March 2010
24 posts
The disadvantages of an elite education →
Also from theamericanscholar.org.
Solitude and leadership →
(link courtesy of Ben)
Dear OSX Editor Gods →
dstrelau:
Editor Gods, we don’t ask for much. We just want an editor that makes us stand up and shout: “Hey! The future is here, and I’ve got a text editor to prove it!”
Odds are, it's wrong →
Science fails to face the shortcomings of statistics.
somethingfortheladies:
Scott Pilgrim vs. the...
Little Billy's Letters to famous and infamous... →
Reading these letters was heart-warming.
/the/path/of/most/resistance →
Recommendation algorithm wants to show you... →
you - yes, you! - can teach yourself how to... →
sudobyte:
in the beginning was the question
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a friend of mine asked me that a couple of nights ago, to my delight. my answer, of course, was
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as a matter of fact, any self-respecting programmer you’ve ever met is mostly self-taught. that’s because as soon as a neophyte starts coding, they find out…
The Panic Status Board →
“Another writer again agreed with all my generalities, but said that as an...”
– Carl Sagan, “The Burden of Skepticism”
The full story of how Facebook was founded →
WatchGoddamn Electric Bill - Ten Thousand Years
Mozilla Ubiquity dies an incredibly quiet death →
“Let me start off by saying I personally think Aza Raskin is a genius. Really. When Windows Phone 7 Series just came out, everyone was all amazed about how ‘the data is the UI’, and how everything is so semantic and clean. Well, it’s been done.”