Articles by downbad_
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What it's like to house-hunt in Silicon Valley (2015) (washingtonpost.com)

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Close the Book. Recall. Write It Down. (2009) (chronicle.com)

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Things I Won't Work With: Dimethylcadmium (2013) (science.org)

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How to hire the best people you've ever worked with (2007) (pmarchive.com)

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Want to write a compiler? Just read these two papers (2008) (dadgum.com)

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Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012) (super-memory.com)

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When Greedy Algorithms Are Good Enough (2014) (jeremykun.com)

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The $10k-a-year college education has arrived (1981) (nytimes.com)

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Fuck the cloud (2009) (textfiles.com)

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Demoralize Your Teams Quickly and Efficiently with Micromanagement (2010) (stellman-greene.com)

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OpenAI Introduction (2015) (openai.com)

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How to Get Good at Chess, Fast (2013) (gautamnarula.com)

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Why it's so hard to innovate in the email space (2014) (collinmathilde.medium.com)

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Brain on Poverty: Why Poor People Seem to Make Bad Decisions (2013) (theatlantic.com)

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The McDonalds Monopoly Fraud (2014) (priceonomics.com)

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The Triumph of Stupidity (1933) (russell-j.com)

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The Implementation of Functional Programming Languages (1987) (microsoft.com)

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What is a coder's worst nightmare? (2014) (quora.com)

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I Wrote PGP (1999) (philzimmermann.com)

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How Transistors Work (1995) (amasci.com)

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Why Obama did not stop NSA domestic surveillance (2015) (politico.com)

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Why people keep trying to erase the Hollywood sign from Google Maps (2014) (gizmodo.com)

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14,000 Images of the French Revolution Released Online (2014) (hyperallergic.com)

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Doctor behind vaccine-autism link loses license (2010) (time.com)

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News is bad for you (2013) (theguardian.com)

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The first photograph of a human being (1838) (mashable.com)

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Vue.js: A (Re)Introduction (2015) (evanyou.me)

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Ask HN: In Need of Financial Support

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That Vanished (2010) (smithsonianmag.com)

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Hope for Cancer Cure from New Discoveries (1906) [pdf] (nytimes.com)

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I attacked myself with Google Spreadsheets (2012) (behind-the-enemy-lines.com)

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How to Write Unmaintainable Code (1999) (ic.ac.uk)

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Why Is It So Difficult to Develop Drugs for Cancer? (2010) (newyorker.com)

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Ask HN: Freelance full-stack dev in between contracts