graphical symbol in Unicode and figure out how to type it.
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Chesterton’s Fence: A Lesson in Second Order Thinking
A core component of making great decisions is understanding previous decisions. If we don’t understand how we got “here,” we run the risk of making things much worse.
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Low carb diet leads to “clinical remission” in 3 cases of type 1 diabetes
Following a low carb, high fat diet shortly after being diagnosed with…