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by hbt 10y ago
The "why" is often summed as "will this make my life better and by how much?" I agree that "grinding it out" doesn't apply to creative work. You can have a time block dedicated to writing and produce nothi
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by hbt 10y ago
One thing that helps is focusing on how this improves your life. Even if all your writing does is clarify things in your head, that's progress. You are better because of it. Don't bother iterating and polishing the writing if
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by hbt 10y ago
What amazes me about Elon is the level of self control, discipline, perseverance, resilience, willpower etc. He's not the only one playing the game so effectively at that level but to me, he exemplifies rational behavior. I wish more
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by hbt 10y ago
Read the book "the new business road test". It oulines a checklist of things prior to considering a business. You can apply a lot of it to new software project (e.g conducting marketing research for similar projects). When it come
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by hbt 10y ago
Thanks!
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by hbt 10y ago
There is a focus on artificial intelligence rather than intelligence augmentation because the former seems easier to accomplish. I also think we will reach a limit when it comes to intelligence augmentation. Artificial intelligence will ne
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by hbt 10y ago
This is spot on. Robert Sternberg wrote on intelligence, its evolutionary role and his theory of "successful intelligence" is well established nowadays. Latest definition by AI researchers is summed up as: "Intelligence measu
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by hbt 11y ago
As everything is being digitized slowly, we truly are moving to an information economy. Programming is the ability to manipulate that information for a purpose. You can be a programmer and make money if you combine that ability with speci
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by hbt 11y ago
Something I'm starting to realize with all these AI APIs is how difficult it is to evaluate and compare the results. How do you know their algorithms are better than the competition? The marketing buzzwords are all there. "Powerfu
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by hbt 11y ago
The main thing most programmers overestimate is their own working memory i.e the number of things you are retaining when writing a piece of code. Problem is: working memory is short term. After a few days, you revisit that code and you re
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by hbt 11y ago
There are so many similarities between writing code and writing English. - Thinking of paragraphs as functions with one purpose - keeping sentences short to reduce load on working memory and increase comprehension - create visual breaks to
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by hbt 11y ago
Note he didn't provide a solution to scaling companies domestically other than taxing offshore products. That type of protectionism may work domestically but it means that American companies cannot compete overseas if they are being un
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by hbt 11y ago
npm and maven modules are not easily discoverable - How do you search for a function other than by description or name. Assuming the developer classified properly and you even happen to use the same domain language as the writer. - When m
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by hbt 11y ago
It still astounds me that we haven't solved reusable modules in 2016. Sure, we have libraries, apis, package managers etc. but every time I read a code base, there is always a utility function reinventing the wheel. Someone wrote it be
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by hbt 11y ago
This is an amazing game, especially in multiplayer. When playing with others, it's comparable to programming with others. It's about communication, people will try to optimize stuff that already works, people will argue about how
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by hbt 11y ago
It's amazingly difficult to find the right metric when you are still at the MVP level. However, once the system has proven itself, it's only a matter of optimization. I think it's one (amongst many) reason why so many startup
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by hbt 11y ago
Intellij has no choice but to do this. Otherwise they lose revenue. They have mature software products and people are not going to renew the license every year for a minor update. Most of their products are so mature that you can buy them o
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by hbt 11y ago
use a virtual machine or install windows as dual boot. If this software solves a problem you are really having, nothing would stop you.
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by hbt 11y ago
Is there a similar thread for software development? I'm not sure what keywords to google. Reply with links if you got any. Thanks
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by hbt 11y ago
>> Research shows that teams with more women members have higher collective intelligence and achieve better business outcomes. The research used is this paper https://publications.credit-suisse.com/tasks/render&#x
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by hbt 11y ago
Requirements traceability. Linking your SRS, code, tests, metrics together into an organized information tree. Also, find a way to generate passive income for FOSS developers and crowdsource FOSS projects and turn them into decent products
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by hbt 11y ago
Automation may seem unintuitive economically but the alternative is much worse. Food workers tend to be minimum wage workers. Minimum wage really stands for minimum living wage which is different from place to place and somewhat artificial
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by hbt 12y ago
the assumption the author makes is that longevity will only bring us more time and that pretty much everything about the human condition will remain the same. It is tedious to be human. The amount of time dedicated to maintaining one's
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by hbt 12y ago
It's not so much change as it is exploration. You can either wait for the best player to come out or start betting. In the 70s, the exploration was with different hardware architectures and then we settled with general purpose computer
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by hbt 12y ago
Stylish is applied post-rendering in Chrome. It works fine in FF because of the browser API. In chrome, because of the limitations of the extensions API, it doesn't cover chrome pages, developer tools or source view. If you pick a dark
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by hbt 12y ago
Agreed. The multi-process vs single process is controversial. With cheap memory, multi-process would be better. However, I personally don't experience crashes several times a day. A crash usually boils down to Javascript taking too lon
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by hbt 12y ago
If you want a highly customizable browser, Firefox is it. Chrome is in its infancy when it comes to customization and they often make decisions that prevent power users from taking advantage of their browsing experience. For example, they&#
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by hbt 13y ago
List would supported nested lists i.e it would be a tree In terms of rewards or monetization, it would be possible to gamify contributions ala stackexchange and rely on affiliate links for commercials tools and perhaps even share the revenu
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by hbt 13y ago
I think every attempt at an argument should be followed by an attempt at a counter-argument. For example if I cite a study as a reference, a counter argument could be the methodology used to gather the data Edit: @harpastum made an excellen
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by hbt 13y ago
A site to organize systems. There are plenty of "List of frontend development tools" or "list of git tools". I want a site where users can build lists, share them, vote on them, categorize the content and update it with

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