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1 August 2016
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Likedrcmnd.app
The Seventh SenseTheir words
I am enjoying it and think you all will too.
27 July 2016
From one piece Disconnect 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Consuming what everyone else consumes gives you no advantage; focus is the rare and valuable thing now.Their words
You get no competitive edge from consuming the same stuff everyone else is consuming.
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korrents.com
The feeds businesses design to be addictive are obstacles to anyone whose aim is to make something.Their words
Every business wants to get you addicted to their infinite updates, pings, chats, messages, and news. But if what you want out of life is to create, then those are your obstacles.
21 July 2016
From one piece Basics: Technology Never Changes Geometry 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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But the only way to grow enough corridors quickly, so that you cover much of the city with frequent service that can succeed in ridership terms, is to take frequent fixed-route bus service seriously.
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It runs on the assumption that whatever we sell to the wealthy today we can sell to the masses tomorrow. But some things stop working when everybody buys them.
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In dense cities, where big transit vehicles (including buses) are carrying significant ridership, any “small vehicles replacing big vehicles” solution increases the total number of vehicles on the road at any time.
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korrents.com
Technology never changes geometry: a transport problem has to be solved spatially before it is solved at all.Their words
When we are talking about space, we are talking about geometry, not engineering, and technology never changes geometry.
3 July 2016
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Lovedrcmnd.app
perfTheir words
I like to use perf top no matter what language my programs are written in, just to see if I can understand anything from it.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
dstatTheir words
There’s also iostat and netstat and atop and a bunch of other tools, but dstat is my favorite.
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Likedrcmnd.app
straceTheir words
strace is pretty broadly useful, but keep in mind it can really slow down your programs.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
The Devil’s Financial DictionaryTheir words
One of my favorite writers, Jason Zweig of the Wall Street Journal, is the author of the newly published and wonderful book: The Devil’s Financial Dictionary.
9 June 2016
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Usesrcmnd.app
VimTheir words
I don't use IDEs. I write programs with vim and use both gcc and clang as my main compilers.
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Usesrcmnd.app
muttTheir words
I use mutt for email. Remotely, I run a ssh connection to my machine and run mutt there.
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Usesrcmnd.app
UbuntuTheir words
I run Ubuntu on both machines, sticking with the LTS versions.
31 May 2016
30 May 2016
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Mixed onrcmnd.app
Why String Theory?Their words
Altogether, Why String Theory? gives the reader a mostly fair and balanced account of string theory
28 May 2016
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Their words
Note: I really liked this book and if I criticize it that's not meant as an attack but just as what I do with interesting ideas.
10 May 2016
From one piece Reflections: The ecosystem is moving 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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So while it’s nice that I’m able to host my own email, that’s also the reason why my email isn’t end-to-end encrypted, and probably never will be.
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korrents.com
A federated protocol freezes in time, so a messenger that has to keep up with the ecosystem cannot be federated.Their words
Nothing about any of the protocols we’ve developed requires centralization; it’s entirely possible to build a federated Signal Protocol-based messenger, but I no longer believe that it is possible to build a competitive federated messenger at all.
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By contrast, WhatsApp was able to introduce end-to-end encryption to over a billion users with a single software update.
6 May 2016
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Lovedrcmnd.app
The MartianTheir words
Book for sure. The movie was solid and enjoyable, but kind of just another pretty good movie. The book was special.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Being John MalkovichTheir words
Movie that I loved and took fully seriously and then saw again with people who were laughing the whole time and realized it was actually a comedy: Being John Malkovich.
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Usesrcmnd.app
S'well thermosTheir words
I’ve also recently gotten into the small S’well thermos, which I use when I don’t have my bag because unlike my normal one, it fits in my jeans pocket.
2 May 2016
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Likedrcmnd.app
The Business BlockchainTheir words
the book makes a complex subject, blockchain technology, accessible for the non-technical
27 April 2016
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Recommendsrcmnd.app
Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in AmericaTheir words
But I highly recommend Albion's Seed as an entertaining and enlightening work of historical scholarship which will be absolutely delightful if you don't fret too much over all of the existential questions it raises.
12 April 2016
28 March 2016
From one piece Still think you don't need HTTPS? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Their words
When you serve your pages over HTTP, anyone along the transport layer can do basically anything they want to your pages. More and more often it's becoming increasingly common for somebody in the chain of custody to do something to your pages that you don't want them to do.
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korrents.com
Every website needs HTTPS, including a static site with no login and nothing sensitive on it.Their words
Supporting HTTPS on your site has so much more to offer than just protecting passwords and user's sensitive data.
26 March 2016
4 March 2016
From one piece Data Is a Toxic Asset 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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And because the cost of saving all this data is so cheap, there’s no reason not to save as much as possible, and save it all forever.
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Stored personal data is a toxic asset: it is a liability that keeps growing for as long as it is kept.Their words
What all these data breaches are teaching us is that data is a toxic asset and saving it is dangerous.
22 February 2016
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Recommendsrcmnd.app
Mastering the Core Teachings of the BuddhaTheir words
Core Teachings of the Buddha, free online.
15 February 2016
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Lovedrcmnd.app
The ProphetTheir words
The Prophet is a beautiful book, enjoy :-)
4 February 2016
1 February 2016
From one piece Security vs. Surveillance 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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If a sufficiently skilled, funded, and motivated attacker wants in to your computer, they’re in.
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korrents.com
The encryption argument is not security against privacy, it is more security against less security.Their words
We’re not being asked to choose between security and privacy. We’re being asked to choose between less security and more security.
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Their words
As technologists, we can’t build an access system that only works for people of a certain citizenship, or with a particular morality, or only in the presence of a specified legal document.
30 January 2016
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Lovedrcmnd.app
FablesTheir words
V for Vendetta, The Boys, Transmetropolitan, Sandman, Fables, The Watchmen, The Dark Knight Returns, The Unwritten.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
The Dark Knight ReturnsTheir words
V for Vendetta, The Boys, Transmetropolitan, Sandman, Fables, The Watchmen, The Dark Knight Returns, The Unwritten.
28 January 2016
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Likedrcmnd.app
SafariTheir words
I mainly use Safari as my browser since it has the best Keychain integration.
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Likedrcmnd.app
KeynoteTheir words
I enjoy using Keynote for making presentations because it allows me to focus on the content and still the presentation comes out looking good.
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Likedrcmnd.app
EchofonTheir words
For Twitter I use Echofon. It has a very small interface, and I like that.
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Likedrcmnd.app
Noko LeatherworksTheir words
I use wrist rests from Noko Leatherworks. I don't know if they make a huge difference to my setup, but I like them.
20 January 2016
From one piece The Wrong Abstraction 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Parameters and conditional branches accumulating inside shared code are the diagnostic that the abstraction is wrong.Their words
If you find yourself passing parameters and adding conditional paths through shared code, the abstraction is incorrect.
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Once an abstraction is proved wrong the best strategy is to re-introduce duplication and let it show you what's right.
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Existing code exerts a powerful influence. Its very presence argues that it is both correct and necessary.
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duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction
13 January 2016
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Lovedrcmnd.app
A History of Western PhilosophyTheir words
My favorite books so far: A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russel, The Guide to the Good Life by William Braxton, and the Philosophize This! podcast.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
A Guide to the Good LifeTheir words
My favorite books so far: A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russel, The Guide to the Good Life by William Braxton, and the Philosophize This! podcast.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Philosophize This!Their words
My favorite books so far: A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russel, The Guide to the Good Life by William Braxton, and the Philosophize This! podcast.
9 January 2016
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Zero to OneTheir words
Peter Thiel described the period well when he wrote in his excellent book Zero to One:
1 January 2016
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Lovedrcmnd.app
SapiensTheir words
The history of humankind from 2 million years back all the way until today. Fascinating read. I liked that it wasn’t just a list of events, but an overarching “theory of history”. Also enjoyed that this one topic was presented through many lenses: history, evolutionary biology, archeology, economics, even philosophy and theology.
