Imagine this: You’re an 18 year old with just a high school degree. You immigrate to a new country that speaks a different language, and start work with some of the brightest engineers in the world. S
I've had this blog post in one form or another of draft for several years now. I hesitated to complete it, in part because at the best of times cultural observations can easily be misinterpreted and a
In depth guide to running Elasticsearch in production This article first appeared on my blog in February 2020. If you are here, I do not need to tell you that Elasticsearch is awesome, fast and mostly
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Back in Nov 2019 when I first wrote this blog post, the context for rethinking my note taking setup was based around growing problems with Apple’s software quality. Having enjoyed Apple’s minimalist a
What’s the best shooter to play in 2020? Where can gamers find the coolest weapons, the hardest enemies, and the most thrilling challenges? There’s a lot of cool games on the horizon such as Cyberpunk
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Byrne Hobart May 1, 2019 · 6 min read The most committed atheists I know are people who grew up religious. The most devout people I know went through a Strong Atheism phase. There are various theories
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The Bullet Journal - an analog method for the digital age 1 . It is a system of maintaining a journal that is simple, flexible and yet thorough at the same time.The method has an instruction manual bu
This article is based on historical research and on simply reading the Vim user manual cover to cover. Hopefully these notes will help you (re?)discover core functionality of the editor, so you can ab
Signs of Triviality Opinions, mostly my own, on the importance of being and other things. [ homepage ] [ index ] [ jschauma@netmeister.org ] [ @jschauma ] [ RSS ] January 24th, 2020 Nope, not another
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“I have participated and contributed to events that have significantly reduced the power of middle management and which have placed powerful information tools into the hands of unlikely people." — Lee
Motherhood has never felt natural to me. I wasn’t very good at understanding my babies’ needs or what their cries meant, something that other parents seemed to know without giving it too much thought.
The stock market is in turmoil , the trade war is dragging on and the global economy is slowing . Plus, it’s been 10 years since the Great Recession ended, making this officially the longest expansion
How to assess the quality of garments: A beginner's guide What's the number one prerequisite to building a high-quality wardrobe? Exactly: You need to be able to recognize a quality garment when you s
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Photo by Plume Creative / Getty “Friendships don’t just happen,” says William Rawlins, a professor of interpersonal communication at Ohio University. “They don’t drop from the sky.” Like any relations
A few hours after I bought a 1995 Ford E-350 Econoline van for $2,000 in the fall of 2017, the ABS light lit up on the dashboard. That night, I had a dream: My fiancée, Rachel, and I were driving down
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How to make friends over the internet created: 2019-07-20 ; modified: 2021-05-02 Table of Contents Make friends over the internet with people who are great at things you’re interested in. The internet
I’ve wanted to write about this subject for quite some time and only today decided to finally sit down with no distractions. I put my phone aside and tuned into Spotify’s “focus” playlist. At long las
And somewhere in the back of his mind was a small, small note of confusion, a sense of something wrong about that story; and it should have been a part of Harry’s art to notice that tiny note, but he
From late 2012 to the present I have been writing backends (server-side code) for web applications. This document summarizes many aspects of how I write these pieces of code. I'm writing this lore dow
Our inability to look beyond the latest news cycle could be one of the most dangerous traits of our generation, says Richard Fisher. DEEP CIVILISATION This article is the first in a new BBC Future ser
A SURE WAY to irritate a private-equity manager is to say the “T” words: two-and-twenty. Their eyes roll: this again. Two-and-twenty (or 2-and-20) is, or used to be, a common fee arrangement for a cer
In 2011, I lived with Mimi in her home in Córdoba, Argentina. About two months after I moved in with Mimi, I was sitting across the table from her, listening to her explain the Argentine peso devaluat
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Perhaps because of the proliferation of personal finance websites focusing on early retirement, I’ve noticed a lot of talk lately about safe withdrawal rates. I think this is absolutely terrific, as f
How Much Land Does a Man Need? I An elder sister came to visit her younger sister in the country. The elder was married to a tradesman in town, the younger to a peasant in the village. As the sisters
I recently published an article in the final ever issue of Stripe Press ‘ Increment Magazine . It’s called Planning for Momentum . In the article, I make the case that planning is far from dead. In fa
Our industry is infamous for confusing terms. Roles in software development are a good example. Titles like Architect, Tech Lead, Team Lead and Engineering Manager provide endless confusion. In this a
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