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Laetitia@Work
Single Mum By Default Laetitia@Work #45
over a year ago
Seth's Blog
Creating value as an entrepreneur If you’ve borrowed money or sold shares, you’ll need to build something that’s worth more than your...
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If you’ve borrowed money or sold shares, you’ll need to build something that’s worth more than your labor. Here are some key pillars where value lives: Customer tractionPermissionDistributionThe network effectSmallest viable audience Customer traction is the big one. Every day,...
Home on Erik...
More MCMC – Analyzing a small dataset with 1-5 ratings I've been obsessed with how to iterate quickly based on small scale feedback lately. One awesome...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've been obsessed with how to iterate quickly based on small scale feedback lately. One awesome website I encountered is Usability Hub which lets you run 5 second tests. Users see your site for 5 seconds and you can ask them free-form questions afterwards.
Adventures In...
How to make this thematic map, and stuff One of the great joys of working here at Esri is the opportunity to collaborate with amazing people....
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4 months ago
One of the great joys of working here at Esri is the opportunity to collaborate with amazing people. Recently I had the opportunity to present at the User Conference about thematic mapping, with Sarah Bell and Kenneth Field. It was a lot of fun and we all surprised each other...
TheCollector
Battle of the Jaxartes (329 BCE): Alexander’s Spectacular Victory undefined
4 months ago
TheCollector
How to Read Renaissance Maps (7 Tips) undefined
8 months ago
Platformer
The unbearable slowness of Meta's Oversight Board A 234-day wait to get a ruling in a case about incitement to violence suggests that something...
a year ago
The Codist
How Many Hours Can You Code? How many hours a day can you write code, and at what point does the quality of your work go down?...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
How many hours a day can you write code, and at what point does the quality of your work go down? Even more important is how many weeks and months of that max effort you can still be effective. In my life, there have only been three periods where I
The Modern House
Four at the Fore: London’s most innovative creatives on pushing things forward
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Paw Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Suddenly regretting that the paw isn't throwing the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Suddenly regretting that the paw isn't throwing the goat in the last panel. Today's News:
Tinloof - Blog
How to dynamically create a sitemap with Sanity and Remix In this article, we will explain how to dynamically create a sitemap using both Sanity and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In this article, we will explain how to dynamically create a sitemap using both Sanity and Remix. We’ll learn by following an existing example of a sitemap built for Heavybit’s website, a San Francisco-based VC whose website is built with both technologies. Remix is a React...
Joel Gascoigne
Thinking about your goal with a startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I often reflect...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I often reflect upon the differences between my previous startup and Buffer [http://bufferapp.com], and think about what changes to my mindset affected the better outcome this time compared with...
Josh Thompson
Learning Spanish: Conversation connectors I’m learning Spanish right now,  as I’ve mentioned. The bad news is I’ve been in some state...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’m learning Spanish right now,  as I’ve mentioned. The bad news is I’ve been in some state of learning spanish for the better part of the last 15 years. My mom’s parents came here from Paraguay, and so she and her siblings are all native Spanish speakers, plus their spouses....
Daniel Marino
My First Sketch Plugin and What I Learned I’ve been Adobe Illustrator free for almost six months now, and what I miss most about it are some...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve been Adobe Illustrator free for almost six months now, and what I miss most about it are some of the nice effects it ships with. I love Sketch, but I don’t think these effects will ever make their way into Sketch. Sketch does have the ability to add plugins, and I’ve always...
Home on Erik...
Exploding offers are bullshit I do a lot of recruiting and have given maybe 50 offers in my career. Although many companies do, I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I do a lot of recruiting and have given maybe 50 offers in my career. Although many companies do, I never put a deadline on any of them. Unfortunately, I've often ended up competing with other companies who do, and I feel really bad that this usually tricks younger developers...
lcamtuf’s thing
Lies, damned lies, and photodiodes Diffusion and drift currents: depending on what you're trying to do, photodiodes can be really fast...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
Diffusion and drift currents: depending on what you're trying to do, photodiodes can be really fast or infuriatingly slow.
Simply Explained
Preventing Cumulative Layout Shifts with lazy loaded images (Eleventy + markdown-it) There's nothing more annoying than a website shifting down just as you're about to click on a button...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There's nothing more annoying than a website shifting down just as you're about to click on a button or link. This is called a layout shift, and Google has declared war on them. They've added layout shifts to the Core Web Vitals, and if your website has a lot of them, it will get...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Managing card text in WebCard <![CDATA[The text of WebCard cards is intended to be read only but my previous attempt to achieve it...
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2 months ago
<![CDATA[The text of WebCard cards is intended to be read only but my previous attempt to achieve it by overriding card editing didn't work. I implemented a new, simpler approach that actually works. The card type Web inherits from the Text type whose "substance" is a text...
TheCollector
Cimbrian War: Rome’s Greatest Threat Since Hannibal undefined
8 months ago
Open Culture
How the Oldest Company in the World, Japan’s Temple-Builder Kongō Gumi, Has Survived Nearly 1,500... Image from New York Public Library, via Wikimedia Commons If you visit Osaka, you’ll be urged to see...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Image from New York Public Library, via Wikimedia Commons If you visit Osaka, you’ll be urged to see two old buildings in particular: Osaka Castle and Shitennō-ji (above), Japan’s first Buddhist temple. In beholding both, you’ll behold the work of construction firm Kongō Gumi...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Jiffy Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This whole time we could have been united. Today's...
a year ago
diamond geezer
Summing up 2023 The last day of the year is an excellent time to tot up what you've been doing all year... assuming...
a year ago
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a year ago
The last day of the year is an excellent time to tot up what you've been doing all year... assuming you've been counting, which obviously I have. Cue my Counts of 2023. (If you don't count these kinds of thing, look at all the fun you're missing out on) the number of London...
Identity Designed
The Bond Designed by Common Curiosity, Birmingham, London.
a year ago
Christopher Butler
visual journal – 2024 March 24 - March 30 If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance much less.
9 months ago
Handprinted - Blog
Easy Christmas Cards Six Ways We’ve had a lot of fun this week working on easy, quick and fun ways to print your own Christmas...
a year ago
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a year ago
We’ve had a lot of fun this week working on easy, quick and fun ways to print your own Christmas cards! We’ve come up with six simple ways for you to try. Take a look at our instructions below and have a go yourself.   Bah Humbug Lino Printed Card This two-layered lino card is...
csvbase blog
There are 665 open licences, most are pretty rubbish you are in a maze of twisty licences, all alike
3 months ago
Neocha – Culture &...
