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The Internet Is Made of Demons(damagemag.com)
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Ada.
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Larry Wall said once that he added sigils in Perl so he could freely add features to the language without conflicting with other's peoples variable names. It's a language design choice that makes sense for Perl's maximalism a
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I don't know what your general knowledge of economics entails, so this might be obvious, but the back half of Principles of Economics by N. Gregory Mankiw covers how a lot of those pieces are interrelated. (Bonus tip: buy an internatio
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I decided to learn and use Go for my recent job hunt, and this site was just the best. I used the structure of the code in the "build an application" section in every take home coding challenge I wrote.
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Much happier game than the time I destroyed the universe with paperclip manufacturing.
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Reminds me of the time some dev[0] accidentally recreated the traveling salesman problem, created unit test with 5 items in it, said "looks good", and pushed it. [0] - me
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This is a small thing, but I love that it uses Heapsort as its fallback. Heapsort is such a pretty algorithm and I always like seeing it used in the wild.
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Using a new language for a new project is a risk. Risks need to be weighed, and new languages rarely offer such a huge benefit that it's worth taking that risk over others. [0] Also, it takes years to get fluent in a language. I know e
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I'll argue that knowing the author's life may only color our judgement of a poem, but can drastically alter our judgement of a history. I think of this essay by Bret Devereaux a lot, where he talks about the propaganda behind Roma
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I read "The Little Black Book of Computer Viruses" back in the 90s and it was an education in assembler. I wrote a little mutation engine too, it did not perform well!
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Eh. The Exxon Valdez oil spill is a case study in the failure of crisis management, but Exxon weathered it. It's a vastly different industry with huge "economic moats," but it does point to the fact that a company can weather
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Most jobs aren't sexy. This website focuses on Silicon Valley darlings and FAANGs and unicorn startups, but that's a minority of the available software jobs. There are a lot of good programming jobs available everywhere from banks
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If you want to read the small ruling mentioned in the last section, on the 4th amendment and the blockchain: United States v. Gratkowski, No. 19-50492 (5th Cir. 2020) https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-
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I was interviewing for software jobs recently, and while I was studying up on the "system design" portion I kept circling around the same insight that Dan Luu writes about so well here. I would sit down at an interview and try to
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It'll be amazing to have all those old, great movies freely available on streaming. Half the reason I have HBO Go is for TCM, and I assume that will be moving to Prime soon.
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Hope it's spectacular.
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The nice thing about celebrities in academic worlds is that they're so much more accessible than celebrities in big-money industries like acting or business. Their email is publicly available on their university pages, and IME they res
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In college I learned that after 36 hours I was coding in circles. A fix to package A broke package B. Fixing package B broke package A. Repeat. I went through the loop three times before I recognized the pattern, and decided it was a good t
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I've had great experiences with Apple products lasting far longer than they should. I won a first gen iPad when it first came out, and six years later I would use it as an umbrella to run down the block to the coffee shop, and it would
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This is a cute sidenote. Sometimes I miss the naivety of the 90s-era web. Because of the vast number of people coming on line, there are always those who do not know what a crawler is, because this is the first one they have seen. Alm
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For a similarly cutting advice on how to write about america, here's Garrison Keillor's classic book review, "On the Road Avec M. Lévy" https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/29/books/review&
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There's this nice mix of technical and opinion papers: 10 Papers Every Developer Should Read https://michaelfeathers.silvrback.com/10-papers-every-develo...
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And there's another entire ecosystem around scraping Google's results and wrapping it in an API. Just scraping upon scraping.
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Ask yourself, "what would batman want to learn," and learn that. That's how I ended up with Practical Homicide Investigation Tactics, Procedures, and Forensic Techniques. It's amazing.
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They cost far less than that if you buy international editions off eBay. Same content for less money, even new. (And if you want to know why they sell the same books for less money to different markets, pick up Principles of Economics by Ma
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It's ghoulish, but it's also just a very political version of the Darwin Awards and Florida Man, which the internet has collectively decided is acceptable.
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Git made it easier to fix problems when I screwed up my repo. Mercurial was great when everything was working correctly, but for a long time it lacked the tools (or required third party tools) to fix problems I ran into. Mercurial did have
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"Throwing shit against the wall and seeing what works" is a widely used strategy in all walks of life. If you ever go to a doctor for a problem, and their first solution doesn't work, you're in for a wild ride of an educ
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This reads the second-system effect applied to urban planning, which is a field that does not lack for ego-driven projects of planning-over-natural-growth. (e.g. Seeing Like A State, and the career of Robert Moses.) I don't know whethe

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