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books-10325338 from Seth Godin
- It’s not a surprise when a scientist is surprised. That’s what happ...
- For the last five hundred years, the best way to succeed has been t...
- understand that the path is neither short nor easy. That means you ...
- The hard part is distinguishing between quitting because the resist...
- Volunteering to do emotional labor—even when you don’t feel like it...
- If your organization wanted to replace you with someone far better ...
books-22695054 from UnknownAuthor
- Context Maps where contexts have clear roles and their relationship...
- Another way this is noted is that Factories are “pure domain”, but ...
- The Factory should create new objects, while the Repository should ...
- For immutable Value Objects it means that all attributes are initia...
- Choose one Entity to be the root of each Aggregate, and control all...
- An Aggregate is a group of associated objects which are considered ...
- There are three characteristics of a Service: The operation perfor...
- For example, to transfer money from one account to another; should ...
- Concentrate all the code related to the domain model in one layer a...
books-10325339 from Marc-Andre Giroux
- All in all, I don’t think service communication is the sweet spot f...
- GraphQL is purposefully transport/protocol agnostic. Nothing is sto...
- build a GraphQL API server that is resolved by many underlying serv...
- Airbnb’s approach of wiring up different schemas together to form t...
- My advice would be for GraphQL APIs to rely on conventions as much ...
- A lot has to be reinvented with a GraphQL API. Errors, caching, rat...
- The trade-off, though, is that a uniform interface degrades efficie...
- We can often categorize APIs in three broad categories: Private API...
- Compiled queries are a very exciting area of GraphQL that I hope to...
- Some would even say field ordering should be normalized, but that c...
- The generation of a cache key is always important, but even more so...
- It’s often very useful to provide inline performance information in...
- I like to think of the lifecycle of a GraphQL query in 3 broad step...
- Once the client has the identifier for a particular query, it can s...
- Persisted queries are a must for all internal APIs, and I suspect t...
books-10325340 from Martin Kleppmann
- Although we generally prefer tolerating faults over preventing faul...
- The things that can go wrong are called faults, and systems that an...
supplementals-10287441 from Thomas Piketty and Arthur Goldhammer
supplementals-10287445 from Nadia Eghbal
- Bigger projects often use a formal “request for comments” (RFC) pro...
- At minimum, open source projects hosted on GitHub can be broken int...
- Developers don’t contribute to open source for lack of technical ab...
- MAINTAINERS are those who are responsible for the future of a proje...
- This innate duality—software visible as both a fixed point and a li...
- Code is not a product to be bought and sold so much as a living for...
- Paying a maintainer for their attention can also translate into ful...
- Before there was a de facto platform for hosting code, most open so...
- The cost of maintenance, coupled with a lack of intrinsic motivatio...
- As for subscriptions, paywalls might seem like a way to monetize co...
- Code, in static state, can be bought and sold at nearly zero margin...
- A few of the conditions that Benkler identifies as necessary to pul...
supplementals-10287520 from Will Larson
- My favorite observation from The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim, Kevin...
- The fact that something stops working at significantly increased sc...
- What I’ve found most successful is to identify a few areas to impro...
- The expected time to complete a new task approaches infinity as a t...
- When you read good, coherent actions, you think, “This is going to ...
- Good goals are a composition of four specific kinds of numbers: A t...
- An important property of teams is that they abstract the complexiti...
- Organizational design gets the right people in the right places, em...
- Strategies are grounded documents which explain the trade-offs and ...
- When I have a problem that I want to solve quickly and cheaply, I s...
supplementals-10287584 from Ted Chiang
- “How does writing help you think?” “That is a good question,” he sa...
- “We like the idea that there’s always someone responsible for any g...
- People are made of stories. Our memories are not the impartial accu...
- We don’t normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology,...
- “Coincidence and intention are two sides of a tapestry, my lord. Yo...
supplementals-10287585 from Hope Jahren
- That whole summer in Colorado was a data-gathering bust, but it tau...
- And some of these things we do, and some of them we don’t (like the...
- There are a hundred species or so known as “resurrection plants.” T...
- A chilly autumn brings on the same hardening as a balmy one, becaus...
- Ask a science professor what she worries about. It won’t take long....
- Being paid to wonder seems like a heavy responsibility at times. [...
- When you are in the forest, for every tree that you see, there are ...
- Every species on Earth—past or present, from the single-celled micr...
- I wanted to be studying plant growth, but science for war will alwa...
