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by DarkTree 10y ago
Agreed. This is why, when I'm tying into the anchors at the top of a climb so that I can clean the route, I say every action I'm doing out loud as a way to talk myself through it and confirm that I'm doing all of the actions.
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Ask HN: What math do I need to learn for graphics programming?
3 points by DarkTree 10y ago|2 comments
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by DarkTree 10y ago
> Deep Work, along with many other non-fiction "self help" books HN loves, could just be a couple of long blog posts. Sure, they could be, but I would argue there is benefit to expanding them into longer books. I haven't
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by DarkTree 10y ago
It isn't necessarily analogous to compare the study of writing in college to that of learning to program. For one, by the time you are in college, you have been speaking, reading, and analyzing (via communication) your native language
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by DarkTree 10y ago
I miss true seasons. Hoping to make it back East in the future. Any recommendations for NE other than Boston (which I like)?
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by DarkTree 10y ago
Yeah I agree. I am single, healthy, and car-less. I pay $1500 a month rent for a pretty nice place, and have a avg software engineer salary, and I feel very comfortable, even paying for a large student loan. The real kicker is that I was li
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by DarkTree 10y ago
You can also just google the title and click on the first link.
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by DarkTree 10y ago
Then oddly enough, it becomes less about you being challenged and more about those who believe you shouldn't exist being challenged. Colleges are great for exposure to peers with varying backgrounds and beliefs and are great for foster
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by DarkTree 10y ago
love is about appreciation, not possession.
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by DarkTree 10y ago
I think the difference is that they are willingly trading suffering for some personal benefit, whereas you don't actively choose to suffer. While that's unfortunate, you are unfairly writing them off because you arbitrarily have t
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by DarkTree 10y ago
That sounds pretty anecdotal, only because (also anecdotally) I was surrounded by many, many wealthy kids at my school whose parents put insane pressure on them due to the perceived status of telling others that their children go to "i
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by DarkTree 10y ago
Every time I read about the original "hackers" of the modern computer era, it seems many were much more focused on refining their code, or "bumming" lines of code, into the smallest form possible due to the technologica
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by DarkTree 10y ago
Yeah I think there is just a lot of friction when moving from the concise "ES6" to the lengthy, and somewhat awkward "ECMAScript2015". The fact that so many people still use the terms ES6 and ES7 gives others even less i
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by DarkTree 10y ago
Yeah, there are two ways to find value in your life's work. One is to continually perfect your craft (Jiro), which means dedicating yourself to primarily one skill/career/industry. The other is to continually diversify your s
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by DarkTree 10y ago
This sort of underminds the fact that, like any art, many authors write books because they actually enjoy the act of writing (perhaps not physically) and telling a story, and are doing so for their own sake. They aren't making their wo
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by DarkTree 10y ago
Wow, that video also has one of the best comments I've seen: > Slime green, Comic Sans, all caps. Oh my god, it even has clip-art.
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by DarkTree 10y ago
It shot me forward to a time where people just click a button to generate music they want to listen to. If you really like the generation, you save it and share it. It wouldn't have all of the other aspects that we derive from human-pr
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by DarkTree 10y ago
Dang, I'm really happy you made this (event supports remapping 'esc' to 'jj' which is a must for me), but now I'm so waist deep in the atom environment that the switching costs are pretty steep. At this point t
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by DarkTree 10y ago
In my personal experience, this strategy has worked remarkably. One morning my friend and I were out eating breakfast and discussing the Pokemon Go craze. Then we started talking about our childhood experiences with pokemon on the gameboy,
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by DarkTree 10y ago
> I don't think removing the headphone jack is going to be as big a deal as everyone here makes it out to be. > I have a pair of bluetooth headphones I use for the gym and I love them. Yeah, that's why you don't see it
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by DarkTree 10y ago
I definitely agree with getting value from books about companies/people you admire. I think it's more memorable to read about real people's actions and lifestyles as opposed to reading "how-to" or "self-help&qu
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by DarkTree 10y ago
> Yeah, it's probably overly pessamistic; no, it's not fair. But I'm alive and uninjured. Don't you think that's a little bit of survivorship bias? I'm sure there are plenty of cyclist who have been killed w
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by DarkTree 10y ago
Honestly, it seems as if the article is just bending the definition of listening. It appears their idea of "the best listener" is the person who engages you the most in conversation. Sure, that person might be a more valuable pers
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by DarkTree 10y ago
I lol'd at how true this is. And working on a team with multiple sub-groups means that only 2 or 3 out of the 8 person team knows the problem intimately, and it just becomes a problem-solving colloquium right there at standup until som
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by DarkTree 10y ago
Just 5 years ago, as a freshman in college, I was alternating between Amazon and eBay to find the cheapest price for textbooks. This was the first time I ordered anything off of Amazon, and it was their bread and butter; a book. Fast-forwar
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by DarkTree 10y ago
That's an interesting insight that I never really realized before. I think a lot of people try to pinpoint why Steve Jobs is and was so respected despite the negative ways he treated people. I may have lost respect for him through thes
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by DarkTree 10y ago
Honestly, I do the bare minimum. I keep it tucked under my bed.. so if anyone goes that far to invade my privacy, then that is their problem at that point.
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by DarkTree 10y ago
When I started journaling, I promised myself that I would be honest with myself, because the purpose of journaling was to chronicle what I was thinking at that time in my life. I not only write out moments that stand out in that day, like t
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by DarkTree 10y ago
I agree with your second paragraph very much. However, your third paragraph points out the adage that continually needs to be reiterated, and you kind of hint at it. If you are writing a basic app that fetches some json and displays it to a
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by DarkTree 10y ago
Really? Because this guy in the car had a gun, may have been a good guy, and was shot by a police officer.

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