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The Rodeo Clown Theory of Personal Development(blog.zdsmith.com)
1 points by jfo 4y ago|0 comments
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by jfo 4y ago
Thanks, I have fixed it
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by jfo 4y ago
I live in a country and I'm trying to learn the language. I also take weekly classes and occasionally use private tutoring when I have time. I still get a ton of value out of duolingo, its exercises are easy to do in spare moments and
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by jfo 5y ago
Do we see this trend continuing through the remainder of this year? Is there any reason to expect a shift back in favour of employers in the labour market here in the near future?
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by jfo 5y ago
I agree that the prose and structure is not the strong point. I appreciated it for giving a clearly articulated alternative to zero sum competitive games. It helped me think about the playfulness of cooperative creativity in a new more holi
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by jfo 5y ago
Great little book, had it recommended to me by a fantastic music teacher of mine in graduate school.
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by jfo 6y ago
No no you misunderstand I would have thought it was an asshole comment for implying that having kids makes you less productive. But having kids DOES make you less productive (at least when they are young) or at the very least removes great
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by jfo 6y ago
What value of “older” do you have in mind? As the parent of a 3 year old, I know that it’s at least older than 3 XD
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by jfo 6y ago
I would have thought this was an asshole comment before I had kids. Young ones take SO much time. I don’t regret kids at all but I regret not doing even more with my time previously!
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by jfo 6y ago
I want to address your direct question: no you are not being self centered; that someone meant to be assessing you has a passing familiarity with your resume is an extremely reasonable expectation. It might not be the interviewers fault if
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by jfo 6y ago
I know you meant resistance training in general wrt astronauts in space but I just got the funniest image in my head of Chris Hadfield doing a zero G overhead press with a loaded bar and floating all over the place hahaha
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Zig: January 2018 in Review(andrewkelley.me)
3 points by jfo 9y ago|0 comments
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by jfo 9y ago
"Zig does not support RAII or operator overloading because both make it very difficult to tell where function calls happen just by looking at a function body." more in the 0.1.1 release notes! http://ziglang.org/do
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by jfo 9y ago
all your codebase are belong to us!
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Unsafe Zig Is Safer Than Unsafe Rust(andrewkelley.me)
112 points by jfo 9y ago|102 comments
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Introducing Pointed.io: Mock backends as a service(blog.pointed.io)
1 points by jfo 9y ago|0 comments
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Lisp in fewer than 200 lines of C(carld.github.io)
443 points by jfo 9y ago|102 comments
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Ask HN: What are your favorite software easter eggs?
2 points by jfo 9y ago|1 comments
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by jfo 10y ago
Wow cool, thanks!
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by jfo 10y ago
What is "The Parrot"? Like party parrot?
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by jfo 10y ago
Original author here. It's a real, real joy to read all these memories about the set, thank you all! > Although I'm a huge fan of tech writing for beginners, in this case I could have done with 0.6 as much whimsy. Can I meet yo
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Mle – a small but powerful console text editor(github.com)
7 points by jfo 10y ago|0 comments
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by jfo 10y ago
Thanks for this suggestion! I had come across this concept and it's one of the strategies I'm considering trying out to solve that problem.
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by jfo 10y ago
Author here. Thanks for this comment, as I said in the post this is exactly the kind of feedback I want. I had read the first half or so of SICP before I started this project, but can't say that I really "got" it. Certainly a