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[ my public key: https://keybase.io/exist; my proof: https://keybase.io/exist/sigs/x5f-0_igt7_9qW3AaNrE8XmtabTXSi55P4ZmLKtTZvs ]
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exist··on Hacker News Highlights, August to November 2018
This is great. Thank you.
exist··on Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system
Such a great book! As someone who came from a non-traditional background, this book was very key in helping me understand operating systems.
exist··on Many People Taking Antidepressants Discover They Cannot Quit
Since there's a lot of quoting of studies on this topic, I hope that everyone reads this very informative (and long) blog post by a psychiatrist on SSRIs and their effectiveness:

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/07/ssris-much-more-than-yo...

exist··on Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken?
Definitely agree with this one. It's called Algorithm Specialization on Coursera. I'm now on course 3 and it's definitely helped me a lot in thinking about how reason about algorithms.
exist··on Show HN: Hacker News Classics
Yes it looks like they do deduplication, based on the HTML source:

  for (var i in data[yr]) {
    var story = data[yr][i];
    if (seen_titles[story.title]) continue;
    seen_titles[story.title] = 1;
  // ...add story to list of stories
  };
exist··on Interactive Vim tutorial
Thank you for that link. I appreciate that he chose to intersperse the history of commands (such as grep!) within his explanation.