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The most popular blog posts about life, learning & writing on Hacker News. 374 posts.
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Airbnb Nightmare: No End In Sight
Somewhere around 1:00 am yesterday, my Airbnb.com horror story was picked up by Hacker News ; to say this story has gone viral in the past ...
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Violated: A traveler’s lost faith, a difficult lesson learned
I am crouched low on the carpeted steps of my apartment building's old staircase, bent over into something resembling the fetal position....
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Bored People Quit
Much has been written about employee motivation and retention. It's written by folks who actively use words like motivation and retention and generally don't ha
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A lesson on the importance of encouraging your children with their projects
My wife calls me at work, and we have the usual end-of-the-day chat. Then: "Oh, by the way, Guy wants you to take him to the hardware store, he wants to get some tape." "What kind of tape?" "He says he wants 'wood tape'." "Wood tape?" "Wood tape." "Uhhh, ok. When?" "Sometime this weekend. He is really looking forward…
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Kind of Screwed
TL;DR version: Last year, I was threatened with a lawsuit over the pixel art album cover for Kind of Bloop. Despite my firm belief that I was legally in the right, I settled out of court to cut my losses. This ordeal was very nerve-wracking for me and my family, and I’ve had trouble writing […]
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The Last Post
Here it is. I'm dead, and this is my last post to my blog. In advance, I asked that once my body finally shut down from the punishments of my cancer, then my family and friends publish this prepared message I wrote—the first part of the process of turning this from an active website to an archive.
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I am nothing
On a scale of one to ten, how good of a cog are you? How well do you function in your assigned role? How much of a man or woman are you? How...
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STFU About What Women Want
In a recent post on TechCrunch , Penelope Trunk tells us (again) that most women don’t want to do startups. First, I’d like to extend that...
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Technical Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least Twice)
Let me preface this post by saying that no programmer should feel compelled to read any of these papers. I list them because I think that they provide a breadth of information that is generally useful and interesting from a computer science perspective. What you do with that information is your prerogative, including…
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Steve's story - Google employee #13
I was born in 1972 to a poverty-level family in suburban Chicago. During the first few years of my life, I shared a 600 sq ft, 1 bedroom cot...