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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.
REFLECTIONS AFTER 25 YEARS AT THE MOVIES
http://www.rogerebert.com/rogers-journal/reflections-after-2...
https://www.sophiaellis.co/blog/the-world-belongs-to-those-w...
Not exactly a blogpost, but this is Randy Pausch's last lecture about achieving your childhood dreams. He was a CS professor at Carnegie Mellon, who passed away roughly a decade ago. I watch it from time to time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo
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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…
Yes, a thousand times this. First of all, regex in the wild (e.g. Perl regex) is much more powerful than the CS version (that can only handle regular languages). This point is often conceded though from the "don't use regex to parse HTML" side, but some don't realize this. 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…
Recently I replaced this with a xml tokenizer I wrote in Go that can deal with invalid or corrupt xml. On top of this I have used a state machine to make it possible to handle different situations.
http://www.artype.de/Sammlung/pdf/russolo_noise.pdf
Bob Altemeyer's The Authoritarians has gotten multiple re-readings (it's a short book/very long essay, but is published free online) and has given me great insight into the attitudes behind the right-wing populists currently dominating politics in the West:
this was posted on HN a month or two ago, but I've read it several times and has motivated me to avoid mindless consumption of media and instead create stuff. https://www.sophiaellis.co/blog/the-world-belongs-to-those-w...
It's a very personal post about death & loss & mourning. It helped me navigate through a tough time.
http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2012/03/eight-years-today.h...