Family First
a year ago
Spoon & Tamago
Osaka Celebrates Star Festival with River of 40,000 LED Lights Evoking the Milky Way The Okawa River, which runs through central Osaka, was lit up on Friday with 40,000 LED lights...
a year ago
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a year ago
The Okawa River, which runs through central Osaka, was lit up on Friday with 40,000 LED lights floating down the river as they evoked the celestial milky way. The surreal scene was part of a celebration of Tanabata, or the Star Festival, which is a major summer festival in Japan...
TheCollector
How Indigenous Peoples Turned Language into a Post-Colonial Tool undefined
9 months ago
Common Edge
The Architecture of “Thin Places” and How to Design Them Places that are “thin” offer experiences outside of the everyday.
a year ago
Diaries of Note
Left the Beatles On the evening of 10th January 1969, after a tough day at work, guitarist George Harrison opened his...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
On the evening of 10th January 1969, after a tough day at work, guitarist George Harrison opened his diary and in three words noted that he had quit the world’s most popular band. For a week the Beatles had been rehearsing at Twickenham Film Studios, their efforts captured on...
Max Countryman
Taming AWS Costs AWS costs are tricky: they can grow in seemingly unbounded ways and often represent significant...
a year ago
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a year ago
AWS costs are tricky: they can grow in seemingly unbounded ways and often represent significant portions of our engineering budgets. However there are techniques we can use to get them under control and even reduce overall spend significantly.
CONTEMPORIST
A Brightly Coloured Shelving Unit Helps To Define Areas In This Renovated Apartment Architecture and design office Dia Uno has shared photos of a refurbished apartment they completed...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Architecture and design office Dia Uno has shared photos of a refurbished apartment they completed in a 1960s suburban neighborhood of Madrid, Spain. One of the key features of the renovated apartment is the inclusion of a metal shelving unit that’s been painted in a bright...
Diaries of Note
Beginning of Classes In 1911, having recently become interested in the field of psychoanalysis, 50-year-old German writer...
a year ago
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a year ago
In 1911, having recently become interested in the field of psychoanalysis, 50-year-old German writer Lou Andreas-Salomé attended the Third Psychoanalytical Congress in Weimar and met, amongst other leading figures, Sigmund Freud. A year later, in September of 1912, she wrote to...
Mazdak
Is Tesla's Full Self-Driving REALLY Safer Than Humans? Tesla's latest vehicle safety report claims that Autopilot has a crash rate of one accident per 7...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Tesla's latest vehicle safety report claims that Autopilot has a crash rate of one accident per 7 million miles, significantly lower than the U.S.
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Jo Muriel Describe your printmaking process. My prints are all one of a kind, mixed-media studies which...
a year ago
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a year ago
Describe your printmaking process. My prints are all one of a kind, mixed-media studies which combine gestural marks and mainly abstract shape formations. Sometimes, I include figurative elements, sometimes not. I’m mainly concerned with conveying instinctive reactions to natural...
History Today Feed
‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review ‘Hitler’s People’ by Richard Evans review JamesHoare Tue, 08/27/2024 - 09:31
4 months ago
Scott Jenson
The invisible problem Whenever I explain my research at Google into mobile text editing, I’m usually met with blank stares...
a year ago
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a year ago
Whenever I explain my research at Google into mobile text editing, I’m usually met with blank stares or a slightly hostile “Everyone can edit text on their phones, right? What’s the problem?” Text editing on mobile isn’t ok. It’s actually much worse than you think, an invisible...
Epic Web Dev
Be S.M.A.R.T. About Flaky Tests (article) Flaky tests undermine trust. Use the S.M.A.R.T. framework: Skip, Mitigate, Assess, Rewrite, Throw...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Flaky tests undermine trust. Use the S.M.A.R.T. framework: Skip, Mitigate, Assess, Rewrite, Throw away, to manage and fix them effectively.
Val Sopi
Going steady <p>blogstatic has been going well. Better than any other app I've ever ran. Not sure what it is....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
<p>blogstatic has been going well. Better than any other app I've ever ran. Not sure what it is. Could be that my experience over the years has caused for me to cover all the usual pitfalls, so everything looks good to the new client: from the marketing website all the way to the...
Josh Thompson
"A delicate mix of chess... and bear wrestling" Over the last few weeks I’ve found myself needing to break down “why” of sport climbing (I’ll refer...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Over the last few weeks I’ve found myself needing to break down “why” of sport climbing (I’ll refer to sport as “lead” climbing from here on out. Sorry, trad climbers). If someone is enjoying top roping, (or bouldering) why should they take on the work of learning to lead climb,...
Artificial Ignorance
I fell for a deepfake Elon Musk’s cryptocurrency scam bait A lesson in deepfakes, Ponzi schemes, and YouTube algorithm manipulation.
7 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Specialize In The New > Author's note: This is part 4 of a series of essays I originally drafted about [Opinions for your...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
> Author's note: This is part 4 of a series of essays I originally drafted about [Opinions for your Tech Career](https://gist.github.com/sw-yx/9720bd4a30606ca3ffb8d407113c0fe5). Part 1 is [Learn in Public](https://www.swyx.io/learn-in-public/).
Global Inequality...
To all the newspapers I loved The decline and fall of the print media.
11 months ago
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 19-25 February 2024 Do cool stuff for under a fiver.
10 months ago
Joel Gascoigne
Are you interested? * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "You can make...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you." - Dale Carnegie Earlier this week I...
Christopher Butler
Know What You Need Knowing what you need makes knowing what you want much easier. It is often said about successful...
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a month ago
Knowing what you need makes knowing what you want much easier. It is often said about successful people that they “know exactly what they want.” I’m sure this is true, because in our modern culture, where we are constantly made aware of new choices and possibilities, knowing...
Castles in the Sky
The Virtue of Tourism Castles in the Sky #40
a year ago
The Marginalian
The Afterlives of the Soul: Sister Nivedita on Love and Death "To the soul, time does not exist. Only her own great purpose exists, shining clear and steady...
a year ago
SOCKS
Stage Design as a Narrative Device: Norman Bel Geddes’ Stage Set for The Divine Comedy (1921) American stage and industrial designer, director and producer Norman Bel Geddes (1893-1958) worked...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
American stage and industrial designer, director and producer Norman Bel Geddes (1893-1958) worked on a theatrical staging of Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy to be performed in Madison Square Garden in 1921 on the sexcentenary of Dante’s death. Geddes planned the...
Damn Interesting
This is Dang Interesting Happy New Year! This has nothing to do with the new year. We at this website know, reluctantly, that...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Happy New Year! This has nothing to do with the new year. We at this website know, reluctantly, that “d*mn” is not always a welcome word. Additionally, we are aware that we have a few articles sporting even saltier vocabularies (settle down, Colonel Sanders!). Countless school...
