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Being Alone
A reflection on loneliness, solitude, and the relationship we form with ourselves.
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The most popular blog posts about life, learning & writing on Hacker News. 615 posts.
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50 authors, 50 science fiction stories shorter than novels
See the updated 80 author version. I've been playing around with re-reading favorite science fiction short stories while also seeing if the...
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I Worked for a Criminal Organization
That time I was employed by a criminal organization I was employed by Micfo for several months, I quickly determined that they were shady and invovled in illegal practices. I did not quit because of that, I quit because I felt unwanted, by HR and Management. Later they would ask me to come back. This is the full…
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Mac OS Catalina: more trouble than it’s worth (Part 2)
I've been receiving a lot of feedback since writing the original piece in October 2019, and… it's not good.
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Blogging vs. Blog Setups
Rakhim's homepage. I build open source projects and write about technology, programming, and life.
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Surgery, the Ultimate Placebo
Ian Harris explains that more than half of commonly performed surgical operations may be placebos. Adequate studies using a blinded control group are essential. Ian Harris, a Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, wrote a book titled Surgery, The Ultimate Placebo. I…
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The Hacker Way: How I taught my nephew to program
Over the last year, my 13 year old nephew developed a love for hacking. From anime chat , to snake , a minimal twitter , a blog , to an anime music startup , he’s built some cool stuff (1). What I’m most proud of though, is that he’s done this with self directed play, rather than with a rigid curriculum.
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So you want to buy a farm?
I get a few calls every week these days from folks wanting to buy a small farm, start growing food, and even maybe settle down there now…
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Adult immune systems ‘remember’ germs to which they’ve never been exposed (2013)
A new study shows that, contrary to established dogma, key immune cells in healthy adults somehow acquire "memory" of microbes that have never entered their bodies.
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Anger Management
I was molested and raped as a child. I spent my teens and twenties filled with anger. My therapist once said something like "How did I know ...
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How to write technical posts so people will read them (2019)
One of today’s best bloggers in the functional programming space is Chris Penner . Despite this, Chris is criminally underrated—nobody I talk to seems to know of his work. Go check him out as soon as you finish reading this post!
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How I Spend My Attention
What you pay attention to becomes your life.
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Why I stopped reading HN (2010)
This post has been a long time in coming. I stopped reading HN over a month ago, so I’ve had some time to cool off. I’ve been struggling to put my thoughts into words, and so this pos…
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Most book clubs are doing it wrong (2017)
The standard way to run a book club is to have everybody finish the book before meeting to talk about it. You have one meeting per book. The discussion goes on for one or two hours before it runs out of gas, and then the group picks the next book, and you agree to meet in another month or six weeks.
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The Hard Part of Learning a Language
I want to do $THING. Normally I do my hacking in Python, which is okay but has lots of frustrations. My friends tell me $LANGUAGE is better for doing $THING. After going through the online tutorial, I can see why. Maybe I’ll try $LANGUAGE for this project! Just a few things I need to figure out first: How do I install…
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Must ride mule to and from work location
“David, this one, tell me about it …” He’d let me look at his domain name portfolio. Not names he owned and parked, but domains he owned & developed. This was another early project of his – a job board solely focused on the ranching industry. All aspects – cattle, outfitters, dude/guest, hunting, and even ... Read more
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25 Years In Speech Technology and I still don’t talk to my computer
…and I still don’t talk to my computer.
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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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How to answer questions in a helpful way (2017)
How to answer questions in a helpful way
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Cool Machine Learning Books
awhile ago i posted my list of cool machine learning books , but it's been awhile so it's probably time to update it...
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Expiring vs. permanent skills
Robert Walter Weir was one of the most popular instructors at West Point in the mid-1800s.
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Machine keeps human livers alive for one week outside of the body
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How to stay private when using Android
Android is one of Google’s most important tools for collecting data on users. This guide will help you improve your privacy on Android devices.
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Thoughts on cameras in the age of excellent cell phone photos
I noted here, I believe, that recently my dSLR, my Nikon d750, basically crapped itself, most likely from a faulty mirror mechanism. This wasn’t entirely a surprise to me — it had devel…
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Your Move, iPad
Hear that? It’s the sound of Mac fans. No, not your shiny new M1 Mac’s fans—chances are, you’ll never hear those—but rather, the sound of excitement rippling through the Mac community. This is something big. Really big. Now, I’m only 33, but someday when I go full fuddy-duddy I will speak of this: the great…
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How I Teach Classes Remotely
Technology, running tech companies, data science, religion, translation technology, natural language processing, backups, p-adic linguistics, academia