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Readrcmnd.app
Good to GreatTheir words
A research-based look at what causes companies to move from mediocre or good to great performance. Not super engaging to read, but the methodology behind the book gives its ideas more credibility.
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Readrcmnd.app
The Everything StoreTheir words
A biography of Jeff Bezos and Amazon. An enjoyable read, some history, and some insight.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Why We Get FatTheir words
Podcast. Before I read this book, my understanding of what makes us fat (what made me fat!) was highly mistaken. That, or this book is bullshit. But I don’t think so. My research and experience applying the lessons so far seem to confirm it. Hard to argue with 10kg lost in 4 months with little effort.
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Readrcmnd.app
The ONE ThingTheir words
A few great insights, but also some cringeworthy parts. Would recommend Essentialism over this one.
31 December 2015
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Recommendsrcmnd.app
Beyond the Galaxy: How Humanity Looked Beyond Our Milky Way and Discovered the Entire UniverseTheir words
In short, Ethan's book is the missing link between cosmology textbooks and popular science articles.
29 December 2015
From one piece Normalization of deviance 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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It's well studied in a number of other contexts including healthcare, aviation, mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, and civil engineering, but we don't see it discussed in the context of software.
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The data are clear that humans are really bad at taking the time to do things that are well understood to incontrovertibly reduce the risk of rare but catastrophic events.
12 December 2015
From one piece Files are hard 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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These studies also hammer home the point that conventional testing isn't sufficient.
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Almost every software project I've seen has a lot of low hanging testing fruit.
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as an application developer, writing to files safely is hard enough that it should be done via some kind of library and/or database, not by directly making syscalls
10 December 2015
From one piece He, Zhang, Ren & Sun, "Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition" (arXiv) 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
The depth of a representation, not any particular architecture trick, is what most visual recognition tasks turn on.Their words
The depth of representations is of central importance for many visual recognition tasks.
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korrents.com
Residual networks are easier to optimize than plain ones and keep gaining accuracy as depth increases.Their words
We provide comprehensive empirical evidence showing that these residual networks are easier to optimize, and can gain accuracy from considerably increased depth.
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We explicitly reformulate the layers as learning residual functions with reference to the layer inputs, instead of learning unreferenced functions.
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korrents.com
Depth is not free: past a point, deeper neural networks are harder to train rather than simply better.Their words
Deeper neural networks are more difficult to train.
From one piece He, Zhang, Ren & Sun, "Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition" (arXiv) 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
The depth of a representation, not any particular architecture trick, is what most visual recognition tasks turn on.Their words
The depth of representations is of central importance for many visual recognition tasks.
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korrents.com
Residual networks are easier to optimize than plain ones and keep gaining accuracy as depth increases.Their words
We provide comprehensive empirical evidence showing that these residual networks are easier to optimize, and can gain accuracy from considerably increased depth.
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Their words
We explicitly reformulate the layers as learning residual functions with reference to the layer inputs, instead of learning unreferenced functions.
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korrents.com
Depth is not free: past a point, deeper neural networks are harder to train rather than simply better.Their words
Deeper neural networks are more difficult to train.
9 December 2015
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Their words, before
I put less weight on explicit cost-effectiveness analysis. Conceptually, my goal is to maximize the impact of my charitable contribution, but I put less weight on the explicit cost-effectiveness models we create than others.
Their words now
I remain ambivalent about putting so much weight on cost-effectiveness estimates because they are subject to numerous debatable assumptions, but I’ve changed my mind based on work we did over the past few months.
26 November 2015
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Dislikedrcmnd.app
Pro Tools LETheir words
For music production, I tried Pro Tools LE, but it wasn't for me.
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Usesrcmnd.app
Windows 7Their words
I use Windows 7 at both work and home, with Classic Shell to emulate some features that were removed in Vista.
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Usesrcmnd.app
EudoraTheir words
I use Eudora for email.
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Usesrcmnd.app
MetapadTheir words
For editing text in Windows outside of VC6, I use Metapad; when I'm on a Mac or Linux, I use vim.
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Usesrcmnd.app
OBS StudioTheir words
I livestream using OBS Studio, capture game footage with Fraps, and edit video with Sony Vegas Pro (for which I have to boot to 64-bit Windows).
14 November 2015
22 October 2015
From one piece Write Stupid Code 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Simple, straightforward solutions can also be elegant, though not every elegant solution is straightforward.Their words
Not every elegant solution is straightforward, but "stupid" ones are, per definition, and can also be elegant.
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korrents.com
Meta-programming is usually unnecessary complexity that obscures what code is meant to do.Their words
But there are a lot more cases in which meta-programming is unnecessary and additional baggage on top of the solution, which gets in the way of understanding what the code is supposed to do.
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A lot of complex, "look at this clever trick", overly-abstracted, unreadable code works and makes the tests pass.
13 October 2015
22 September 2015
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Usesrcmnd.app
oh-my-zshTheir words
I use oh-my-zsh, with a deadly cute prompt and an obnoxious set of aliases.
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Usesrcmnd.app
TweetbotTheir words
I internet in Chrome, email in Inbox, slideaphone in Keynote, work-chat in Slack, friend-chat on Hangouts/Adium, tweet about squirrels in Tweetbot, and verb all the things in real life.
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Usesrcmnd.app
SlackTheir words
I internet in Chrome, email in Inbox, slideaphone in Keynote, work-chat in Slack, friend-chat on Hangouts/Adium, tweet about squirrels in Tweetbot, and verb all the things in real life.
3 September 2015
From one piece Neural Networks, Types, and Functional Programming 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The known connection between geometry, logic, topology, and functional programming suggests that the connections between representations and types may be of fundamental significance.
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I think it is very likely that, reflecting back in 30 years, we will see deep learning very differently.
31 August 2015
From one piece Calculus on Computational Graphs: Backpropagation 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
An idea can look obvious in hindsight only because the insight that makes it obvious was itself the hard discovery.Their words
It also wasn't obvious that derivatives were the right way to train them. Those are only obvious once you realize you can quickly calculate derivatives. There was a circular dependency.
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That's the benefit of hindsight. Once you've framed the question, the hardest work is already done.
27 August 2015
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In theory, RNNs are absolutely capable of handling such "long-term dependencies." A human could carefully pick parameters for them to solve toy problems of this form. Sadly, in practice, RNNs don't seem to be able to learn them.
18 August 2015
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Recommendsrcmnd.app
Rick and MortyTheir words
There are original Rick and Morty comic books by the same writers. Just as funny, different content. Must read!
13 July 2015
From one piece Pure UI 4 beliefs · rauchg.com
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Lorem Ipsum has had a good run. Let’s replace it with data.
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And if I’m allowed to extrapolate, a clear path is now laid out towards a future where the steps to go from sketch to design to implementation are greatly more accessible to everyone with an idea.
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The main issue, however, is that underestimating the size of the state space is actually very easy. In other words, it’s difficult to come up with the complete list of questions that your UI needs to answer.
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The fundamental idea I want to discuss is the definition of an application’s UI as a pure function of application state.
9 July 2015
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Usesrcmnd.app
VLC media playerTheir words
VLC media player for playing sound and flat video.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
MouseRugTheir words
My mousepad is a MouseRug. It is essential to my mental health that my mouse live on this tiny Persian rug with fringe and everything.
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Usesrcmnd.app
Kinesis contoured keyboardTheir words
For keyboards, most of my typing is done on the MacBook keyboard using just my inner fingers, sometimes a Kinesis contoured keyboard (the weird scoopy one) if my outer fingers aren't being the problem at the moment, and sometimes other keyboards.
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Usesrcmnd.app
Adobe PremiereTheir words
For video editing, mostly Adobe Premiere, unless it's a very simple job and also I'm working on the MacBook, in which case I'll use Final Cut Pro just because the export time is a little faster.
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Usesrcmnd.app
Breville Barista ExpressTheir words
Other office essentials: Giant googly eyes. Breville Barista Express.
30 June 2015
From one piece Games affecting people 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Denying that games can affect the people who play them is a way of calling games a lesser medium.Their words
Saying games can’t affect people is to denigrate them.
