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Big fan of Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces and the accompanying lectures ( https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Classes/537/Spring2018/Disc... ). Free, high quality learning mater…

I frequently find myself coming back to this quote from the first lecture: And that is that computer science, in some sense, isn't real. You see, when an engineer is designing a ph…

I would absolutely watch The Real Penguinwives of Sumida , and I bet a lot of other people would too!

Love the story of the Rad Lab and radar before and during WW2. Two relevant books I've read recently(ish) that I'd recommend to anyone interested in learning more would be 1) The I…

The foreman had pointed out his best man - what was his name? - and, joking with the puzzled machinist, the three bright young men had hooked up the recording apparatus to the lath…

As a mentor, I like to set explicit expectations for how much time someone should spend digging before asking for help, and I encourage others to do the same. For an intern or new …

On a much less optimistic dark humor note, this is the same argument in If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies about a superintelligent AI emerging and being a threat to humans. https:…

I remember learning about the complex pumping machines running some of the reservoir pumps in Boston ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Waterworks_Museum ), where they ma…

Reminds me of the purported Ralph Waldo Emerson quote which rings true for myself as well: “I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, the…

Sounds like the same energy as fan death in South Korea: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death

That's a great call-out, and it (along with the change itself) underlines the importance of not letting fun get in the way of actual engineering improvements. Defunnification as a …

I remember seeing this in React's __SECRET_INTERNALS_DO_NOT_USE_OR_YOU_WILL_BE_FIRED, and I've always enjoyed similar lighthearted and unwieldingly-long names. Unfortunately I see …

I always enjoyed the cover of Jeff Erickson‘s Algorithms book, which is al-Khwarizmi in this style. https://jeffe.cs.illinois.edu/teaching/algorithms/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wi…

Great, thanks for the pointer! I see it was published in 1999, so I imagine it’ll be a good time-capsule read too, even if it predates the dot com bubble burst and the eventual Ora…

I enjoy historical books about the rise, fall, and everything in between for companies in the industry — things like The Idea Factory about Bell Labs, Dealers of Lightning about Xe…

That's a good question, and I could easily see the camera settings (and the light) being a source of error here. Naively, I used the default iPhone camera with the same exposure fo…

Taking another look, I think you're right! Particularly since the first orange is pretty orange already. I think the first example would have been better served with a yellower, le…

Change we can see is better than change behind the scenes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juiced_ball_theory , https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/juiced-baseballs

For years, I've been good heartedly losing the blog SEO ranking fight to a great developer and writer who has the same name as me. A football player eclipses us both if you just go…

"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department, " says Wernher von Braun. Tom Lehrer - Wernher von Braun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJ9Hr…

> It was in this context that the city decided to demolish the neighborhood known as Scollay Square and build in its place what would come to be called Government Center. It’s inte…