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Talent, time, and not getting enough Darren Zenko(thestar.com)
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by dwc 14y ago
Julliard is pretty well known even among non-musicians.
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by dwc 14y ago
"That's the price for..." implies that this is constant across alternatives, but it's not. One alternative is a hierarchy with subtrees feeding into nodes higher up, so that /r/programming/ruby posts would appear in /r/programming. This has
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by dwc 14y ago
I like reddit, almost completely because I've subscribed to several small subreddits that have a good community, high quality content, et al. But there's a tricky problem. Subreddits like /r/programming dominate, while more focused subred
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by dwc 14y ago
This is an old argument, and the problem tends to be that each side reads the extreme position even when it was neither written nor intended. I seldom use debuggers, but sometimes it's the right tool. Others I know and respect use debuggers
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by dwc 14y ago
I have flash enabled, but there was no reason for me to click on a video. I have to be at least a little interested before I'll watch a video.
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by dwc 14y ago
You're not the only one. I actually stopped reading and came here to read comments hoping to get a better idea.
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by dwc 14y ago
Same story here, regarding Ion. A guy I know who also used Ion said that's enough, we can't find a replacement so let's write one. I helped a bit. It does what we need, it's fast, and it's easy to configure. https://opensource.conformal.co
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by dwc 14y ago
In a very real sense, that's true. But...I don't know what it's doing but I know how it's doing it, so to speak. With languages in which I'm quite fluent (Haskell not so much), I can sometimes spot problems in the code of someone coming to
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by dwc 14y ago
In chess there's usually a reluctance for strong players to play weak players, unless it's for mentoring. That Go encourages people of different skills to play a somewhat even game through handicaps seems very sociable and healthy to me.
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by dwc 14y ago
I'll take your advice regarding volume/bulk. It seems sound to me. I took up chess a bit more than a year ago, and tactics practice and non-stop playing have done more for my game than any reading.
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by dwc 14y ago
Yes, that would help. There are other things that would also help. Just now I'm in a holding pattern on learning Go. When I come back to it I'll go over basics again, play on small boards, and play more real time games. Anything else you'd
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by dwc 14y ago
Find something that really interests you, and work on it. Visible open source is fine, and maybe even preferable, but do not let visibility rule the decision. Do not let how common a language, or how familiar you are currently with it rule
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by dwc 14y ago
I work with an ex physics major now doing planetary geology, at a university. Above all else, scientists should be problem solvers, and gravitate to where they can solve problems of interest to them. Too many fixate on one thing without con
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by dwc 14y ago
I found the link raganwald gave. Of those, I found SmartGo Kifu to be excellent, in that it has a tutorial that walks you through many basic concepts in Go. That I have not become proficient is not their fault.
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by dwc 14y ago
Oh! I am so glad you looked that up. Thank you!
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by dwc 14y ago
That would have made a nice tweet. To the down voters: perhaps you are unaware that https://twitter.com/raganwald/status/222061086348820482 resulted in two submissions to HN just now. Almost any raganwald post will result in this, as you
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by dwc 14y ago
So I recently decided to learn Go myself, after decades of hearing about it from fellow techies. It's incredibly difficult. I read, downloaded apps, and then signed up on DGS as 30kyu (the lowest rank) and have lost every game except for
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by dwc 14y ago
FYI, Lockhart has a new book coming[1] out with the kinds of things we should be doing , which is something I (and probably everyone who read & liked his Lament) have been pining for. I'm waiting like everyone else, so I can't explicit
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by dwc 14y ago
I wish this caveat were attached every time someone mentioned the "once it compiled it worked first time" bit. Not because there's no truth in the works-if-compiles idea, but because getting smug about it is sure to bite you in the ass soon
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by dwc 14y ago
Yes, you can. I'm not a Haskell guru, and I haven't played with it in some time. I can read that line of code just fine. I don't actually know what it's doing, because I don't know the functions involved, etc., but the form of the line is e
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by dwc 14y ago
Yes. I don't recall if it was that dust up or another one, but about a year ago I completely deleted my FB account. As noted above, because it was clear that this was a continuing pattern.
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by dwc 14y ago
> Because the new approach makes more money, its triumph is inevitable. If only this were true, then the current problems would never have arisen. This new approach isn't wholly new. He quotes Peter Drucker and mentions Toyota, afte
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by dwc 14y ago
I see 4ft x 8ft sheets of "polycarbonate sheet from LEXAN" for US$167.00 at Home Depot. Is that comparable to what you're using? What's your source?
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by dwc 14y ago
I really doubt this is the case, from my experience with other Google products. On Google+ valuable screen real estate is devoted to telling me I could follow popular entertainment people, or trying to get me to chat, hangout, et al. My and
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by dwc 14y ago
I used to own a nice, expensive Nikon SLR, with a range of lenses. Later I bought a middle of the road digital camera. Shortly after I bought my first smartphone with a "decent" camera I realized I'd never pay for a "real" camera again, u
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by dwc 14y ago
> Apple used to give a lot of weight to titles that exactly matched the search phrase. This is something I use quite often, purely as a consumer. I read a blog, or a comment on HN, reddit, et al and go looking for a specific app. Not
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by dwc 14y ago
Sounds like that's mostly outside the PM's sphere of influence, which is a good sign.
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by dwc 14y ago
At a job some years ago I got SMS messages from system monitoring almost continuously, around the clock. Most were spurious "this is an indicator that something might possibly go wrong" status messages, and I worked hard to smarten up the m
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by dwc 14y ago
I understand the "meta is murder" argument, and it's a tough and deadly problem. But I don't think splitting the meta into a separate site is the answer. You end up with a very strange self selection problem, where the "meta" community is

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