- People are like plants: they grow toward the light. I chose science...
- My laboratory is like a church because it is where I figure out wha...
- Science has taught me that everything is more complicated than we f...
- He taught me that there is no shame in breaking something, only in ...
- Working in the hospital teaches you that there are only two kinds o...
supplementals-10287596 from Blake Crouch
- “Their sensory volume increased, since light travels farther in air...
- He has wondered lately if that’s all living really is—one long good...
supplementals-10287617 from Rebecca Solnit
supplementals-10287623 from Sarah Manguso
articles-10287673 from interconnected.org
articles-10287792 from interconnected.org
articles-10287984 from brooker.co.za
- the system grows for a while (increasing λ), or we reduce the numbe...
- As we think about it this way, we realize that the closer ⍴ gets to...
- We can then define the Utilization of the server (calling it ⍴ for ...
articles-10313686 from artofmemory.com
articles-10319831 from fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com
supplementals-10325387 from George Horace Lorimer
- That was where I caught the connection between a college education ...
- Remember that when you’re in the right you can afford to keep your ...
articles-10361001 from serialized.io
- One of the most common mistakes when starting with Domain Events an...
- Examples of things that happen that might not be suitable to model ...
articles-10367892 from
- most people “take far too much pleasure in their beliefs to give th...
- One of the consequences of demateralisation is that things that “re...
- What we call history is, in practice, what we can bear to think abo...
- A general heuristic I’ve come to use to ascribe “value” to (a porti...
- Find the best teachers and take all their classes, no matter the su...
- Census figures show there are 40,000 more Latinos in Chicago than a...
- Chicago remains the third largest city in the country with a popula...
- I’m personally convinced that these companies are selling products ...
- although as with all plastic recycling, “downcycling” is the more a...
- At Maggie Daley Park, one of the project’s defining challenges was ...
- This sort of knowledge is what Dan Wang calls process knowledge - t...
- Jingu is famous for its tradition of periodic reconstruction, known...
- The four elements of credible neutrality are: (1) Don’t write speci...
- But just as the gig economy mode of work brought about negative con...
articles-10391595 from interconnected.org
- To summarise those desirable qualities, a good notation is: Compos...
- Or to be more specific, urbanist Kevin Lynch’s city maps from his 1...
articles-10391626 from gist.github.com
- Everything has an interface. A platform has an API. A computer has ...
- The value of a product is the number of problems it can solve divid...
articles-10391678 from annehelen.substack.com
articles-10391838 from thesephist.com
- Recollection is such a small, basic part of thinking! There is so m...
- A tool is something that takes an existing workflow, and makes it m...
articles-10407172 from www.floridapoliticalreview.com
articles-10423006 from sarahmock.substack.com
- Why is that a hard message to communicate through marketing, especi...
- A few months ago, I was at an event that asked this question of par...
- Consumers want perfection, but farmers want commodity,” he said. T...
- The process [of regenerative ag] is expensive, since farmers who em...
articles-10432102 from blgtylr.substack.com
- There have always been people who have had to censor themselves and...
- I talked to strangers, and listened to them, and felt my face heat ...
articles-10461513 from blgtylr.substack.com
articles-10664054 from blog.appsignal.com
articles-10664092 from charity.wtf
articles-10680535 from clivethompson.medium.com
articles-10809570 from twitter.com
articles-10810099 from www.garbageday.email
articles-10814542 from www.thecut.com
- never again let anyone tell you that the fury or determination to f...
- I have seethed as generations of Democrats have argued that if we c...
articles-10815193 from rachelbythebay.com
articles-10823292 from twitter.com
articles-10898435 from future.a16z.com
- A lot of developer tools also assume a developer will switch to an ...
- If our notion of “what is supposed to happen” is getting weaker, th...
- most of the conversations around developer experience are about how...
- With developers spending less than a third of their time actually w...
articles-10898931 from www.newyorker.com
articles-10899129 from interconnected.org
articles-10915354 from tinyletter.com
- Alice Waters had this incredibly boss move at Chez Panisse where, f...
- Luxury always boils down to time: someone is paying a lot of money ...
articles-10915406 from subconscious.substack.com
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articles-11111398 from infinitegossip.substack.com
articles-11267158 from www.investopedia.com
articles-12188029 from futureofurbantech.org
articles-12188035 from kneelingbus.substack.com
- Like climate change, COVID is settling into its status as a “permac...
