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Descartes Reflects on His Schooling(mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk)
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by Thursday24 4y ago
Remove the law, and all that remains is a jungle, where the strong domineer the weak.
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VSCode: Story of the most Popular Desktop App for Developers(git-tower.com)
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Excellent perspective. Organisations are similar to individual human minds in structure, but scaled. They will make mistakes, just like people do, but also correct themselves over the long haul so that they can survive.
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Newton's Philosophy(plato.stanford.edu)
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*200 year old
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by Thursday24 4y ago
A more stark example is that of Newton. A true philosopher, by hacker news standards he'd be considered a misguided madman, since he spent 2/3rd of his life on "unproductive" topics such as religion and alchemy. However,
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There is no ‘royal road’ to geometry (1982)(cs.utexas.edu)
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by Thursday24 4y ago
That's fine, my focus is on mastering software engineering (rather than text editing) :p
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by Thursday24 4y ago
VSCode/IDEs and Vim need not be mutually exclusive. I tend to rely on vim emulation within my vscode, chrome and in other applications. Usually, all I need are the basic vim modalities with the nicer amenities provided by modern editor
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Building Recursive Descent Parsers: The Definitive Guide(booleanworld.com)
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The Triangle of Fulfilment(nadh.in)
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Ask HN: How does one become productive in new frameworks quickly?
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Rickover was near the top echelons of US navy for ~60 years, as far as I know. Definitely, he knows a thing or two about burnout and turnover. He executed many, many sophisticated projects throughout his life. That's why he had such a
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by Thursday24 4y ago
However, Rickover was deeply against non technical people managing technical people in the organization. One is reminded of the Newton quote: "Errors are not in the art but in the artificer"
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by Thursday24 4y ago
I'd say: No, not at all! Read about Admiral Rickover. He built the first practical nuclear submarine in the world, for the US navy, in record time of 3 years. He cleared bureaucratic hurdles, played the politics when needed, kept tigh
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by Thursday24 4y ago
I for one consider social methods part of the problem solving process. Knowing who knows what, and who can help, and asking for help the right way is key to getting better at problem solving. Perhaps it is the school system that discourages
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How to Be Stingy: Git LFS on Your Own S3 Bucket(blog.dermah.com)
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I recommend you dig deeper into Buddhism to grasp how flexible & responsive the religious leaders are to scientific advancements. A book from Matthieu Ricard, an ex western scientist who later became a Buddhist monk and Dalai Lama'
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by Thursday24 4y ago
Thanks for sharing additional context, wasn't aware of them!
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Reflections on a Year of Reading Knuth(commandlinefanatic.com)
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I have a question for experienced/skilled FOSS maintainers. Are there any good ways to convert those who comment/suggest into contributors? I feel like instead of simply dismissing suggestions with "you get what you paid for&
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In buddhism at least, developing compassion is seen from a skill-building perspective as far as I know. Most human capabilities have to be amplified through deliberate study from our ancestry, accumulated wisdom and constant practice. The k
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by Thursday24 4y ago
I tend to use the human potential framework. As a human being, I have a potential capacity to do sophisticated things or to merely operate at the level of an animal. Developing capabilities & skills is what differentiates me from an ani
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Novelists and Reductionists(aurellem.org)
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To become wise, get beneficial results without compromising quality of life to a great extent. Much better, do this not only for yourselves, but those around you as well. Prime example worth studying: Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore
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Looks like everything a human does can fall into one or the other sort of fallacy. I sometimes think we should have a fallacy named merely for being around: "the breathing fallacy" (the mother of all fallacies)
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I prefer Norvig's "Design of computer programs" over this: https://www.udacity.com/course/design-of-computer-programs--... I learned how to build a vocabulary for the problem domain first, and then use t
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The Best Textbooks on Every Subject(lesswrong.com)
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100 Bad Habits Learned at School(supermemo.guru)
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