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How to identify and misidentify a brown recluse spider (2005)
How to Identify and Misidentify a Brown Recluse Spider by Rick Vetter Staff Research Associate, UC Riverside Dept. of Entomology
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Life, Learning & Writing
The most popular blog posts about life, learning & writing on Hacker News. 816 posts.
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Stop Writing Twitter Threads
If you've clicked on the links, you've probably noticed a pattern: they are all Twitter threads. And Twitter threads are an absolute abomination.
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Rewatch: Stargate SG-1 (2019)
Stargate SG-1 is the best and most balanced series to have ever aired on television. Ok, so some of you who have followed me for a very long time are thinking, “He’s making the same mis…
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Why is it traitorous to understand the people you disagree with?
Reflections on a phenomena that’s unique to culture-war topics
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Taxonomy Is Hard
We all have data that we need to store, and then find. Regardless of type, data tends to build up. Eventually, we need some system for organizing it into sensible categories. It turns out, this problem is harder than it seems. In this article, I'm going to be talking
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Google Slides Is Hilarious
Perhaps like you, I naively started out thinking that Google Slides was just a poorly maintained product suffering from some questionable…
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You and Your Research (1986)
Little has been written on managing your own research (and very little on avoiding other people managing your research); however, your research is much more under your control than you may realize.
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Keep ’em coming: Why your first ideas aren’t always the best
In this episode, Jeremy Utley explains why good ideas are often preceded by not-so-good ideas.
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Mastering Metacognition: The What, Why, and How
Boost literacy skills with Achieve3000 Literacy, a comprehensive, personalized learning solution from McGraw Hill. Explore our platform for improved student outcomes.
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Reminiscing: The retreat to comforting work
In Work on what matters, I wrote about Hunter Walk’s idea of snacking: doing work that is easy to complete but low impact. The best story of my own snacking behaviors comes from my time at Stripe. I was focused on revamping the engineering organization’s approach to operating reliable software, and decided that it…
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When or If
The CSSWG (CSS Working Group) is currently debating what to name a conditional structure, and it’s kind of fascinating.
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The Worst (2012)
I don’t really know who Dustin Curtis is, but he blogs a lot, and those blog entries often end up onHacker News. Not too long ago, he wrote a blog post titled “The Best,” in which he explains that he has nice stuff. That in fact, everything he owns is actually the very best of its kind.Dustin’s...
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Chasing utopian energy: How I wasted 20 years of my life
Utopian energy is an imagined form of energy that’s abundant, reliable, inexpensive, and also clean, renewable, and life-sustaining. But utopian energy is as much a fantasy as a utopian society. Seeking the fount of perfect energy allows us to pretend there aren’t real-world tradeoffs between, say,
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What’s the Difference Between American English and British English?
Science News, Physics, Science, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
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Self-control secrets of the Puritan masters
People today are fighting the temptations of a new economy.
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Why learn Racket? A student's perspective
A few thoughts on why I think you should learn Racket.
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Doing what you love when the money won’t follow
I have frequently been critical of the advice given by baby boomers to “do what you love and the money will follow”. After the hard experience of my generation and the ones following it…
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Half Baked
If you care about a creative practice, my guess is that you’ve already seen Peter Jackson’s new Beatles movie. If not, go check it out. It’s a miracle that the movie exists at all…
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The Peking Duck Exemption
Most food safety regulations say that Peking duck should be illegal. But it's not, so what gives?
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Twenty questions is a weird game
Let’s play a game. I’m thinking of a number from 1 to 100. You guess, and I tell you whether my number is higher or lower.
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Growing food in hard clay
Improve even the worst soils and close your dependency loops.
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Getting Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable
Software engineering is cursed with uncertainty. When we’re solving big new problems with software, if the exact problem has been solved before, we could just reuse the solution that already exists. Frequently though, the exact problem (or combination of problems) hasn’t been solved before, and we need to come up with…