- when Netflix drops a big new show “it feels like a software update ...
articles-12188109 from fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com
articles-12188120 from apenwarr.ca
articles-12223516 from theprepared.org
articles-12260833 from www.garbageday.email
- I hope the history books written about this moment in American hist...
- In a now-deleted tweet, a friend recently remarked on how she was s...
articles-12261590 from nautil.us
articles-12261824 from annehelen.substack.com
articles-12262237 from kottke.org
articles-12262591 from macwright.com
articles-12265145 from sarahendren.substack.com
articles-12280535 from news.ycombinator.com
articles-12286101 from www.infoq.com
articles-12304474 from buttondown.email
- And regulations are written in blood, so we’ll only get enforced le...
- TDD/FP/Agile zealots are probably zealots because adopting TDD/FP/A...
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articles-12351662 from en.m.wikipedia.org
articles-12361479 from news.ycombinator.com
articles-12362309 from lethain.com
articles-12403263 from ferd.ca
- THE MEANING OF A COMMUNICATION IS THE BEHAVIOUR THAT RESULTS. [[Pl...
- The classification scheme used here is possibly the clearest one I&...
articles-12474652 from theprepared.org
articles-12502521 from blog.rinesi.com
supplementals-10325377 from Greg Egan
articles-12649116 from mothersundertheinfluence.substack.com
supplementals-10287606 from Richard Rothstein
- There is generally no judicial remedy for a policy that the Supreme...
- The full cycle went like this: when a neighborhood first integrated...
supplementals-10287581 from Claire L. Evans
supplementals-10325372 from Geoff Manaugh
- In a 2003 memoir called Where the Money Is: True Tales from the Ban...
- Today, nearly 150 years later, burglary and architecture still go h...
books-22695053 from James Clear
- This is one reason why we continually grasp for the latest get-rich...
- Happiness is the state you enter when you no longer want to change ...
- Sometimes a habit will be hard to remember and you’ll need to make ...
- Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in the w...
- When I suggested this to friends in the Pentagon they said, ‘My God...
- it’s not always about what happens during the workout. It’s about b...
- Similarly, if your reward for exercising is eating a bowl of ice cr...
- We imitate the habits of three groups in particular: The close....
- Stop thinking about your environment as filled with objects. Start ...
- In this way, the most common form of change is not internal, but ex...
- The 1st Law of Behavior Change is to make it obvious. Strategies li...
- Whenever you want to change your behavior, you can simply ask yours...
- your habits are how you embody your identity [[An Easy & P...
- Goals are about the results you want to achieve. Systems are about ...
supplementals-10287579 from Michael Lewis
- The Gestalists showed that there was no obvious relationship betwee...
- It confirmed Biederman’s sense that “most advances in science come ...
articles-21426694 from Josh Beckman
articles-21427644 from James Somers
articles-21447407 from Josh Beckman
articles-21447495 from ferd.ca
articles-21452335 from Matthew Green
articles-21517689 from Zack Korman
articles-21537620 from Josh Beckman
- the crypto industry in 2022 rediscovered the 2008 financial crisis....
- He is making multi-year, illiquid, unhedgeable speculative investme...
articles-21642423 from Marc Brooker
articles-21760542 from Rob Henderson
articles-21806211 from Robin Sloan
- The cotton gin, a canonical example of automation, perversely incre...
- In most places, the olive harvest is mechanized, but that’s only po...
articles-21839201 from Sebastian Trzcinski-Clément
- what the chemical industry calls “verbund.” This is a setup in whic...
- mere-exposure effect: doing something many times makes us believe w...
- The promotion of brainstorming as a starting point is all the more ...
- Many students and academic writers think like the early ship owners...
- An idea kept private is as good as one you never had. [[How to Tak...
articles-21854139 from Irrational Exuberance
articles-21855580 from Interconnected
articles-21861061 from Josh Beckman
- if you are talking about “numerous black swans” then you have made ...
- In the glory days, Olympus enthusiasts dressed up this insight in t...
articles-22099228 from Josh Beckman
articles-22099607 from The Third Bit
articles-22100252 from Reverb Machine
- Stereo width is a big part of the Glowed Up mix, with the 808 and s...
- Sidechain compression listens to a second track to decide when to b...
articles-22146397 from Kate Ray
articles-22155142 from Christopher Brown
articles-22196885 from Ferd.ca
- As far as I can tell, cognitive bandwidth and network bandwidth bot...
