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5/08/16 »
Things learned since last post:
- Why should I believe in a God? One compelling reason: if belief improves your own life and those around you - the ends justify the means.
- The rise of co-living. The weather service no longer using all caps.
- Interview with founder of MetaFilter on running a lifestyle business.
- The three reasons that we keep secrets.
- Obama after dark
- Artificial waiting patterns.
- LaCroix rankings.
- The life of a famous restaurant critic.
- How to handle a DDoS.
- Watching shared media is good for relationships.
- A perspective on mistakes.
- Whenever you can, do something nice for future you.
- Michael Chabon on his son’s love of streetwear.
- Build a bot of a dead person with a neural network.
- The business of Halloween.
- How to get upgrades in hotels.
- Some of the best fiction of 2016.
- 100 most influential photos of all time.
- Sotheby’s
- 52 things someone learned in 2016.
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2/6/16 »
Things learned since last post:
- A rebranding effort by Uber.
- A history of the super bowl coin toss and the company behind it.
- Clone Wars recommended viewing order.
- The top 30 books on HN in 2015.
- The art of changing someone’s mind.
- Cool old map of London.
- What make a child resilient?
- How the creator of ProductHunt was able to get it to spread.
- 100 jokes that shaped modern comedy.
- Free airport wifi via a DNS tunnel.
- Dude intentionally gets hacked.
- Mother Earth, Mother Board
- When you fail at habits or procrastinate, ask why deeply.
- Instead of self-promoting, get someone else to do it for you - the art of bragging.
- Treasure Hill - A Taipei slum turned art piece.
- Adda + to any goo.gl or bit.ly link for analytics.
- The media will tear Hillary down because so many need a close race.
- Postable - card delivery service.
- HackerRank - Programming problems and recruiting site.
- More guides for using Git and FlexBox.
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11/09 »
Things learned since last post:
- Cool word watch: Prurient - Having or encouraging an excessive interest in sexual matters. from Latin prurient- ‘itching, longing’ and ‘being wanton,’ from the verb prurire.
- Profile on Terry Gross.
- Class clown or gifted student?
- Profile on Ashima and her father.
- Dive into Machine Learning!
- TensorFlow, Google’s new library for machine learning.
- Learning to center with Flexbox froggy.
- Some interesting things:
- Try removing the shopping cart completely from an e-commerce store if possible.
- For emotion-driven purchases, remove the cents ($15). For logic-driven, add them ($14.95).
- The life and times of Strider Wolf.
- Opinion piece on how chill is the enemy of passion.
- Does psychological trauma affect the price of a home?
- The Chinese owned lingerie market of Egypt.
- A life without raw chicken.
- Running an arcade in 2015.
- On kindness.
- The world of re-commerce.
- Most marketers don’t care about statistics - or how A/B testing is a sham.
- The hardest part of programming is troubleshooting.
- Beginner’s guide to scaling with AWS.
- Sketch - an alternative to Photoshop for web design.
- Donald Rumsfeld gets into the app game market.
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10/30 »
Things learned since last post:
- Cool word watch: Apophany - The tendency to perceive meaningful patterns within random data.
- 100 days of haiku
- 1946 piece on Hiroshima.
- Fun game - argument champion.
- How to scrape Facebook.
- Be generous with compliments and seek them out to perform at your best and help others do so.
- Netflix’s principle of chaos engineering lets them test system failure during business hours.
- Training for job interviews.
- The best longreads from Playboy.
- Pingendo - software for visually working with Bootstrap.
- Hotstuff’s word puzzle archive.
- An article about making friends.
- Why most app voices are female and some other interesting considerations behind deciding on a voice.
- The first rule of Dig Club.
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7/10 »
Things learned since last post:
- Cool word watch: Recrudescence - The revival of material or behavior that had previously been stabilized, settled, or diminished.
- The difference between functions and methods in Javascript is mostly semantic. Even if a function is associated with an object, it really isn’t a method because it doesn’t belong to the object.
- How to create a constant as an object property in JS.
- Nuances in iterating over arrays.
- The Doum-Tree of Wad Hamid. Thesis: there is enough room in the world for both tradition and modernization. New development does not necessitate the destruction of the past.
- Classes in Javascript are optional, and aren’t really the same as in other languages. In JS, class = copy.
- Relative polymorphism is the idea that any method can reference another method at a higher level of the inheritance hierarchy. In JS, this is through the
inheritedkeyword. For many other languages, it issuper. - From PG on essays - “The Meander (aka Menderes) is a river in Turkey. As you might expect, it winds all over the place. But it doesn’t do this out of frivolity. The path it has discovered is the most economical route to the sea.”
- A Little Cloud by Joyce. Jealousy makes someone look upon their own life with a tint of loathing.
- Why VR will bring back the arcade.
- Do social networks reduce the diversity of the web? I’m not sure the author is correct but it is an interesting idea.
- Interesting Quora answer linked below. Define mastery goals, not performance ones, For difficult problems.