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by badatshipping 7y ago
This is a thoughtful hack but the real solution here is a) make debuggers easier to set up and b) make your project easily debuggable with a debugger from the beginning. Like, debugging should be considered part of programming, and a local
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by badatshipping 8y ago
Work for a good startup. Having job hopped a half dozen times in the Bay Area (to play the salary game) my experience has been that most startups are not doing anything new, have no sense of innovation, care more about quickly shitting out
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by badatshipping 8y ago
Apple owns their platform. It cost a fortune to develop, and it's theirs. Imagine it's the 1800s and you wanted to develop technology to let anyone listen to music anytime. You'd have to invent the computer, an operating sy
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by badatshipping 8y ago
Slate Star Codex: https://slatestarcodex.com/ Martin Shkreli: http://martinshkreli.com/ Casey Muratori: https://caseymuratori.com/
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by badatshipping 8y ago
I’m the only person building the main product of a startup. Work by default starts when I wake up and ends when I sleep, seven days a week. To stay sane I lift heavy weights M/W/F and do interval training T/T/S. At lunch
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by badatshipping 8y ago
I disagree with the common advice that before you study math you should try to develop love for it or find an application you care about. If you don’t know any math, how can you know what you like or want? What I think one should do, initia
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by badatshipping 8y ago
Tell yourself you’ll spend five minutes working on it. This tricks your brain into thinking it’s not a big pain commitment. Once you’ve spent five minutes immersed in it you’ll be more willing to keep working. Another trick is to break down
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by badatshipping 8y ago
"This stuff is overblown on multiple levels. First, to paraphrase Churchill, peer review is the worst form of paper evaluation, except for all the others. We routinely accept papers whose conclusions are wrong, but if the result matte
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by badatshipping 8y ago
His argument is that few people caring about something doesn’t mean that thing doesn’t matter.
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by badatshipping 8y ago
Augur is fintech. If it takes off, Wall Street is really going to care.
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by badatshipping 8y ago
Read chapters 2-5 of Skiena’s book, then do leetcode eight hours a day until your interview. Start with high-pass-rate mediums, then work your way up, and try to solve some hards. Spend about half an hour on each problem, and if you can’t t