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by dan-g 4y ago
https://beautifulracket.com/ by Matthew Butterick - “An Introduction to Language-Oriented Programming Using Racket”
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by dan-g 4y ago
Needs a [2021]. Great post!
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by dan-g 4y ago
As odd as it is, does this need a [2022] since it’s from November of last year, technically?
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A Heat Pump Might Be Right for Your Home. Here’s Everything to Know(nytimes.com)
4 points by dan-g 4y ago|1 comments
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by dan-g 4y ago
> The degree would mostly be for personal knowledge/fulfillment I feel like this may answer your own question? It may be trite, but even in a world where AI makes us obsolete, there's still value in doing something fulfilling t
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by dan-g 4y ago
Congrats! I bought it with no intention falling down the rabbit hole again; rather, I owe them for all the time I spent playing in high school. So happy for them both!
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by dan-g 4y ago
Any particular things that felt shoddier than on Chrome?
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by dan-g 4y ago
I understand your point, but using one tool doesn’t preclude you from ever using another tool. For example, you can sketch something in pencil before you ink it; similarly, you can use a simpler constrained framework to prototype a game bef
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by dan-g 4y ago
As the site for the framework ( https://24a2.routley.io/ ) notes, constraints can lead to creative thinking. As you note, there are plenty of non-constrained options. It reminds me of the OP-1 synthesizer ( https://
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by dan-g 4y ago
Likely the article is referring to the picture superiority effect: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picture_superiority_effect
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by dan-g 4y ago
I’ve been doing this for a couple years as directed by Fluent Forever[1] (highly recommended if this article vibes with you), and the results have been really good to say the least. Some great additional content here, I wouldn’t have though
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by dan-g 4y ago
Steve Losh has a great series of blog posts on creating a roguelike in Clojure: https://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/07/caves-of-clojure-01/
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by dan-g 4y ago
“And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack” Thanks for this! Always was curious about that lyric but never took the initiative to look it up.
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Pink Lexical Slime: The Dark Side of Autocorrect (2017)(archvile.net)
3 points by dan-g 4y ago|0 comments
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by dan-g 4y ago
iOS auto-corrects Emacs to eMacs, probably because of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMac (Fond memories of that computer!)
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by dan-g 4y ago
I don’t have a mouse recommendation, but the Kinesis Advantage II is a keyboard that increased my typing speed (concave keywells) and cured my RSI. okay, I sound like a snake oil salesman. But it has lots of configuration options and no req
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by dan-g 4y ago
One of my favorite creative uses of Excel comes from !!Con 2017, where Kevin Chen used spreadsheet to implement HDR imaging[1]. It’s also just an incredibly well-crafted presentation. [1] https://kevinchen.co/projects/e
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How to write good prompts: using spaced repetition to create understanding(andymatuschak.org)
2 points by dan-g 4y ago|0 comments
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by dan-g 4y ago
Some of the other sibling comments touch on this, but I’ve had more success inverting the paradigm as thesephist notes in “Build tools around workflows, not workflows around tools”[1], which is worth a read even if it’s not directly related
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by dan-g 4y ago
Yeah, this is addressed in the book as well. Thinking about your career in terms of capital is really just a useful simplification, but obviously doesn’t capture all the nuance and politics that one has to navigate in a larger corporate env
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by dan-g 4y ago
This resonates with me, and I recently read (yet another) Cal Newport book that helped me codify the feeling into words. “So Good They Can’t Ignore You” makes a lot of good points, but IMO chief among them is building up career capital that
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by dan-g 4y ago
“Deep Work” by Cal Newport (and the related “Time Block Planner” he published as well) goes into depth about why deep work focus time is so important for knowledge workers, and has some additional tips for how to make the most of your workd
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by dan-g 11y ago
Steve Losh wrote a series of articles on writing a roguelike in Clojure: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/07/caves-of-clojure-01/
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by dan-g 12y ago
The less program on *nix has never used the dot system -- my Mac runs less 418. You can check it out for yourself by running `less --version`
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by dan-g 12y ago
Looks really cool. How do you simulate the permanence that paper laboratory notebooks have? I was always trained to write out everything, and if I ended up not using a particular procedure, striking it out so it was obvious it wasn't u
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by dan-g 13y ago
Out of curiosity -- is there a reason you decided to do in-app purchases for popular units? I feel like I would have been more likely to just buy the whole package outright. Looks great, though!
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by dan-g 13y ago
Does this mean that they might release the source code for their games? The world needs a port of Zoombinis.
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Ask HN: Georgia Tech OMS CS Program?
7 points by dan-g 13y ago|1 comments
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by dan-g 13y ago
If you're talking about any sort of science fiction, I (and I'm sure countless others) would recommend Dune by Frank Herbert -- the best-selling sci-fi novel of all time, and for good reason. It's not as light-hearted as Read
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by dan-g 13y ago
This premise is somewhat explored in Player Piano by Vonnegut. Go read it! It's a great book, and very pertinent even today.

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