Articles by downbad_
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I Hate the Weekends (2017) (cdahmedeh.net)

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Is Huh? a universal word? (2013) (markdingemanse.net)

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A brief history of the UUID (2017) (twilio.com)

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Flying High Unpressurized (2016) (planeandpilotmag.com)

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When FP? And when OOP? (2013) (raganwald.com)

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Penguin travels every year to visit man who rescued him (2016) (cbc.ca)

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Cancer Progress: More Than You Wanted to Know (2018) (slatestarcodex.com)

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You weren't meant to have a boss (2008) (paulgraham.com)

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The Hallmarks of Aging (2013) (nih.gov)

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A Beginner's Guide to Scaling to 11M+ Users on Amazon's AWS (2016) (highscalability.com)

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The National Automated Highway System That Almost Was (2013) (smithsonianmag.com)

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Five facts about smell (2014) (alicebartlett.co.uk)

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Two abandoned Soviet space shuttles left in the Kazakh steppe (2017) (cnn.com)

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The price of the Manhattan Project (2013) (nuclearsecrecy.com)

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The Making Of: Dust (2003) (johnsto.co.uk)

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The Taming of the Screw (2000) (si.edu)

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The true power of regular expressions (2012) (npopov.com)

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Does Being Bored Make Us More Creative? (2014) (fermatslibrary.com)

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Unix in East Germany (GDR) (1990) (groups.google.com)

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How to Raise Money (2013) (paulgraham.com)

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Linus Torvalds announces Linux (1991) (archive.org)

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Total Recall: LeBron's mighty mind (2014) (espn.com)

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Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository (2016) (acm.org)

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Why does it take so long to mend an escalator? (2002) (lrb.co.uk)

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Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning (2010) (mariovittone.com)

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You can't tell people anything (2004) (habitatchronicles.com)

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Why "children," not "childs"? (2016) (grammarphobia.com)

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The Biggest and Weirdest Commits in Linux Kernel Git History (2017) (destroyallsoftware.com)

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American Dream (2003) (github.com/bibanon)

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The Black Death (2016) (aeon.co)

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Many Objects Can Be Juggled (1997) (fermatslibrary.com)

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Python as a Declarative Programming Language (2017) (benfrederickson.com)

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In 2004, Mark Zuckerberg Broke into a Facebook User's Email Account (2010) (businessinsider.com)

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The Challenge of Cross-language Interoperability (2013) (acm.org)

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GTA V – Graphics Study (2015) (adriancourreges.com)

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Steve Jobs MIT Sloan Distinguished Speaker Series (1992) (youtube.com)

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"Peak Civilization": The Fall of the Roman Empire (2009) (theoildrum.com)

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Will MySpace ever lose its monopoly? (2007) (theguardian.com)

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The Art of Assembly Language (1999) (archive.org)

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Giraffes Silently Slip onto the Endangered Species List (2016) (smithsonianmag.com)

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Pixar's 22 Rules of Storytelling (2013) (aerogrammestudio.com)

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Less is exponentially more (2012) (commandcenter.blogspot.com)

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Poverty Changes Your Mind-Set (2018) (chicagobooth.edu)

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When you should bring in the heavy hitters (2017) (rawsignal.ca)

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Why Do We Sleep Under Blankets, Even on the Hottest Nights? (2017) (atlasobscura.com)

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The Drugging of the American Boy (2014) (esquire.com)

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Kahneman on Contingencies (2002) (nih.gov)

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'Lede' vs. 'Lead' (2011) (howardowens.com)

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Body wasn't built to last: a lesson from human mortality rates (2009) (gravityandlevity.wordpress.com)

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The Four Motivators (2016) (apenwarr.ca)

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Sleep and Mortality: A Population-Based 22-Year Follow-Up Study (2007) (fermatslibrary.com)

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Python 1.0.0 is out (1994) (groups.google.com)

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Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017) (johnsalvatier.org)

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C as an Intermediate Language (2012) (yosefk.com)

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Spas Are Just Harder, and Always Will Be (2013) (wgross.net)

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Legends of the Ancient Web (2017) (idlewords.com)

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Learn the tricks. Beat the system. (2009) (csail.mit.edu)

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When volcanic ash stopped a Jumbo at 37,000ft (2010) (bbc.co.uk)

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List of price of medieval items (2006) (ucdavis.edu)

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Why Education Startups Do Not Succeed (2011) (avichal.com)

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Lost at sea: the man who vanished for 14 months (2015) (theguardian.com)

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Simpson's Paradox and the Hot Hand in Basketball (1995) (fermatslibrary.com)

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'Once in a lifetime find': Dinosaur tail discovered trapped in amber (2016) (cnn.com)

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How to Write Articles and Essays Quickly and Expertly (2006) (downes.ca)

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The Accidental Bestseller (2014) (publishersweekly.com)

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Some Rules for Historians (1973) (smithtrust.com)

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Don't Design Your Emails (2016) (gkogan.co)

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Why physicists still use Fortran (2015) (moreisdifferent.com)

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Playboy Interview: Steven Jobs (1985) (allaboutstevejobs.com)

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The Secret World of Tiny Phones That Go Inside Your Butt (2016) (vice.com)

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Whom the Gods Would Destroy, They First Give Real-Time Analytics (2013) (mcfunley.com)

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The significance of plot without conflict (2012) (tumblr.com)

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How to Pick Your Life Partner – Part 1 (2014) (waitbutwhy.com)

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The Acceleration of Addictiveness (2010) (paulgraham.com)

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The Rise of Pirate Libraries (2016) (atlasobscura.com)

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The Nearly Mile-Wide Diamond Mine That Helped Build the Soviet Union (2014) (gizmodo.com)

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Too many people have peed in the pool (2016) (stephenfry.com)

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I spent 29 years in solitary confinement (2010) (theguardian.com)

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People Don't Buy Products, They Buy Better Versions of Themselves (2014) (buffer.com)

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Does it scale? Who cares (2011) (jacquesmattheij.com)

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Where will UX design be in 5 years? 5 Predictions (2017) (designlab.com)

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The things that happen at a lock-picking convention (2013) (slate.com)

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A linguist on Arrival's alien language (2016) (slate.com)

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A Man Who Almost Never Succeeded (2012) (lensrentals.com)

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There Are Three Programming Paradigms (2013) (c2.com)

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The Curse of Smart People (2014) (apenwarr.ca)

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How the NSA obtains and uses airline reservations (2013) (papersplease.org)

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Nullsoft, 1997-2004 (2004) (slate.com)

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Influenza a (H1N1) (2009) (bunniestudios.com)

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How to build a medieval castle (2016) (historyextra.com)

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Kids can't use computers and this is why it should worry you (2013) (coding2learn.org)

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The Fallacy of Premature Optimization (2009) (acm.org)

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Thefacebook.com's Darker Side (2004) (archive.org)

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Ask HN: What inspires you to persevere through adversity?

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Amazon Web Services in Plain English (2015) (expeditedsecurity.com)

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Origins of Python's "Functional" Features (2009) (python-history.blogspot.com)

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Reasons not to use Skype (2012) (stallman.org)

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It Takes 6 Days to Change 1 Line of Code (2015) (edw519.posthaven.com)

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Learning Advanced JavaScript (2008) (johnresig.com)

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How is NSA breaking so much crypto? (2015) (princeton.edu)