Julia Evans' Linux Debugging Zine: https://jvns.ca/debugging-zine.pdf
Ask HN: What essay/blogpost do you keep going back to reread?
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#72Programmer Interrupted
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#73Yonathan Zunger's explanation of Paxos/consistency: https://hackernoon.com/how-your-data-is-stored-or-the-laws-o...
It's a lengthy read, but that's the one which helped me really understand Paxos.
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#74Paul Graham's essay What you can't say was one of the most enlightening pieces I've ever read. It makes a strong case that whatever your current ethics are, some of them will look strange or even barbaric to people in the future, just as the beliefs of many compassionate rational people living 100, 500 or 1,000 years ago do to you. Then it talks about root causes of moral fashions and what you can do to discover what heresies you might unconsciously believe but be unable to speak without serious repercussions.
From this vantage point 13 years later, there are specific parts of the essay that are objectionable now, and yet that reinforces rather than refutes the core thrust of the essay.
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#75Meta-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?
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#76Meditations on Moloch. In which coordination problems are incarnated as Ginsberg's Moloch. http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
Came here to post this one too. He has so many wonderful essays, but this one amazed me.
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#77McSweeney's Decorative Gourd Season: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/its-decorative-gourd-sea...
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#78A recent article, but "WHEN THE LEVEE BREAKS" has been bouncing around my head and had several re-reads over the last month.
Its not about technology, and its not about football, though it uses that as a backdrop. Read it twice. https://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/2017/9/1/16233388/w...
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#79Freeman Dyson - he wrote a few books years ago on a lot of interesting subjects. I flick through them occasionally
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#80http://www.paulgraham.com/startupideas.html "The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas. It's to look for problems." I personally think this is an profoundly important piece of writing.
aka - "scratch that itch"