Seth's Blog
When the future finds us The future never arrives, of course, but it has a powerful force that’s impossible to avoid. We can...
a year ago
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a year ago
The future never arrives, of course, but it has a powerful force that’s impossible to avoid. We can see it as a threshold, a doorway toward something new. Or we can fight it as an unwanted change, and discover that it has traction, tenacity and leverage. We can influence the...
alexwlchan
Documenting my DNS records I had to change some of my DNS records recently, a phrase which strikes fear into the heart of...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
I had to change some of my DNS records recently, a phrase which strikes fear into the heart of sysadmins everywhere. It all went fine, but I definitely felt like I was playing with fire. My current domain registrar is Hover, and the only way I can manage my domains is through a...
Society's Backend
Why MLX is Important for the ML Community And a step-by-step guide to train a machine learning model on your Mac
8 months ago
The American Scholar
Good Intentions The post Good Intentions appeared first on The American Scholar.
3 months ago
Raw Thought (from...
How Looper Works
over a year ago
TheCollector
“All Part of Nature”: Radclyffe Hall’s Life undefined
8 months ago
Seth's Blog
There are no stupid mistakes There are mistakes. These are moments when reality teaches us something. And there’s stupid. This is...
a year ago
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a year ago
There are mistakes. These are moments when reality teaches us something. And there’s stupid. This is what happens when we refuse to learn from our mistakes. “Don’t be stupid” is a fine mantra. It’s particularly apt when talking about cultural forces, political agendas and our...
bt RSS Feed
Stay Hungry Stay Hungry 2018-02-12 It can feel daunting in this developer / designer landscape to keep yourself...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Stay Hungry 2018-02-12 It can feel daunting in this developer / designer landscape to keep yourself up-to-date with the latest and greatest technologies available. Which new framework should I invest the most time into? Will it even be maintained a couple years down the road? Is...
Internal Tech Emails
Elon Musk's Twitter texts I'm not joining the board. This is a waste of time.
over a year ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
Understanding PLONK
over a year ago
Retail Design Blog
Thresh & Winoow by Dando Projects Concept to Completion branding and design for Thresh & Winnow premium spirits from 100% organic...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Concept to Completion branding and design for Thresh & Winnow premium spirits from 100% organic grains from the midwestern United...
TheCollector
Historic Copenhagen Stock Exchange Catches Fire undefined
8 months ago
TheCollector
Do My Dreams Mean Anything? A Philosophical Look at the Unconscious Mind undefined
5 months ago
Internal Tech Emails
Apple exec on App Store complaints In the end it all really comes down to whether we will ever open up the iPhone for developers to...
a year ago
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a year ago
In the end it all really comes down to whether we will ever open up the iPhone for developers to distribute apps on their own, bypassing our store.
Castles in the Sky
The Best Things I Read or Watched in April 2024 | Castles in the Sky Links These are all the best things I read and watched in April 2024. If you open this in a browser, you...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
These are all the best things I read and watched in April 2024. If you open this in a browser, you can click the link to take you straight to that part of the article. Cosmographia by M. E. Rothwell “On reaching the age of the TV anti-hero” by Erik Hoel
Math Is Still...
Fish Have a Brain Microbiome. Could Humans Have One Too? The discovery that other vertebrates have healthy, microbial brains is fueling the still...
a month ago
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a month ago
The discovery that other vertebrates have healthy, microbial brains is fueling the still controversial possibility that we might have them as well. The post Fish Have a Brain Microbiome. Could Humans Have One Too? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Seth's Blog
Long-term selfish Everyone is selfish. We do things that increase our chances of survival, help us achieve our goals...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Everyone is selfish. We do things that increase our chances of survival, help us achieve our goals and give us a story we can tell ourselves about our role in the community. But short-term selfish is something we try to grow out of. Short-term selfish runs a red light because...
Passing Time
Is a Priest Justified in Consulting a Doctor? We must either love God or hate him; we must either believe everything or deny everything; All or...
a year ago
Noahpinion
No, you are not on Indigenous land Pieces of territory belong to institutions, not to racial groups.
a month ago
Dan Cowell
Software engineers hate code. This is the best-kept secret of the software engineering profession: engineers hate code. Especially...
a year ago
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a year ago
This is the best-kept secret of the software engineering profession: engineers hate code. Especially code written by other people. It's why they love working on greenfield projects so much. No code, no maintenance, no headaches! Ever wondered why microservices took off in teams...
Platformer
How TikTok failed to make the case for itself After a rocky appearance before Congress, the company has reason to reflect
a year ago
TheCollector
What Was the Relationship Between Gauguin and Van Gogh? undefined
10 months ago
TheCollector
Was Brittany Founded by Magnus Maximus? undefined
9 months ago
Noahpinion
Car wars A flood of cheap Chinese imports is upsetting the global industrial order.
a year ago
TokyoDev
Tech Meetups in Tokyo Now that you’re in Tokyo looking to start or further your IT career, you might want to look into...
a year ago
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a year ago
Now that you’re in Tokyo looking to start or further your IT career, you might want to look into attending tech meetups. Tech meetups are events held online and offline, and attending them is a great way to form connections and establish yourself in the tech community. It...
Nelson's Weblog
The Transcantábrico Train We recently took the Transcantábrico, a week long luxury train trip across Northern Spain. It was...
a year ago
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a year ago
We recently took the Transcantábrico, a week long luxury train trip across Northern Spain. It was great! Like a cruise but on a train. We did something similar in India in 2015 and it’s an interesting way to travel. Some photos here. The Transcantábrico goes across a part of...
Artificial Ignorance
How to build an AI search engine (Part 2) VC funding, here we come.
2 months ago
Blog - Mac Pierce
The Whys and Hows of the Opt-Out Cap. Why I built the Opt-Out Cap cap, and how it all came together.
over a year ago
The Pragmatic...
Building an an Early Stage Startup: Lessons from Akita Software Jean Yang sold her startup to Postman, and shares the details on what happened in the 5 years...
a year ago
Seth's Blog
Moving toward ease “Ease” isn’t the same as “easy.” In fact, they’re often at odds. Easy work is hardly worth our...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
“Ease” isn’t the same as “easy.” In fact, they’re often at odds. Easy work is hardly worth our effort. It can deaden us instead of giving us the chance to bring our best selves to life. Ease, on the other hand, is the feeling of doing something worthwhile, and doing it well. When...
Old Structures...
A Striking Row I was in the Upper East Side a couple of weeks ago, and the row of houses on the left caught my eye....
12 months ago
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12 months ago
I was in the Upper East Side a couple of weeks ago, and the row of houses on the left caught my eye. That’s 690 to 700 Madison Avenue, just north of 62nd Street. While there’s an obvious alteration – the facade of the first two floors of each house was replaced at some point […]
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do In London This Week: 18-24 March 2024 Things to do for under a fiver.
