I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months.
Reflections on working at Amazon, the interview process, the organizational structure, and why it was not an ideal fit for me (but might be for you).
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Nvidia Research Plots A Course To Multiple Multichip GPU Engines
There are two types of packaging that represent the future of computing, and both will have validity in certain domains: Wafer scale integration and
The Thinner Book: Atomic Habits by James Clear
A summary of the best ideas from Atomic Habits by James Clear
Sensitive People Bring a Major Happiness Habit to the Workplace
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Hint: It’s all to do with empathy.
Give Your Money. Give Your Time. Don’t Tell Anyone.
You can find deep, lasting happiness in a good deed that no one knows you did.
John Madden Was America’s Greatest Football Teacher
Madden, who died Tuesday at the age of 85, made a generation of football fans smarter
Ten Lessons From Three Generations Shaped Google’s TPUv4i - 2021-jouppi.pdf
75 Post-Punk and Hardcore Concerts from the 1980s Have Been Digitized & Put
Between 1985 and 1988, a teenager by the name of Sohrab Habibion was attending punk and post-punk shows around the Washington, DC area. What set him apart was the bulky video camera he’d bring to the show and let roll, documenting entire gigs in all their low-rez, lo-fi glory.
How To Configure the Apache Web Server on an Ubuntu or Debian VPS | DigitalOcean
The Apache web server is the most popular way to serve web content on the internet. The Apache provides a modular and scalable server that can satisfy the n…
An Introduction to DNS Terminology, Components, and Concepts | DigitalOcean
DNS, or the Domain Name System, is an integral part of how the internet functions today. However, the way that DNS works is often quite mysterious for new a…
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A Hacker's Guide to Git
A Hacker’s Guide to Git is now available as an e-book. You can purchase it on Leanpub. Introduction Git is currently the most widely used version control system in the world, mostly thanks to GitHub. By that measure, I’d argue that it’s a...
How to handle big repositories with Git | Atlassian Git Tutorial
Learn about the major reasons behind Git repositories becoming too large and techniques to manage these repositories, from submodules to Git LFS.
CSS Object Model (CSSOM) - Web APIs | MDN
The CSS Object Model is a set of APIs allowing the manipulation of CSS from JavaScript. It is much like the DOM, but for the CSS rather than the HTML. It allows users to read and modify CSS style dynamically.
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Getting Started on Heroku with Node.js | Heroku Dev Center
A step-by-step guide for deploying your first Node app and mastering the basics of Heroku
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Packery
Gapless, draggable grid layouts
In West Bengal, Date Palm Jaggery Is a Winter Delicacy. It’s Also in Danger of Extinction.
Valued for its seasonality and hyper-local terroir, date palm jaggery is facing an array of threats, from urbanization to climate change
Write like you code
Similarities between good writing and good code.
BEM Naming Cheat Sheet by 9elements
A visual tool that provides naming-suggestions for CSS classes using BEM naming convention.
zodern/meteor-up: Production Quality Meteor Deployment to Anywhere
Production Quality Meteor Deployment to Anywhere.
Color Picker — A handy design tool from Color Supply
Use the color wheel to select a style you like. Then pick a hex code.
The HTML5 test - How well does your browser support HTML5?
The HTML5 test score is an indication of how well your browser supports the upcoming HTML5 standard and related specifications. How well does your browser support HTML5?
Free Masonry Website Templates (2024) - HTML Templates
Free Masonry HTML Website Templates are the best choice to kickstart your next masonry style website or blog on the internet.
Let’s Build A Web Server. Part 3.
“We learn most when we have to invent” —Piaget In Part 2 you created a minimalistic WSGI server that could handle basic HTTP GET requests. And I asked you a question, “How can you make your server handle more than one request at a time?” In this article you will …
Ted Lasso - Wikipedia
Ted Lasso is an American sports comedy-drama television series developed by Jason Sudeikis, Bill Lawrence, Brendan Hunt, and Joe Kelly, based on a character Sudeikis portrayed in a series of promotional media for NBC Sports's coverage of England's Premier League. The show…
This Page is Designed to Last: A Manifesto for Preserving Content on the We
Koyeb - The true cost of Kubernetes: People, Time and Productivity
While writing a comparison of Kubernetes and Koyeb, we tried to determine how much operating a Kubernetes cluster really costs. This section of our comparison took us hours to write and ended up being so long that we decided to write a dedicated post about it. Kubernetes is a…
To learn Klingon or Esperanto: What invented languages can teach us
NuqneH! Saluton! A linguistic anthropologist (and creator of the Kryptonian language, among others) studies the people who invent new tongues.
How China turned a prize-winning iPhone hack against the Uyghurs
An attack that targeted Apple devices was used to spy on China’s Muslim minority—and US officials claim it was developed at the country’s top hacking competition.
Japan's Paper Culture | JetPens
With Japan’s rich traditions in paper, it’s no wonder that paper is such a big part of Japanese culture. Keep reading to learn more about why paper is so important in Japan—plus, take a look at a few of our favorite Japanese paper companies.
Category Theory Reading Lists
Category theory: online lecture notes and downloadable books
Russia’s Aggression Against Ukraine Is Backfiring
Putin’s military moves are rallying Ukrainians and unifying NATO.
The Greatest Guitar Solos of All Time
The thorny subject of the greatest guitar solo of all time has long been a fiercely contested debate, probably because every solo is different. How do you compare, say, “Comfortably Numb” with “Crazy Train,” or “Stairway to Heaven” with “Sultans of Swing”? It’s impossible.
How Disgust Explains Everything (Published 2021)
For psychologists who study it, disgust is one of the primal emotions that define — and explain — humanity.
From respair to cacklefart – the joy of reclaiming long-lost positive words | Susie Dent
We have been bombarded with negativity recently; but the English language is a treasure trove of joyous vocabulary, says Susie Dent, a lexicographer and etymologist
Qassem Suleimani and How Nations Decide to Kill
The political, moral, and visceral considerations behind assassination.
Why are some people compelled to cheat at games? - BBC Future
When it comes to unfair tactics, some of us are just better at bending the rules. But, the urge to cheat at games is easier to understand when you examine how they are designed.
A Comprehensive Guide of Regularization Techniques in Deep Learning | by Eu
Understanding how Regularization can be useful to improve the performance of your model
The Looming Threat of a Nuclear Crisis with Iran
The Biden Administration faces a potential confrontation with a longtime rival that is better armed and more hard-line than at any time in its modern history.
We ranked 3 types of EV batteries to find the most efficient and sustainabl
Are lithium-ion batteries here to stay? Let's compare them with sodium-ion and solid-state batteries.
The Incredible Fig
The fig is an ecological marvel. Although you may never want to eat one again.
✚ How to Make Frequency Trails in Excel
Also known as ridgelines, use the method to create a compact visualization where you can easily identify major patterns and outliers.
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How to write LaTeX without writing LaTeX
I love the look of LaTeX but hate the experience of writing in LaTeX, at least compared to Markdown. Luckily, Pandoc can convert Markdown files to PDFs using a LaTeX engine as the renderer, and includes a custom Markdown specification that can fill almost all my LaTeX needs…
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The Four Desires Driving All Human Behavior: Bertrand Russell’s Magnificent
“Nothing in the world is more exciting than a moment of sudden discovery or invention, and many more people are capable of experiencing such moments than is sometimes thought.”