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by bsima 4y ago
Please elaborate
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by bsima 4y ago
Yeah and sometimes I go back to them just for nostalgia. But truly the archiving doesn't matter all that much. I like the Field Notes tagline: "I'm not writing it down to remember it later, I'm writing it down to remembe
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by bsima 4y ago
People keep bringing this up, about junior developers. But my experience as a junior was very different. I didn't have senior mentors, I learned mostly from irc and stackoverflow, in fact I worked remotely for most of my junior years,
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by bsima 4y ago
> One of the advantages of office work is that being surrounded by colleagues pushes us to get our work done during office time. Many knowledge workers are paying to have silent video chats with people who act as their accountability bud
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by bsima 4y ago
I have roughly ten years of notebooks in a box under my desk. They are all some kind of “bullet journal” method: date at the top of the page, items below, index in the back.
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by bsima 4y ago
Emacs and vim do this out of the box
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by bsima 4y ago
I cleaned my office and moved furniture while waiting for compiles to finish. Got the keyboard next to my desk now, hopefully this encourages me to practice more often. Also cables are organized under my desk, never thought I'd see the
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by bsima 4y ago
Emacs Rocks has some great demos, they are very well-structured https://emacsrocks.com/
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by bsima 4y ago
> Perhaps, pass supports similar functionality now? It does. I use it every day.
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by bsima 4y ago
The author has wide ranging interests: > The Ruricolist is mostly essays – 157 of them, such as: > > Uncut pages – on writing > Cell intelligence – on ideas > Laika – on dogs > Xerxes – on history > Civi
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by bsima 4y ago
Here are two videos: - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9Smm_od1hHU - https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=q4OEKKMPH48
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by bsima 5y ago
One of my favorite rap lyrics is "Ya nervous, because you lack a purpose" https://genius.com/837334 I'm usually a terrible speaker, but when I was running a startup I really believed in, I made great presenta
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by bsima 5y ago
to be/not to be
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by bsima 5y ago
found it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mODlsphGbLw
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by bsima 5y ago
I love unfounded FUD articles like this. I hope it dips the price so I can get bitcoin at a discount
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by bsima 5y ago
> defined boolean expression reference true. “Defined” means the configuration is set, as opposed to unset or undefined “Boolean” is a type, so the setting can be either true or false “Expression” is the value of the setting, in this cas
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by bsima 5y ago
Natural immunity is stronger than artificial immunity https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v...
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by bsima 5y ago
Thank you captain obvious
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by bsima 5y ago
Freedom is only for conservatives, apparently.
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by bsima 5y ago
60 years is a minuscule amount of time when it comes to the history of education
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by bsima 5y ago
What a disgusting comparison. Thousands of lives were lost on 9/11
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by bsima 5y ago
Imagine if we incentivized eating healthy and exercising...
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by bsima 5y ago
Heres home-manager repo you could try to learn from: https://simatime.com/git/ben/cfg.git/
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by bsima 5y ago
I think /individuals/ should be political actors, not companies. Companies should focus on market operations: build product, provide service. Maybe that doesn’t directly answer the question but I’m not sure it’s a great question t
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by bsima 5y ago
> But “being reduced to a label” is one of the outcomes of such policies I don’t really see how this can be the case because the very use of such labels as political categories is being removed. If the labels can’t be used then they can’
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by bsima 5y ago
Idk anything about django girls (or the org behind django) I was assuming it’s an example of a politically motivated public outreach. Seems to me company time is better spent making good products than doing outreach. Like I have my own poli
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by bsima 5y ago
Recruiting is different than public outreach. I think the strategy in recruiting is to hire the best people you can regardless of identity. “Best” is qualified by the tasks of the particular role
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by bsima 5y ago
I think it’s more dehumanizing to be reduced to a label than it is to be approached face-to-face
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by bsima 5y ago
> "Can we sponsor Django Girls?" Sure, just do it with your own money, not company money
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by bsima 5y ago
> because your spouse existing is a “political” concept The point is to explicitly not politicize these conversations and instead talk and relate on a human-to-human level

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