jcpst

23 ms·

241.
by jcpst 4y ago
You seem surprised by this. I have worked for years and made great efforts to get to a point in life where I have a say in what time I do my work. Most jobs I have had I did not have a choice. In the United States.
242.
by jcpst 4y ago
I don’t see what the issue is here. The professor informs the class of office hours where the door is open. I used these times when I needed to ask a quick question or clarify something. In addition to email. The idea that these young adult
243.
by jcpst 4y ago
Maybe it’s getting too much traffic right now, but when I try to start a conversation in German, it just hangs after the first thing I say.
244.
by jcpst 4y ago
I would consider algorithms advanced. I’ve been programming professionally for 8+ years, and haven’t yet found a need to study algorithms. It seems like all the scenarios where I would need some scholarly algorithm knowledge have been abstr
245.
by jcpst 4y ago
Yes, and No. Yes, I still buy physical books to learn something new. I value being away from a screen. But I don’t buy the “Learn X” style of introductory material. All that info is online. I buy the dense deep-dives that are filled with ad
246.
by jcpst 4y ago
I gave it to a friend of mine, who also found it profound, and now they have given it to someone else. I probably will buy another copy.
247.
by jcpst 4y ago
4000 Weeks was a game-changer for me. I found the takeaways liberating, and more in-line with my perspectives in general. My ‘system’ now is just focusing on one major goal outside of the regular work/family stuff. I use tools for quic
248.
by jcpst 4y ago
I generate an n-dimensional just intonation pitch lattice, based on my study of the work of Ben Johnston. I like it because it’s kind of small, but tests several aspects of working in the language. * the program needs support for several nu
249.
by jcpst 4y ago
I think it’s a great exercise to come up with declarative abstractions over the DOM API. I had quite a bit of fun doing this. It only took a few hundred lines of JS to make a core for a useful web app.
250.
by jcpst 4y ago
I remember reading a similar HN thread in the past where someone didn’t understand how you build a html form without React, and that it seemed wild that someone would consider it. Framework, no framework, whatever works. I’m a fan of your a
251.
by jcpst 4y ago
Yes, it is terrible. I think you need to be an active .NET developer to communicate those subtle differences clearly. But we’re used to it being bad at this point. .NET Framework, Microsoft Teams, Visual Studio Code…
252.
by jcpst 4y ago
It would be interesting to see which categories would benefit from more granularity. For instance, I feel like I need only one toaster, one oven. But I have 3 different high-quality coffee grinders that I use for different purposes.
253.
by jcpst 4y ago
Right, it’s a perspective thing. I think your perspective is not wrong, but wanted to provide another for those reading: It’s good to remember kids aren’t just short adults. They are irrational, creative, come up with strange assumptions…
254.
by jcpst 4y ago
Congrats! The first thing I usually tell friends is YOB. Year Of Baby. Don’t worry about what else is going on. Accept that you have different priorities right now. After the first year, you’ll be in the swing of it and parenting will be ea
255.
by jcpst 4y ago
I’m having trouble relating to this post. General linux questions on a search engine end up on the Arch Linux wiki quite often. Really though, what Linux distro has better documentation than Arch?
256.
by jcpst 4y ago
Lawrence is nice, I lived near downtown for cheap, was able to walk most of the time. There was a very active music scene- I was an in-house engineer at one of the recording studios there. Columbia is also nice, but a little more spread out
257.
by jcpst 4y ago
> if you spend your time writing great documentation, the product will suffer and nobody will use it This is an unfortunate perspective. And I could say the opposite is true. If you don’t spend time writing great documentation, your prod
258.
by jcpst 4y ago
Or Vim users, they have those features too. But for the Neovim users (including myself), this is handy if they would like to use other applications besides neovim while keeping their neovim session open.
259.
by jcpst 4y ago
I kinda fell in love when I started using zellij. I say this as a vim user, but it reminds me of what nano is compared to vim. With zellij, you can jump in blind and learn how it works. Compared to tmux, which is great, but like vim, requir
260.
by jcpst 4y ago
Dmenu was kind of nice when I was on a minimalist software kick. I get that modifying source code as an alternative to configuration is appealing to some. I suppose it’s nice for the maintainer, they don’t have to worry about handling more
261.
by jcpst 4y ago
I love this so much, thank you.
262.
by jcpst 4y ago
Woah, that is cool, I had no idea. I will definitely be using this.
263.
by jcpst 4y ago
I think your comment is funny, but doesn’t really apply to this individual. Also, I just bought this book, so I guess I’m one of those chumps :D
264.
Regarding Statements from Covid Normalizers(upnight.com)
4 points by jcpst 4y ago|5 comments
265.
by jcpst 4y ago
There’s a book about this called “4000 weeks” (thanks for the correction). Basically, all the popular productivity hacks are nonsense, and just make you busier. You do this because of a fear of death. Accept that you will die soon, so just
266.
by jcpst 4y ago
I really wish more devs would treat errors as first class, the same level of importance as a success response. We had an error page at a previous job that had an <h1> OOPS!. Not sure who made it, but they didn’t think much of it, and
267.
by jcpst 4y ago
Mhm, evil and org-mode brought me to emacs. I generate documentation, presentations, embed little scripts to transform org-tables, and use ledger-mode. I don’t even use it for coding projects anymore.
268.
by jcpst 4y ago
I’ve written tiny little apps in clojure and really enjoyed it. But I did find getting started to be a bit tricky. Cool to see stuff like this tool. I think one of the best getting started tools I’ve seen lately is Calva for VS Code.
269.
by jcpst 4y ago
Yes thank you, definitely miscalculated an order of magnitude on that one!!!
270.
by jcpst 4y ago
I second this. And here’s proof it’s possible. It took a while, but we now have a part of the city that is designed around pedestrians: https://www.lenexa.com/government/departments___divisions/co...

More ›