- the Law of stretched systems: Every system is stretched to oper...
articles-22433841 from marcelo.rinesi
- There’s a third impact of AI harder to spot and even harder to sell...
- Essentially, the use of AI as a technology has less of a meta-strat...
- using AI to design products is more powerful than using AI as a pro...
articles-22433977 from lethain.com
- My general view on beliefs is that we get to choose them, so we sho...
- Ultimately, I decided not to, and developed the idea that I should ...
books-22465999 from Joshua McFadden
- There is no need to cut croutons into perfect little squares! Just ...
- Before using dried fruit I rehydrate it in a bowl of water with a s...
- because nuts like all fatty ingredients will absorb odors. [[Six S...
- Cheese is a living thing that needs to breathe. Waxed paper or spec...
- Buy them in small quantities and replenish them often instead of ha...
- What will keep beans tough, though, is acid, so never cook beans in...
- Don't store in plastic containers, because the plastic can abso...
- Never buy preground or precracked pepper, ever! You want the fresh,...
- Those little shakers on the table are of no help when you cook; you...
- Build layers into your dish, like you're making nachos. Hide th...
- All roots have edible greens, so catch them early when they're ...
- please note-when grilling or charring, skip the oil. Cook your vege...
articles-22472550 from ~ uday schultz
- Eventually, you reach this list’s conclusion, which lies in an unas...
- To achieve that braking safety, the subway’s signal architecture wo...
articles-22478618 from University of Texas in Austin
- the programmer's task is not just to write down a program, but ...
- the program is an abstract symbol manipulator, which can be turned ...
- the vast majority of our mechanisms are viewed as analogue devices ...
- It is probably more illuminating to go a little bit further back, t...
- My point today is that, if we wish to count lines of code, we shoul...
articles-22478619 from Fernando Borretti
- in the web, it makes sense that links should reflect potential, sin...
- Most of our thoughts appear and pass away instantly, for good reaso...
articles-22478620 from wikipedia.org
articles-22479293 from bytes.zone
articles-22489188 from ycombinator.com
articles-22614091 from Katelyn Jetelina from Your Local Epidemiologist
articles-22734735 from Ferd.ca
articles-22739365 from Hundred Rabbits
- one of the realization that I hadworking on something like this was...
- and soall Apple products broke almostinstantly and uhall the tools ...
- our philosophy is that to make fastsoftware you need slow computers...
articles-22743765 from xxiivv.com
- Scavenge-friendly electronics are parts that are no longer manufact...
- Designing for Disassembly ensures that all elements of a product ca...
- Utilizing what has survived the collapse of industrial production o...
- Utilizing only already available computational resources, to be lim...
- Utilizing computational resources as finite and precious, to be uti...
- The abundance of digital storage and processing power has caused an...
- A post-collapse society that has eventually lost all of its artific...
- Collapse informatics prioritizes community needs and aims to contri...
- Designing for Descent ensures that a system is resilient to intermi...
- Asking for the most suitable programming language for permacomputin...
articles-22916781 from Sara Hendren from undefended / undefeated
- As a religion, social justice works. It works not merely in the sen...
- What is the alternative to naïve cynicism? An active response to wh...
- But the hyperobject that is climate change requires the very kind o...
articles-22928629 from Josh Beckman
articles-22928918 from Josh Beckman
articles-22929133 from Matt Levine
- In conditions of uncertainty, you might be tempted to use a low mar...
- If you run a mutual fund, a high mark is good for investors who tak...
articles-22952494 from Idle Words
- So to summarize–downballot races are cheap, cost-effective, and bec...
- Even in a normal year, early money is many times more effective tha...
articles-22985500 from INDIGNITY, from the makers of HMM WEEKLY
articles-22988861 from Filipe Espósito
articles-22989628 from Josh Beckman
articles-22990217 from marcbrooker@gmail.com (Marc Brooker)
- Erasure Coding is a ubiquitous technique in storage and physical ne...
- Let's think about that cache again: when that one node is down,...
- Erasure coding is the idea that we can take a blob of data, break i...
articles-22991797 from Robin Sloan
- Skeptics of solar feasibility pantomime a kind of technical realism...
- We live on a sun-drenched blue marble hanging in space, and for all...
articles-23041592 from Tyler Cowen
- pruning for sparsity – turns out some LLMs work just as well if you...
