jolfdb

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by jolfdb 7y ago
Horribly inappropriate word choice aside, many many things in life require short term pain and effort for long term gain.
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by jolfdb 7y ago
Instead of punishing yourself for not doing something, take a moment to appreciate yourself when you do something. When I go to the gym, I used get annoyed at myself for not doing enough work. I didn't even go often enough in the firs
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by jolfdb 7y ago
Yes yes yes. The treatment for this is to split your work into smaller tasks so you feel you can hit a milestone before the interruption.
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by jolfdb 7y ago
TV is also good because it creates a simulation of human company that reduces social isolation anxiety and makes you feel better about being where you are.
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by jolfdb 7y ago
Why are you using the word "hipster" to describe industry-standard best-of-breed best-practice tools?
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by jolfdb 7y ago
A better way is to slam it our under artificial deadline pressure in exchange for some reward. But be aware that sometimes "it's too easy is an excuse for unconscientiousness inability to do work at the demanded level of precision
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by jolfdb 7y ago
Pomodoro and journals are part of ADHD treatment and that's OK. (There may be better behavioral therapies, like setting alarms and writing plans). The presence of a drug for a condition is not the same as the existence of a condition,
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by jolfdb 7y ago
Human psychology is on a spectrum. Mental disorders are extremely common, as are minor physical disorders. We aren't ashamed of seeking remedies for high blood pressure or low muscle mass or high fat, all of which are extremely common
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by jolfdb 7y ago
There are two classic jokes about praying for help: https://truthbook.com/stories/funny-god/the-drowning-man http://jokes.cc.com/funny-god/1gkcpp/the-lottery-ticket
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by jolfdb 7y ago
Or maybe IP theft is retaliation for the opium wars. It's silly to look at a centuries long geopolitical struggle for hegemony through the lens of fair play as though it's just a game among friends.
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by jolfdb 7y ago
Go is pragmatic about language design, but purist about managing community whiners.
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by jolfdb 7y ago
You can hire a Postgresql contractor for admin, bugfixes and features, and you can pay Postgresql corporate for bugfixes and features
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by jolfdb 7y ago
Do you need an alternative to GHC?
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by jolfdb 7y ago
Ironically the community designed language is so complicated that programs can only be mantained by small teams of original authors, while the tightly controlled language is consistent enough that large groups can collaborate on one program
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by jolfdb 7y ago
The dirty accounting is that doing work to prevent bugs gets no credit, but letting bugs happen and then fixing them gets credit.
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by jolfdb 7y ago
My team spends 80% of our time paying down tech debt...by building a new system that will let us throw away the old system later this year, I mean next year, I mean in 2 years, I mean when the last zombie client with no staffing migrates of
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by jolfdb 7y ago
Then you get "females tend to be promoted less frequently than males" and the argument continues.
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by jolfdb 7y ago
Is it advisable to fire someone who does 80% productivity instead of paying them less and saying thank you? Bonus culture says No.
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by jolfdb 7y ago
It's irrelevant if market rate is below what you pay, as long as you can afford it; employees won't complain and leave for being overpaid. The Google masseuse got $millions (in the IPO).
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by jolfdb 7y ago
That's completely irrelevant or disingenuous. Obviously you can prorate an annual wage to Basecamp's advertised hours per year of work.
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by jolfdb 7y ago
Those parentheses are meaningless, since IFF (aka NOT-XOR) is associative and commutative. IFF is a parity counter like XOR. XOR counts how many bits are true. IFF is NOT of how many bits are false. (This shows why XOR is used much more tha