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Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield is a favorite of mine.

> Besides, erlang definitely gives you new perspective in building large scale system; supervision tree (let it crash), the actor concept, message passing, preemptive vm, built-in …

I'd argue the opposite. Since no one is catering to them and they're frustrated with all the new technologies they don't understand, the elderly would pay a premium for accessible …

As a temporary solution, you could spoof the user agent by running chromium from command line: chromium-browser --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML…

Good point! I always blindly assumed that removing whitespaces would lead to a decent size improvement, even after gzipping, so I ran a small test (gzip on linux, default parameter…

I really like Palo Alto for exactly the same reason. Nice sidewalk cafés and very walkable.

Unfortunately, few Caltech classes have lectures that are actually worth it to be posted online (unlike the MIT ones, who are IMO far superior in teaching quality, for the most par…

Excellent point. Since the Ancient Olympics, the Games were a period of truce. Any ongoing conflict was suspended. It was almost the only time where any disputes would be postponed…