- distillation – a technique by which larger, more capable models can...
articles-23041652 from Alon Levy
articles-23043128 from Patrick McKenzie (patio11)
- And so when one wonders why newsletters “came out of nowhere” just ...
- The single biggest thing Substack accomplished was legitimizing a S...
- One publication well-known enough by cognoscenti to get namechecked...
articles-23075757 from Alicia Kennedy
articles-23075791 from Tyler Cowen
articles-23082597 from ycombinator.com
articles-23083022 from Josh Beckman
- Self-worth, the unexpected corollary of having positive archetypes ...
- The world is mostly shaped by wealth, more so than ever as technolo...
articles-23099042 from Bits about Money
- The IRS says: "To be deductible, a business expense must be bo...
- you can pay me money, and I will continue writing. If you (in aggre...
articles-23099136 from Marcin Wichary
- Like the orbits of all other satellites, and of the Space Station, ...
- Weightlessness is bad for the bones, but good for the soul. [[The ...
articles-23119587 from Kevin Chung
articles-23119910 from Jack Clark
articles-23133095 from Matt Levine
articles-23133353 from Jack Clark
articles-23155612 from Garbage Day
articles-23155921 from Patrick McKenzie (patio11)
articles-23156647 from Matt Webb
articles-23195508 from lethain.com
- I’d argue that field-level encryption should be a starting place fo...
- From the perspective of non-mega-platform companies, I think this i...
- While today there’s a wide distance between GDPR, CCPA, HITRUST, Fe...
articles-23203554 from Matt Levine
- His only real hope of avoiding many years in prison is to convince ...
- Yeah I mean a general lesson here is that you want to be in the sor...
articles-23204332 from Casey Newton
articles-23207274 from Matt Levine
- But, paradoxically, crypto is much more reliant on trust than the r...
- It was like a fantastical version of their old jobs, a new financia...
articles-23220083 from Astral Codex Ten
articles-23226596 from Cold Takes
- • Maybe they’re just creating massive amounts of “digital represe...
- The lab mice problem Today's "subhuman" AIs are safe....
- The King Lear problem The AI is (actually) well-behaved when human...
- The Lance Armstrong problem Did we get the AI to be actually safe o...
articles-23257650 from Garbage Day
articles-23259660 from Mandy Brown
- That, for me, is the big difference between altruism—or its close c...
- And when you’re afraid of someone’s judgment, you can’t connect wit...
- Asking for help with shame says: You have the power over me. Askin...
articles-23297748 from Field Notes from Christopher Brown
articles-23303229 from stephenwolfram.com
supplementals-23306724 from Richard W. Hamming and Bret Victor
- Lastly, in a sense this is a religious course: I am preaching the m...
- In a lifetime of many, many independent choices, small and large, a...
- Education is what, when, and why to do things. Training is how to d...
articles-23313384 from Matt Webb
- as users becomes accustomed to agents and NPCs, we’ll see more inte...
- Laurel suggests that we see the computer screen as a stage on which...
- the computer interface has always been a multiplayer environment fo...
- Next we bring in creative divergence. How? Geists! Geists will be l...
articles-23313575 from Thinkst Thoughts
articles-23341095 from Garbage Day
articles-23342203 from Jack Clark
articles-23383322 from Shopify
articles-23423585 from Craig Mod
articles-23457150 from Rob Walker Art of Noticing
articles-23477641 from Matt Levine
- Around here I often quote the most important thing I learned at Gol...
- Another lesson is that, when junior investment bankers work all nig...
- the Howey test of what makes an “investment contract” a security is...
articles-23531840 from Hillel Wayne
articles-23532058 from Matt Levine
- At least sometimes, it seems, there is more demand for a very safe ...
- This is one of the main things that happens in finance. It describe...
articles-23532819 from Irrational Exuberance
- Disproportionately impactful engineering teams are distinguished by...
- A cost center is a function that is operated by optimizing its exis...
articles-23533049 from Katelyn Jetelina from Your Local Epidemiologist
articles-23535671 from Interconnected
- Accretive tools build over time. Developer tools tend to work like ...
- Ephemeral tools are about the conversation. Slack is one. Zoom is a...
- The room is architected for discussions and decisions, not just vis...
articles-23564154 from Drew DeVault's blog
articles-23572249 from subbu.org
articles-23572763 from Kate Ray from soft leaves
articles-23585780 from Andrew Huberman
articles-23585918 from marcelo.rinesi
articles-23608765 from Irrational Exuberance
- Use the Q&A as an opportunity to highlight individuals doin...
