Ask HN: What essay/blogpost do you keep going back to reread? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What essay/blogpost do you keep going back to reread?

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Post by majjam » Thu, Oct 05, 2017, 6:50 AM UTC

The Legion Lonely: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15000729 (I always keep the HN link for the comments but its the blog post Im talking about)

Re: Ask HN: What essay/blogpost do you keep going back to reread?

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Post by wiml » Thu, Oct 05, 2017, 6:50 AM UTC

On Scott and Scurvy: http://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm

Re: Ask HN: What essay/blogpost do you keep going back to reread?

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Post by taejavu » Thu, Oct 05, 2017, 6:51 AM UTC

Electricity Misconceptions Spread by k-6 Textbooks: http://amasci.com/miscon/elect.html

Re: Ask HN: What essay/blogpost do you keep going back to reread?

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Post by robin_reala » Thu, Oct 05, 2017, 6:51 AM UTC

Black Triangles by Rampant Games:

http://rampantgames.com/blog/?p=7745

Re: Ask HN: What essay/blogpost do you keep going back to reread?

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Post by steven_noble » Thu, Oct 05, 2017, 6:52 AM UTC

This response to someone on StackOverflow asking how to parse HTML with regex: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/145684

Re: Ask HN: What essay/blogpost do you keep going back to reread?

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Post by cardmagic » Thu, Oct 05, 2017, 6:53 AM UTC

14 years ago: the day Teller gave me the secret to my career in magic

http://shwood.squarespace.com/news/2009/9/21/14-years-ago-th...

Re: Ask HN: What essay/blogpost do you keep going back to reread?

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Post by pacificleo11 » Thu, Oct 05, 2017, 6:53 AM UTC

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13574916 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14163905

Re: Ask HN: What essay/blogpost do you keep going back to reread?

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Post by zulak » Thu, Oct 05, 2017, 6:54 AM UTC

Joel Spolsky, "Things You Should Never Do, Part I": https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...

It seems like common sense, but every few months I need a reminder that I should prefer to incrementally refactor/re-architect the codebase I have, rather than start from scratch.

Re: Ask HN: What essay/blogpost do you keep going back to reread?

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Post by imartin2k » Thu, Oct 05, 2017, 6:55 AM UTC

What You Can't Say http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html

The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...

Re: Ask HN: What essay/blogpost do you keep going back to reread?

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Post by cousin_it » Thu, Oct 05, 2017, 6:58 AM UTC

aalhour wrote: post #6

"This Is Water" speech, by David Wallace. Link: http://www.befreetoday.com.au/this-is-water/

As a counterpoint, see Cushman's comment in this thread about DFW: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2909562

I've reread it probably hundreds of times, it might be the single most insightful HN comment I've ever read.