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by dwc 10y ago
I've recently started watching Curtis Stone. It's very interesting. I have no plans to start a small scale farm, but it's something I often think about. It would take finding some local niche that was very profitable. In th
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by dwc 10y ago
Dietary guidelines typically self-moderate to something that they think the populace has a chance of adopting. I.e., they don't want people to completely shrug it off as too drastic of a change. I would like to see a different approach
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by dwc 10y ago
> So sometimes I wish I could go back to the old days but my nostalgia is probably rose tinted. It seems like nostalgia is a big thing over the past few years. Old game emulators, people getting back into C64 or whatever. I guess it&#x27
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by dwc 10y ago
While your statement is true, it doesn't explain nearly all of the problems. The shift from tenured to adjunct positions in academia doesn't have anything to do with the quality of applicants. The shift in tech from salaried emplo
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by dwc 10y ago
This article agrees with other articles and books I've been reading on the topic. One interesting and troubling aside: This is focused on the working class and so doesn't talk very much about college educated people. But it does m
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by dwc 10y ago
Ah, the never ending debate about passion. What if you put that aside for a while and think about it in terms of going with your strengths instead? Same thing, different angle. If there's any choice about what job you might take, take
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by dwc 10y ago
Years ago I had little opinion on climate change. During the big email scandal[1] I decided to look into it myself, as an outsider. I downloaded the leaked emails. I downloaded various data sets. I also followed online arguments between cli
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by dwc 10y ago
There are so many things, of course. But here are two things I wish I'd understood better a long time ago: * Think in the problem space / avoid thinking in implementation details. Structure your solution along lines that make sens
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by dwc 10y ago
Yeah, that sounds a lot like my early days. Cold applying is horrible. Since then I let friends know that I'm looking, check out interesting places to see if anyone I know works there, etc. My last job hunt involved applying to a singl
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by dwc 10y ago
I love classical music, but not for coding. It's too musically interesting and it pulls me off task. I'll be fine and then it gets to that one part, and then I'll notice that I've been actively listening to the music and
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by dwc 10y ago
Serious question: after figuring it out, did you have a somewhat better grasp of linked list mechanics than before?
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by dwc 10y ago
> past an age a fellow just wants to learn a single reliable stack and collect a weekly paycheck That's a bit too strong. Surely there are people like that. But I'm "past an age" and there's always some newish th
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by dwc 10y ago
But then I'd have to give up mapping caps lock to control.
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by dwc 10y ago
From the US here, but close enough to the border with Mexico to have grown up eating spicy foods. I agree completely. I have been growing peppers for a while now, and selecting the pepper for a dish is a lot more than choosing the level of
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by dwc 10y ago
You left out a plausible (and common) option: a more expensive pastry chef can make pastries that sell better. This is what's in play when you see a line out the door at some shop. The prices may not be that much more expensive, but
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by dwc 10y ago
This always cracks me up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmWRhhvf60Y
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by dwc 10y ago
Another point is that it's good to encourage viewers to watch popular shows, so that caching at the edge works better. Having a rotating, small number of AAA movies at a time encourages this. Multiple browse categories based on current
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by dwc 10y ago
> the sales lady who sits next to me who holds conference calls all day long from her desk I've had this situation in the past a few times and to some degree today. If we have to have open office plans then at least take some effort
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by dwc 10y ago
Note that I wrote that meditation teaches concentration as a tool, not as the end goal. Focus and concentration are useful outside of meditation, too. If you learned the concentration parts and left the rest, I'm sure the meditation pe
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by dwc 10y ago
As delluminatus says, Buddhism. Zen, Vipassana, and others teach concentration as a tool (not the end goal). There are many, many books. See Mindfulness in Plain English [1] for a good one that's available to read free online. 1. htt
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by dwc 10y ago
Several times over the years I've had an office with a door. Normally I kept the door open, but I would close it if I had work that required extreme (for me) concentration, or if the environment outside was excessively distracting that
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by dwc 10y ago
There are disciplines that have been teaching concentration for hundreds of years that produce people who can concentrate at will under pretty much any circumstance. To teach beginners they choose a very quiet, distraction-free environment.
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by dwc 10y ago
Early fifties here. > Your use of the word "burn" concerns me. I'd prefer the word "invest". I agree, but... sometimes it really is "burn". I don't keep up with front-end tech these days. If/w
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by dwc 10y ago
Hopefully people will take the age of the writing into consideration. As someone who has learned about Norway over the past several years, it was very interesting to read this account.
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by dwc 10y ago
> The purpose of a type system is to prove something about the code The workaday purpose of these type systems is to write more of your intentions into the actual program code and get the compiler to enforce them on your behalf. That may
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by dwc 10y ago
> And the correctness is limited only to certain properties of the program, that a given type system supports. In case there are readers not familiar with the current state of things, you can pick solid languages today whose type systems
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Announcing BuckleScript 1.0(bloomberg.github.io)
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by dwc 10y ago
I used emacs at a very basic level for many years, and then I switched to vim and I was very happy. The way of vi fit me so much better than all the chords with emacs. I used vim for about 10 years. Lately I've transitioned back to ema
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by dwc 10y ago
They are a fixture in the U.S., too, in my experience.
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by dwc 10y ago
There's not always a 1:1 mapping of words between languages, so the nuance of "climate" vs. "weather" in English might get confusing.

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