(I wrote this article to help myself understand exactly what McCarthy discovered. You don't need to know this stuff to program in Lisp, but it should be helpful to anyone who wants to understand the essence of Lisp � both in the sense of its origins and its semantic core. The fact that it has such a core is one of…
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It doesn't matter if you call it a boom or a bubble. The startup business moves in cycles, and what goes up will eventually come down. We're...
2008 is a leap year. That means that three hundred and sixty six days ago, almost to the minute, I was sitting alone in a booth at Zeke’s Sports Bar and Grill on 3rd Street in San Francisco. I wouldn’t normally hang out at a sports bar, let alone a sports bar in SOMA, but back then Thursday was “I Can Has Ruby” night…
"Focus" requires saying "no" to most things, but there's a way to do it that allows you to say "yes" exactly when it matters most.
I have been asked many times to provide some more gritty details on how I became Mr. Money Mustache at such an early age. Commenters and email writers have asked me to provide Salaries and Savings …
The recent WSJ article on the supposedly Chinese style of parenting has generated a lot of interesting discussion. The most amusing comment...
Bookmark Tweet I wanted a desk that could elegantly handle (2) computers and its peripherals (3 displays, 4 external hard drives, tens of cables ). I...
Dear Supporters of the Archive, In the last year, the number of people using the Internet Archive has increased to two million people every day, and our collections of free books, music, video, and web pages have also grown by twenty to twenty-five percent. This is great news, but we are doing it all
I picked up a children's picture book at the local library recently. Some of you might be thinking, "Why would you take out a Japanese picture book ? Are your Japanese language skills that atrophied?" Well, this happened to be a very special book, because it showed kids how Nintendo games are made, from start to…
Interviewing is broken. Has been for years. This rigid commitment everyone seems to have to the standard resume/cover letter/interview system of hiring is just plain insane.
To celebrate the v2.0 of my successful and innovative app Word Wizard , and the fact that I’ve made $ 200k on the App Store, I’ve decided t...
You probably have heard about alleged vote fraud in the Russian legislative election 2011. You might even have seen videos about cases of vo...
Google made headlines when it went public with the fact that Chinese hackers had penetrated some of its services, such as Gmail, in a politically motivated attempt at intelligence gathering. The news here isn’t that Chinese hackers engage in these activities or that their attempts are technically sophisticated—we knew…
wikipedia trivia: if you take any article, click on the first link in the article text not in parentheses or italics, and then repeat, you will eventually end up at Philosophy.
This idea is a complete rip off an article that appeared in Wired a little while ago and it got me thinking what would my list for Compu...
As in stop being in stealth mode. Stop asking for advice. Stop doing your start-up. You’re not ready.
