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For me, the benefit of pi is what it doesn't do.

Thank you! <3

In Praise of Idleness, Bertrand Russel

unspun | Swift Engineer | San Francisco Bay Area We built an automated process for creating perfectly fitting jeans. Starting from a customer’s 3D body scan, our system generates c…

unspun | Swift Engineer | San Francisco Bay Area We built an automated process for creating perfectly fitting jeans. Starting from a customer’s 3D body scan, our system generates c…

It's too soon.

This quote. > We worked at a startup that leveraged autonomous blockchains to transfer money from naïve investors to slightly less naïve twenty-somethings. There are worse gigs.

There seems to be an unfair comparison between the various network architectures. The reported speed and accuracy improvements should be taken with a bit of scepticism for two reas…

I had no idea which parts of this website were real.

Reading HN, Smashing Magazine, and A List Apart will pay off greatly in a few years.

You mostly have a presentation problem if you have marketable skills that won't sell. I started when I was 15 and the trick was displaying confidence, humility, and maturity in eve…

Life Work by Donald Hall

There's a meetup for your favorite JS library here, but I haven't found a group that I deeply enjoy going to yet. The challenge has been finding the right proportions of casualness…

I work at an early-stage startup where we all do a bit of devops, but I end up doing most of the configuration.

I've been waiting for this day for a long, long time.

My guiding principle is to code something so that you only have to code it once.

> I am concerned that scientific and technological advancements are happening faster than intellectual and moral progress. I couldn't agree more.