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know in your bones that game design is a powerful way of imprinting behaviors on people, and that it is entirely possible to imprint behaviors you didn’t want.
29 June 2015
From one piece Game design vs UX design 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Where UX tries to provide a likely false but useful mental model of the interior workings to the user, game design tries to guide the player towards a fairly accurate mental model.
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korrents.com
Good interface design uses clarity to hide complexity; good game design uses clarity to teach it.Their words
UX is about clarity that hides complexity, and game design is about clarity that teaches complexity.
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Short form: UX design is about removing problems from the user. Game design is about giving problems to the user.
3 June 2015
From one piece MonolithFirst 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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But even experienced architects working in familiar domains have great difficulty getting boundaries right at the beginning.
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korrents.com
Build a new application as a monolith first, even when you are confident it will eventually need microservices.Their words
This leads to a powerful argument for a monolith-first strategy, where you should build a new application as a monolith initially, even if you think it's likely that it will benefit from a microservices architecture later on.
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Almost all the successful microservice stories have started with a monolith that got too big and was broken up
18 April 2015
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Investing: The Last Liberal ArtTheir words
The best book on this is by Robert Hagstrom entitled: Investing: The Last Liberal Art.
14 April 2015
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Usesrcmnd.app
HTTPS EverywhereTheir words
Firefox is my browser, with a whole bunch of security plug-ins like AdBlock Plus, BetterPrivacy, and HTTPS Everywhere.
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Mixed onrcmnd.app
OutlookTheir words
I use Outlook to maintain my calendar and address book. I hate that program, too, but I can't find anything else that lets me sync locally to my iPhone without going through the cloud.
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Likedrcmnd.app
Sony VaioTheir words
My computer is a Sony Vaio, which seems to give me the best power/weight ratio. It's a Pro 13, but that's not important.
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Usesrcmnd.app
Uniball MicroTheir words
My goto pen is a Uniball Micro, in both black and blue.
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Usesrcmnd.app
Beyond CompareTheir words
For backup, I use Beyond Compare and a variety of external drives.
14 March 2015
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Lovedrcmnd.app
The Success EquationTheir words
The very best books on this topic have been written by Michael Mauboussin, including The Success Equation.
12 March 2015
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Usesrcmnd.app
GnuCashTheir words
I use GnuCash to keep track of my checking account and credit card usage.
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Likedrcmnd.app
croutonTheir words
I however recently started to experiment with crouton, which allows me install a chrooted Ubuntu (or other variants of Linux) on a Chromebook and I can use GnuCash there. So far, this set-up seems to be working well enough for me, so I may be able to lose the Vizio someday.
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Usesrcmnd.app
CalibreTheir words
I use Calibre to manage my e-books, installing them to and removing them from my Nook e-Readers.
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gnusTheir words
In one of whose windows I run emacs, in which I use gnus newsreader, and there I spend most of my day, exchanging emails with the project participants.
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Usesrcmnd.app
AsciiDocTheir words
Since the project I work on is a command-line tool that is primarily implemented in C, I use the usual CLI development tools, e.g. make, gcc, gdb, etc. The documentation is in AsciiDoc.
11 March 2015
10 March 2015
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korrents.com
Balancing a system elegantly is not the same as giving people what they actually came for, which is emotion.Their words
The problem with level 2, though is that it works on abstract, mechanical-level analysis of systems, which doesn’t relate directly to what players actually want from their games: emotions.
1 March 2015
25 February 2015
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Lovedrcmnd.app
SuperintelligenceTheir words
(Incidentally, Nick Bostrom's excellent book "Superintelligence" is the best thing I've seen on this topic. It is well worth a read.)
24 February 2015
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korrents.com
GPG is a failed experiment and will not be the thing that brings end-to-end encryption to ordinary people.On changing their mind
In the 1990s, I was excited about the future, and I dreamed of a world where everyone would install GPG. Now I’m still excited about the future, but I dream of a world where I can uninstall it.
18 February 2015
From one piece The Web’s Grain 5 beliefs · frankchimero.com
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The size of what we’re making is unknown until we know what we’re putting there. So, it’s better to come up with an arrangement of elements and assign them to a size, rather than the other way around. We need to start drawing, then put the box around it.
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korrents.com
Convenience means someone else makes your choices for you: the less you have to do, the less say you have.Their words
To create convenience—particularly the automated convenience technology trades in—someone else must make our choices for us. In other words: the less you have to do, the less say you have.
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Technology only adds more—it is never this or that; it is always this and that.
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Clearly, convergence and simplicity make for poor goals. Instead, we must aim for clarity. You can’t contain or reduce the torrent of technology, but you can channel it in a positive direction through proper framing and clear articulation.
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Every material has a grain, including the web, and designs that work against it end up weaker.Their words
I believe every material has a grain, including the web. But this assumption flies in the face of our expectations for technology. Too often, the internet is cast as a wide-open, infinitely malleable material.
1 February 2015
From one piece What Color is Your Function? 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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No matter what, you'll have to think about color constantly.
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It is better. I will take async-await over bare callbacks or futures any day of the week. But we're lying to ourselves if we think all of our troubles are gone.
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Concurrency in Go is a facet of how you choose to model your program, and not a color seared into each function in the standard library.
29 January 2015
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Visual StudioTheir words
At EA, I spent years in Visual Studio writing C# and I still think that may have been the most productive development experience I've ever had.
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Usesrcmnd.app
LightroomTheir words
I also use Lightroom for processing photos, but still do one last pass on them in Photoshop since I'm attached to adjusting RGB levels individually.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Google Play Music All AccessTheir words
These days, music makes its way to me through Google Play Music All Access a wonderful service with quite possibly the world's worst brand name.
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Pilot Precise V5Their words
The illustrations in my book are hand-drawn on an old graph paper notebook I found in a closet using a Pilot Precise V5 pen.
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Usesrcmnd.app
IntelliJTheir words
For C and C++, I also use Xcode. For Dart, I use IntelliJ.
26 January 2015
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Likedrcmnd.app
Cracking the Particle Code of the UniverseTheir words
In summary, Moffat's new book is a well-done and well-written survey of the history, achievements, and shortcomings of the Standard Model of particle physics.
20 January 2015
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Usesrcmnd.app
GruntTheir words
For making my stuff I use Grunt as my task manager, and specifically I use grunt-init to scaffold my projects.
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Likedrcmnd.app
Nexus 5Their words
I also keep a running Google Doc of every project idea that comes to mind – as such, my Nexus 5 is invaluable for jotting down notes on the fly.
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Mixed onrcmnd.app
Chrome OSTheir words
Chrome OS, especially on a powerful machine like the Pixel, is great for web browsing and web applications, but is not so hot for anything else.
1 January 2015
22 December 2014
From one piece Kingma & Ba, "Adam: A Method for Stochastic Optimization" (arXiv) 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
An optimizer's hyper-parameters should mean something a practitioner can reason about, and should rarely need tuning.Their words
The hyper-parameters have intuitive interpretations and typically require little tuning.
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korrents.com
The same optimizer should handle objectives that move under it and gradients that are noisy or sparse.Their words
The method is also appropriate for non-stationary objectives and problems with very noisy and/or sparse gradients.
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The method is straightforward to implement, is computationally efficient, has little memory requirements, is invariant to diagonal rescaling of the gradients, and is well suited for problems that are large in terms of data and/or parameters.
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korrents.com
Stochastic optimization can be done well using only adaptive estimates of the gradient's lower-order moments.Their words
We introduce Adam, an algorithm for first-order gradient-based optimization of stochastic objective functions, based on adaptive estimates of lower-order moments.
From one piece Kingma & Ba, "Adam: A Method for Stochastic Optimization" (arXiv) 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
An optimizer's hyper-parameters should mean something a practitioner can reason about, and should rarely need tuning.Their words
The hyper-parameters have intuitive interpretations and typically require little tuning.
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korrents.com
The same optimizer should handle objectives that move under it and gradients that are noisy or sparse.Their words
The method is also appropriate for non-stationary objectives and problems with very noisy and/or sparse gradients.
