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September 28, 2017

Effective learning: Twenty rules of formulating knowledge

This article will help you overcome one of the greatest difficulties you will face when trying to accelerate learning: formulating knowledge

The speed of learning will depend on the way you formulate the material. The same material can be learned many times faster if well formulated! The difference in speed can be stunning!

Leading Ideas: Buffer’s new Engineering Career Paths Framework

we need a way for engineers to advance to bigger responsibilities and harder challenges as engineers. To deliver great software, we need to encourage engineers to grow horizontally: to grow their knowledge and thought leadership as engineers and do the job they are good at even better. Management should not be the only option for growth and advancement!

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H. P. Lovecraft: Dagon

Zur Einstimmung veröffentlichen wir zehn kostenlose Kurzgeschichten hier auf Tor Online – und den Auftakt gibt »Dagon«. Im Sommer 1917 geschrieben, erschien »Dagon« erstmals in The Vagrant 11 (November 1919).

»Dagon« ist nicht nur eine der frühesten Erzählungen Lovecrafts, sie ist auch die erste, die Elemente dessen enthält, was später als Cthulhu-Mythos bekannt wurde.

Writing modern JavaScript code

I'll try here to list some good practices to make your JavaScript code easier to write, read and maintain.

Three new discoveries in a month rock our African origins

Modern humans arose from a complex process. The answers to these questions are not simple. Our evolution may have encompassed many parts of Africa, but it certainly was not uniform, and right now it looks like the subequatorial part of the story was especially complex and interesting.

Scott Hanselman's Complete List of Productivity Tips

What follows is Danny Schreiber's summary of my Productivity Talk.

The death of reading is threatening the soul

But I am reading many fewer books these days, and even fewer of the kinds of books that require hard work.

The Internet and social media have trained my brain to read a paragraph or two, and then start looking around. When I read an online article from the Atlantic or the New Yorker, after a few paragraphs I glance over at the slide bar to judge the article’s length. My mind strays, and I find myself clicking on the sidebars and the underlined links.

Emacs Org + GTD Inbox: How do you use it?
GeneaWiki

GeneaWiki is a simple graph viewer showing genealogy information in WikiData. Starting from a single person, it will try and construct the family tree according to father, mother, and child statements.