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• "Stalking the Wily Hacker" is about Cliff Stoll, a physicist at UC Berkley who invented cybersecurity after noticing that a few cents were missing from the computer lab. This story is WILD…
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Monument Valley is a gorgeous puzzle game that guides you around artistic optical illusions.
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Two languages come to mind: 1. Elixir's creator Jose Valim has stated that Elixir is pretty much feature-complete. I think they're potentially going to add some static-typing stuff, but the …
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In directionless periods of my life, talking to the right person for 20-30 minutes was sometimes what I really needed. For you, or anybody that feels like this, schedule a phone call with me! I don&#x…
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In directionless periods of my life, talking to the right person for 20-30 minutes was sometimes what I really needed. For you, or anybody that feels like this, schedule a phone call with me! I don&#x…
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Conferences, meetups, webinars, and podcasts seem appropriate. The intent for this thread is for conference organizers (and podcast hosts) to find guests. I edited the post to be more specific, thank …
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Wow, super cool design decision! Can you give multiple named variables? How would you write a function like this? const f = (a,b,c) => { return a * b + c }
Also, is this just q/kdb, o…
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https://betterdev.link/
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Whoops, you're right, I meant to link to this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD6bPNZRRbQ
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Wow, thank you for the amazing links. > The bottleneck here is to have the domain knowledge and experience to judge which generated ideas are good. This comment reminds me of my grandpa. I occasi…
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My algorithm for generating ideas: https://taylor.town/an-algorithm-for-generating-ideas …
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CGP Grey's incredible video on this subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfOUVYQnuhw
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I made a CLI tool that manages my life and beeps at me to stay on-track: https://taylor.town/nowify A lot of acquaintances have been begging me to turn this into an app, so I may give…
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I find that in the design phase, copying is useful because it’s easier to intuit what you don’t like than what you do like. But it’s even more important to do a second round of critically asking you…
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In directionless periods of my life, talking to the right person for 20-30 minutes was sometimes what I really needed. For you, or anybody that feels like this, schedule a phone call with me! I don&#x…
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https://taylor.town/synthetic-intelligence