- I start every Q&A by saying, “I’m glad to talk about anythi...
- Many engineers won’t get to work with you directly, and they will l...
- Good reviews are anchored in feedback from the audience, and discus...
- The most effective communication within an organization is between ...
articles-23609459 from ongoing by Tim Bray
articles-23617566 from Jason Kottke
articles-23617690 from Garbage Day
- The main issue here is that, at least when it comes to online platf...
- If you don’t know the difference between something like DALL-E 2 an...
- The term was “Web 2.0” was first coined in 1999 by technologist Dar...
articles-23622704 from Second Marathon Archive Feed
articles-23622819 from Irrational Exuberance
- A surprising amount of executive time is spent cleaning up messes. ...
- updates establish a persistent drip of information from you to the ...
- you can significant improve the quality of internal communcations w...
articles-23652459 from news.ycombinator.com
articles-23656845 from wikipedia.org
articles-23854026 from Irrational Exuberance
- Create capacity (rather than capture it). This value focuses leader...
- Default to vendors unless it’s our core competency. You can also wr...
- Follow existing patterns unless there’s an order of magnitude impro...
- Optimize for the {whole, business unit, team}. Pick one of these op...
- Approach conflict with curiosity. One of my foundational beliefs is...
- As described in Rumelt’s Good Strategy, Bad Strategy, a strategy is...
- Related, if you can see a better way to do it, strongly consider ke...
articles-23657212 from rjtavares
articles-23657787 from Craig Mod
articles-23677166 from Garbage Day
- The dark irony here is that corporatized communication is what made...
- Of course, OpenAI does offer a “social” feature, but the thing you’...
articles-23684826 from David Smith
- input the number of daily trials I have, and then my retention rate...
- I will say that based on playing around with lots of configurations...
articles-23717672 from Doug Belshaw
articles-23724393 from Matt Levine
articles-23745442 from Interconnected
articles-23777464 from xkcd.com
- Surely (no one/everyone) will (recognize how flexible and useful th...
- See also: The Lindy effect [[Code Lifespan from xkcd.com ...
articles-23777577 from Writing - rachelbythebay
articles-23777690 from Matt Webb
- Many years ago I got obsessed with habit-breaking days. We live our...
- Triadic closure is a concept in network theory which is when a netw...
articles-23778005 from Doug Belshaw
- The fundamental problem is that there’s a fundamental disagreement ...
- I think what has happened is there was a massive overestimation of ...
articles-23778086 from bueno.org
articles-23779510 from Adrian Colyer
- For large-scale software systems, Van Roy believes we need to embra...
- More generally, Van Roy sees a layered language design with four co...
- State introduces an abstract notion of time in programs. In functio...
- The point is to pick a paradigm with just the right concepts. Too f...
articles-23862446 from Hillel Wayne
articles-23869465 from Rob Walker Art of Noticing
articles-23869506 from joelparkerhenderson
- We have built many projects, and we believe the most valuable summa...
- The most important notation that summarizes a queue: • ρ: utiliz...
- • λ: arrival rate. This measures how fast new items are coming in...
articles-23869582 from Robin Sloan
- We feel rather than know (and many of us refuse to acknowledge) tha...
- This first lab newsletter of 2023 is very link-y, perhaps a bit raw...
articles-23922667 from marcelo.rinesi
- The answer, of course, is that the competitiveness of unaided indiv...
- Finance, like its cousin Poetry, is the use of precise language to ...
articles-23933872 from Matt Levine
articles-23934413 from Drew DeVault's blog
articles-23937606 from Matt Levine
articles-23957097 from Jason Kottke
articles-23957174 from Katelyn Jetelina from Your Local Epidemiologist
articles-23965015 from Gregory Gundersen
- Let’s demonstrate the method with an example. Consider computing th...
- Let’s demonstrate the method with an example. Consider computing th...
- Imagine we want to compute the square root of a number n. The basic...
articles-23965733 from Matt Levine
articles-23966475 from Filippo Valsorda
- Incentives are well aligned with the success of the open-source pro...
- Concretely, I exclusively offer ongoing retainer agreements, withou...
- if the effort required to replace or fork a dependency should it go...
- Virtually all maintainers are either volunteers or full-time employ...
articles-23778946 from 📝 Blog End-programmer Programming
articles-23777927 from Matt Webb
articles-23966782 from Jackie Luo
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