Dewie3

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by Dewie3 11y ago
Not having much land to cultivate grain has some upsides.
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Yes, some employees' obsession with people having to love their jobs is so weird. I can't imagine someone looking at a job description and exclaiming "wow, I love this!". Maybe after a year, though. When they actually
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> This is a careful balance of the burden you put on family and friends and the well being of you children with the balance favoring your kids. If the balance "favours your kids", presumably meaning that the new caretakers feel
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by Dewie3 11y ago
Sounds about right. Everyone just bites their lips and puts up with that person's behaviour because they are afraid of losing her technical chops.
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> The best answer we had was from employee # 2 - "if it gets shit done, and we ship, sure, why not?". He knows how to play the game.
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> It turns out, it’s much easier to focus on avoiding pain than it is to envision pleasure. You just have a one-dimensional imagination. Don't want to shoot heroin up your veins forever, or have an infinite orgy? Just imagine playin
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by Dewie3 11y ago
Do you have any evidence of the fabled American social mobility? The faith in it is high, but recent things I've read seems to indicate that it's more of a dream than reality. But it's all too disorganized for me to find any
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> I don't now what to tell them . You have to manage expectations. Not just do whatever it takes to get things working, until they don't work/can't be changed anymore. It all looks the same to the people who haven&#x2
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> I could give you a very simple example of cultural similarity across Europe. Religion. Pretty much the majority of European countries are Christians. Christianity is kind of a big religion. The Americas (note the 's') could b
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> Firstly, inner-European differences are almost by definition smaller than, say, those between Europeans and Asians. To say that the differences are smaller is one thing. To call them one culture is an entirely other. > I know youn
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I've seen the distinction between internal and external DSL in academia as well.
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It's funny, I guess, to read about the WSJ referring to European culture . There is no European culture that I know of. Maybe if you look across from the other side of the ocean, contrast your own culture with Europe as a whole, you
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I wouldn't even have thought that Helsinki needed that much cooling in the summer. The summer highs aren't that high (Wikipedia), so it's interesting how they still have a large infrastructure for cooling the city. I don&#x27
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"Ego depletion" is probably related to/is the same as the articles I've seen on how willpower is something that you can fatigue/exhaust. No wonder it is hard to have willpower in modern society, when you need so muc
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by Dewie3 11y ago
> I think there really is music that is clearly better, but only subjectively. Hmm... it looks like we agree much more on this point than I thought.
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by Dewie3 11y ago
I thought you meant that there is some way to measure quality of music.
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It's an attempt at a catchy title by appealing to the 10X developer belief/archetype.
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by Dewie3 11y ago
My point wasn't that "weird" are synonyms for "excellent". They are the other side of the coin of things that are not average -- the less desirable things. Something being average denotes that it is commonplace.
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> Contrast average with "Exceptional. Special. Distinguished. Excellent. etc." Contrast average with "Odd. Weird. Freak. etc." > Music is clearly a qualitative arena, Strongly disagree.
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by Dewie3 11y ago
"Average" just means that, while "mediocre" means average + negative connotation. You're the one who is using a word with more baggage than the straightforward, "by definition" meaning (probably to do with
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> Watching him reminded me of an oft-ignored piece of advice: Learn by doing what you love. Obsession is key when it comes to mastering programming (or anything). While it’s perfectly fine to choose this career path as just that—a career
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by Dewie3 11y ago
Let me use Haskell here. I don't think that Haskell's notation is as much mathematical [1] as it is similar, yet better than mathematical notation. Programmers have to be understood by an entity that does not understand hand-
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by Dewie3 11y ago
I've wanted to get some clarity on the difference between effects and side effects for some time. I think side effects are effects that aren't explicit in the program. So if you have a function with signature `Int -> Int` w
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by Dewie3 11y ago
> Few months ago, I came across a new paradigm (to me, at least) called functional programming. You can never go back, at least from the perspective of someone two months into learning it.
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by Dewie3 11y ago
Play might just be the natural (path of least resistance) way for children to learn. Play is not something that is overly scheduled. We don't have to make a curriculum for it. We don't have to track their play-progress. It's
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by Dewie3 11y ago
It's kind of sad if most programmers think that debugging isn't fun. I thought that was a very large part of the programming process? Or maybe people just do OSS in order to re-balance their programming more to the side of clean-s
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by Dewie3 11y ago
There is no need for scare quotes since professional gamers are a thing. Unless you meant serious or hardcore gamers, in which case I don't know why you didn't just write that. I don't think professionals are playing SM
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by Dewie3 11y ago
"Hipsters" nowadays are people who shun trends and only want in on the "underground" stuff. "Hipsters" are also those that are all about being trendy. "Hipsters" are also those who care about the new-
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Curiously, I didn't find any mention that any of these women had any regrets. The negative framing seems to only be on the author's part.
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At first I thought the title was mocking. But I guess it veers more on the genuine side? Anyway, from a more middle-class perspective, it's a mockery to call these women oppressed in any way. They even apparently have some self-irony a

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