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I migrated to Reader from Instapaper, which was crashing all the time, so I had little to lose. Before that, my company used Diigo, which felt clunky and unloved. Reader is incredi…

And Hemi, not Hemmi.

I suspect the phenomenon is explained by the Predictive Processing model (which is explained well here: http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/05/book-review-surfing-unc... )

Board Game Geek's gift guide is great for newcomers. The 2017 one is just out: https://www.boardgamegeek.com/wiki/page/Board_Game_Gift_Guid... I found it particularly useful to sta…

At the very least, I wish HIBP could distinguish between whether the data contains an email-plus-password or the email address only.

Does this apply to Macs? I know that many Mac users don't use anti-virus. Are they right not to?

I agree. I struggled through Zinsser and didn't highlight much. My colleagues and I have read over 50 books about writing and our 11 favorites are here: http://www.conversion-rate-…

What are the best things you've read about personal identity?

So am I right in understanding that… (i) When my new MacBook Pro arrives, I need to learn which is the Thunderbolt port. (ii) I can simplify matters by always buying the top-spec l…

Many musicians much better than me are surprised at how I can play a song just by hearing it on the radio. My breakthrough came from understanding music was realizing that the real…

>always, always, always, split test EVERYTHING Side projects tend to not have the traffic for this. If in doubt, use a calculator to calculate how long it would take to statistical…

And just because two words sound similar doesn't mean they have similar roots. The word for “dog” in the Australian Aboriginal language Mbabaram happens to be “dog,” not because th…

The scientific research into happiness is summarised in the book “The How of Happiness.” And the whole book is precised in the following eight-minute rap: https://www.youtube.com/w…

I write for a living (conversion copywriting). My favorite resources are all at the bottom of this article my colleagues and I wrote: http://www.conversion-rate-experts.com/writing…

What are its advantages over placeit.net?

In his book, “Playing to the Gallery,” the artist Grayson Perry attempts to answer this question. I'll summarize his definition because I found it interesting and challenging: He b…

Two more quotes about this subject: Jeff Atwood: “the best code is no code at all. Every new line of code you willingly bring into the world is code that has to be debugged, code t…

I've spent literally hours exploring Frax for iOS. The images are incredible: http://fract.al/

>correlation does not imply causation Perhaps we should say, “Correlation correlates with causation.” (Because causation is a subset of correlation.)

Ah, I assumed that the job listings were paid.