Report Everything

“If you’re doing an experiment, you should report everything that you think might make it invalid — not only what you think is right about it. Details that could throw doubt on your interpretation must be given, if you know them.”
~ Richard Feynman, “Cargo Cult Science”
A lesson that workers of all disciplines should heed.
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Keyboards are Backwards

Is it possible that an arbitrary decision made decades ago was the wrong one, and we all took it for granted?
Desktop keyboards have had the same fundamental design for decades: QWERTY keypad, computing extensions on the right, and function keys on top. The mouse, for everyone but for a few stubborn lefties, sits to the [...]

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How To Do Well in Programming Competitions

Contests don’t measure real-world programming skills
You’re not judged on the best refactoring of your solution, and you’re not judged on indentation and neatness. If your result is very maintainable, there’s a good chance you put too much effort in the wrong place. You just need to get the solution correct, and fast! Whenever you make [...]

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