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"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.
This response to someone on StackOverflow asking how to parse HTML with regex: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/145684
I used to love this answer but after I realised that it's same irrational peddling of best practices as "don't-use-goto". There can be many cases where parsing HTML with Regex is abuse, but equally others where it's the best available solution. I wasted countless hours in working with lame HTML libraries, their limited options for selectors, their frustrating failures with invalid HTML, all because of this advice. Lo…
Another thing is that you don't really need to handle HTML at all, only a small subsection that might be totally fine with a regex, even a simple one, for a lot of cases.
The true enemy is parsing something that might change over time, and that's totally unrelated to the regex issue.
http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2008/02/26/san...
Meta-question: how do you keep track of these? Every now and then I come upon something and I think "Oh, I should definitely re-read this!". But then, eventually, I end up forgetting about it. Are these just things that often come up and re-read them because you know they're worth it, or do you actively keep track of them somehow?
1. How language influences emotion - https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/12/the-book-...
2. The Kekule Problem - http://nautil.us/issue/47/consciousness/the-kekul-problem
Both of them very thought provoking and excellent articles.
http://bookofhook.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/smart-guy-productiv...
Meta-question: how do you keep track of these? Every now and then I come upon something and I think "Oh, I should definitely re-read this!". But then, eventually, I end up forgetting about it. Are these just things that often come up and re-read them because you know they're worth it, or do you actively keep track of them somehow?
Though if you start using pocket you will inevitably end up with thousands of unread articles that you will "read later" which might be worse.
