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Small twists are great. It's interesting how dramatically different strategies and playstyles emerge from such twists. I made a wordle spinoff which has attracted far more users th…

Tactics are more essential for initial improvement than strategy for the simple reason that you cannot execute sound strategic plans if your execution contains tactical flaws.

chesstempo.com has the best library of free tactics puzzles IMO. They also support alternate puzzle modes like blitz (time to solve affects your rating) and mixed (some positions r…

Great tech talk from Thibault about lichess: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHP5AdRlRNY

Do you play a fair amount of chess? Your love of opening theory stands in contrast to the majority of chess players as far as I'm aware. Rich strategic themes emerge from complicat…

I don't think so, but Waymo started testing in Michigan. https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/26/waymo-to-start-testing-its...

Looks like it's all coming from use of the tzinfo gem. See: https://github.com/tzinfo/tzinfo/blob/61fdd4359117e9a406c546...

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It seems like the value of a human life should be greater (than solving male baldness) in financial terms in addition to humanist terms over the long time period. Wouldn't it make …

Whether or not the government should pick winners and losers is separate and unrelated to the question of market efficiency. Why can't I simultaneously acknowledge that externaliti…

Classic slippery slope fallacy. Until it's actually hard to turn off, this argument is meaningless. Privacy concerns aside, in what ways does this actually worsen the user experien…

How about this for motivation? You assign a due date and a dollar amount punishment when you create a todo list or task. When you fail to complete your tasks on the due date, your …

Command line utility I wrote which uses getpass: http://dpaste.com/hold/756011/

Today's hardware isn't as much of a bottleneck as it used to be. That's the simplest explanation for fewer programmers with low-level knowledge.

ReCaptchas are generated by failed attempts with OCR, which means the computer has no idea what the word actually is, and consequently can't know how it should be oriented. ReCapta…

It seems like the journalist never realized that his personal situation doesn't apply to everyone. We could use the same anecdotes and say something far more meaningful, like "life…

I couldn't agree more. In my personal circle of friends (college kids), I know maybe 2 or 3 people who regularly use these applications. Geosocial information has immense potential…

I completely agree. Let the market decide debates. Reduce the number of features you're immediately developing so you can launch and iterate faster. Get something out there pronto.…

I'll be interested in seeing how turntable.fm evolves. I love the idea, but if I'm interested in background music, I find it can often be inconsistent. It'd be cool if more rooms h…

I think ease of spelling was the problem I was getting at, not memorability, but after visiting Flippa, I can see your point.

Perfect example of how the web masks age: I'm 21.