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Isn't America this grand experiment to keep making mistakes and correcting them in the open and share it with the world? That's the American experiment.

— Audrey Tang, via Tyler Cowen

Fira Code is a free monospaced font containing ligatures for common programming multi-character combinations. This is just a font rendering feature: underlying code remains ASCII-compatible. This helps to read and understand code faster.

— Fira Code

Sublime fights this by being developed by just two people who don't have much free time on their hands. As a result, every detail in ST is essential, and everything that is not is just not there.

— tonsky

I sob, and the rivers of people run in the streets.

— Vanity Fair

Lots of tears in this household after reading this essay.

Winamp Skin Museum https://skins.webamp.org/

Gemini is a new, collaboratively designed internet protocol, which explores the space inbetween gopher and the web, striving to address (perceived) limitations of one while avoiding the (undeniable) pitfalls of the other.

— Project Gemini

The objects survive the survivors. They will soon be all that's left to tell the story.

— AFAR

I'll get Jay (Watson) and Dom (Simper) and we'll do this kind of electronic jam with heaps of equipment around us and we'll recreate the songs with samplers and sequencers

I love the internet http://cloudkicker.50webs.com

Simple math: a $50 million fund with average fully-diluted ownership of 5% at exit needs to generate roughly $5 billion of enterprise value. No small feat!

— CK Thoms

OpenAI as a brainstorming companion via text message: https://t.co/By9azQMJV3

— Greg Brockman (@gdb) August 21, 2020

Either the stats are messed up, or Apple's customer base is so exceptional in being open to spending that an Apple user is indeed 12 times more likely to spend money on digital goods. Not twice, not 5 times, 12 times!

— Oliver Reichenstein

I would much rather see the person try to write out a half-page explanation of the plan, so I can better see if one thought follows from the next, and if one step follows from the next.

— Marginal Revolution

The Beatles are the ultimate archetype of a team of friends working together, scheming together, making music together — and inevitably, tearing one another apart.

— Rolling Stone

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15/ And on weekends and after work, it's super important to be AWAY from work. Which means:

- No checking of emails on phone
- No participation of work-related groups on WhatsApp
- Having similar expectations from co-workers

(Had sent the attached email to @wingify team) pic.twitter.com/Wz3Ce2I9N1

— Paras Chopra (@paraschopra) August 17, 2020

David had spent over 50 years collecting 200,000 notes on over 100,000 people, all written on standard index cards. He later ascribed his success in business, and in life, to the system that valued serving others before himself.

— Clay

It isn't magic – it's science. 1SecondPainting is a deep neural network trained on thousands of abstract paintings, including a number of pieces by Pollock, Delaunay, and more.

— 1SecondPainting

I came across this on the old Intergram...

You know what's more interesting than predictions? Prediction scorecards. Love this one by Rodney Brooks. http://rodneybrooks.com/predictions-scorecard-2020-january-01/