LeonB

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by LeonB 7y ago
(reading your comment when I got to the bit about "bouncing their leg" ooops... guilty...)
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by LeonB 7y ago
Life long doodler here. Have had many teachers and lecturers express their consternation at me, but I persist. I often find it necessary to prevent my mind sort of "zoning out" which is unpleasant. I always remember a particular i
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by LeonB 7y ago
I use gitbook and publish to https://til.secretGeek.net Each technology gets its own folder. I add a new markdown file whenever I learn something new. Then I push to git and it is published live shortly after.
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by LeonB 7y ago
For example, abusive partners can use it to track their partner and continue to track them when they (hopefully) become ex partners.
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by LeonB 7y ago
Oh incidentally I learned recently that things you learn in the last 90 minutes or so before going to sleep are less likely to be retained. I believe I read this in "The Expert's Guide to Sleeping Well" by Chris Idzikowski, w
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by LeonB 7y ago
Was sent out to visit a customer- a .com startup. The week before it had been a buzzing vibrant exciting place. They were using something “new” called XP, extreme programming where you put two programmers side by side for an hour or two and
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by LeonB 7y ago
One of the more fun/creative things I've done with code involved playing with Artificial Life. I put up a repository here: https://github.com/secretGeek/robots-versus-electric-sheep This was a C# program (wit
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by LeonB 7y ago
Here’s some preventative ideas (that are still worth doing when you have depression) — http://wiki.secretgeek.net/protective-factors-for-mental-hea... Also CBT/ACT are worth studying. (Cognitive behavioral therapy&#x2F
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by LeonB 7y ago
So Murph the surf led to point break which led to fast and the furious franchise the total gross revenue of which dwarfs the original crimes
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by LeonB 7y ago
Click the “web” link above.
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by LeonB 7y ago
A glossary is a good thing to maintain. We keep one often updated in our wiki (at work)
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by LeonB 7y ago
Agree. Comparisons (head to head) are a different category again. And hard to find (apart from as partisan sales pitches). Particularly useful if you know X and wondering if/why to consider Y. I often look at “alternativeto.net” to fin
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by LeonB 7y ago
With reference docs, I really value the examples. Describing the syntax, in a formal way is necessary sure. But I often skip down to the examples and that way I get a feel for it quickly. Bonus points if the examples are thoughtful in the w
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by LeonB 7y ago
It’s definitely not sufficient, but it’s valuable advice because it shows the very starting point, the foot of the ladder. So often advice assumes you’re already at a location very far up the ladder. But yes, crafting those big revelations
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by LeonB 7y ago
> I start by writing a brief, extremely dull short story ...about three pages ... I refine it for weeks... > that small story contains a full, straightforward account of the case my detective must solve, told in simple English. It enu
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by LeonB 7y ago
Source please.
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by LeonB 7y ago
It's not "dying out" -- people are working very hard to reduce it. Sometimes we say things like "the world has changed" but the truth is that people have changed the world, through tremendous efforts. It's easy
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by LeonB 7y ago
"One report last February said that two people, visiting Tasmania from Australia," ...from "mainland" Australia perhaps. "newly released Australian government documents" ...aren't from the federal governme
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by LeonB 7y ago
If $villain has outright said he’s going to do that with it, then the $salesperson might still sell the $hammer if their personal safety is endangered. But they should also notify the $police so that $someone can be warned and $villain can
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by LeonB 7y ago
I wouldn’t call it depressing but I think for example, when you look at even the most fundamental types, for example in c#, they have difficult problems. Floating point numbers for example. Or date times. Egad! Or strings. There’s a Jon Ske
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by LeonB 7y ago
The case at hand is an older man who interacts with younger students. Half of them don’t feel safe around him. He’s going to have to do an astounding job with the remaining 50% to make up for that. It’s not about declaring some people “good
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by LeonB 7y ago
I wrote a tool, NimbleText which is free and good and lightweight for these one off 1000-line code generation scenarios. See https://nimbletext.com/live or email me for help (support at nimbletext)
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by LeonB 7y ago
People in power are the only ones who have opportunities to abuse power. People who are given power and abuse that power should have that power taken away from them. There’s plenty of other people who will fill their role.
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by LeonB 7y ago
"Moneyball: the art of winning an unfair game." by Michael Lewis. Pretty good. Makes you think! More in-depth than the movie (as you'd expect)
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by LeonB 7y ago
10 is: “ Finish workouts at least 2 to 3 hours before sleep. (Exercise generally will improve sleep. Good sleep will powerfully improve exercise)” How is this “wrong” ? My source is “Why We Sleep” by Dr Matt Walker. I’m happy to read other
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by LeonB 7y ago
I have just such a 2 page bullet point list here: https://til.secretgeek.net/sleep/Getting_to_sleep_and_stayin... Also recommend Meditation, PMR (progressive muscle relaxation) and listening to binaural beats (via Spot
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by LeonB 7y ago
The music thing is definitely a real phenomenon. It’s well researched and covered in some detail in “Why We Sleep” by Matt Walker (which is mentioned in tfa, and is a fantastic book.) The fiction thing is interesting.
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by LeonB 7y ago
I’m not sure either. I searched and found this, and now think the issue is with the level of tracking. https://www.wired.com/story/the-dark-side-of-replay-sessions...
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by LeonB 7y ago
Maybe find some people from this list that you can try to present with a private alpha version - no polish no bells and whistles - less than an mvp. See what happens from there.
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by LeonB 7y ago
No, we avoid friday releases, as we aren't paid to provide weekend support. Every second friday we dedicate to cleanup activities (which is a lot more fun than it sounds, because we use it to improve parts of our stack, little things t

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