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Their words
The method is straightforward to implement, is computationally efficient, has little memory requirements, is invariant to diagonal rescaling of the gradients, and is well suited for problems that are large in terms of data and/or parameters.
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Stochastic optimization can be done well using only adaptive estimates of the gradient's lower-order moments.Their words
We introduce Adam, an algorithm for first-order gradient-based optimization of stochastic objective functions, based on adaptive estimates of lower-order moments.
17 December 2014
From one piece Staff members’ personal donations – giving season 2014 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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It is not appropriate to donate to your own employer, however good a giving opportunity it would otherwise be.Their words
I’m not donating to GiveWell, because I don’t find it appropriate to donate to my employer, for similar reasons to what Holden wrote last year.
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This has reinforced my intuition that excellent organizations are significantly more likely to succeed than others, and GiveDirectly’s overall excellence increases my estimate of the impact it will achieve.
1 December 2014
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HilbertTheir words
A few months ago, as I was reading Constance Reid's excellent biography of Hilbert, I figured out if not the answer to this question, at least something that made me feel better about it.
25 November 2014
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Why Does He Do ThatTheir words
Overall, I think this book has some really good points and brings a lot to the table. It also propagates some really toxic ideas.
12 November 2014
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The People’s PlatformTheir words
So I’m reading it now and I thought you all might want to join me.
4 November 2014
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The bandwidth capacity of your users' connections might improve noticeably, as it steadily has, but the latency needle won't move much at all. This means that minimizing the number of roundtrips you make to display information on page is essential to great user experience and responsiveness.
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However successful driverless cars become, transit will remain crucial for dense cities because cities are defined by a shortage of space per person.
7 October 2014
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Linux MintTheir words
I currently run Linux Mint on the Thinkpad.
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OperaTheir words
Thereafter, I install the Opera browser.
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PrinceTheir words
Then comes Prince, which converts HTML and CSS to beautiful PDF files. (Disclosure: I'm the chairman of the board of YesLogic, the company behind Prince.)
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emacsTheir words
I also use emacs a lot. I type this in emacs, and I read email in emacs (in vm, to be precise). I've used emacs since 1988 and I have email archives from back then.
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Argo 580Their words
At the farm, I drive an Argo 580, an amphibious tracked vehicle. The geese like it, too.
26 September 2014
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A Disappearing NumberTheir words
And Complicite was really determined – which is why I like this play – not just to talk about mathematicians as crazy characters but also to embed the ideas of mathematics in the structure of the play, so they worked really hard to understand what Ramanujan and Hardy were obsessed with.
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One, Two, Three...InfinityTheir words
Yes, one of the things that really excited me when I read this – again when I was at school – was this idea of infinity. Gamow was a physicist first of all: Mathematics is the language of physics and you can see that through this book.
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Mr Tompkins in PaperbackTheir words
There's another book by George Gamow which also turned me on, which is Mr Tompkins in Paperback. It's a set of physics lectures which this guy, Mr Tompkins, goes to and always falls asleep during the lecture and then he dreams he's in a world in which the speed of light is 30 miles an hour so he can see the effects of relativity happening on the streets.
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The Glass Bead GameTheir words
When I read that book I thought, 'Yes, this is the game I want to play.' That's what I try to do in the work that I do, to combine my love of music, to explain why music and mathematics have these common themes, to bring mathematics alive through the theatre, write the books I do. That's my ultimate aim, to become a master of the glass bead game.
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Logicomix: An Epic Search for TruthTheir words
But it's just a beautifully told story and also they talk about their writing of the book, so it's very self-referential, which is the whole key to Gödel's proof.
20 September 2014
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Affordances control what actions are possible. For designers, signifiers are far more important. Signifiers are how communication takes place, how one signals the appropriate controls and operations.
18 September 2014
From one piece Manifest Destiny or Pipe Dream? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The goal of spaceflight is the whole solar system, not any single destination the experts are arguing over.Their words
The ‘horizon goal’ isn’t Mars, it is the entire solar system.
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When we have built colonies on every habitable niche, then maybe we will find a way to go to the stars.
2 September 2014
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Reaching a conversational level in a language within three months of arriving is not something to expect.On changing their mind
When Vat and I initially made plans, neither of us were confident that it would be possible to reach a conversational level in any of the languages.
From one piece Looking Back at a Year (Almost) Without English 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Learning a language in a hurry and learning one by slow patient habit are both legitimate; neither refutes the other.Their words
Just because we attempted to learn with intensity, doesn’t denigrate learning languages through slow, patient habit.
Looking Back at a Year (Almost) Without Englishscotthyoung.com
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Asian languages are hard enough that arriving without preparation and refusing to speak English will not work.Their words
The main takeaway I made from all of this was: Asian languages are hard, and attempting full-immersion without sufficient preparation is usually not going to work.
Looking Back at a Year (Almost) Without Englishscotthyoung.com
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Refusing to speak English is what makes immersion work: it compresses years of language learning into months.Their words
The no-English rule was largely what made the difference. Although there are many ways of learning a language, going for full immersion made it possible to learn what would have taken years in just a few months.
Looking Back at a Year (Almost) Without Englishscotthyoung.com
19 August 2014
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AudacityTheir words
Audacity can't be beat for waveform editing despite not looking very pretty.
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AnkiTheir words
Right now I'm trying to learn a new spoken language, so Anki deserves a mention. This is a great flashcard authoring tool that syncs across platforms.
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Logic ProTheir words
For creating music, Logic Pro is my main tool.
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GoodReadsTheir words
I love reading, so I have to mention Pocket (short form) and Kindle (the app, not the hardware) for long-form. Kindle plus GoodReads have amped up my reading in a huge way.
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iTerm2Their words
Pretty standard setup: a 13" MacBook Pro. I spend almost all my time in iTerm 2 and Chrome.
12 August 2014
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Adobe IllustratorTheir words
Once the layouts are complete, I bring each page into Illustrator and do the lettering and borders there.
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Mac ProTheir words
For years, I've happily used a succession of mid-range Mac Pros stuffed with extra memory and storage.
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Plantronics headsetTheir words
I'm dictating this on a Plantronics headset to reduce typing (my remaining source of hand strain).
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MacBook ProTheir words
My laptop is a 15" MacBook Pro from a few years ago.
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SpotifyTheir words
Other frequently used programs include Dreamweaver and Fetch for my site; Chrome, iPhoto and Preview for reference hunting; iTunes, Spotify, and Downcast to keep me company.
29 June 2014
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You and Your ResearchTheir words
Richard Hamming gave this talk in March of 1986. [1] It's one of the best talks I've ever read and has long impacted how I think about spending my time.
24 June 2014
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It's Always SomethingTheir words
And I think she did a really good job portraying that- the ups and downs, what a positive attitude can and can not get you, the costs and benefits of fighting doctors and using alternative treatments. It was a very honest description of both hope and despair without become overwhelming.
12 June 2014
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Bonobo ExtremeTheir words
This thing is a monster. It's huge, bulky, and heavy.
10 June 2014
From one piece Generative Adversarial Networks (with 7 co-authors) 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Deep generative models have had less of an impact, due to the difficulty of approximating many intractable probabilistic computations that arise in maximum likelihood estimation and related strategies, and due to difficulty of leveraging the benefits of piecewise linear units in the generative context.
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There is no need for any Markov chains or unrolled approximate inference networks during either training or generation of samples.
30 May 2014
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Reading Susan Cain's book is like being handed a pair of X-ray glasses with which you can see everyone you know — including yourself — in a new and vivid light.
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Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our SuccessTheir words
This is one of those books chiefly because Adam Grant 1) is one helluva writer, teacher, and researcher; 2) provides a genuinely revolutionary way to look at cooperation, generosity, and human nature.
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Social Physics: The Lessons from a New ScienceTheir words
We usually think of those qualities as intangibles, but Sandy Pentland's new book makes them real, and, more important, measurable.
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Drunk Tank Pink: And Other Unexpected Forces that Shape How We Think, Feel, and BehaveTheir words
The idea that our brains unconsciously react to tiny signals is not new. But Alter gives us a blueprint for the way it works.
