jimmyvalmer

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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
Verbiage is proof of work, and journalists need to make a living, just the same as planning-to-plan product managers. You can train yourself to skim for maximal extraction per minute. I burned through the article in about 3-4 minutes. I t
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
tldr tl;dr Our bodies self-correct to maintain a constant calorie expenditure. Marathoners and lean-mean bush people were found to burn as many calories daily as a middle aged woman from Chicago. Takeaway: eat less if you want to lose wei
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
You can hate the guilt, but you can't hate the pleasure -- that wouldn't make any sense.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
Lots of sour grapes rationalizing. Every deprived addict, from the grounded Minecraft player to the imprisoned dope fiend, will tell you the deprivation was good for him, but as soon he's given a shot at another fix, he'll instant
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
Automatic plug whenever I see this asked: nnhackernews.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
decent people with decent products just don't make it. Which is why you need to make your product a little more than decent. "Evil will always triumph because good is dumb." So be less dumb, and you can stay just as good.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
The legal driving age for men should be raised to 40. Problem solved.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
You can always end the contract Most people don't have the kind of eff-thou money, which is why OP asked his question conditioning on unionization.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
What are some good resources on Emacs? Google. how long did it take you to debug issues? For many years, I googled for little elisp snippets I didn't understand. If you use doom/spacemacs, do you feel the bloat? Doom and spa
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
Never heard the author, but having read his blog, I've concluded I am this guy modulo the talent and the fact that he got to my way of thinking in half the time.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
Attempting to learn mathematics as some sort of pattern matching... does not work China (and other countries who put American math education to shame) disagrees. For you, math may have been a deduction from first principles, but to us mer
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
The only value of a university math class are the problems and their solutions. Lecture is worthless. MIT does this right. Students can boost their grade by submitting revised solutions after the initial marking.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
Typical of most management primers: 2,000 words of hand-wavy psychobabble, none of it actionable, all of it music to other psychobabblers.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
Software is a quick win. Everyone loves the quick win.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
they simply want access to more cheap and compliant labor Only bad programmers believe software scales with manpower. And it's those bad programmers who become hiring managers; the good programmers keep programming.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
Be gentle with the balls.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
Sounds like you need to get laid.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
Programming is a one-person task. Looping people in gives the rest of us something to schedule meetings around. So it really depends on what you want, getting the job done, or creating more jobs.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
You have just 4 years to learn the kind of math that you'll never use, but will genuinely make you a smarter person. You have 25+ years to learn programming, which is akin to running a cash register after five years.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
Putting OP's "small side project" aside, anything, including houses, that can sell for close to half a million USD is going to involve lawyers who will ensure the seller is made whole.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
I wouldn't draw the line that high. Mortgages still make sense for less.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
If your price is under 50k, and he wants to pay in installments, then I'd just close the discussion. Dude is your yanking your chain.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
Rants of twenty-somethings about office politics are fine. Just don't disguise them (weakly) as questions for professional advice. Then again, nearly all answers on Ask HN are rebuffed by the the poser, so Ask HN is really more akin t
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
The reacharound assist. Let him decide when to resume face-to-face.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
CI pipelines are a Good Thing. While we didn't get bogged down by them ten years ago, our testing wasn't nearly as formalized nor robust. If you're using any one of the popular suites (github, travis, circle), you should be
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
Wokesters can't go around advocating for more Asians in professional sports because given the rarefied samples involved, the eyesore of Asian on-the-field performance would be too difficult to defend. Same is true for women roofers.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
I don't have a particularly good grip on how long a million years is, but I suspect it's still better than yours. A million years is less than a week in the Earth's lifetime. The virus of humanity can do its darnedest but th
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
Because the office grind would be a little less demoralizing if it weren't a perpetual sausagefest.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
Call me an anthropomorphic narcissist, but I can barely manage concern for my descendants a hundred years from now, much less the carbon-based morlocks scampering around a hundred thousand years from now.
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by jimmyvalmer 5y ago
That book really hit home for me the insignificance of human versus planetary timescales. For all our handwringing about global warming, we're actually in an ice age. Even if we solve climate change, the earth will continue to witnes

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