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I took similarly extreme measures to end my video game addiction many years ago. I played MMOs compulsively. They basically hijacked the reward center of my brain to the point wher…

I plan on following in Warren Buffett’s footsteps. Without his influence, I would be working the graveyard shift at a gas station right now. End goal career-wise is to amass as muc…

I hate to admit this but I wrote 3 of these woe—and-misery letters in the late ‘90s, when I was a teenager. One to Bill Gates, one to Bill Roper, and another to Chris Metzen. I did…

Isn’t it possible to become a billionaire without anyone knowing? What if you just get there quietly through private investment? Not a billion, but I’ve built up a decent chunk mys…

This is tangential to the article, but James being “a frequent commenter on his blog and a huge help to other readers” was my first sign that he was not mentally well. Immediately …

That’s a very good point, in that case even 50% would probably be optimistic. We can probably attribute this article’s novelty to the slow adoption of Python 3. In that way it’s pr…

Came to say the same.. insertion order of dict has been here for years for 90+% of Python users (CPython implementation) and a part of the language spec also for almost as many yea…