9 months ago
Londonist
Hello Brain! At The Crick Probes Secrets Of The Mind... With Knitting See the latest brain research while you wait for a train.
10 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was England’s Black Prince? undefined
10 months ago
Steve Klabnik
Sparrow
over a year ago
DYNOMIGHT
Dynomight internet survey Hello, clever charming good-looking people. I am in need of a richer understanding of: you the...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Hello, clever charming good-looking people. I am in need of a richer understanding of: you the nature of reality consciousness ethics dynomight internet website and have therefore created a survey, which you can take here. (You don’t need to create an account or give your email...
Making software...
Convert Files to HTML with macOS Automator Quick Actions Convert Files to HTML with macOS Automator Quick Actions 2022-01-28 Since a few people have reached...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Convert Files to HTML with macOS Automator Quick Actions 2022-01-28 Since a few people have reached out and thanked me for my previous post Batch Converting Images to webp with macOS Automator, I thought I would continue to share more of my own custom Automator Quick Actions....
swyx's site RSS Feed
Errors Are Not Exceptions Many language ecosystems use try/catch paradigms to represent both errors and exceptions. This is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Many language ecosystems use try/catch paradigms to represent both errors and exceptions. This is wrong.
Wuthering...
The Story of the Stone, volume 2 - all agreed that this was the definitive poem on the subject of... I have continued on with The Story of the Stone, the 2,500 page 18th century Chinese novel by, or...
a month ago
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a month ago
I have continued on with The Story of the Stone, the 2,500 page 18th century Chinese novel by, or mostly by, Cao Xueqin.  Here I will write about the second volume of the David Hawkes translation, The Crab-flower Club.  Last time, after reading the first fifth of the novel, I...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Reverse Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If you could take the organs from a bunch of people...
a month ago
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a month ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If you could take the organs from a bunch of people and make a new person, what would you do? Today's News:
Koos Looijesteijn -...
&nbsp; Spent most of the day in bed with a cold. Head feels pretty clear though. I feel bad, but I’m...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Spent most of the day in bed with a cold. Head feels pretty clear though. I feel bad, but I’m...
Calculated Risk
Hotels: Occupancy Rate increased Year-over-year From STR: U.S. hotel results for week ending 21 December The U.S. hotel industry reported positive...
4 days ago
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4 days ago
From STR: U.S. hotel results for week ending 21 December The U.S. hotel industry reported positive year-over-year performance comparisons, according to CoStar’s latest data through 21 December. ... 15-21 December 2024 (percentage change from comparable week in 2023): Occupancy:...
A Beautiful Site
Revisiting FOUCE It's been awhile since I wrote about FOUCE and I've since come up with an improved solution that I...
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a week ago
It's been awhile since I wrote about FOUCE and I've since come up with an improved solution that I think is worth a post. This approach is similar to hiding the page content and then fading it in, but I've noticed it's far less distracting without the fade. It also adds a two...
The Ruffian
What Does It Mean For a Brand To Be Radical? Thoughts on Jaguar's Relaunch, Plus a Juicy Cultural Rattle Bag
a month ago
Abort Retry Fail
The History of OS/2 Getting a Divorce
a year ago
AI Snake Oil
FAQ about the book and our writing process What's in the book and how we wrote it
3 months ago
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Part 2: How To Build Patient Communities | Out-Of-Pocket And my investments in Most Days + Little Otter
a year ago
Noahpinion
Go read some Vernor Vinge R.I.P. to my favorite science fiction author
9 months ago
Londonist
Sing Along To Beyoncé's Greatest Hits - As Played By A Brass Band Old Dirty Brasstards mix things up.
11 months ago
Identity Designed
Big C Charters Designed by Mucho, San Francisco.
over a year ago
bt RSS Feed
Improving Tufte CSS for Jekyll Improving Tufte CSS for Jekyll 2019-11-01 After creating the ET-Jekyll theme almost two years ago, I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Improving Tufte CSS for Jekyll 2019-11-01 After creating the ET-Jekyll theme almost two years ago, I finally got around to revamping the structure and improving a lot of minor performance issues. Items that have been surely needing of updates for the last couple of...
Home on Erik...
Vote for our SXSW panel! If you have a few minutes, you should check out mine and Chris Johnson‘s panel proposal. Go here and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you have a few minutes, you should check out mine and Chris Johnson‘s panel proposal. Go here and vote: http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/24504 Algorithmic Music Discovery at Spotify ****Spotify crunches hundreds of billions of streams to analyze user's music taste and provide...
Old Structures...
Gotcha! There are times I feel sorry for the people who run the huge online archives that we use for...
a year ago
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a year ago
There are times I feel sorry for the people who run the huge online archives that we use for research. They have to deal with thousands (or tens of thousands, or more) resources – usually individual files in multiple formats – on hundreds or thousands of topics. And if they make...
99% Invisible
The Power Broker #9: Majora Carter [EPISODE] This is the ninth official episode of our ongoing series breaking down the 1974 Pulitzer Prize...
3 months ago
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Although Shoelace is a web component library, it ships React wrappers that lets you use the library idiomatically in React. This video shows you how to install Shoelace in a brand new Create React App. If you found this video helpful, please subscribe to my channel on YouTube...
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“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the oldest antiques market in Italy,” says collector Enrico Maltoni. His interest in antique espresso coffee makers became a labour of love means. He’s written extensively on the subject...
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You want someone who can hit the ground running, who’s passionate about your mission, and who can survive being locked […] The post How to hire first rockstar employee appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Overview ClipBucket is an open source video hosting platform, similar in functionality to YouTube or Vimeo. In this guide, we’ll walk through how to deploy ClipBucket to a server using the configuration management tool, Ansible. tl; dr - Just Install ClipBucket I don’t care about...
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Of the biggest tech companies, only Apple has not executed major job cuts. But why is this, and can we now expect it to follow suit by shedding workers?
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In precisely two weeks' time Londoners get their chance to vote for a new Mayor. They won't, they'll vote for the old Mayor because Sadiq Khan is so far ahead in the polls he's effectively unstoppable. But we do know the 12 people who won't replace him, most of whom are destined...
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These large-scale rugs and self-portrait photographs were created by Marian Henel (1926-1993), who spent 32 years as a patient of the Hospital for Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders in Branice, Poland. Admitted to the hospital’s Psychopathological Art Expression workshop in...
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Most of us go about our lives comforted by the thought “I would never drop a nuclear weapon on the moon.” The truth is that given a lot of power, a nuclear weapon, and a lot of extremely specific circumstances, we too might find ourselves thinking “I should nuke the moon.”
