Best of Hacker News — July 2021

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   Windows 96

   The bootup process will be terminated. You will lose all unsaved information in all applications. Press any key to terminate the boot up process. Press CTRL+ALT+DEL again to restart your computer. WINDOWS 96 is a Microsoft Windows 8 operating system.

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   How To Learn Stuff Quickly

   There are two categories of learning: guided and unguided. If you only follow guided resources, you'll wind up in tutorial hell. Mixing unguided learning into guided resources can help you learn more effectively. The tutorial fade is useful because it forces you to pay attention and build the thing over and over.

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   ossu/computer-science: Path to a free self-taught education in Computer Science!

   Open Source Society University is a free online education in computer science. The curriculum is designed according to the degree requirements of undergraduate computer science majors, minus general education (non-CS) requirements. All or nearly all course material is available for free, but some courses may charge money for assignments/tests/ projects to be graded.

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