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by SZJX 8y ago
The software never felt right for me from the beginning and I jumped ship as soon OneNote became available for Mac (I moved later to org-mode). I remember a few years ago a talented friend who was accepted by Twitter, Google etc. for intern
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Not sure if big companies are the best place to realize most visions. Google seems to make a mess of almost every new product they put out nowadays. They simply don't care with all that revenue. Many startups that focus on one thing an
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by SZJX 8y ago
Sounds interesting that a book about "game" saved you from "game playing". Not sure what sort of game you're exactly referring to, though IMO video games that let you grind against scripted NPCs indeed could waste o
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by SZJX 8y ago
Might be a bit of an unconventional pick, but Muv-Luv Alternative, the highest rated Visual Novel of all time, is simply life-changing (a sentiment shared by quite a few reviewers). It's especially powerful against tendencies of procra
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by SZJX 8y ago
That's why any sensible person would know not to trust the mass media at all or at least view every coverage with a load of skepticism. It's obvious from how the way they cover tech and programming is full of misunderstandings and
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> This is sheer insanity. If the words are that offensive that they should be removed from a computer program, should they be removed from the dictionary next? Your argument is sheer insanity. Should history books teach facts about slave
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I don't even feel that I'm deliberately doing it. Every time before I fall asleep, my mind naturally wanders off to a daydreaming state before I know it. I only consciously realize this is happening whenever I'm disrupted by
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Such an unrelated libertarian quote that gets blindly posted and blindly upvoted. The EU is having a problem with the US companies running the show over their internet space. They don't intend to lock ordinary people up with this law.
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Simple: Are you able to find any ISIS-supporting website out in the open? What is the fundamental difference between this and the Chinese internet censorship for the sake of national security? I see only total hypocrisy and double standards
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I think the point here is to understand why such a response occurred. So it's very much on topic. Nobody is denying that this is generally a bad thing for the commoners. But when you put it into perspective, what the US and China have
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The politicians are still very well connected with the industry. For example there was somebody who retired from the EU Commission a while ago and immediately went to the board of a company or something. The same shit as in the US just a bi
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Don't Google censor tons of results already according to the US law? Dare they show any pro-ISIS website to the American audience? Dare they stop performing all those DMCA takedowns? What's the fundamental difference between these
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AFAIK Linus Torvalds actually has a treadmill desk in his home so it's not something that extraordinary.
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I think the so-called effect of the digital age is totally overblown. It's easy to write headlines about it and make everybody panic, but I don't think people in ancient times were that much of avid readers either. In fact the gen
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by SZJX 8y ago
Absolute BS. Don't Google censor tons of results already according to the US law? Dare they show any pro-ISIS website to the American audience? Dare they stop performing all those DMCA takedowns? What's the fundamental difference
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by SZJX 8y ago
Absolute BS. Don't Google censor tons of results already according to the US law? Dare they show any pro-ISIS website to the American audience? Dare they stop performing all those DMCA takedowns? What's the fundamental difference
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by SZJX 8y ago
Just wondering, do you mean the range of questions covered is too narrow? If "10% of interviewers" ask these kinds of questions, what would the other 90% of interviewers do. Other types of common data structures/algorithms,
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I don't think this is exactly the issue the interviews are trying to prevent... As mentioned by a commentator below, once somebody is hired it would be extremely hard to get them out, especially for big corps. "Project failure&quo
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I think in a sense such standardization is always the price you have to pay for the popularization/mass adoption of anything. People have to find some sort of "established standards", some common grounds, as a compromise, as
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What does that even actually prove? Like, of course people who can distinguish the reasonable from the unreasonable are likely to be smarter, more experienced and more responsible, and thus contribute more to the society. If somebody is not
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by SZJX 8y ago
Reads a lot like an ad. So far nothing beats my experience with i3wm on Arch Linux. I can hardly imagine going for any other system setup after trying this combination out. Well, maybe another even better window manager, but definitely not
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Exactly. People tend to worship personalities all-in just because they are successful. However it might well be the case that they're successful despite their personality issues, instead of "because of" them. When I was rea
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> Anyone who freelances, creates something alone, goes solo as a startup founder etc. needs these "cognitive distortions"/"mental disorders", I see them as necessary beliefs. The opposite would be someone who jus
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I guess there's sometimes a difference of degree. As somebody mentioned below, if somebody is dead set on believing himself to be correct as to ignore all the evidence to the contrary, he'll be perceived as a jerk, is in for big t
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by SZJX 8y ago
> Several of them feel like variations of the same theme: I know I'm right, so I can disregard evidence|opinion|counter-argument because .. an axiom of the system is I know I'm right. This if taken to the extreme is just narcis
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Wow. The one biggest advantage my previous MBP had over my current Arch Linux + i3 setup on Carbon X1 is the natural support for HiDPI, as I connect my laptop to external monitors all the time (The only other one is the built-in dictionary)
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Typescript is very similar to plain JS. The type annotation is purely optional. I really bought into the optional type annotation pattern when I learned and used Julia for a project. Typescript is also like that. It's extremely unintru
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I still think that the optimal amount of sleep really depends on the person and you can't paint everything with a broad stroke or advise everybody to "have 8.5 hours of sleep". I've found myself the most concentrated and
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The point is that you'll always have to ensure a chunk of time for your "main" activity and give it sustained efforts. Reading broadly and exploring a range of topics is always good and beneficial, but you need to limit your
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by SZJX 8y ago
It's a really helpful list pointing out some of the cognitive traps people might not be aware of having/might not understand that somebody around them needs help on. One gripe I have with it is that some stoic traits seem to also

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