In math, we often say the limit of a function. This is not precise. A better phase is “the limit of a function at a point” since limits are always defined with respect to a function and a point.

Use RSS instead of going to a news website. It’s better to not read news at all (trust me, you won’t miss much as long as you have at least one friend). But if you must, RSS frees you from the distracting cycle of checking news. Why should you have to check for the news when it can tell you when it’s available.

Hernan Cortes would’ve made a good behavioral economist if he hadn’t decided to be a conquistador.

If you’re using Emacs, then I’m sure you’ve heard of Magit. Go read something else, like Helen DeWitt’s The Last Samurai.

One of Vim’s lesser-known operators is !. If y, d, and v are the jocks, then c, <,and > are the theater kids, and ! is the kid who has to eat with the teachers because no one likes them.

There is rarely a distinction made between the following 2 terms, but I think it’s useful to separate the concepts of simple and easy.

This is the Hacker News post where Drew Houston presented Dropbox for the first time.

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Slavery

See this great Stack Overflow answer.

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I don’t really buy into the idea of the Protestant Work Ethic (nobody works harder than Japanese salarymen, and they’re pretty far removed from any Calvinist cultural heritage)

– J. D. Moyer

calibre turned 10 years old 5 days ago.

The geometric series \(\sum_{k=0}^{\infty}{ar^k}\) equals \(\frac{a}{1-r}\) if and only if \(|r| < 1\).

I find zombies interesting on an intellectual level. The slow, mindless one that have to bite you. (Read The Zombie Survival Guide for more info.)

I think of math the same way I think of this shade of blue: