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I am typing this on an 2017 iMac Pro running Intel, which has been my main work and personal machine for the last 7 years. I do like 90% of my computing on it. Works fine, I kinda …

Dan Luu is great. If he's up your alley, you may also like Steve Sinofsky ("Hardcore Software"), Raymond Chen ("The Old New Thing"), and if you're in to the business & finance side…

My approach is mostly to curate your news/social/stream feed to individual people that post the sort of things you like, and to slower-moving publications. Limit your follows on so…

Big +1 to this. Much of the programming stuff I've read that's made a big difference to me and my skills and career has been the older "classic" and fundamental stuff. Unless it's …

+1. Sneakers is the best hacker movie we've made yet.

I think this is all good advice. Including the "type it out yourself" bit. I'd add a recommendation for _Code Complete_ by Steve McConnell, which is like 2/3 Programming and 1/3 So…

Beware of the Cormen et al "Introduction to Algorithms". It's a good book. But while it says "introduction", it's typically used for like a third-year undergrad who has a fair amou…

Seconding the recommendation of The Little Schemer, especially as a beginner book. Very accessible and low time investment, but even as an intermediate programmer when I read it, I…

One more "yes, daily" here. I'm on Freenode for tech topics: #octave, ##matlab, #zsh, #bash, #machomebrew, and #macports are active and useful. And I have a group of friends who ar…

LimeChat is great. I use their mobile version, and it is about the fastest iOS app I've ever used. I'm still Textual on the desktop, though.

"formulae" is plural for "formula".

Very interesting theory. Anybody have a link to an actual source for Carmack's interest in virtual "worlds" instead of just games? Everything I've found from searching is talking a…