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It may feel to some that blogging is under threat by the likes of ChatGPT and other large language models. It’s so easy to generate decent-enough writing that many professional writers are quickly having to change the way they operate. On top of that, I’ve had to update Bear’s...
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In January 2010 I soft-launched launched Preceden, a web-based timeline maker tool, followed a few weeks later by a larger launch on HackerNews: Today – almost 13 years to the day since the initial launch – I’m going full time on it and I couldn’t be more excited. A brief history...
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What this means: On a weekly basis, Realtor.com reports the year-over-year change in active inventory and new listings. On a monthly basis, they report total inventory. For November, Realtor.com reported inventory was up 26.2% YoY, but still down 21.5% compared to the 2017 to...
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Above, David Burr’s 1834 map of New York. I guess 190 years make a bit of a difference. This is, in some ways, more of a map-like graphic than an actual map. The shaded areas are not the only places where there were buildings, but rather the areas that were solidly built up....
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“This impossibly erudite, overbearing, tender, and anguished man lived in a perpetual state of dissatisfaction with himself which only disciplined labor could allay but never completely still.”  In their moral and emotional complexity, certain lives resemble the finest novels –...
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When I started in the early 80s, working at home was never an option—in fact, it took decades to become practical, even though I occasionally could do it under limited circumstances. In my last year working before I retired, I spent the entire Covid year working at home.
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Early on in the movie Bull Durham, a character going to a baseball game walks from the dark underside of the stadium – where the stairs, bathrooms, and food concessions are – through one of the tunnels to the seats. The camera follows and, if you’ve ever been to stadium, the...
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"What is wild cannot be bought or sold, borrowed or copied. It is. Unmistakable, unforgettable, unshamable, elemental as earth and ice, water, fire and air, a quintessence, pure spirit, resolving into no constituents. Don't waste your wildness: it is precious and necessary. In...
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Getting into Y Combinator in 2018 was a defining event in the history of RevenueCat. It was also quite impactful for Jacob and me as founders. I want to believe we would still be around even if we had not gotten into YC, but I am sure the company would not be where it is today....
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Iterators in Go are a neat way to write “lazy loops”, where we never generate more results than we actually use. Let’s see what that would look like in Go programs, and what new facilities it gives us in the standard library.
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Isaac Waisberg is an Israeli academic and friend who lives with his family near Tel Aviv. He also runs IWP Books, an eclectic online library of titles ranging from Walter Bagehot and A.E. Housman to Theodor Haecker and Agnes Repplier. In short, he is a civilized man with...
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Anecdotal Evidence
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There was an opinion that did the rounds a few years ago, that any restaurant critic needs to have spent at least some time in a professional kitchen or front of house to be able to pass judgement on anywhere charging the public for dinner. Personally, I think that's rubbish, but...
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Versioning dotfiles in git I’ve been looking for a good solution for versioning and synchronizing my dotfiles between machines...
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I’ve been looking for a good solution for versioning and synchronizing my dotfiles between machines for some time. I experimented with keeping all of ~ in subversion for a while, but it never worked out well for me. I’ve finally settled on a solution that I like using git, and so...
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A Better Way to Get Data > Note: this was an unfinished draft, i published it anyway but it is incomplete
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Spoon & Tamago
Japanese Designer New Year’s Cards of 2024 It’s been a rough start to the new year for Japan as one disaster begets another. We are of course...
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It’s been a rough start to the new year for Japan as one disaster begets another. We are of course talking about the evolving situation at Haneda airport, as well as the Noto Peninsula. Our hearts go out to everyone affected but we also want to highlight the many heroes of the...
Citation Needed
Sam Bankman-Fried: guilty on all charges Jurors spent less than five hours deliberating before returning the verdict.
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Vadim Kravcenko
Aging Code In a quaint bar on the outskirts of Catania (Italy), as whiskey glasses clinked and muted...
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In a quaint bar on the outskirts of Catania (Italy), as whiskey glasses clinked and muted conversations blended into a […] The post Aging Code appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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When You Reach the Point of “F*ck It, I’m Gonna Try Anyway” Your Entire Life Changes Forever “If there’s fire inside you, with nowhere to go, it burns you alive.”
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Paul Graham: Essays
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On Test Automation
PNSQC 2024 - experience report While most of the clients I work with are based in Europe, over the last couple of years my client...
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While most of the clients I work with are based in Europe, over the last couple of years my client base on the North American side of the Atlantic has slowly but surely started to grow, mainly in the United States. As someone who really enjoys working with and learning from...
Louwrentius
Making cowpatty recognize a four-way handshake I was unable to get cowpatty working with a packet capture that actually contains a four-way...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I was unable to get cowpatty working with a packet capture that actually contains a four-way handshake of a WPA session. I got it working like this: First, download cowpatty 4.6 right here, within the source directory of cowpatty. Extract cowpatty and apply this patch using these...
NeuroLogica Blog
Virtual Walking When I use my virtual reality gear I do practical zero virtual walking – meaning that I don’t have...
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When I use my virtual reality gear I do practical zero virtual walking – meaning that I don’t have my avatar walk while I am not walking. I general play standing up which means I can move around the space in my office mapped by my VR software – so I am physically walking to...
Quantum Frontiers
Now published: Building Quantum Computers Building Quantum Computers: A Practical Introduction by Shayan Majidy, Christopher Wilson, and...
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Building Quantum Computers: A Practical Introduction by Shayan Majidy, Christopher Wilson, and Raymond Laflamme has been published by Cambridge University Press and will be released in the US on September 30. The authors invited me to write a Foreword for … Continue reading →
Londonist
Fears Over Redevelopment Of Surbiton Station Public consultation now open.
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
“Mission-driven” should be more specific | Out-Of-Pocket everything is a set of tradeoffs, let's be honest about that
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DYNOMIGHT
Taste games I bet you like it when beautiful people laugh at your jokes. And I bet you like the taste of sugar....
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I bet you like it when beautiful people laugh at your jokes. And I bet you like the taste of sugar. I sure do. But what about camping or dubstep or chain restaurants or installation art? What about blue cheese or pick-up trucks or reality TV? Me, I like some and loathe others....
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Alibaba.com’s U.S. expansion hinges on wooing mom-and-pop shops President Kuo Zhang tells Rest of World in an exclusive interview that the company is bullish about...
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Interviewing engineers for diagnostic skills In SaaS, when we’re hiring engineers, we usually imagine that their time will mostly be spent...
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In SaaS, when we’re hiring engineers, we usually imagine that their time will mostly be spent building things. So we never forget to interview for skills at building stuff. Sometimes we ask candidates to write code on the fly. Other times we ask them to whiteboard out a sensible...
