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Did It Matter That Elizabeth I Was a Woman? Did It Matter That Elizabeth I Was a Woman? JamesHoare Thu, 09/04/2025 - 08:50
a week ago
Classical Wisdom
What is Love? With Armand D’Angour A recording from Classical Wisdom's live video
6 months ago
Vadim Kravcenko
How to sell your SaaS to Enterprise Customers This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help...
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This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help early-stage founders tackle the […] The post How to sell your SaaS to Enterprise Customers appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Oykun
Unlock higher $$$ income with this approach as a Designer Happy Sunday mate, So, you want higher-value clients who pay higher $$$ dollars. I'm with you. We...
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Happy Sunday mate, So, you want higher-value clients who pay higher $$$ dollars. I'm with you. We all do (in a way). However, if you keep the $$$ income as the primary goal in your conversations with clients, it will completely affect your attitude, vibe...  You are going
Don't Worry About...
Response to Scott Alexander on Imprisonment Back in November 2024, Scott Alexander asked: Do longer prison sentences reduce crime?
6 months ago
Quantum Frontiers
Lessons in frustration Assa Auerbach’s course was the most maddening course I’ve ever taken.  I was a master’s student in...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Assa Auerbach’s course was the most maddening course I’ve ever taken.  I was a master’s student in the Perimeter Scholars International program at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. Perimeter trotted in world experts to lecture about modern physics. Many … Continue...
Koos Looijesteijn
I like watercolor painting
a year ago
TheCollector
Discover the Contrasting Houses of Frida Kahlo and Leon Trotsky Ninety years ago, the charming Mexico City neighborhood of Coyoacán was home to a multitude of...
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4 months ago
Ninety years ago, the charming Mexico City neighborhood of Coyoacán was home to a multitude of prominent political activists and artists. Among them were Frida Kahlo and Leon Trotsky—two people from very different backgrounds whose lives became intertwined. After their deaths...
Spoon & Tamago
Earth, Reimagined on the Shores of Ishigaki Sou Fujimoto’s newest project, Earth, is a vacation home that nearly disappears into the landscape...
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2 months ago
Sou Fujimoto’s newest project, Earth, is a vacation home that nearly disappears into the landscape of Ishigaki Island. Built for NOT A HOTEL, the circular villa is topped with a green roof and designed to feel like part of the land itself. From above, it reads more like a natural...
Contemporist...
A Contemporary Interior Was Given To This Victorian Era Home Richard Beard Architects and The Wiseman Group has sent us photos of a project they recently...
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a year ago
Richard Beard Architects and The Wiseman Group has sent us photos of a project they recently completed in San Francisco, California, that involved updating a historic Victorian-era home.
TheCollector
What Is the Relationship Between the Old and New Testaments? For many years, Bible versions that contain only the New Testament and Psalms have been available on...
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3 months ago
For many years, Bible versions that contain only the New Testament and Psalms have been available on the market. Understanding what the Bible is all about would be impossible if readers only have access to this limited version of it. The relationship between the Old and New...
HTMHell
Using SRI to protect from malicious JavaScript At some point of developing a website, there might come a time where we need to progressively...
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over a year ago
At some point of developing a website, there might come a time where we need to progressively enhance using JavaScript. There are few different options of how you add JavaScript. Firstly, we can write our own script using vanilla JS only, and self host the JavaScript file....
Blog posts of...
AngelList is the NASDAQ of our generation. It’s fair to say that Angellist is the most exciting (web/mobile) tech startup in 2013. Even before...
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It’s fair to say that Angellist is the most exciting (web/mobile) tech startup in 2013. Even before they launched syndicates, earl...
Seth's Blog
The challenge of focus groups for bold ideas “We’re thinking of having a holiday every year where kids of all ages go door to door unescorted and...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
“We’re thinking of having a holiday every year where kids of all ages go door to door unescorted and beg for candy, and adults dress up in expensive and revealing costumes and get drunk. Would you be likely to participate?” It’s not really a helpful question. (Yes, Halloween is...
HTMHell
#30 Bullet “list” Bad code <p> • HTML <br> • CSS <br> • JavaScript </p> Issues and how to fix them Use <p>...
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over a year ago
Bad code <p> • HTML <br> • CSS <br> • JavaScript </p> Issues and how to fix them Use <p> for paragraphs, not lists. The standard way for creating basic lists is <ul> (when the order doesn't matter) or <ol> (when the order matters), and <li> for each item. The “list”...
Fonts In Use – Blog...
