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Technical skills There seems to be evidence that programmer productivity varies by at least an order of magnitude. My subjective sense is

Note/edit: I'm imagining explaining this to a friend or family member who is at least somewhat charitable and trusting of my judgement. I am

Hey guys, I'd just like to announce that I'm starting a new meet up in Las Vegas! WHEN: First and third Sunday of the month. 7pm-9pm. WH

Discussion article for the meetup : Las Vegas Meetup WHEN: 30 April 2017 05:52:32PM (-0700) WHERE: 611 Freemont Street, Las Vegas,

This sort of thinking seems bad: me.INTRINSIC_WORTH = 99999999; No matter what I do, this fixed property will remain constant. This so

This is intended to be a pretty broad discussion of sports. I have some thoughts, but feel free to start your own threads. tl;dr - My imp

In this video, Douglas Crockford (JavaScript MASTER) says: So I think programming would not be possible without System I; without the gut

I'm reading Dan Ariely's book Predictably Irrational. The story of what got him interested in rationality and human biases goes something li

Here are my thoughts on the "Why don't rationalists win?" thing. Epistemic I think it's pretty clear that rationality helps people do a be

Programmers do something called Test Driven Development. Basically, they write tests that say "I expect my code to do this", then write more