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The brain's 5-million core, 9 Hz computer
Weekly essays on biology, philosophy and other topics.
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Learn to remember everything: The memory palace technique
Picture courtesy of Shanidar You can also browse the best books I have seen on memory techniques and related areas here. In this post I’ll teach you how to have perfect recall of lists of items. Length is not much of an issue, it can be your shopping list if 10 items or it can be a list with 50, 100 or even 1000. And…
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Why Not Haskell?
Why I haven't been writing much Haskell code lately.
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Chrome Privacy
Dave Winer ends an otherwise quite reasonable piece about his concern at Facebook's
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Bag of hurt
In 2008, Steve Jobs was asked 1 if and when Macs would play Blu-ray movies. He responded candidly :
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How to Cure Deep Procrastination
The Deep Procrastination Crisis Above is a snapshot of my blog e-mail inbox, filtered to only show e-mails from students struggling with deep procrastination. Notice ... Read more
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Parsing: the solved problem that isn't
Updated (2014-10-24): If you find this article interesting, you may be interested in the follow-up article on an editor for composed programs .
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Web Intents - the future of web apps
Web Intents is a new project designed to solve the problem of web application integration. Inspired by Android's intent system, it allows developers to build features without needing to integrate with every possible 3rd party service. Web Intents lets users choose their preferred service for actions like image editing…
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Good UX in the Wild: Dropbox's attention to detail on their download page
Sometimes good UX is about being clever. Sometimes it's to make the user happy ...
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Developer Income Report #16
Goal reached! My regular income still seems to grow. My lastly introduced in my “Make Money on Android” eBook method seems to be working very well (not only for me – check lastly …
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British hackers: stop voting for lizards; start voting for people today
In So Long and Thank for All The Fish, the elegiac fourth book of the Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy, Douglas Adams gives us this conversation between Arthur, a very ordinary Earth…
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A Simple Explanation for Why HP Abandoned Palm
You don’t bring in an enterprise consulting guy to turn around a PC and device maker.
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"Yes, but what are your credentials, Mr Stross?"
Normally I don't publish private correspondence, but sometimes — rarely — I feel like hanging someone out to dry ...
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Whatever works for you
In my earlier 20s when I knew everything, I was a much bigger evangelist for my technology choices. I’m accused of fanboyism a lot more these days, but only because Hacker News keeps sending huge waves of people here who tell me I’m an idiot. But I used to be much more annoying with pushing my choices onto others.
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Good news: Mozilla fixed their damn browser
Firefox is getting snappier! Hooray
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Chess@home: Building the largest Chess AI ever (in JavaScript)
Update: We’ve won Node Knockout in the “Completeness” category ! Congrats to the team!
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This is What Irony Tastes Like: Capcom and the PSN Outage
So Capcom senior VP Christian “Sven” Svensson mentioned that Capcom is losing money because the Playstation Network is down . This is especially hard on Capcom, because the phone-home DRM Capcom uses has locked all of their Playstation customers out of their games.
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MacBook Air is enough for a work machine
Reader Brendon Cromwell (among many others) writes in to ask about my MacBook Air: >How is it holding up for you in your daily routine? What’s your feel for how long you think it will hold…
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A human review of the Kindle Fire
I expected the Kindle Fire to be good for books, great for magazines and newspapers, great for video, and good for apps and games.