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Mike Turitzin
Personal blog · miketuritzin.com/writingprogramminghealth
Mike Turitzin writes MikeTuritzin.com, a personal blog at miketuritzin.com about programming and health. Since 2011, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Drinking from the Firehose: Learning Computer Graphics Techniques/Programming”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Mike Turitzin's personal blog for essays such as one on how to be a naysayer, a post on eating healthily for $3 a day, and a background piece on evolution and The Selfish Gene.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
All the Mike Turitzin content that's fit to print.
Most-linked posts?
- Drinking from the Firehose: Learning Computer Graphics Techniques/Programming3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-07-07
- Hierarchical Depth Buffers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-03-26
What Hacker News says?
I found myself thinking of this essay by Mike Turitzin as I read your post: http://www.miketuritzin.com/writing/how-to-be-a-naysayer/ It's clear, concise, and well worth consideration.
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on “Apple fires Chinese supplier for using underage workers”Submitted Eating Healthily for $3 a Day as a story · 384 points
HN discussionFor $3 a day you can eat (relatively) healthy food and only shop once or twice a week: http://www.miketuritzin.com/writing/eating-healthily-for-3-a... I've tried this for a few months. It's hard to do just the rice and beans. We modified it by adding salsa, shredded cheese, and tortilla shells to make burritos out of everything. It's probably an extra $20-$30 per month to do that.
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on “The CEO of Panera Bread attempts to live off food stamps for a week”Submitted Drinking from the Firehose: Learning Computer Graphics Techniques/Programming as a story · 2 points
HN discussionRegardless of how you define what a "gene" is, the "unit of selection" is a fragment of an organism's dna, not the organism itself. In this context Dawkin's explores an ESS(evolutionary stable strategy) that exhibits altruistic behaviour. It's also worth noting that group selection is shown to be unstable as an evolutionary strategy. This review of The Selfish Gene gives some good background http://www.miketuritzin.…
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on “Harvard's Edward O. Wilson tries to upend biology, again”Submitted Hierarchical Depth Buffers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Drinking from the Firehose: Learning Computer Graphics Techniques / Programming as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Learning Computer Graphics Techniques and Programming as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hierarchical Depth Buffers as a story · 1 points
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