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The most popular blog posts about life, learning & writing on Hacker News. 374 posts.
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How to Ace Calculus: The Art of Doing Well in Technical Courses
Tangent Troubles Calculus is easy. Or at least, it can be. The key is how you digest the material. Here’s an example: when you’re first ... Read more
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The secret life of punctuation - ¶ (The Pilcrow)
This is a pilcrow: ¶. They crop up surprisingly frequently, bookending paragraphs on websites with a typographic bent, for instance, and teaming up with the section symbol in legal documents to form picturesque reference marks such as §3, ¶7. The pilcrow even appears in Microsoft Word, where it adorns a button which…
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Merlin Mann: Better
Merlin's essay on the web, attention, and the virtues of trying a little bit harder.
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Life as a Second Class Citizen of the Web
I just bought 3 domain names from GoDaddy. No, that is not news, the news is that I had to use a US based VPN before the purchase went through. (the VPN made the godaddy server think I was browsing from the US). The first 50 times I tried making
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Coding backwards
For a while I’ve wanted to write some personal finance software. Call me crazy, but I can’t find anything currently in existence that allows me to project my earnings and expenses 1 , then summarizes the net effect over a period of time. Basically, I want to be able to propose a budget to myself and simulate how it…
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You don't understand something until you think it's obvious.
I learned a valuable life lesson in the course of completing my MSci degree. It's not so much about mathematics as it is about understandin...
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3D printed coffee cups
One Cup a Day project is an experiment on creativity and rapid manufacturing, by ideating, designing, modeling and making available for production and purchase a coffee cup within 24 hours, everyday during one month.
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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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Be nice. It's a fscking gift
Free, preconfigured Linux server images for self-hosting
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Lisp inventor John McCarthy on human progress and its sustainability
The sustainability pages are essentially done, although I plan to improve them and respond to inadequacies people find. Having done my best to show that material progress is sustainable, I can justifiably turn my attention to the future and present ideas about what progress people will want and what can be achieved…
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My Career Advice: Make Yourself Redundant
Early on in my professional life, I was given some fairly terrible career advice: make yourself indispensable .
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Jon Bentley's Programming Pearls: 25 years old, still brilliant
To my astonishment, I see that it’s been a whole year since the last installment in the Programming Books series (1, Coders at Work; 2, The Elements of Programming Style; 3, Programming the …
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My ideas are shitty so I'm going on an Internet diet
Hi 👋 you're reading a pretty old post! I started writing on here back in high school and this page may not reflect my current views. Recommend checking out related articles and categories down below, I've likely published more recent thoughts on this topic.
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Paul Graham and not being as right as he could be in “The Age of the Essay”
Main internet atau akses situs favorit pakai Indihome atau Telkomsel sering kena blokir? Tenang, BIGOBET899 punya cara paling gampang buat buka blokir tanpa ribet.
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Charlie Stross: Reasons to be Cheerful
Elsewhere on the interwebbytubes, an acquaintance asked, somewhat grumpily, if anything good had happened in the past decade (aside from the iPod).
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