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"Scar Tissues Make Relationships Wear Out"

04/26/2103. From a lecture by Professor John Ousterhout at Stanford, class CS142.

This is my most touchy-feely thought for the weekend. Here’s the basic idea: It’s really hard to build relationships that last for a long time. If you haven’t discovered this, you will discover this sooner or later. And it's hard both for personal relationships and for business relationships. And to me, it's pretty amazing that two people can stay married for 25 years without killing each other.

[Laughter]

> But honestly, most professional relationships don't last anywhere near that long. The best bands always seem to break up after 2 or 3 years. And business partnerships fall apart, and there's all these problems in these relationships that just don't last. So, why is that? Well, in my view, it’s relationships don't fail because there some single catastrophic event to destroy them, although often there is a single catastrophic event around the the end of the relation

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"A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept"

01/13/2012. From a lecture by Professor John Ousterhout at Stanford, class CS140

Here's today's thought for the weekend. A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of Y-intercept.

[Laughter]

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Set up Keybase.io, GPG & Git to sign commits on GitHub

This is a step-by-step guide on how to create a GPG key on keybase.io, adding it to a local GPG setup and use it with Git and GitHub.

Although this guide was written for macOS, most commands should work in other operating systems as well.

There's a video published by Timothy Miller explaining some parts of this guide. Discussion on Hacker News.

Note: If you don't want to use Keybase.io, follow [this guide][1] instead. For manually transferring keys to different hosts, check out this [answer on Stack Overflow][2].

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A Next-Generation Smart Contract and Decentralized Application Platform

Satoshi Nakamoto's development of Bitcoin in 2009 has often been hailed as a radical development in money and currency, being the first example of a digital asset which simultaneously has no backing or "intrinsic value" and no centralized issuer or controller. However, another, arguably more important, part of the Bitcoin experiment is the underlying blockchain technology as a tool of distributed consensus, and attention is rapidly starting to shift to this other aspect of Bitcoin. Commonly cited alternative applications of blockchain technology include using on-blockchain digital assets to represent custom currencies and financial instruments ("colored coins"), the ownership of an underlying physic

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"The greatest performance improvement of all is when a system goes from not-working to working"

From a lecture by Professor John Ousterhout at Stanford.

Programmers tend to worry too much and too soon about performance. Many college-level Computer Science classes focus on fancy algorithms to improve performance, but in real life performance rarely matters. Most real-world programs run plenty fast enough on today's machines without any particular attention to performance. The real challenges are getting programs completed quickly, ensuring their quality, and managing the complexity of large applications. Thus the primary design criterion for software should be simplicity, not speed.

> Occasionally there will be parts of a program where performance matters, but you probably won't be able to predict where the performance issues will occur. If you try to optimize the performance of an application during the initial construction you will add complexity that will impact the timely delivery and quality o

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# Compiled source #
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*.com
*.class
*.dll
*.exe
*.o
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PNAU

• Chameleon
• Go Bang
• Change

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defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles true
killall Finder

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Updated 2020-01-10

Chrome Extensions for Developers

Below is a list of Chrome extensions that I've found to be especially helpful for software development. There's a section for Chrome Extensions by Google, and another section for Chrome Extensions for GitHub.

Developer Extensions

• Clear Cache - A simple extension that clears your browser cache (and optionally history, cookies, etc) with a single click. I use this extension multiple times per day.
• Library Sniffer - Identifies the technologies running any web page.

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Updated 2021-02-03

• Chrome Extensions
  • General Chrome Extensions
  • Chrome Extensions by Google
• Opera Extensions

Chrome Extensions

Below is a list of Chrome extensions that I've found helpful, useful, or fun. There's a section for Chrome Extensions from Google.