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Giving more tools to software engineers: the reorganization of the factory It's a popular attitude among developers to rant about our tools and how broken things are. Maybe...
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over a year ago
It's a popular attitude among developers to rant about our tools and how broken things are. Maybe I'm an optimistic person, because my viewpoint is the complete opposite! I had my first job as a software engineer in 1999, and in the last two decades I've seen software engineering...
diamond geezer
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Bus Route Of The Day 177: Peckham to Thamesmead Quadrant: London southeast Length of journey: 12 miles, 75 minutes Because it's 17th July I've been out riding the 177, because that's the Bus Route Of The Day. There are more glamorous ways to travel. 177 is your friend, and...
Josh Thompson
Change The more things change, the more they stay the same. Or something like that. Sometimes change is for...
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over a year ago
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Or something like that. Sometimes change is for the better, and sometimes its for the worse. I don’t know if there’s always a difference. Recently, Kristi and I have seen lots of change; I’d say its for the better, but it’s not...
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writing Advice Some thoughts on writing your first few writings
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Any word with at least 10 letters is easy to remember how to use. Today's News:
David Gerrells
offer up is the tinder of marketplaces OfferUp is like a terrible version of Tinder but for selling on a marketplace. Boosts, promotions,...
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OfferUp is like a terrible version of Tinder but for selling on a marketplace. Boosts, promotions, and other "gameification" make it trashier than the perception most have of the venerable Craigslist.
Platformer
Twitter’s risky plan to save its ads business Agree to personalize your ads — or else
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Open charter companies and relicensing A few weeks ago, HashiCorp switched its default license for future product releases to the BSL...
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A few weeks ago, HashiCorp switched its default license for future product releases to the BSL license. The BSL license was created by the people at MariaDB in 2017 to give companies a way to release software as open source but prohibit their competitors from re-hosting that...
The American Scholar
“The Last Words of My English Grandmother” Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “The Last Words of My English Grandmother” appeared first on...
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Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “The Last Words of My English Grandmother” appeared first on The American Scholar.
alexwlchan
Making alt text more visible I add alt text to every image on this site. I have an automated check to remind me to add alt text...
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2 months ago
I add alt text to every image on this site. I have an automated check to remind me to add alt text before I publish the site, but that means alt text has often been an afterthought – something I’d dash out at the very end of writing a post. I wanted to give it more attention, and...
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Soulbound
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Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Unmistakable Ms. Marvel is set largely in Jersey City. Despite being the second-largest city in New Jersey,...
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Ms. Marvel is set largely in Jersey City. Despite being the second-largest city in New Jersey, Jersey City does not have much of a visual image. If you asked the average person in the New York metropolitan area to name a physical landmark there, it’s likely they would draw a...
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Best Type of Bathroom Lock
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The Heartbeat Podcast with Claire Lew I recently the pleasure of being interviewed on the Heartbeat Podcast by Claire Lew. Listen above,...
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I recently the pleasure of being interviewed on the Heartbeat Podcast by Claire Lew. Listen above, and check out the full transcript.
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Reading Notes on “Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp” by Josef Czapski
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In-depth: ClickHouse vs BigQuery Both BigQuery and ClickHouse are databases designed to handle lots of data (like loads of data),...
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Both BigQuery and ClickHouse are databases designed to handle lots of data (like loads of data), but they have distinct philosophies and use cases…
TheCollector
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Anecdotal Evidence
'We Take Measure of the Loss' The youngest poet included by Yvor Winters and Kenneth Fields in Quest for Reality: An Anthology of...
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The youngest poet included by Yvor Winters and Kenneth Fields in Quest for Reality: An Anthology of Short Poems in English (1969) was M. Scott Momaday, a former Winters graduate student at Stanford who was then thirty-five years old. Winters, who died in 1968, also considered...
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Bershka flagship store by Culdesac Are mass fashion brands raising their profile through retail design? Well, Bershka certainly has....
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Are mass fashion brands raising their profile through retail design? Well, Bershka certainly has. We’re talking the retailer’s brand new...
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Hearing the language of Christ on the road to Damascus Notes on Christian Syria
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Silver Line Extension The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority opened its eleven mile Silver Line extension on...
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The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority opened its eleven mile Silver Line extension on November 15, 2022. I couldn’t be there on opening day but I still wanted to check out the new stations while they were relatively “new.” So I checked in with my frequent travel...
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Why Car Companies Need More Interaction Designers The Citroën DS was designed by Flavio Bertoni who, together with aviation engineer André Lèfebvre,...
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The Citroën DS was designed by Flavio Bertoni who, together with aviation engineer André Lèfebvre, created some of the most influential…
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Why China's economy ran off the rails A short, simplistic, but fairly reasonable story.
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Bala Consulting Engineers Offices by Meyer Meyer redesigned Bala Consulting Engineers’ headquarters in Wayne to meet WELL Building Standards™,...
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Meyer redesigned Bala Consulting Engineers’ headquarters in Wayne to meet WELL Building Standards™, creating an innovative, neurodiverse workspace with biophilic...
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Luck and Cheating in Roman Gambling: The Die is Cast undefined
a year ago
African History...
The Mali empire: A complete history (ca. 1250-1650) At its height in the 14th century, the Mali empire was one of Africa's largest states, extending...
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At its height in the 14th century, the Mali empire was one of Africa's largest states, extending over an estimated 1.2 million square kilometers in West Africa. Encompassing at least five modern African states, the empire produced some of the continent's most renowned historical...
PHD Comics
01/31/21 PHD comic: 'W O R D L E' Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com ...
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Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com title: "W O R D L E" - originally published 1/31/2021 For the latest news in PHD Comics, CLICK HERE!
Seth's Blog
Fire inspectors Running into a burning building is heroic work. Keeping buildings from burning down in the first...
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Running into a burning building is heroic work. Keeping buildings from burning down in the first place is actually just as important. And it scales more reliably.
Math Is Still...
Computer Scientists Establish the Best Way to Traverse a Graph Dijkstra’s algorithm was long thought to be the most efficient way to find a graph’s best routes....
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Dijkstra’s algorithm was long thought to be the most efficient way to find a graph’s best routes. Researchers have now proved that it’s “universally optimal.” The post Computer Scientists Establish the Best Way to Traverse a Graph first appeared on Quanta Magazine
The DESK Magazine
The illusion of productivity "Productivity" is dead.
a year ago
David Heinemeier...
Don't lose your unreasonable sense of urgency Getting anything new off the ground usually requires a tremendous amount of urgency. It's hard to...
a year ago
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a year ago
Getting anything new off the ground usually requires a tremendous amount of urgency. It's hard to launch something  from nothing into reality without being incredibly impatient for progress. Thus most founders begin 🎶Their Journey🎶 sprinting from one pressing problem to the...
