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by drawkbox 3y ago
The only measure of C++ skill is years using it really and the industry. Game development will give you skills in C++ but you'll always have more to learn. It is one of the only places where you will be pushed into new areas and need t
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by drawkbox 3y ago
Yeah agreed. Spaced repetition is just a formal procedure of testing + time that taps into already prevalent repetition function to promote information to a higher place in your mind. The brain thinks if it hears about something frequently,
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Writing is part of the creative process. Writing it down helps to solidify an idea into the heap from the stack, maybe even take it from hot storage to cold storage. It allows you to jot it down while it is still fresh and offload it to foc
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by drawkbox 3y ago
Spaced repetition is how we truly learn everything when dealing with it a little bit every day. A really great, fun game on this is from Nicki Case called "How To Remember Anything Forever-ish" [1] Additionally, the site has some
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Monty Python's Life of Brain
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The Library of Babel(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by drawkbox 3y ago|1 comments
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by drawkbox 3y ago
The Library of Babel is a website created by Brooklyn author and coder Jonathan Basile, based on Jorge Luis Borges' short story "The Library of Babel" (1941). The site was launched in 2015. https://libraryofbabel.i
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by drawkbox 4y ago
Luckily libraries existed before copyright / IP was too top heavy otherwise they wouldn't exist. This content and products are part of culture. An online library should be allowed to exist. You can go to public libraries and in ma
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by drawkbox 4y ago
I use AI/ML for ideas today. I love the simple input/output of the chat style, it will win for most things just as keyword search is the best for search output. I use it for re-writing content better, writing ideas, simplifying te
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by drawkbox 4y ago
> valuations are still insane Most of the value from the pandemic pump has already been dumped. Some valuations are already too low. In terms of companies, term sheets have already been halved in many cases or withdrawn. As always the sc
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by drawkbox 4y ago
Went to Chappelle + Rock and the no phone policy was a problem. It was a ticketmaster event so everyone had to check in with the tickets (digital) and the checkin then immediately power down phone and put in the pouch took 1-2 hours. The li
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by drawkbox 4y ago
It isn't often one person or a group like the "Traitorous Eight" [1] go on to make entire industries and new platforms. They did it though and that included Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce. Moore and Noyce later split from that
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Same thing happens when autocracies with closed systems and closed markets who pump propaganda about Western liberalized democratic republics with open markets and open systems. The systems that highlights and addresses problems with more t
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The problem wasn't really the bonds, it was the influx of 3-4 times the money from 2019 to 2021 that essentially made SVB make basic and bad decisions chasing profit. The influx was essentially a pump and then they leveraged themselves
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by drawkbox 4y ago
> "- In 2021 SVB saw a mass influx in deposits, which jumped from $61.76bn at the end of 2019 to $189.20bn at the end of 2021. Would be interesting to see where that money came from. That has all the markings of a pump before a dump
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by drawkbox 4y ago
Same here. I love Last.fm for the scrobbling and history of what I listen to. I also scrobble to Libre.FM and a custom one but Last.FM is still my favorite. Currently at 94,000+ scrobbles since June 2007. You can scrobble from almost anythi
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by drawkbox 4y ago
There is a "Tomato Timer". [1] Looks like it was bought recently. [1] https://tomato-timer.com/
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by drawkbox 4y ago
Any "secure" encrypted messenger that allows more than 1 to 1 connections will always have the potential for the "ghost user" problem. System level some use additional connections/recipients for spam/moderation
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by drawkbox 4y ago
Acquisitions from the acquirer side always tank the stock, the acquired always get a bump. The down market and the $20B spend is why it is down. From an ADBE perspective, this actually is a good long term move and shouldn't be such a h
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by drawkbox 4y ago
Yeah we used to talk movies all the time. Six degrees of Kevin Bacon was intense. Knowing about upcoming movies makes movie people boast. Fun groups of people, lots of people work at a theater as well, every summer new batch and lots of peo
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Worked at a movie theater in high school and college as well that used film. It was amazing. Everything you say about it being a thrill. Building the movies and keeping some frames after splicing the movie reels/trailers together was g
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Artemis I in Numbers(cnn.com)
1 points by drawkbox 4y ago|0 comments
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Naming is so key to getting the right vibe for a feature/product/codebase. This is a perfect encapsulation of the feeling when naming a variable: https://twitter.com/jenmsft/status/1381006038590099456?lan
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> sends off a vibe of we'll probably hire you if you wow us Same with interviewing/take-home/whiteboard. It is just a better realistic view of the company. It not only makes it a "wow us" for the worker to the wo
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After I went more free style I got my own insurance. Then I usually do not go with any employee health plan, it changes yearly anyways and adds friction to changing jobs/contracts. If more people did this we could solve this. It does s
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by drawkbox 4y ago
Contract to hire is the way to go, even if a short time. Most jobs are like that anyways, the first weeks/months are still part of the hiring process. This tests the worker in the actual environment. The contract could even be remote a
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by drawkbox 4y ago
Software went from DLL Hell [1] to Dependency Hell [2]. Only now there is a dependency war so it is much more dangerous, and so many more dependencies. Dependabot has to be used because of the threats. However everyone automating and moving
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The other side to this is that businesses tend to follow the leaders of the industry. So if engineer salaries were getting too high, they start a "freeze" which then cascades down to medium then small companies. However, the goal
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Good points though many platforms/languages have similar issues, just C++ has been around longer and has been used the most. C++ has always been a sort of peak language and probably always will be because like C, or machine code direct
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The example to me looks like C++ is still nicer, I don't get the hate on C++ but then again most of the native work I do is gamedev. The benefit that C++ and Carbon can run together is a nice feature. It is like Objective-C++ (using Ob

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