Law &amp; Order Contributed by Nick Sherman License: All Rights Reserved. Law & Order is a US television series...
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Contributed by Nick Sherman License: All Rights Reserved. Law & Order is a US television series set in New York City that first aired 30 years ago today, on September 13, 1990, and ran for 20 seasons until its final episode in 2010. Each episode is split into two segments:...
Archinect - Features
How to Get a Job at Richärd Kennedy Architects Richärd Kennedy Architects is a Phoenix-based architecture and interior design firm known for its...
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Richärd Kennedy Architects is a Phoenix-based architecture and interior design firm known for its impressive portfolio of exquisite public-facing projects that elevate design standards across higher education and civic architecture. Originally founded in 1996 as richärd+bauer...
Asterisk
Golden States
a year ago
Transit Maps
Historical Map: Diagram of Passenger Stations in the Sydney Metropolitan Area, 1928 There’s a lot to like about this simple little track diagram of Sydney’s rail system from 1928....
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There’s a lot to like about this simple little track diagram of Sydney’s rail system from 1928. There’s a lot of different angles – both with route lines and station labels – but it still manages to hang together as a coherent whole. A big part of that is the dead straight...
Matt Mazur
Preceden’s Spam Problem Around a year ago, I started noticing some spammy timelines being created on Preceden, my SaaS...
a year ago
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a year ago
Around a year ago, I started noticing some spammy timelines being created on Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker tool. I’m honestly surprised it took spammers so long: Preceden is a freemium product (meaning people can sign up and try it for free), the product makes it very easy to...
Melissa Penfold
IF YOU WANT TO SELL YOUR HOUSE, FIGURE OUT WHAT TO RENOVATE FIRST You want to sell your home, but the kids have scuffed up the floors and chipped the paint. The...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
You want to sell your home, but the kids have scuffed up the floors and chipped the paint. The kitchen could use a face-lift and the lawn has seen better days. Every seller has to decide whether to sink money into their home before listing it, and how much. Lately, the stakes...
The Marginalian
Against Death: Nobel Laureate Elias Canetti on Grieving a Parent, Grieving the World, and What Makes... The year is 1937. Elias Canetti (July 25, 1905–August 14, 1994) — Bulgarian, Jewish, living in...
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The year is 1937. Elias Canetti (July 25, 1905–August 14, 1994) — Bulgarian, Jewish, living in Austria as the Nazis are rising to power — has just lost his mother; his mother, whose bottomless love had nurtured the talent that would win him the Nobel Prize in his seventies; his...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
How do hospitals spend money? | Out-Of-Pocket it's time to look at a financial statement
a year ago
Mazdak
Understanding Employment Insurance (EI) Employment Insurance (EI) is a social insurance program in Canada that provides temporary financial...
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a year ago
Employment Insurance (EI) is a social insurance program in Canada that provides temporary financial support to eligible individuals who lose their jobs through no fault of their own. While this is the most commonly understood purpose of EI, the program offers various benefits...
Roberto Vitillo's...
What every developer should know about database consistency Imagine assigning some value to a variable, reading it back immediately after, and finding out that...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Imagine assigning some value to a variable, reading it back immediately after, and finding out that somehow the write had no effect at all…
Jonas Hietala
Gruvbox Syntax Highlighting for Pandoc Edit: I have updated the highlighting again so the inline code used as examples have changed. I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Edit: I have updated the highlighting again so the inline code used as examples have changed. I guess I should’ve used images to record the look. Recently when I reinstalled Slackware I decided to restyle my workspace as well. I settled on gruvbox with neovim and using the...
Sam Altman
Three Observations Our mission is to ensure that AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) benefits all of...
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7 months ago
Our mission is to ensure that AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) benefits all of humanity.  Systems that start to point to AGI* are coming into view, and so we think it’s important to understand the moment we are in. AGI is a weakly defined term, but generally speaking we mean...
A Smart Bear
Discount gambit Discounting is the typical sales technique, but refusing to discount can lead to a much better...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Discounting is the typical sales technique, but refusing to discount can lead to a much better business, even in the Enterprise.
Krebs on Security
DOGE Worker’s Code Supports NLRB Whistleblower A whistleblower at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) alleged last week that denizens of Elon...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
A whistleblower at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) alleged last week that denizens of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) siphoned gigabytes of data from the agency's sensitive case files in early March. The whistleblower said accounts created for...
Yale E360
Clearcutting Can Lead to Devastating Floods, But It Doesn’t Have To It has long been understood that clearcutting forests leads to more runoff, worsening flooding. But...
