We came across a cool book recently called Logically Fallacious: The Ultimate Collection of Over 300 Logical Fallacies , by a social psychologist named Bo Bennett. We were a bit skeptical at first — l

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For several reasons, I am instinctively in favour — strongly so — of remaining in the EU: I have a French wife and two bilingual children, and I am an academic living in the age of the internet. The r

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D onald Donald trawls Google Fonts for ten minutes. There are a few candidates, but Don’s not so confident in his font evaluation skills. He lands on Open Sans. Good ol’ faithful. He sets the actionab

Meet Oliver. Like many of his friends, Oliver thinks he is an expert on 9/11. He spends much of his spare time looking at conspiracist websites and his research has convinced him that the terrorist at

Update: You can now get this post on Kindle . I’ve been using git full time for the past 4 years, and I wanted to share the most practical tips that I’ve learned along the way. Hopefully, it will be u

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Have you ever sat down to complete an important task — and then suddenly discovered you were up loading the dishwasher or engrossed in the Wikipedia entry about Chernobyl? Or perhaps you suddenly real

Netscape 6.0 is finally going into its first public beta. There never was a version 5.0. The last major release, version 4.0, was released almost three years ago. Three years is an awfully long time i

Gregable.com Why you should learn just a little Awk: An Awk tutorial by Example Sep 29, 2010 In grad school, I once saw a prof I was working with grab a text file and in seconds manipulate it into little pieces so deftly it blew my mind. I immediately decided it was time for me to learn awk, which…

Opinion Congratulations! You’ve Been Fired Credit... Henning Wagenbreth AT HubSpot, the software company where I worked for almost two years, when you got fired, it was called “graduation.” We all wou

Home › Essays › Music by the Numbers March 15, 2016 Music by the Numbers When I was a music-mad youth with no money beyond what I needed for rent, food, and the weekly purchase of an inky music paper, I ached with the impossibility of owning certain records. My inability to buy these artefacts…

Francois Ward 16 min read· Feb 28, 2016 -- Press enter or click to view image in full size Image “Question!” by Stefan Baudy, CC BY 2.0 So, you’re starting a brand new JavaScript front end project or overhauling an old one, and maybe you haven’t kept up with the breakneck pace of the ecosystem. Or…

Next post Previous post This morning I came across this post by Nuno Brito on command line switches (or options, as they’re often called, even when they’re not optional). He doesn’t like the multitude and complexity of switches for common Unix utilities. Here’s his primary example: How do you find…

Matthew Desmond hopes to bring a fresh approach to the study of poverty by focusing on the trauma of eviction. “Before this work I didn’t know how bad it was,” he says. “I don’t think a lot of us know

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Editors’ note: Be mindful that this article is from early 2016, but know that your mindfulness helps your mind and body. The benefits of mindfulness meditation, increasingly popular in recent years, are supposed to be many: reduced stress and risk for various diseases, improved well-being, a rewired…

Somewhere between design – a world of personas, pixels, and polish – and engineering – a world of logic, loops, and linux – lies frontend design. Frontend design involves creating the HTML, CSS, and p

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Annals of Technology After decades of speculation and searching, a signal came through. It promises to change our understanding of the universe. February 11, 2016 A hundred years ago, Albert Einstein predicted the existence of moving ripples in space and time.Illustration by Aleks Sennwald Note: On…

D onald Donald trawls Google Fonts for ten minutes. There are a few candidates, but Don’s not so confident in his font evaluation skills. He lands on Open Sans. Good ol’ faithful. He sets the actionab

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Thanks to his vibrant musical connection with Kendrick Lamar as well as his own recent three-hour opus The Epic, saxophonist Kamasi Washington has become a worthy ambassador for jazz in the 21st centu

When the weather is bad I take a bus to work. I’m forever grateful to the person at the bus stop who informed me that you can text New York’s MTA service to find out exactly where the bus is and when

4 min read · Jan 13, 2016 -- Update (August 2020): I wrote this 4 years ago when the React/component community were still in a relatively immature state. The (poorly articulated) higher level theme in

David Noël Jan 11, 2016 · 7 min read I was a perfect smoker: I started young — at the age of 15 or 16, if I remember correctly. For many years, smoking a cigarette was the first thing and the last thi

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Mike Bostock 6 min read· Dec 28, 2015 -- I’d like D3 to become the standard library of data visualization: not just a tool you use directly to visualize data by writing code, but also a suite of tools that underpin more powerful software. To this end, D3 espouses abstractions that are useful for any…