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I recently read the pragmatic programmer, and want to read more books with a theme of developing my career as a software engineer.

Inertia, I guess - I'd have to get it set up and all and vim works fine for me now.

The author thinks that porn literacy is a good thing, but she notes that it's difficult to teach students to read texts you can't show them.

My blog: https://ahalbert.com/ I just got back to public writing, but I like to share summaries of the books I read. My most recent post is the secret history of cold war submarine…

Yes. I summarize books I read and share what I learned.

It's ok. It's quite long and there's a lot of stories.

That's what I said in the article.

As far as my favorite poltical biographies go, I think the ones that gave me the most understanding of politics was the Robert A Caro biographies, "The Power Broker" and "The Years…

I don't know, but I wrote nearly 3000 words on the last book review I did. I'd say I spend less time than 90 minutes per chapter. I'm also sharing the reviews, which I find the mos…

I do it on my college alum slack channel, but I recently wrote one up that made it to the front page of HN: https://ahalbert.com/reviews/2023/06/04/the_culture_map.html I took some…

I recently started writing reviews of each book I read. I found it helps me retain the contents of the book and often people give positive feedback about what they learned from my …

I love using Awk, the only thing I miss is that it can't handle complex csv files. Does anyone know how to handle quoted CSV strings like > "foo","bar,baz"

I'm not a biologist, but I know from other biologist that is often difficult to cultivate cells in a lab. Kudos to him for mastering such a difficult art

When will the model be available?