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by amorphous 8y ago
Absolutely, I use Skim to annotate PDF files. On Kindle, I often highlight or take notes. I wish there was one central service that would merge all my annotations from separate devices.
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by amorphous 8y ago
I have completely switched to digital. Novels on Kindle (I often read in my second or third language and a pop-up dictionary is very handy), non-fiction on Laptop as PDF which I intensively annotate. Annotating, scribbling and highlighting
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by amorphous 8y ago
The problem is not that it was easier in the 80s to start programming (that would be that same as to say it was easier to study medicine in the 1800s) but that today it is much harder to get to the point to do something meaningful . If you
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The consultancy that doesn’t want to earn money from it’s consultants(dna.crisp.se)
3 points by amorphous 8y ago|0 comments
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by amorphous 8y ago
I got a 50% lifetime discount with which the cost comes down to aprox. a Netflix subscription. Given the vast range of books and videos (and the fact that all my favourite publishers are there), the subscription has become a no-brainer fo
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by amorphous 8y ago
It's just for books, isn't it?
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by amorphous 8y ago
What do you want to gain from this? How important is compensation? If you want a full-time job to see how life at a startup compares to a more traditional work environment, four months are not enough. You'd need to stay at least a year
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by amorphous 8y ago
Do yourself a favour and write in plain text. I'm keeping a journal (on a computer) since 2003 and have lost many entries due to app crashes, moving between OSes and so on. There is no need for a proprietary data format in 2018 anymore
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by amorphous 8y ago
Certainly not crazy. I started programming on a VC-20 doing basic and later assembler. Just this for years. Glorious times. What helps a little is to go deep into the history of computer programming and see the big picture. The fundamental
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by amorphous 8y ago
Yes yes yes We live in an age where the ability to say "no" has become more important than saying "yes". It used to be the other way around. I grew up in the 80s and all I had was my VC-20 learning basic and later assemb
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by amorphous 8y ago
I also enjoyed High Score!: The Illustrated History of Electronic Games [1]. The photos bring back a lot of memories [1] https://www.amazon.com/High-Score-Illustrated-History-Electr...
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by amorphous 8y ago
True, I meant large-scale pirating, torrenting etc.
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by amorphous 8y ago
honest question, why does this get downvoted?
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by amorphous 8y ago
My biggest problem I have with deep work is not that it makes undoubtedly sense and leads to interesting results but to find what to work on. I can't find my deep work. Finding a niche and sticking to it is much harder than performin
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by amorphous 8y ago
> Revenues peaked at around $3.2 billion in 1983, then fell to around $100 million by 1985 (a drop of almost 97 percent) These are mind-boggling numbers I can't imagine happening today in any industry. And this was before pirating
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Video game crash of 1983(en.wikipedia.org)
84 points by amorphous 8y ago|85 comments
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by amorphous 8y ago
Searching for work that brings one into the state of flow is good, but I think it is important not to become too obsessed with it. Otherwise, you may fall into the trap of avoiding difficult work. For example, cleaning the house brings me u
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by amorphous 8y ago
Well, creating the questions and answers yourself is actually part of the effort required to learn effectively.
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by amorphous 8y ago
I'm not convinced that slow thinking is related to the ability to respond quickly in a conversation, or that people that come up with seemingly deep thoughts in a discussion are fast thinkers. At the beginning of my career, I have ofte
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by amorphous 8y ago
First, don't call it learning because for some reason we have made believe that learning has to be something difficult. Second, to make learning fun, it has to be designed like a good computer game: the difficulty should be slightly ab
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by amorphous 8y ago
Everything is a remix. The problem is, blindly copying just the features of a product is most likely not going to work. You need to understand the whole business and figure out what to copy and what to improve. In other words: you need to u
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by amorphous 8y ago
Just wondering if someone had a similar experience: I absolutely loved Math in school, zipped through the classes, always one of the best. Then things changed at university (studying computer science) and I completely lost interest. Not sur
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by amorphous 8y ago
How can a dev get into clean-tech today? What are the current problems a software engineer could solve? Please, someone with the knowledge give us a path. I wish there was an HN on clean-tech with emphasis on IT
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by amorphous 8y ago
Mentioned already, but let me repeat: mynoise.net. Huge range of excellent noise blocking sounds.
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by amorphous 8y ago
You need to realise that this nagging voice that is telling you that you are not good enough is not "you". May sound weird or esoteric, but it is possible to distance yourself from it. This voice has been built up by your environm
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by amorphous 8y ago
There are a lot of crappy ones or overpriced, it takes some trying out to find a good fit. The ones I currently use are those: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sleep-Headphones-Adjustable-Comfort... . Had also good experience with t
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by amorphous 8y ago
This works better for freelancers: check the engineer's online presence, his blog, GitHub etc, then have an informal interview to see if you two are able to help each other, and then start working together on a small actual task for a
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by amorphous 8y ago
Remember that most people are average, they have to as per definition.
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by amorphous 8y ago
What I miss in those kinds of discussions are the intangible benefits of having studied a subject in depth to acquire a degree. The person that entered university is different from the one that came out of it. The way to tackle problems, to
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by amorphous 8y ago
I have a very different sleep aid. A sleep headphone (a headband with speakers woven into that also serves as an eye-mask) combined with white noise (quality rain sound) served by an iPod. The white noise blocks outside sounds much better t

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