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I love swimming in the Bay. It's exhilarating to get into the cold water, especially when you get into a rhythm. And you feel great afterwards. Just make sure you've got a plan to …

Congrats on building and releasing this passion project! I love the hand drawn aesthetic. You had a vision and made something totally unique on your sabbatical. I hope you don't ge…

It does strike me as thinly veiled virtue signaling. It can be summarized as: Earnestness is a virtue that I, in my benevolence, recognize in others ("nerds"). I too am earnest. Si…

This is my approach as well. It's probably not great for the drives since they have to spin up every power cycle, but it's a lot more energy efficient than having a server running …

Reminds me of this anecdote about Salvador Dali: > In the 1940s [Salvador Dali] was commissioned by Max Factor to create a brand name and a bottle for their latest perfume. Dali ac…

> According to the framed Beagle Bros. "Peeks, Pokes and Pointers" chart that hangs above my desk and reminds me that technical writing should be wondrous, useful, and fun (but not…

I think we can add a few more genres to our list... Popularizations - The Paradox of Choice - The Long Tail - The Shallows - Freakonomics - Where Good Ideas Come From Podcasts - Th…

This looks like it will be a terrific resource for beginners and will help to fill in a lot of knowledge gaps. Beginners face a dizzying array of resources, opinions, languages. Kn…

Location: San Francisco, California (US Citizen). Remote: Preferably not. Willing to relocate: No. Technologies: python, javascript, ruby, html, css, git, rails/sinatra, google app…

I've enjoyed working with riot.js ( https://muut.com/riotjs/ ). It's a "minimalist" front end framework, written in vanilla javascript. It's easy to pick up, and it's not super opi…

"Expose your Ignorance" is a phrase I like from the book Apprenticeship Patterns . I think it cuts two ways: admitting to yourself what you don't know, and admitting to the people …

One of the best stories from the PGP saga is that Zimmerman worked with MIT Press to have the entire PGP source code published, in machine readable print. This allowed him to make …

> I’ve got a file of counterarguments to my own theory Thank you for having scientific integrity. Falsifiability for the win.

I am a Junior Web Developer researching companies that practice pair programming (and hopefully agile, tdd). I feel this would be the best environment for me to continue to hone my…