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description: 'Unsorted pile of links I sometimes urgently need in the middle of a conversation.'
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# lost+found
Unsorted pile of links I sometimes urgently need
in the middle of a conversation.
> Some file systems contain a special directory,
> called **lost+found** under Unix, where a file system check
> places lost and potentially corrupted files when the correct location
> cannot be determined,
> and so **requires manual intervention by the user**.
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An impressive library of visual styles
that are usually hard to name.
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A collection of positive human statistics
and optimistic charts.
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A short game that illustrates how one rule can mean
different things to different people.
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A global network of anonymous,
cemented USB drives for offline file sharing.
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Like GitHub, but for clothes.
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End-of-life (EOL) and support information is often
hard to track, or very badly presented.
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A comprehensive database of the world’s most
wondrous places and foods.
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A fast-paced intro to a new programming
language or tool.
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An experimental constructed language designed to express
more profound levels of human cognition briefly and clearly.
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An overview of global data and long-term trends.
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Interactive articles about physics, math, and engineering.
It’s probably the best website on the entire internet.
My favorite post is the one about
bicycles.
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An endless hall of shame and weirdness of computers.
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A briliant interactive guide to the game theory
of why and how we trust each other.
The rest of this site is also pretty good.
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Torrenting can leave traces.
Check torrent downloads and distributions
for your own or your neighbor’s IP address.
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Requests over the network can fail.
An interactive study of common retry methods for developers.
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“There are many ways to navigate a project
inside IntelliJ IDEA (or any other editor)
that doesn’t necessarily include having to look
through a list of tabs and figure out
where you have to click next.”
Post from the VP of Program Management at JetBrains.
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If you think VIM is insane,
you should definitely read about WordStar,
which is still quite popular among many fiction writers.
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Different opinions on writing code
without using overcomplicated advanced tools.
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An investigation into one of the many reasons why
no one should use products from Apple.
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A crowdsourced map to navigate cities
using marked areas and user-generated tags.
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This service calculates shadows from mountains, buildings, and trees
for any date and time, and displays them on a map.
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A comparison tool lets you compare
the affordability of two cities side-by-side.
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A massive CIA database on almost every country
in the world.
Handy when you need to check what kind
of power outlets a country uses before you get there.
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Most software tutorials suck. Here’s how to make one that doesn’t.
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Firefox has a built-in translator.
Not so smart, but works offline.
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A rant about how modern software won’t let you
customize it anymore.
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Bug reporting for the web.
If a site breaks in one browser but not another,
it’s a web compatibility bug. Report it.
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An esoteric and educational programming style
based on the atomic parts of JavaScript.
It uses only six different
characters to write and execute code.
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Unicode is broken.
You can encode data in any unicode character.
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A list of the world’s biggest
myths and misconceptions — with myth-busting included.
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A passionate critique of how math is taught
and a vision of how beautiful
it could be instead.
Also
available in Russian.