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The Adventures of Augie MarchTheir words
If you want to dive deep, there is no better guide than Bellow and his novel about an ambitious Chicago kid
28 May 2014
From one piece Semantic Compression 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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the landscape of educational materials out there still overwhelmingly falls into the "objectively bad" category
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Code is procedurally oriented, and the "objects" are simply constructs that arise that allow procedures to be reused.
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Code written to be reusable before there is anything reusing it is likely to be reusable in the wrong way.Their words
This is crucial for efficiency, because if you only have one example, or worse, no examples (in the case of code written preemptively), then you are very likely to make mistakes in the way you write it and end up with code that isn't conveniently reusable.
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Like a good compressor, I don't reuse anything until I have at least two instances of it occurring.
27 May 2014
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The Cosmic Cocktail: Three Parts Dark MatterTheir words
Freese's book is a valuable, non-technical and yet up-to-date review, especially on the topic of dark matter detection.
22 May 2014
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Adobe Bridge CS6Their words
To make contact sheets of card images, I use Adobe Bridge CS6 even though it's old. The newer Adobe Bridge CC mysteriously can't output anything anymore. (Literally, it no longer includes the "output module", WTF.)
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AdiumTheir words
For instant messaging, Adium. For interviews, Skype. For stuff involving PDFs, Adobe Acrobat Pro.
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Time MachineTheir words
For backups, I use Apple's Time Machine. I have only ever had to actually use Time Machine for recovery about 3 times, but each time I was incredibly relieved that I had it.
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DropboxTheir words
I use Dropbox a lot as well. To link pics and files to friends, to transfer large files to and from contractors, and a bit for backup as well. I should probably use it a lot more for backup. It's generally really great. It would be too bad to have to stop using it because the Dropbox company invited Condoleezza Rice onto their board, a person who participated, condoned, and facilitated 4th amendment violations with warrantless wiretaps. I mean seriously, what the fuck? Way to make an amazing product and erase all your goodwill in one move.
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HP LaserJet CP2025dnTheir words
I print a lot of prototype cards for my games. For that I use an HP LaserJet CP2025dn printer.
22 April 2014
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Amarok 1.4Their words
Back in 2009, my music player of choice was Amarok 1.4. This was by far the best music player I had ever used on Windows, Mac, or Linux, especially when combined with the wonderful ReplayGain plugin.
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Introduction to EBU R128Their words
I recommend this excellent Introduction to EBU R128 by Florian Camerer:
17 April 2014
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RubyTheir words
I tend to build things with Ruby, and I'm pretty in love with that language even after all these years.
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RailsTheir words
If it's on the web, I'm usually using Rails to build it, with the exception of some smaller apps where I'll still drop down to Sinatra from time to time.
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BoxenTheir words
My development environment is managed by Boxen, Homebrew, and my dotfiles. I'm feeling good about all of that, which wasn't always the case if you were a Ruby developer five years ago.
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AtomTheir words
I write code in Atom, the text editor we've been working on for six years at GitHub. It's based on Chromium, so to customize it you can inspect it just like any other web element.
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ApertureTheir words
For photos, I use Aperture to manage things locally, and Exposure to share them with people.
12 April 2014
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Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical MinimumTheir words
If you want to make the step from popular science literature to textbooks and the general scientific literature, then this book series is a must-read.
3 April 2014
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Uni-ball SignoTheir words
an extra pen in a snack baggie (I like brown Uni-ball Signo 0.5mm pens from Maido)
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GandiTheir words
I use Gandi to register my domains – they now offer two-factor authentication too.
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Brother MFC-9840CDWTheir words
I've got a Brother MFC-9840CDW wireless printer that can also fax ancient institutions that don't understand the Internet yet.
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Kindle PaperwhiteTheir words
In the main pocket of my backpack, you'll find my Chromebook Pixel, a Kindle Paperwhite, and a Wired magazine or Maximum PC magazine.
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GIMPTheir words
For photo editing I use GIMP, and if I need something deeper, my wife has a Mac with Photoshop, Illustrator, and software to make movies and burn DVDs.
1 April 2014
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AsianometryTheir words
Audio and transcripts of the Asianometry YouTube channel, the best source for learning about how tech works.
14 March 2014
From one piece Are cash transfers overrated? 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I’m more skeptical we’ll see better alternatives for pure poverty-alleviation, but we’ll see.
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Comparing randomised trials of cash against NGOs’ own claims for their programmes is not a fair comparison.Their words
The evidence they cite in favor of cash points to peer reviewed randomized trials. The evidence on better performing programs point to… NGO home pages.
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There will be, I am confident, a great many interventions that do better than cash on any number of metrics. Ones that solve market failures or supply problems are big candidates, just like Starr and Hattendorf say.
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If it’s becoming standard to judge interventions by their cost effectiveness, then I can’t be more thrilled.
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You can think of cash transfers like the index fund of development (making GiveDirectly the Vanguard).
28 February 2014
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My advice to the trustee could not be more simple: Put 10% of the cash in short-term government bonds and 90% in a very low-cost S&P 500 index fund. (I suggest Vanguard’s.) I believe the trust’s long-term results from this policy will be superior to those attained by most investors – whether pension funds, institutions or individuals – who employ high-fee managers.
Berkshire Hathaway 2013 Chairman's Letterberkshirehathaway.com
24 February 2014
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High PriceTheir words
So if you're either looking for an introduction to this issue or share my very strange definition of light reading, I highly recommend this book.
13 February 2014
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The Algorithm Design ManualTheir words
The Algorithm Design Manual by Steven S Skiena.
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The Art of Computer ProgrammingTheir words
The Art of Computer Programming by Donald E. Knuth.
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Programming Interviews ExposedTheir words
Programming Interviews Exposed is a slim book that can be read within a few hours.
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AlgorithmsTheir words
Algorithms by Robert Sedgewick and Kevin Wayne.
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Introduction to AlgorithmsTheir words
Introduction to Algorithms by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest and Clifford Stein.
23 January 2014
30 December 2013
From one piece Design is the Rendering of Intent 2 beliefs · articles.centercentre.com
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The notion of the academically-trained, experienced designer holding the keys to the design outcome fades with this definition. In fact, when we think about design in these terms, it becomes clear that many of the people rendering their intention don’t know they are designers. This implies the role of the experienced designer shifts from owning the design outcome to educating all the other designers on the team on how to best render their own intentions.
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Design is the rendering of intent: the designer imagines an outcome and puts forth activities to make it real.Their words
Over the last year, we’ve started explaining design as “the rendering of intent.” The designer imagines an outcome and puts forth activities to make that outcome real.
18 December 2013
From one piece Email dredging: Cutting polish and nonlinear results 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Our advantage is agility and lack of corporate cultural encumbrance.
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I don’t think the answer is “polish”. It think it’s “experiment”.
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Speed is quantity, and quantity is quality – The more stuff you put out, the more the likelihood that one part of it will turn out to be really, really important and good.
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In game development speed is quality, because the faster you can work the more times you can iterate.Their words
It’s my strong belief that in games dev, speed is quality.
27 November 2013
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Meat raised on feed humans cannot eat, on land that cannot grow crops, can be eaten with a clear conscience.Their words, before
But if we were to adopt it, we could eat meat, milk and eggs (albeit much less) with a clean conscience.
Their words now
In the spirit of unceasing self-flagellation I think I might have been wrong about being wrong.
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I no longer believe that the only ethical response is to stop eating meat.
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I was swayed by his argument. But now I find myself becoming unswayed. In the spirit of unceasing self-flagellation I think I might have been wrong about being wrong.
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Wasteful and destructive as feeding grain to livestock is, ranching appears to be even worse.
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Little PrinterTheir words
At home I use my Little Printer daily
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iPhone 5CTheir words
The 5C? A gorgeous object, a great frame for iOS 7 – easier to hold too and less fragile.
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Sony NEX-5NTheir words
My camera: Sony NEX-5N with the pancake kit lens so it fits in the front pocket of my bag. Plus: no zoom. Less to think about.