Irrational...
Writers who operate. Occasionally folks tell me that I should “write full time.” I’ve thought about this a lot, and have...
a year ago
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a year ago
Occasionally folks tell me that I should “write full time.” I’ve thought about this a lot, and have rejected that option because I believe that writers who operate (e.g. write concurrently with holding a non-writing industry role) are best positioned to keep writing valuable work...
The Pragmatic...
Layoffs push down scores on Glassdoor: this is how companies respond Several tech companies face a fresh problem after cutting jobs: their rating on Glassdoor nosedives....
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Several tech companies face a fresh problem after cutting jobs: their rating on Glassdoor nosedives. But there’s a way they can fix this. I show what companies are doing - and why.
sbensu
Interfaces for logical migrations This post explains how you can use interfaces to make data model and database migrations easier.
a year ago
TheCollector
Presidential Impeachment: An Effective Check on Executive Power? undefined
3 months ago
TokyoDev
Bank Account, Mobile Number, Apartment - Which Comes First after Moving to Japan? When you move to Japan for a long-term stay, you’ll need to set up some things when you get here - a...
a year ago
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a year ago
When you move to Japan for a long-term stay, you’ll need to set up some things when you get here - a place to live, a mobile number, a bank account, etc. And this is where you may encounter the following chicken-and-egg problem. > To rent an apartment, you need a mobile...
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Why I'm not a VC (yet) There is too much money chasing too few operators.
over a year ago
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Why we raised a $15m Series B ahead of schedule Last week we proudly announced we’d successfully raised $15 million in a Series B funding round,...
over a year ago
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Last week we proudly announced we’d successfully raised $15 million in a Series B funding round, with support from Y Combinator Continuity Fund and GV…
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The speed of information Putting social media coverage of Israel-Palestine into historical context.
a year ago
Roberto Vitillo's...
The second chapter of Understanding Distributed Systems is out In the second chapter of Understanding Distributed Systems , I explore the core building blocks at...
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In the second chapter of Understanding Distributed Systems , I explore the core building blocks at the heart of many distributed systems…
TheCollector
Walter Benjamin on Charles Baudelaire: Guilt, Modernity, and The Crowd undefined
a year ago
Flashbak
Find the Girls on the Negatives: The Shocking Origins of Beautiful Photos Found in a Thrift Store In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format...
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In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format negatives protected in plastic sleeves in a box of vintage photographs. Abell bought the negatives, scanned them and saw the beautiful pictures of two young women standing on a...
The History of the...
Where did mainstream media come from? The term mainstream media is so common these days, we can forget where it came from. But it has an...
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The term mainstream media is so common these days, we can forget where it came from. But it has an interesting connection with the web. The post Where did mainstream media come from? appeared first on The History of the Web.
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Love Ourselves? Finding some Aristotelian Self-love, or Philautia...
10 months ago
The Modern House
Rosh Mahtani: the Alighieri founder’s inspiring journey from school outcast to acclaimed... Journal readers will know the name Rosh Mahtani – partly because we’ve visited her in the past, but...
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a year ago
Journal readers will know the name Rosh Mahtani – partly because we’ve visited her in the past, but partly because she’s very, very good at what she does. Despite the joy it brings, Rosh started her cult jewellery brand, Alighieri, when she was in an […]
African History...
How Africans wrote their own history: Debates and dialogues between four west African historians in... Facts, myths and royal propaganda.
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The Ruffian
The Historian and the Culture Warrior Plus: Thoughts on Responses To the Kaba Verdict
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TheCollector
What Is Philosophical Intelligence? (And How to Practice It) undefined
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Citation Needed
Cryptocurrency companies have raised over $115 million to influence US elections this cycle, and... As election season kicks into high gear, we need to watch how cryptocurrency companies are...
7 months ago
AVC
The Heist On Saturday, September 9th, the Gotham Gal and I arrived at JFK airport after an eight-hour flight...
a year ago
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a year ago
On Saturday, September 9th, the Gotham Gal and I arrived at JFK airport after an eight-hour flight from Paris. While waiting for our luggage, I got pushed a notification in my web3 wallet that there was an NFT drop underway that I could participate in. So I clicked on the link,...
Construction Physics
The Rise of Steel - Part I One of the defining characteristics of the modern world is the ubiquity of steel. Nearly every...
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a year ago
One of the defining characteristics of the modern world is the ubiquity of steel. Nearly every product of industrial civilization relies on steel, either as a component or as part of the equipment used to produce it. Without it, Vaclav Smil notes in “Still the Iron Age”, modern...
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Inspirational Design Stories You Missed in 2016 There is a good chance you missed some of my best writing in 2016. Let's fix that.
over a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Balance Sheet of Conscience' “Strange as this may sound, as soon as I saw the first Soviet airplanes on September 17, 1939, I had...
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a year ago
“Strange as this may sound, as soon as I saw the first Soviet airplanes on September 17, 1939, I had no doubt at all that I’d end up in a camp, and yet I wasn’t much interested in them. Could I have been wearied in advance, by the monotony and dullness of mass atrocities?”  That...
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Drafting your first investment round. The topic of investing is omnipresent in our startup world. Sooner or later most startup founders...
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over a year ago
The topic of investing is omnipresent in our startup world. Sooner or later most startup founders look for external funding. And i...
TheCollector
What is the Role of Law in Aristotle’s Politics? undefined
a year ago
Home on Erik...
Running Theano on EC2 Inspired by Sander Dieleman's internship at Spotify, I've been playing around with deep learning...
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over a year ago
Inspired by Sander Dieleman's internship at Spotify, I've been playing around with deep learning using Theano. Theano is this Python package that lets you define symbolic expressions (cool), does automatic differentiation (really cool), and compiles it down into bytecode to run...
Darek Kay
Separate Firefox Dark UI theme from website dark mode I like the default dark color theme in Firefox, but I prefer to view websites in light mode. This...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I like the default dark color theme in Firefox, but I prefer to view websites in light mode. This distinction has been working until recently, but with Firefox 95, the browser dark theme will enforce dark mode on websites as well. This sounds like a good default, but I want to...
TheCollector
The Zimmermann Telegram: Mexico & Germany as WWI Allies? undefined
7 months ago
Rest of World -...
Tears of a get-rich-quick guru Influencers like Sunny Ali promote the Amazon seller dream, but not everyone buys the hustlepreneur...
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
Machine Vision, Robots, and Endoscopes with Matt Schwartz | Out-Of-Pocket When GI met AI
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Wanderingspace
Ganymede Sets Behind Jupiter as Seen by Hubble An image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope reminds us of how powerful this aging scope really is....
