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I'm gravitating more and more to using Walmart.com as a first stop. They seem to be ramping inventory way up, their site--especially search--is a pleasure to use compared to Amazon…

Ditto.

Your opinion about where you lie on the spectrum of capability has everything to do with your own perspective-building and very little to do with "reality", whatever that is. You'r…

Not just the app but the whole user experience: Amazon. Specifically, they should have figured out search by now, but no: the mapping from search terms to results is just a stab in…

It's not just niche users. I hated with a burning righteous rage every single release of iTunes. The overhead of all kinds that it imposed on access to my collection of music never…

Find your edges: read at the edge of what you're familiar with. When you have holes that need filling, you inhale the new information like a dry sponge slurps up water. Reading som…

An old one, but I might as well be the first: There are three hard problems in programming: naming, cache expiration and off-by-one errors.

Count another vote for Sophie's World as a breezy introduction. Call it the root node of your tree search.

As a man gets older, he seems more harmless, even neutered. At 66, I can now have much more substantive conversations with (for example) young women. Advice: some lessons come only…

"one gram of his weight over a kilometer of flat road at an expense of only 0.15 calories"? That can't be true. I weigh 70Kg, and I'm pretty sure I don't expend 10,000 calories rid…

There are people I read habitually (Tim Urban, Paul Graham, Shane Parrish, Neil Kakkar, etc.) to push my understanding of How The World Works, but I know there must be many more ou…

Did anyone deliberately create the situation we see out there? Then the assumption that rolling back requires censorship is, well, just an assumption. We've created an ecosystem of…

Count me in. I've been coding for years and years from just my 15" screen. Tabbing amongst windows (and tabs) that each occupy the whole screen feels far more transparent than hunt…

I can't read anything and have it stick unless I use it. But the hazard of doing a project is that you'll just recycle skills and strategies from earlier languages, which inhibits …

I would do Computer Science again because background (defined as a toolbox you can dig into opportunistically) is so important. But I never had anyone to teach me how to program: h…

Well, that's one opinion--unique, judging by the other responses. Someone asking for help and insight is "fake", "self-promotional", "nauseating" and manipulative? And downvotes on…

While this is more tactical than strategic, I've saved untold thousands of reading hours by firmly avoiding three kinds of stories: 1) predictions of the future (which are almost a…

It's a seller's market for developers on FounderDating, i.e., far more people with a startup idea than developers to implement it.