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It has long been understood that clearcutting forests leads to more runoff, worsening flooding. But a new study finds that logging can reshape watersheds in surprising ways, leading to dramatically more flooding in some forests, while having little effect on others. Read more on...
blag
Recurse Center Day 5: Garbage Collection Algorithms Learning the basics of GC, mark-sweep algorithm
over a year ago
General Robots
How to Pick a Problem So You Want To Do Robots: Part 7. Allright, you’re going to make a general purpose robot. Eventually...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
So You Want To Do Robots: Part 7. Allright, you’re going to make a general purpose robot. Eventually it’s going to do all kinds of things. But right now it doesn’t do anything. What do you try first? In this post we’ll talk about the various pitfalls to avoid when choosing your...
Quanta Magazine
How Smell Guides Our Inner World A better understanding of human smell is emerging as scientists interrogate its fundamental...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
A better understanding of human smell is emerging as scientists interrogate its fundamental elements: the odor molecules that enter your nose and the individual neurons that translate them into perception in your brain. The post How Smell Guides Our Inner World first...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
You need to use social services to understand them I don’t know if Malcolm Gladwell is right when he claims “the revolution will not be tweeted,” but I...
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over a year ago
I don’t know if Malcolm Gladwell is right when he claims “the revolution will not be tweeted,” but I can say with certainty that the Twitter…
xkcd.com
Driving PSA
a year ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Giant Eels, Loch Ness, and Probability At this point it is pretty clear that the Loch Ness Monster (Nessie) does not exist. I know,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
At this point it is pretty clear that the Loch Ness Monster (Nessie) does not exist. I know, logically it is impossible to prove a negative, so if we want to be technical we can say that the probability of a large creature similar to that believed to be Nessie approaches zero....
blag
Recurse Center Day 20: Django v4 upgrade (from v1) I worked on upgrading a Django project from v1 to v4
over a year ago
Londonist
RAF Hornchurch: Visit The Fascinating Museum Of This East London Airfield Zeppelins, Guinea Pigs and the Great Escape.
a year ago
IEEE Spectrum
James Wimshurst’s Electrostatic Immortality James Wimshurst did not invent the machine that bears his name. But thanks to his many refinements...
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James Wimshurst did not invent the machine that bears his name. But thanks to his many refinements to a distinctive type of electrostatic generator, we now have the Wimshurst influence machine. What does a Wimshurst machine do? Influence machines date back to the 18th century....
Vadim Kravcenko
Why software projects fail Question: Answer: The post Why software projects fail appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
a year ago
Diaries of Note
Our surgeons never flagged Florence Farmborough was an English nurse, photographer, and diarist who moved to Russia in 1908,...
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Florence Farmborough was an English nurse, photographer, and diarist who moved to Russia in 1908, aged twenty-one, to work as a governess for a Kiev family. Six years after her arrival, when World War I began, Farmborough joined the Red Cross as a nurse and was immediately sent...
Common Edge
What Is This World Coming To? A trove of architectural imagery offers a bleak assessment of modern life.
a month ago
Nat Eliason's...
10 Things I Learned Losing 10 Million Dollars How to Stay Sane in a Mania
a year ago
Drew Ex Machina
Venera 8: The First Characterization of the Surface of Venus Recent years has seen a marked increase in the planetary community’s interest in Venus after decades...
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Recent years has seen a marked increase in the planetary community’s interest in Venus after decades of near-neglect. Part of this renewed interest is to understand […]
AFAR Media - Travel...
What to Do On Padre Island if You Love Nature
over a year ago
David Perell
Saving the Liberal Arts We start with their history by returning to the origins of Western thought. We argue that splitting...
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We start with their history by returning to the origins of Western thought. We argue that splitting education into two halves — Professional and Civilized — is the only way to think about education clearly. We then outline the evolution of the Liberal Arts, from the ancients to...
Paul Graham: Essays
See Randomness
over a year ago
The Honest Broker
In 2024, the Tension Between Macroculture and Microculture Will Turn into War And I can already tell you who will win
a year ago
Old Structures...
New Ringing The Old Here’s a terrible photo I took through the window of a ferry: There’s a weird concentric-circle...
12 months ago
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12 months ago
Here’s a terrible photo I took through the window of a ferry: There’s a weird concentric-circle effect to the buildings in much of lower Manhattan that you can see clearly here, that the buildings on the waterfront are new and bigger than the ones behind them. It’s a simple...
Londonist
London's Smallest Art Gallery Is In A Phone Box Outside The British Museum You can buy the art, too.
a year ago