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over a year ago
An image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope reminds us of how powerful this aging scope really is. Magnitudes sharper than the images originally sent by Pioneer as it passed by in the 1970s.
Dan Slimmon
Clinical troubleshooting: diagnose any production issue, fast. Over the years, I've developed a reliable method for harnessing the diagnostic power of groups. My...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Over the years, I've developed a reliable method for harnessing the diagnostic power of groups. My approach is derived from a different field in which groups of experts with various levels of context need to reason together about problems in a complex, dynamic system:...
TheCollector
Jean Cocteau: A Complete Insight (Bio & Art) undefined
8 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
Immigration and crime: Denmark Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
5 months ago
SatPost by Trung...
11 Best Things of 2024 My favourite book, film, podcast, quote, meme, purchase and more for the year.
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Josh Thompson
Rails Migration: When you can't add a uniqueness constraint because you already have duplicates I get to occasionally contribute to the Wombat Security dev blog. I wrote the following for...
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I get to occasionally contribute to the Wombat Security dev blog. I wrote the following for development.wombatsecurity.com. This post has been updated to reflect some lessons learned while running this migration in production. Don’t leave a column without an index at any point in...
TheCollector
10 Historical Places to Visit in Hampshire undefined
7 months ago
Jonas Hietala
Weekend Tournaments This weekend was filled by playing cards. On Saturday I hosted a small Game of Thrones tournament...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This weekend was filled by playing cards. On Saturday I hosted a small Game of Thrones tournament and on Sunday the local Netrunner community hosted a small summer kit tournament. Game of Thrones We’ve had a similar tournament once before when me and my girlfriend invited two of...
Maps Mania
The Loss of the Great American Grasslands
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Willem's Blog
Building the blog... in style! Find out if it is possible to turn a computer from the 90s into a modern development machine.
over a year ago
DYNOMIGHT
Sloth was not the right answer Once, when I was 12, my parents asked me what my favorite animal was. And I thought: OK, self, what...
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Once, when I was 12, my parents asked me what my favorite animal was. And I thought: OK, self, what you’ve got here is a totally safe question. There are no “right” or “wrong” animals and no need to worry about any consequences. Let your heart soar! At school recently, I had seen...
Arduino Blog
Innovative new tactile sensor helps assess fine motor skills Fine motor skills correlate strongly with cognition and the accurate assessment of an individual’s...
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7 months ago
Fine motor skills correlate strongly with cognition and the accurate assessment of an individual’s motor skills can be critical in diagnosing and treating a variety of conditions. But objective evaluation has been a challenge, as suitable sensors weren’t available. To help...
mtlynch.io
KetoHub: Month 2 Prior to February 2019, I published all my retrospectives on Indie Hackers: KetoHub Month 2
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over a year ago
Prior to February 2019, I published all my retrospectives on Indie Hackers: KetoHub Month 2
Posts on Made of...
autocutsel As most of you probably know, X has several different mechanisms for copy-paste, used by different...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As most of you probably know, X has several different mechanisms for copy-paste, used by different applications in different ways. I know some people who use them deliberately, juggling two pieces of text in different clipboards at once, but for me, it’s always just been...
Josh Thompson
How To Write A Letter of Recommendation for Yourself I meet regularly with early-career software developers. A few recurring meetings, 1x/week, plus...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I meet regularly with early-career software developers. A few recurring meetings, 1x/week, plus ad-hoc calls as needed with others. A question came up recently: My three-month internship is close to wrapping up. The Co-founder/CEO/lead developer of the consulting company I’m at...
99% Invisible
The Society of Ambiance Makers and Elegant Persons [EPISODE] Hailing from central African cities of Brazzaville and Kinshasa, sapeurs have become increasingly...
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Hailing from central African cities of Brazzaville and Kinshasa, sapeurs have become increasingly recognizable around the world. Since the 1970s, sapeurs (from: le sape, short for “Société des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Élégantes”) have been known for donning technicolored...
Data Boutique
The hidden costs of asking for quotations in the data market Working towards faster, cheaper and safer data projects
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Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 2 of Ansi Common Lisp
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Nadia Asparouhova
Explaining tech’s notion of talent scarcity TLDR: Most conversations about “top talent” assume Pareto distribution; however, a closer...
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TLDR: Most conversations about “top talent” assume Pareto distribution; however, a closer examination suggests that different corporate cultures benefit from different types of talent distribution (normal, Pareto, and a third option – bimodal) according to the problem they’re...
Josh Thompson
A 40 Hour Work Week Business Insider posted an article on why we have a 40 hour work week. The author blames big...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Business Insider posted an article on why we have a 40 hour work week. The author blames big business for why we’ve not dropped below 40 hours per week. He thinks that if America became less consumer-driven, our economy would collapse. He’s got the wrong starting assumptions...
Math Is Still...
Researchers Refute a Widespread Belief About Online Algorithms Three computer scientists have disproved a long-standing conjecture about a fundamental problem...
a year ago
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a year ago
Three computer scientists have disproved a long-standing conjecture about a fundamental problem involving imperfect information. The post Researchers Refute a Widespread Belief About Online Algorithms first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Super Mario Blocks in CSS Super Mario Blocks in CSS 2019-02-15 Just because we can, let’s make a quick demo on how to build...
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Super Mario Blocks in CSS 2019-02-15 Just because we can, let’s make a quick demo on how to build interactive elements based off the original Mario punch blocks. What our final product will look like: Live CodePen Example The HTML The set of Mario blocks doesn’t require a huge...
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Plain text journaling The new/old way of keeping a digital journal
6 months ago
Open Culture
The Rolling Stones Introduce Bluesman Howlin’ Wolf on US TV, One of the “Greatest Cultural Moments... Howlin’ Wolf may well have been the greatest blues singer of the 20th century. Certainly many people...
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Howlin’ Wolf may well have been the greatest blues singer of the 20th century. Certainly many people have said so, but there are other measurements than mere opinion, though it’s one I happen to share. The man born Chester Arthur Burnett also had a profound historical effect on...
Maps Mania
Man Made Star Signs
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diamond geezer
25 years of hurt 25 years ago today a total solar eclipse could be seen from the UK. How is that ever quarter of a...
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25 years ago today a total solar eclipse could be seen from the UK. How is that ever quarter of a century ago? small part of the UK mainland in south Devon and Cornwall, arriving over Land's End at 11:10am and departing near Salcombe five minutes later. All you had to do to...
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Realtime Offline-First Chat App in 100 Seconds A quick demo of how easy it is to add realtime, offline persistence to an app with Amplify DataStore
over a year ago