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by cnees 5y ago
As a person, your value is intrinsic, not dependent on your output or ability. Work/school/capitalism/HN /etc. emphasize productivity, and you can invest in yourself and your output, but keep a broad view and remember to
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by cnees 5y ago
Never been more proud to be a Michigander
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by cnees 5y ago
Failing to pass most tech screens is normal, but not working at work is not. I've heard of this kind of behavior before, but my coworkers and I work most of the day, with a few breaks, and sometimes stay late if we're really engag
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by cnees 5y ago
Sometimes "ego" is used to refer to the self, but I think the distinction we're going for here is between "self" (soul) and "sense of self importance" (ego.) So you can feed your ego with praise and self-c
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by cnees 5y ago
We put a $600 tungsten sphere on our secret wedding registry as a joke, along with lobster flavored pillow mints, etc. It arrived in the mail. My husband's high school friends had pooled their resources. Now it's on the mantle, re
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by cnees 6y ago
You've taken on a new challenge, and that's great. You're missing a few elements of coding style, particularly the elements that make code easier to read and maintain for a team of engineers. That means you're new to dev
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by cnees 6y ago
I still remember the first one or two hundred digits from high school. I guess I could say I cheated by going back in time and memorizing it. Perhaps I'd just insist that I didn't cheat at all, wink wink. In high school, it defini
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by cnees 6y ago
Thanks! I use scroll position to keep the state. In effect, each square is in a div with overflow:hidden. (In the actual code I used <i>, not <div>, which might've been to save bytes because the server is so slow). It has a
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by cnees 6y ago
To emulate Minesweeper's not-a-bomb-on-the-first-click experience, I start the board off with a generous region revealed, and then to emulate flood-filling, I make blank cells sit in an invisible (overflow hidden) scroll box that scrol
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by cnees 6y ago
No way! I've done exactly the same thing. ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15479160 ) At first I thought this was my own thread! I guess there's a healthy overlap between loving Minesweeper puzzles and CSS puz
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by cnees 7y ago
Academia.edu is still conducting interviews (now remotely) and hiring at full speed. It's on solid footing financially, it's adapted well to remote work, and for the last three and a half years I've found it to be a really fu
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by cnees 7y ago
University of Michigan had this as an elective three or four years back, and it's served me well to understand things like piping, output redirection, and reflog. I'm glad MIT's making this public. It seems like it could fill
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by cnees 7y ago
This is a really interesting read. If we’re willing to live afloat, we can begin with Ocean Cities of Earth and expand to Cloud Cities of Venus as necessary. Mars might still be easier to terraform than Venus, if we develop the technology,
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by cnees 7y ago
Ask not how they can give you a rich experience, but how you can try to give them one.
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How can I improve my file/class name recall?
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by cnees 7y ago
Neopets.com :)
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by cnees 8y ago
Here are some principles that inform my taste in maintainable code: - Each function should do just one thing. - Don't reuse a variable if making a new variable with a new name would describe the value better. - Give functions verb name
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by cnees 8y ago
Your coworkers are your best resource. - Ask them to review your code and suggest changes - Look for questions of taste and ask more. It may feel intuitive to them, but if you dig in you can often find a good reason/principle behind it
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by cnees 8y ago
The Bible. The book of Mark is a good place to start, or Romans, since you’re more interested in introspection. I’ve been meaning to reread a book by a Holocaust survivor called The Hiding Place.
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by cnees 8y ago
“That’s the best use of a computer I’ve ever seen,” my CS prof told me as I wrote pseudocode on my MacBook with a pencil.
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by cnees 8y ago
Maybe I won’t have to overcome my fear of scheduling appointments after all.
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by cnees 9y ago
As a programmer, it’s hard not to wish we had git-for-publishing, git-for-Photoshop, git-for-homework, etc. it’s just such a powerful system! I think the steep learning curve is the reason it hasn’t already caught on beyond where it’s absol
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by cnees 9y ago
Supposing one of the scientist social networks implemented the refereed peer review process for some or all papers they host, funding it with ad revenue, APCs, and/or freemium instead of charging universities and readers, what more cou
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by cnees 9y ago
I’ve been reading these comments because I’m always seeking ideas for how to distribute peer review and provide signals about paper quality. How could we leverage the Internet and a large group of authors and papers to show readers which pa
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by cnees 9y ago
Someone I know switched to only biting one nail. I switched to biting more gently, not actually biting through the nails. Keeping your nails clean and trimmed may help.
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by cnees 9y ago
+1 for jump roping. Besides daily exercise, you can pull out the rope and get back into a good mental state whenever it feels impossible to focus. If you're not looking to drop $35–75, here's a very affordable rope that'll do
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by cnees 9y ago
Burnout drains your motivation, but unlike depression, it goes away when you go on vacation and lose the deadlines. Read up on it a bit, and if it sounds like what you're experiencing, do what Google tells you (take a break, focus on i
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by cnees 9y ago
“Then I look for a general rule for attacking similar problems, that would have led me to approach the given problem in the most efficient way the first time. Often, such a rule is of permanent value.“ I like this. It’s a rule for finding u
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by cnees 9y ago
Every once in a while I run into another programmer who started on Neopets, and it makes me happy. :) When I interviewed for my job, they asked me my “programming story.” I remember struggling to make my petpages compatible with Firefox, Sa
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by cnees 9y ago
Thanks! That's a nice way to solve it! It looks like when you shrink it, it fits two pixels into the space of one by averaging their colors. I should be able to fix it by putting a margin above the bomb so it's not adjacent to the

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