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This is a critique of the VC ecosystem based on a dichotomy of "inflated" versus "fundamental" value, with a CTA to hackers to "do something about it." Here's one that better suits…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_work_ethic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protestant_Ethic_and_the_S... It's one of the classic subjects in sociology, https://oyc.yale.…

I miss the very calming, cold, solid, metal feeling of desktop software. Log back in after a vacation, and everything's still there. A window with "maybe" resizable panels and a me…

> "Chatbots can pass the Turing test—but they can’t yet handle an office worker’s inbox."

Interesting how titles alone has been getting the front page recently.

Titles get the headlines.

So, “Let’s build carbon-titanium-foldable bicycles instead of bloated modern cars, and still get from A to B?” How many mainstream online platform users care about the difference i…

Back from when those screencasts were a thing, http://vimcasts.org/episodes/

I have came to the understanding that the things that we'd like to keep track of as "todos" are more like "issues," than specific and physical actions. The "tasks" are only meant f…

I’ve been expecting the article to be along the lines of “DON’T sell yourself, sell the WORK instead.” But, no. It’s the good old “20 content, 80 delivery” advice. > “But you still…

Help me understand what is so “great” about a writing style that reads like a couple of tech bros cracking jokes next to a water cooler, please? That, “You” language spread all ove…

Pausing and resuming downloads, and fetching bytes in splits would turn curl into a download manager like aria2.

Can’t we stop naming things with “Yet Another,” yet?