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by davidscolgan 9y ago
In the book Antifragile Nassim Taleb cautions against medical care unless it's truly necessary. He argues that since so many things can go wrong in a hospital (you could get sick from someone else, mistakes could be made, etc), only g
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by davidscolgan 9y ago
Strongly agree. Something that really helped me was to start listening to audiobooks. It made reading something that required just a little less effort, and so it was easier to do it more often. And I can listen at times when I can'
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by davidscolgan 9y ago
I found it to be excellent. Yes a few typos but the content was incredibly well laid out with good pacing and a nice little TDD tutorial thrown in for good measure. The features of the codebase you build cover a lot of real world things th
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by davidscolgan 9y ago
Oi! Thanks for this. I am going to start using it from now on.
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by davidscolgan 9y ago
Makes sense. For some adblocking on steroids, put all of this in your hosts file: http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ 12,000 domains of ads and tracking blocked at the OS level!
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by davidscolgan 9y ago
I've lately only been using Linux on my laptop and desktop, but my grandparents recently asked me about advice on a new computer. Is the current best practice to avoid all antivirus software and assume Windows 10 is secure with whatev
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by davidscolgan 9y ago
This is a great idea - lots of sites can make great use of Bootstrap and having ways to reskin it easily greatly increases the available looks and feels. Something I'd personally pay for is an in-depth guide for how to go about reskinn
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by davidscolgan 9y ago
It changed a lot during the alpha phases but it's in beta now and I believe they said they would not make major changes to the api so I'm using it currently in new projects.
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by davidscolgan 9y ago
I actually wonder if a version of Smash Bros could have worked on NES with lookup tables for physics? The existing games are 3d but the physics are all 2d.
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by davidscolgan 9y ago
That is, instead of using y velocity = acceleration * time and then adding in gravity, they made something like this, as I understand it: speeds = [0, 1, 2, 4, 8, 4, 2, 1, 0] And then you keep track of how many frames it's been since y
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by davidscolgan 9y ago
I once read that the way SMB was able to pull off the physics engine on such limited hardware was that it used lookup tables for physics instead of actually calculating velocity. My assembly-fu is weak but it looks like your link is to the
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by davidscolgan 9y ago
Haha, no problem! And yeah, candles would definitely then work. Some people I've read suggest that if you can don't use any artificial lights at night (obviously kind of difficult), and if you do you'll naturally start gett
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by davidscolgan 9y ago
So interestingly enough, wearing the orange goggles or using the rubylith on a device that lights itself can get less blue light into your eyes than reading a book with a lamp on next to you (or of course, wear the goggles with a lamp on wo
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by davidscolgan 9y ago
I once was a regular streamer on Twitch.tv and would regularly plug the use of blue light reducing tools. Another fun thing you can do is wear orange safety goggles to completely block all blue light from the room. You look pretty silly,
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by davidscolgan 9y ago
I agree with you - the threshold for what is engaging and what is over-engaging is not really very defined. That's where my thoughts from evolutionary psychology come, since it gives a way to define that threshold. Basically anything
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by davidscolgan 9y ago
I think I do need more human interaction than I've sometimes gotten, but what you described really sounds pretty nice. I seem to get worn out from too much alone time and from too much socializing, but get worn out faster from sociali
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by davidscolgan 9y ago
There are many business owners who would look at the SquareSpace interface and be completely lost. We as technical people have thousands of hours put into understanding how the web works, but many people just haven't, and don't h
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by davidscolgan 9y ago
Oh, I guess that's true in the sense that it doesn't map to objects but it accomplishes the same goal in a functional style. Maybe call it a Struct-Relational Mapper.
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by davidscolgan 9y ago
Something that I've been thinking a lot about lately is the idea that due to the way humans evolved, we've spent most of the ~100k years of our species existence in an environment we evolved to be adapted to. Humans have spent mo
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by davidscolgan 9y ago
I am optimistic that that will turn out to be true. Some are pessimistic about, say, how there are so many different prescription drugs out there that now no doctor can realistically know how all of the interactions work. But, in the case
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by davidscolgan 9y ago
Haha, to each their own. There is such a thing as the object-relational impedance mismatch for a reason. I'm currently learning Elixir and Phoenix and it's ORM Ecto has some really interesting ideas. Functional programming seem
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by davidscolgan 9y ago
In the book "Reality is Broken" by Jane McGonigal, she argues that instead of video games being something that are a corrupting influence, real life is not nearly as engaging as it could be compared to video games. Consider how so
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by davidscolgan 9y ago
I'm usually a Django backend developer doing the whole server-rendered static html type sites, but I've attempted to venture into the world of single page apps a few times. The thing that always tripped me up was figuring out the
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by davidscolgan 9y ago
Django definitely has top tier documentation. I'd recommend first reading the official tutorial, then trying to make something with it and referring to the different sections as needed. For people wanting to go to the next level Two
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by davidscolgan 9y ago
A definite downside of Django is learning curve. I'd argue Django is harder at first but easier in the long term.
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by davidscolgan 9y ago
Some reasons you might pick Django over Flask: You want to be productive out of the gate - Django has the batteries included philosophy, so there's less time spent wiring together different libraries. Fewer architectural decisions - Dj
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by davidscolgan 9y ago
If you can solve the "help, I'm addicted to the internet" problem that this person posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15431208 you could do a whole lot of good. The existing apps out there don&#x27
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by davidscolgan 9y ago
So first of all, I completely sympathize with you. I have been working from home for years and it's been a continual struggle. Some thoughts for you: The biggest internet timesinks for me have always been those with near infinite nov
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by davidscolgan 9y ago
I had good success by starting with the basics but also learning up front what every unshifted and shifted key on the keyboard does by looking at a cheat sheet. Then review every so often, picking a few to try to remember. Just knowing wh

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