akulbe

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by akulbe 10y ago
Does the coil whine only happen with Linux? or does it happen in Windows too? Was thinking about the latest XPS w/Kaby Lake CPU... but this would give me pause.
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by akulbe 10y ago
Giving serious thoughts to the just-announced Dell XPS 15 that'll take 32GB of RAM, and has the new Kaby Lake CPU, and a GT 1050 in it. For reference: http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-15-9560-laptop&
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by akulbe 10y ago
Social networks come and go... but IRC lasts forever! :) I've tried sooooo many different IRC clients. I always end up coming back to irssi.
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by akulbe 10y ago
Type 2 here, as well. Care to share your experience with this, offline? This is a huge struggle for me.
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by akulbe 10y ago
I recommend a configuration like I have. http://lvb.link/2hBRpjV (shortened Dropbox link, to a picture) I walk in 25 minute segments, then take 5 minute breaks. Then I take longer breaks at intervals. (Pomodoro Technique) W
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by akulbe 10y ago
2016 was a fantastic year for me. My plan for 2017 is simple... do even better than I did in 2016. Consistent small improvements are the name of the game. Read up on it... James Altucher and Seth Godin talk about it.
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by akulbe 10y ago
Every "Senior" started out as a "Junior" at some point. Try not to get hung up on this. I have two pieces of advice for you, as someone who has struggled with these very things: First, don't compare yourself with so
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by akulbe 10y ago
No. It is not worth the money or time to do more formal schooling than you've already done. You already have the paper that proves you've done the whole college dance. Go read "The Personal MBA" by Josh Kaufman, and read
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by akulbe 10y ago
I'm curious... why is this such a bad thing? As a society (an American society, as this isn't true in many other places) we place a rather negative stigma on a person who doesn't leave home at the age of majority (usually 18)
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by akulbe 10y ago
Another vote for sugar addiction. If I could kick that, problem solved.
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by akulbe 10y ago
People skills. You can have all the technical chops in the world... but if you're unable to communicate, or a jerk, it doesn't amount to much. How would you apply something like that? Being able to understand difficult problems, a
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by akulbe 10y ago
"So Good They Can't Ignore You" and "Deep Work" both by Cal Newport. Also, another vote for both Covey's 7 Habits, and "How to Win Friends and Influence People".
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by akulbe 10y ago
Shut off social media. Kill the noise. (FB, Twitter, Snapchat, HN, $SOCIAL_MEDIA_NETWORK) Deep focus. "Deep Work" by Cal Newport. Read it.
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by akulbe 10y ago
Can you elaborate with more detail about what you're wanting to know? Are you asking about general settings? Are you asking about a developer's box? More detail would help.
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by akulbe 10y ago
Yes, and it's still not production-ready, in my opinion. Ruby gems are still problematic, for example. They're working on it, but it's not there yet. Oh yeah... and to the part of your comment where you say it works even bett
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by akulbe 10y ago
I'm religious about keeping this thing up to date. I've had the "sleep of death" issue occur multiple times, in spite of keeping my SB current on updates. I've been to the MS Store and talked to support multiple t
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by akulbe 10y ago
I tried to like it. I have my Surface Book sitting here next to me. Windows 10 is much better than previous versions, and I like the direction MS seems to be moving. That said, I feel like in spite of how nice a machine the Surface Book is,
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by akulbe 10y ago
Bodyweight fitness. You are your own gym! Don't spend the money on a gym membership until you have it. Another couple things I'd add to what others have said: Get enough GOOD sleep. Read. It will help you both with focus, and give
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by akulbe 10y ago
While I am big on OSS, and giving back to the community... let's be realistic. Some of it really is bad. There are definitely issues on some OSS projects, like inability to reach consensus, and some upstream devs doing things that br
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by akulbe 10y ago
I think it was legit. There are a few of us on the team that are very committed to OSS and giving back. They talked to legal, and legal shut it down. Can't go into too much detail, as I don't want to rock the boat, and this is m
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by akulbe 10y ago
I think, as a corporate culture, we find an immense value in it. We use open source stuff like crazy. The problem I see is that, as that same corporate culture, we're not contributing back to the same projects we use code from so freel
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by akulbe 10y ago
Depends on the company.
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by akulbe 10y ago
Does the term “bootstrapping” only apply to a product business? Or does it apply to a service-based business as well? If it applies to service businesses as well, I know in my case one of the biggest stresses is dealing with the actual oper
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by akulbe 10y ago
Google the name of the article. (This applies to pretty much any article that'd normally be behind a paywall, btw) See Google search results. Click on the link to the article from the search results . Enjoy reading the article, sans
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by akulbe 10y ago
How do you have any graphical apps installed at all, without it grabbing any/all of the entire "*-desktop" group of packages as dependencies? What GUI apps do you use? I'm very interested in replicating your setup here
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by akulbe 10y ago
You might want to consider investing in a treadmill desk. This is a picture of my office setup. I did it this way, so I could alternate between sitting and walking. It's the best! https://www.dropbox.com/s/089qqvaa
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by akulbe 10y ago
What kind of dev work are you doing? What languages/frameworks?
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Ask HN: Why all the hate for Python 3?
10 points by akulbe 10y ago|23 comments
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by akulbe 10y ago
I think the answer is "yes". In other words, both . I'm only speaking for myself here, when I say the following things... for me, I'm my own worst enemy when it comes to learning. This happens first and foremost by gett
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by akulbe 10y ago
Isn't it true that nobody makes their own laptops, though? I thought $COMPANY does the design and then it goes to one of three (or is it four?) ODMs for manufacturing. Is that not the case?

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