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Programmer proverbs
To be a programmer is to learn relentlessly. A short and deep collection of advices.
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Life, Learning & Writing
The most popular blog posts about life, learning & writing on Hacker News. 8,939 posts.
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I finally finished this awesome game called Photoshop, let me send you a video
Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.
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Backyard Cyanide
There’s a bushy tree in my backyard with these dark red fruit — the kind that makes some primal instinct scream at you across millennia, but you can’t tell if it wants you to eat them or not.
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My Little MillionDollarHomepage Garden
Back around the time I convinced my family to switch from a 56 kb/s dial-up modem to ADSL, the website milliondollarhomepage.com was launched, and quickly became an Internet phenomenon, selling pixels for advertising space on a 1000x1000 canvas. 18 years later, the homepage is still standing, proudly displaying the…
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My 10 Year Side Project Story
Dateful Time Zone Converter converts times instantly as you type. Convert between major world cities, countries and timezones in both directions.
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No More Fear
Here’s the country I want to be a citizen of: the one that decides to buy comfort and convenience by deploying courage.
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Life as a GitHub Intern: What laser cutting taught me about contribution graphs
This post follows the story of a GitHub intern's experience laser cutting a contribution graph to creating an application that automates the process.
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Be sceptical of your own work (2009)
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field. (Niels Bohr) If you unexpectedly find a problem solving itself almost effortlessly, and you can’t quite …
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Greens: why we eat the leaves that we do (2013)
Jeanne reveals which branches of the evolutionary tree of plants bear edible leaves and speculates about why that is. Most of the 300,000 + plant species have leaves, and the function of all of the…
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What you know matters more than what you do
Insight into Impact I recently had an interesting conversation with some colleagues. We were talking about a young researcher in our field who happens to ... Read more
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The art of sharpening pencils (2007)
See all the popular styles and methods of sharpening pencils and learn a few tricks too.
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Six Math Essentials by Terence Tao
In Six Math Essentials, the renowned mathematician and Fields Medalist Terence Tao introduces readers to six central concepts that have guided mathematicians from antiquity to the frontiers of what we know today and now help us make sense of our complex world. This slim, elegant volume explores numbers as the gateway…
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A complete guide to creating actually useful courses
Free guide to creating an online course: pick a topic, validate it, teach with practice, and pre-launch before you film. No email.
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Seneca on the proper use of time
Yesterday I wrote about the impending death of the neurologist and author Oliver Sacks. I was particularly struck by this line from Sachs’ public goodbye
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Public Staircases
Create beautiful emails, automate campaigns, and track performance. Try it now and see how our tools can drive your business.
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Dr. Brian May on Freddie Mercury's creativity
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Things and Stuff of 2019
Great things and people that I discovered, learned, read, met, etc. in 2019. No particular ordering is implied. Not everything is new.
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In Memoriam: John W. Addison, my PhD advisor
John Addison (1930–2025) died March 7, 2025, at the age of 95. He was my PhD advisor at UC Berkeley, and I count myself extraordinarily lucky to have worked under his guidance. My condolences go ou…
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English is relatively easy to learn, but not to master (2018)
English is a (relatively) simple language to learn enough of to communicate (rather than to master) because it’s had so many non-native adults learning and using it.
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Driving 1725km in an electric car in 2 days
At 6:30 PM on Wednesday August 4 th my 15-year-old daughter and I pulled up the Jaguar I-Pace electric car in front of my 91-year-old Mom’s place in Regina, Saskatchewan. I was tired and achey because I’d just finished driving 1,725km (1,072 miles) across two days to see her for the first time since Covid started. I…
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