5 November 2013
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PreziTheir words
When I give presentations, I like to use Prezi.
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OmnigraffleTheir words
When I need to draw diagrams, I use Omnigraffle.
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iPad 4Their words
I mostly use my iPad however: I was an early iPad adopter and I have since upgraded to the iPad 4. I am very pleased.
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FormulateProTheir words
To sign forms electronically, I have been using something called FormulatePro. It gets the job done.
22 October 2013
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2 October 2013
From one piece Evidence-Based Therapy: Science or Marketing? 2 beliefs · psychologytoday.com
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PsychotherapyPsychodynamic therapyCBT
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No research ever suggested that manualized CBT was more effective than psychodynamic therapy. It was just more often researched. There is a world of difference between saying a treatment is less often researched and saying it has been scientifically discredited.
Evidence-Based Therapy: Science or Marketing?psychologytoday.com
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PsychotherapyPsychodynamic therapy
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The term "evidence-based therapy" is also, de facto, a code word for "not psychodynamic."
Evidence-Based Therapy: Science or Marketing?psychologytoday.com
20 September 2013
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The efficacy of psychodynamic psychotherapyTheir words
The efficacy of psychodynamic psychotherapy [pdf] Hailed as a contemporary classic and studied in training programs around the world—the paper that established psychodynamic therapy as an evidence-based treatment
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The illusion of mental healthTheir words
The illusion of mental health [pdf] Scientific evidence that we do not know our hearts and minds and must look past the surface—a classic in the field
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Where is the evidence for “evidence-based” therapy?Their words
Where is the evidence for “evidence-based” therapy? [pdf] Few patients who get “evidence-based therapy” get well
17 September 2013
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CSSEdit 2.5Their words
I admit a bit guiltily that for previewing and designing CSS, I turn to MacRabbit's CSSEdit 2.5, a version that's no longer shipping, as its functionality was absorbed into the company's Espresso Web site development software.
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SkypeTheir words
Skype is invaluable. However irritating it can be, and however much I dislike the user-interface changes in the 5.x client update for Mac, it's still something I rely on.
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StripeTheir words
On the low-level side, I was using PHP with jQuery for JavaScript and Stripe for credit-card processing.
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MySQL WorkbenchTheir words
On the higher-level, I relied on Oracle's MySQL Workbench for MySQL database interaction and GitHub for Mac for version control.
5 September 2013
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OmniFocusTheir words
I use OmniFocus on both my Mac and iOS to keep my To-Do lists in check.
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TextExpanderTheir words
I mentioned FastScripts for running quick scripts, but I also use TextExpander extensively, particularly for accelerating responses to customer support email.
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BackblazeTheir words
Acorn for casual image editing, Skitch (1.0 forever!) for easy screen captures, Rdio for infinite music, and backups courtesy of Backblaze, Time Machine and SuperDuper
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Audio Hijack ProTheir words
For podcasting I use Audio Hijack Pro with Skype for recording audio, and edit the Bitsplitting podcast in Logic Pro.
13 August 2013
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Terminal.appTheir words
Terminal.app is good enough; I don't need tabs. I use bash (big surprise).
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FedoraTheir words
All of my servers are currently running Fedora, although I'm starting to dabble with Ubuntu, as some of the daemons in Fedora 18 are a bit memory-hungry.
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Apple Wired Compact KeyboardTheir words
I use an Apple Wired Compact Keyboard so that I don't have to reach too far to the right to use the mouse, an Apple Magic Mouse.
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kramdown-rfc2629Their words
Wherever possible, I'm trying to use Markdown; right now, I use kramdown-rfc2629 to write IETF specs, respec.js for W3C ones, and reveal.js for presentations.
25 July 2013
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IrfanViewTheir words
I spend a lot of time writing papers and preparing talks with free software: emacs for text editing, LaTeX for typesetting, and IrfanView for editing images.
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Yamaha ClavinovaTheir words
But I also like improvising in more traditional ways. I play an electronic piano, a Yamaha Clavinova, and also drums: a dumbek and a couple of frame drums.
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WolframTonesTheir words
I've been recording electronic music using strange software like WolframTones, which lets you 'evolve' pieces using cellular automata, or QuasiMusic which generates sounds mathematically from quasicrystals - patterns that almost repeat but never quite do.
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InstikiTheir words
This uses some software called Instiki, but another guy takes care of that, a whiz named Andrew Stacey - not me.
3 July 2013
From one piece Product strategy means saying no 3 beliefs · intercom.com
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A real product decision says a proposal is a great idea and still turns it down for something else.Their words
Real product decisions aren’t easy. They require you to look at a proposal and say “This is a really great idea, I can see why our customers would like it. Well done. But we’re not going to build it. Instead, here’s what we’re doing.”.
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Whether a feature is quick to build is a roadmap question, never a reason on its own to build it.Their words
The main problem with this argument is that the scope of work should never be a reason to include a feature in a product.
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If you’re building a product, you have to be great at saying no. Not “maybe” or “later”. The only word is no. Building a great product isn’t about creating tons of tactically useful features which are tangentially related.
2 July 2013
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VagrantTheir words
Vagrant, of course. I virtualize almost everything. Why do anything on your real computer when you can create a perfect sandboxed environment to do it instead?
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Google ChromeTheir words
I browse the internet using Google Chrome.
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Seagate 1 TB external hard driveTheir words
I carry around a 1 TB SeaGate external hard drive that has saved virtual machines of almost every version of every major operating system imaginable
12 June 2013
From one piece We Should All Have Something To Hide 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Police already abuse the immense power they have, but if everyone’s every action were being monitored, and everyone technically violates some obscure law at some time, then punishment becomes purely selective. Those in power will essentially have what they need to punish anyone they’d like, whenever they choose, as if there were no rules at all.
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Legal change usually begins as lawbreaking, so perfectly effective enforcement would freeze a society in place.Their words
What’s often overlooked, however, is that these legal victories would probably not have been possible without the ability to break the law.
6 June 2013
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SamTheir words
I use Rob Pike's Sam editor most of the time – that's what I'm using right now – and vi the rest of the time, because I know it well enough that there's no need to think.
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AlpineTheir words
As the last representative of the dinosaur era, I read mail mostly with Alpine, which is faster and easier than any web-based system I know, and does a nice job of storing my mail locally.
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AwkTheir words
I write really short things in Awk, and use Python for longer text processing applications.
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PythonTheir words
I write really short things in Awk, and use Python for longer text processing applications.
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iMacTheir words
Mostly Macs at this point. I have a 27-inch iMac at work (big screen) but with the tiny wireless keyboard; I long ago got tired of keyboards that, with wheels, could double as skateboards, so it's nice to have a little one made by a reliable manufacturer.
4 June 2013
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TextWranglerTheir words
I use a combination of the Terminal and TextWrangler for this.
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YoruFukurouTheir words
YoruFukurou (which apparently means "Night Owl" in Japanese) is extremely powerful for filtering and reading tweets, but doesn't overwhelm me with information.
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NetNewsWireTheir words
I use NetNewsWire for the rapidly dwindling number of RSS feeds that I still follow (fewer than ten), as Twitter has supplanted my webpage discovery process.
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MacBook AirTheir words
My primary computer is an 11-inch MacBook Air with 4 gigs of RAM.
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Plot 0.997Their words
For graphs and data plots, I use a somewhat unwieldy and defunct undiscovered gem called Plot 0.997.
2 June 2013
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NauseaTheir words
I chose Nausea for several reasons. One is that it's the first existentialist book that I ever read. It's what first made me curious to learn more, and that's exactly what the book does. It's readable, it's powerful, it's sometimes a bit ridiculous, but it's intense.
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Man's Search for MeaningTheir words
I chose this book because it's an incredibly powerful and moving example of what existentialist thought can actually be for in real life, what good it can do, how it can help people.
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The Existentialist ReaderTheir words
So this is just a fantastic compilation of existentialist arrows that you might want to follow into different thinkers.
