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by ak39 11y ago
This sort of thing fascinates me. If the universe is a simulation, is this not to be understood as the processor clock speed? (I've not read much of Nick Bostrom's work nor do I claim to know much about reasoning that the universe
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by ak39 11y ago
There are many days I too feel I'm ready to die. But then realize I'm not ready. Couldn't understand why. Reading what Pieter just wrote makes realize that I lack fortitude in one aspect: compassion. Pieter's words confi
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by ak39 11y ago
Baudrillard would have had fun with that comment!
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by ak39 11y ago
Great story! How did you manage this: >>- the illusion of a solid, well managed company, i.e. not a one man band<<?
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by ak39 11y ago
I too am horrible with lists. But when you get started - just a simple list of things (no calendar due dates etc) - just the list ... you start thinking differently. Step 1: Make a list. Step 2: Do nothing! Jokes aside, soon enough you&#
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by ak39 11y ago
I'd add to this excellent suggestion which has worked for me: If we complete things that are not on the list, go note it on the list even though you've done it. I get frustrated whenever I end up doing things that are not on my li
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by ak39 11y ago
Do you keep a simple list of things to finish? Whenever you think of something that needs to be done, jot it down. Carry that black book everywhere. See if that works.
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by ak39 11y ago
Go do 5 minutes of the work right now. Only five minutes, no more. Reward yourself afterwards with a banana.
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by ak39 11y ago
Hey bud, I'm not too far. Can I sit next to you? We can throw crumbs & seeds for the birds together.
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by ak39 11y ago
I immediately began marking some memories of my early teen, a period when I remembered being genuinely happy (memories of growing up in Central Africa with my heroic elder brothers). But then I began marking several squares in my late teen
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by ak39 11y ago
Not sure about this suggestion. Long lines of text are difficult for eyes to track. That's why you'll see tools like "Clearly" format text into narrower columns. Apparently there is an optimum number of words per line
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by ak39 11y ago
How does smoking weed affect one's programming abilities (later)?
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by ak39 11y ago
Just my 2c anecdote: I started using 100mg/day modafinil for the first time about a month ago (week days only). I felt no clear discernible cognitive enhancement that is often said about modafinil use. What I did however notice is th
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by ak39 11y ago
This is a straw man argument. Content providers who believe their content has value should build a pay wall to generate revenue.
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by ak39 11y ago
Is WebAssembly going to be host url resource based (like current .js files are) or will it be used as part of some centralized global assembly cache (GAC) solution where assemblies are only usable from a CDN type of authority?
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by ak39 11y ago
Old dog here. I have the opposite problem: I should have begun sooner with CSS and HTML & JavaScript. NodeJS next. Also, I should have started with Modafinil sooner to fix my ADD that prevents me from learning new stuff.
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by ak39 11y ago
Oxytocin. We were all born to touch and keep the oxy mojo flowing. (Just don't get creepy about it.) I've been on this crazy beautiful floating space rock for 43 years. My dad is 73 and ailing mother 68 this year. I have a wif
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by ak39 11y ago
These are the clever quip advice that I know and understand but can never really use. Clever, but completely and hopelessly useless to me. To get better at coding, I have to be prolific with writing code. Prolificity doesn't have to m
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by ak39 11y ago
Don't forget, there's always something (new) for our lives ... Just like Charles Bukowski wrote: don't forget there is always somebody or something waiting for you, something stronger, more intelligent, more evil,
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by ak39 11y ago
The year of the refactor? Drink to that.
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by ak39 11y ago
I wonder how Corel overcame the restrictions on the use of Microsoft's Ribbon component.
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by ak39 11y ago
Apparently not. Communication between team members has a huge cost factor ... not only ito dollar/time but also ito the quality of the final product.
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by ak39 11y ago
Spot on. We see this a lot in coding activities. Many tasks are usually more complicated than for example "import this file into database, use the imported data to produce the histogram" ... there's bound to be plenty of &qu
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by ak39 11y ago
Thanks for this. That PG article was sobering for me. All the while reading it, I had Shawshank's "Get busy living or get busy dying" playing in my head. :-(
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by ak39 11y ago
This is amazing news. I wonder if this can be extended to treat osteoporosis.
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by ak39 11y ago
The loading of static files for HTTP is significantly different from accessing the same data via databases. The biggest difference is the need for a CLI (call level interface) connection object in db access. And those things are resource hu
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by ak39 11y ago
Ok, "static" here means no RDBMS-backed website. But you can still use statically generated JSON resources from a db once off. These resources can then be "filtered" and "combined" without the need for databa
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by ak39 11y ago
Thanks for the links. This from the last link: "To walk the streets of Austin during tech’s biggest annual confab, South by Southwest Interactive, is to experience a society where Boomers and Gen Xers have vanished into a black h
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by ak39 11y ago
"I am tired of ETL , data cleaning , slicing and dicing projects now." My instinct says that one has to love what one does (the dirty bits especially) for one to evolve naturally into the next greater phase of one's c
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by ak39 11y ago
Here's what I have discovered recently about the way I read & pay attention after habitual use of Reddit/HN: I have "trained my brain" to scan headlines very quickly to see if they are relevant or of interest to me.

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