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When you post your deep libertarian thoughts on Facebook you're basically flushing great writing material down the toilet.

The challenge for writers in today's globally connected world: no literary canon, which used to be common to a nation or culture. If you're writing for everyone, you're writing for no one.

The decision to work at a different rate than others can be a significant competitive advantage.

Instead of waiting for the MPAA’s next law, it would be more productive to significantly reduce or eliminate our support of the MPAA member companies starting today, and start supporting campaign finance reform.

The founders should end up with about 50% of the company, total. Each of the next five layers should end up with about 10% of the company, split equally among everyone in the layer.

Mercurial decided to solve the performance problem by developing a specialized storage format: Revlog. Every file is made up of an index and a data file. Git takes the opposite approach: file blobs. To store revisions quickly, each new file revision is a complete copy of the file.

Spatial indexing is increasingly important as more and more data and applications are geospatially-enabled. Efficiently querying geospatial data, however, is a considerable challenge: because the data is two-dimensional (or sometimes, more), you can't use standard indexing techniques to query on position. Spatial indexes solve this through a variety of techniques.

The whole point of a standard is to describe a fixed set of practices that people can take for granted. Once they can take it for granted, they can begin to focus on other things.

Personal list of ideas.

A thorough unpacking of the different kinds of design which are relevant to making modern technology products.