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Heidegger: An IntroductionTheir words
Richard's Polt's Heidegger: An Introduction is one of the best I've come across. It's a fantastically clear and concise exploration of Heidegger's philosophy, concentrating on his first great work, Being and Time, though he also covers the later writings of Heidegger.
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Being and TimeTheir words
Then, once you've read an overview and feel equipped and ready for it, it's really worth plunging into either Being and Time itself, Heidegger's greatest and richest work, or to a compilation.
29 May 2013
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28 March 2013
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The EnduranceTheir words
I'm reading The Endurance and "by endurance we conquer" (Ernest Shackleton's family motto) struck me as a great piece of startup wisdom.
19 March 2013
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Design thinking is a public relations term for good, old-fashioned creative thinking. It is not restricted to designers. Great artists, great engineers, great scientists all break out of the boundaries. Great designers are no different.
Their words now
As a result, I have changed my mind: Design Thinking really is special. Alas, it isn't embraced by all designers, but where it exists, it is powerful.
From one piece Rethinking Design Thinking 2 beliefs · core77.com
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Breakthroughs come from questioning the obvious, and the outsider's stupid question is where that power lies.Their words
It is by questioning the obvious that we make great progress. This is where breakthroughs come from. We need to question the obvious, to reformulate our beliefs, and to redefine existing solutions, approaches, and beliefs. That is design thinking.
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I was correct in my original article: what we call design thinking is practiced in some form or other by all great thinkers, whether in literature or art, music or science, engineering or business. But the difference is that in design, there is an attempt to teach it as a systematic, practice-defining method of creative innovation.
21 February 2013
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Black MirrorTheir words
Black Mirror is by far the best TV series I have seen in years. Production levels that are through the roof and features just absolutely insane writing and plot twists.
12 February 2013
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The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing PhysicsTheir words
If you're willing to roll up your sleeves and follow the authors along, this is a book from which you can learn a great deal.
31 January 2013
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The Challenger accident was caused by managers who suppressed engineers' safety concerns for venal reasons.On changing their mind
For all those years I had learned the wrong lesson about the loss of Challenger.
From one piece After Ten Years: Enduring Lessons 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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We were told that flying in the space shuttle was just as safe as flying in a commercial airliner, so we denied the crew parachutes and pressure suits.
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Defer to expertise rather than leaders.
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A team that agrees has not examined the problem hard enough; dissent is what makes a decision safe.Their words
If you don’t have dissention, then you haven’t examined the problem closely enough.
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LogicTheir words
It's hard to learn, but Logic is a beautiful piece of software. It's also hard to learn how to record using real studio equipment, so it should be no surprise that learning how to record with professional quality music software is difficult.
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Pro ToolsTheir words
I used to use Pro Tools, but I felt like I was in the 90s and it crashed a lot.
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VimeoTheir words
Increasingly, I've been using Vimeo for watching videos. This may seem like a strange thing to list here because it's technically just a site you browse as opposed to "use". But have you seen the "watch later" feature? You can sign in, mark videos to watch later, and then watch them on your tablet or Apple TV.
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Counter-StrikeTheir words
The last important piece of software I use is Counter-Strike. I've been playing Counter-Strike for well over 25% of my life now. These days I specifically play a modification of the game called Gun Game. It's ridiculous and mindless. The reason I play it, and the reason I say I "use" Counter-Strike is that you can get in 5 minutes of stress relief with Gun Game without having to commit to playing for 30 minutes or an hour. Each round lasts only around 5 minutes, you have fun, then you get back to being productive.
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Windows SurfaceTheir words
I have a MacBook Air 11", MacBook Air 13", MacBook Pro 15", Mac Pro, Chromebook, iPad Mini, 24" iMac, hideous HP laptop running Ubuntu, iPhone 4s, Nexus 7, and a Windows Surface with the terrible non-clicky keyboard cover.
24 January 2013
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That book struck me as embodying the worst aspects of where string theory has ended up, promoting to the public in a high-profile way a dangerously pseudo-scientific excuse for string theory's failure.
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Théorème VivantTheir words
It's basically a fascinating journal he kept during 2008-2011
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Lectures on Quantum MechanicsTheir words
It covers concisely and well most of the standard topics that are make up a quantum mechanics course at this level
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The Conceptual Framework of Quantum Field TheoryTheir words
I've recently gotten a copy of a wonderful new quantum field theory textbook, Anthony Duncan's The Conceptual Framework of Quantum Field Theory
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ABC of Physics: A Very Brief GuideTheir words
If you want an overview of the subject that is as short as possible, this is for you.
1 January 2013
From one piece The 1950s called and wanted their toolbox back 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The field of programming need to see a renaissance in fundamental reinvention, just as it did in the 1950s when programming machines using levers and buttons was replaced by programming machines using textual sequences of computer commands.
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Programming today still relies on one-dimensional, sequential plain text, largely unchanged from decades ago.Their words
professional and hobbyist programmers alike all use the same tools as we did 60 years ago - one-dimensional, sequential plain text.
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Most programming languages in use today derive from Fortran or Lisp, both created in the 1950s.Their words
Pretty much any programming language used today is a derivative of Fortran or Lisp, both born in the 1950s.
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The Infinite Variety of MusicTheir words
When I was very young, I loved the fact that Bernstein's language was so vivid. I was already sold on the music. As far back as I can remember my parents had the records and were playing them, and I took to them immediately. It was really the only music that I cared about, early on. Bernstein allowed me to have a conversation – only with myself at first – about the music.
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The Birth of Tragedy and The Case of WagnerTheir words
The other thing about Nietzsche's writing about Wagner is that it's wonderfully brilliant, unpredictable vivid and perceptive, even when he's deliberately distorting the material for a certain effect or working out his own profound ambivalence about Wagner.
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Doctor FaustusTheir words
I read Doctor Faustus when I was around 18 and something about the book just overwhelmed me. It was one of the most intense reading experiences of my life.
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SilenceTheir words
Silence is one of the great music books. Purely on a literary level, there's something about Cage's style which is tremendously unique, something quite special in the history of literature.
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Music in a New Found LandTheir words
This is a wonderful book, and somewhat forgotten. It's currently very hard to find, here in America at least. It's fantastically vivid and passionate writing about music of all kinds.
20 December 2012
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All In This TeaTheir words
That's the recipe for a delicious documentary, and this one delivers. A fanatical tea drinker in California becomes a connoisseur of fine teas, and then goes on to restore now forgotten traditions of organic artisan tea growing in China.
16 December 2012
13 December 2012
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Being ElmoTheir words
The insight offered in the film that even puppets have to be ABOUT something, was worth the ride for me.
From one piece The Web We Lost 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The primary fallacy that underpins many of their mistakes is that user flexibility and control necessarily lead to a user experience complexity that hurts growth.
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The web was an interesting and different place before links got monetized, but by 2007 it was clear that Google had changed the web forever, and for the worse, by corrupting links.
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This was a sensible reaction to the realization that big sites rise and fall in popularity, but that regular people need an identity that persists longer than those sites do.
6 December 2012
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Jiro Dreams of SushiTheir words
This is a deliciously perfect film about a perfect craftsman.
29 November 2012
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Cave of Forgotten DreamsTheir words
This film will move you back in time while he connects you with the neolithic painters who worked their art.
27 November 2012
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MathJaxTheir words
The other amazing JS application that I use is MathJax, which allows me to write LaTeX math in web pages.
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pandocTheir words
I'm visually tired of beamer slides (mainly because too many people use the same style), and I use pandoc to create HTML5 slides.
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knitrTheir words
I use my knitr package to generate reports directly from code (literate programming); the "reports" may include homework, blog posts, websites, papers and books.
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Thinkpad T510Their words
I use a Thinkpad T510 (15.6-inch screen, 4GB RAM, Intel Core i5 CPU).
21 November 2012
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In the Name of HonorTheir words
She is one of my heroes and this is a book about how someone who grasps dignity, which is a form of honour based in our humanity, can resist the world of the negative side of honour, where women are punished because they are pawns in a game of honour between men.
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HonorTheir words
I disagree with a lot of what he says – in particular that he wants to give up on honour because it has such negative connotations: I think it needs reform as a concept – but I think it's a very lovely piece of scholarly analysis.
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Moral CapitalTheir words
This is another beautiful piece of scholarship by an eminent historian, but you don't have to be an academic to read it. It's about a really interesting subject that I think would interest anybody.
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The Duel and Other StoriesTheir words
It's just so marvellous, the description of these professional-class Russians, far, far away from Moscow in the provinces, and their preoccupation with status and all that, and these two guys in a completely pointless duel.
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The Economy of EsteemTheir words
This is a book by a philosopher and an economist about a topic that was neglected for a very long time in social analysis. So there's lots about it in the 18th century – Adam Smith and people like that – and it's about how esteem, which is their word for the respect that you give to people who have achieved things against a certain standard, can be used to motivate people to do good things.
15 November 2012
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i3Their words
I'm finding that i3 is really good for my use cases (lots of terminal windows open, virtual screens, and fast keyboard navigation of everything.)
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gitTheir words
Combined with git, the best source code control tool I've ever used (and I've used them all), I can set up a bare machine in a matter of minutes and have full access to all of my kernel trees, emails, and development tools.
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CyanogenModTheir words
My Nexus 7 tablet is running the nightly CyanogenMod releases and have had no problems at all with it.
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AWSTheir words
Thanks to Amazon's generosity, I've been doing a lot more kernel build testing on their AWS systems, utilizing a 32 processor, 64Gb virtual machine, allowing me to build multiple kernels at the same time all on a RAM disk in minutes.
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Nexus 7Their words
I also have a Nexus 7 tablet, which I'm finding I like more and more these days, and have given up my previous Kindle and iPad for it.
30 October 2012
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git-annexTheir words
I download my mail with offlineimap, as well as blogs converted to mail with rss2email I use distributed version control extensively, and use my git-annex to maintain large quantities of local data and queue up large files to transfer in the rare times when I'm around fast internet.
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RedshiftTheir words
And the excellent Redshift application, which adjusts the screen color temperature depending on the time of day and preserves my night vision.
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Music Player DaemonTheir words
Other notable software includes the Music Player Daemon, which runs on my netbook and also my home server.
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ObnamTheir words
And I should mention that I'm using Obnam for backups lately.
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SheevaplugTheir words
The only other active computer in the house is my home server and internet gateway; a Sheevaplug with a wireless dongle and a dialup modem.
23 October 2012
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MacBook Air (11-inch)Their words
my two-year-old 11" MacBook Air is the only piece of computing hardware to make me happy since I can’t remember when. For what it does, as opposed to what my dream setup would be, it’s fast and light and smooth and comfortable.
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GoTheir words
However, two things always come along: The Go installation of course, and Plan 9 from User space, also known as plan9port, Russ Cox’s port of the Plan 9 user experience (if not world view) to Unix.
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plan9portTheir words
However, two things always come along: The Go installation of course, and Plan 9 from User space, also known as plan9port, Russ Cox’s port of the Plan 9 user experience (if not world view) to Unix.
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AcmeTheir words
I mostly live inside acme, an editor-shell-IDE-oddball I wrote a while ago that has a different worldview and a very different user interface but that, when used well, is powerful and expressive.
14 October 2012
From one piece Sol — a sunny little virtual machine 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Cooperative multitasking suits coherent, specialized systems better than general-purpose operating systems.Their words
These systems often benefit from cooperative multitasking, in particular coherent, specialized systems (unlike operating systems which are general by nature).
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Register-based virtual machines avoid the push and pop operations usually surrounding other instructions, reducing code size, but in several cases also increases speed of execution (compared to stack-based virtual machines).
13 October 2012
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Judgment in Managerial Decision MakingTheir words
The Ultimatum example was quoted from Max Bazerman’s excellent book, Judgment in Managerial Decision Making
12 October 2012
From one piece Speaking a language badly: how to get over the ego problem 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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In my view, they are simply a BAD TEACHER if they don't encourage exclusive use of the target language.
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There is no threshold of vocabulary to cross before speaking begins; the change is a decision, not a level reached.Their words
It's not like I passed some threshold of having enough words to get started speaking
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But it's HARD to start this. NOT because of all the academic reasons of lack of vocabulary and grammar, but because you need to be cool with the fact that you are not going to know the simplest of words.
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Perfectionist and elitist learners will never accept being perceived as less than geniuses the entire time, so they will never expose themselves to sounding “stupid”, as they may perceive it.
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Speaking badly is not a failure on the way to speaking well; it is a stage that has to be passed through on purpose.Their words
I learned a long time ago that speaking like “Tarzan” is an absolutely necessary stage to go through, so you get used to using the language in SOME way. You learn to get used to the embarrassment and get on with learning quicker.
9 October 2012
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Wacom tabletTheir words
There's also a Wacom tablet as well for when I do digital paintings but lately my art has been leaning towards a more graphic vector style so it doesn't get quite as much love.
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UnityTheir words
For the games themselves, we've used Flash, Unity or HTML. Essentially, we want to be cross platform so that once we've found an interesting game mechanics, we can quickly distribute it to as many people as possible.
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Google SpreadsheetsTheir words
Many of our prototypes store their balancing data in Google Spreadsheets and then we can quickly tweak a value and have it published live to the game. So you get all the version control and group editing of Google Docs feeding directly into your game… this is much nicer than throwing XML files back and forth.
8 October 2012
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The Little Book that Builds WealthTheir words
This from an excellent book called The Little Book that Builds Wealth.
5 October 2012
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RescueTimeTheir words
I use RescueTime on all my machines to get a rough idea of how much work I'm getting done each week.
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SizeUpTheir words
I use SizeUp to use keyboard shortcuts to move windows between monitors and position them effectively.
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PocketTheir words
I use Pocket as a read-it-later service, but I've found that I never actually go back to read what I've saved. It seems to be write-only.
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Rhodia notebookTheir words
For thinking, I usually have a full-sized Rhodia notebook and a decent pen.
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Logitech Harmony 650Their words
I just got a Logitech Harmony 650 remote to replace my TV, cable, and amp remotes.
2 October 2012
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PNGCrushTheir words
PNGCrush is a good tool, I usually use it to expand PNGs to be uncompressed, using "pngcrush -f 0 -m 1 -l 0 -force".
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REAPERTheir words
For recording I use REAPER (naturally).
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ThunderbirdTheir words
Thunderbird for email.
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MSysGitTheir words
MSysGit on Windows is also quite nice in that it comes with a ton of standard gnu tools which are nice to have.
17 September 2012
16 September 2012
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Deep SimplicityTheir words
In his excellent book “Deep Simplicity,” John Gribbin describes the Red Queen Effect in terms of an imaginary species of frog that feeds on an imaginary species of fly.
4 September 2012
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KDETheir words
I've therefore abandoned gnome for KDE, which isn't a perfect fit for me either but still way better than gnome3.
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Synology DS211jTheir words
Also located there is the Dlink wifi router, the HP ink printer and my Synology DS211j NAS.
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ASUS EEE PC S101Their words
I have an ASUS EEE PC S101 (10.1" screen with SSD disk) that I use to bring with me when I travel light and I use it as presentation computer when I do talks at conferences and similar arrangements.
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HTC Desire HDTheir words
I'm using my Android phone for that purpose now - still using an HTC Desire HD that hangs in decently and haven't yet made me upgrade the phone even after over 18 months.
2 September 2012
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Their words
Like sushi chefs, we as founders, designers or developers, need to develop our tastes, in order to build things people can be impressed about.
29 August 2012
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Passion for your work is not something you identify in advance and follow; it is cultivated over time.Their words
But it’s not something that you “follow” (which implies you can identify it in advance). It’s instead something you have to purposefully cultivate over time.
24 August 2012
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GyazoTheir words
I also like Gyazo, a simple tool to share screenshots quickly. It's like Gist for screenshots.
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QuicksilverTheir words
I want to mention Quicksilver as well, a small but awesome launcher utility.
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Amazon EC2Their words
There days I'm using Amazon EC2 instead of my own physical servers.
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