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by jwdunne 11y ago
Not sure if it's the same in the US but a clinical psychologist is not a psychiatrist. A psychiatrist is a specialist medical doctor. They've been right through the whole med school thing. A clinical psychologist takes an accredit
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by jwdunne 11y ago
This is evident in PHP especially. The type of an anonymous function is 'Closure'. The problem is you have to explicitly declare the variables you are closing over and only until then does it become a closure. It's entirely p
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by jwdunne 11y ago
Surely you understood what the words meant to recognise the errors? Read beyond them, you might learn something new.
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by jwdunne 11y ago
I would do this: - choose a small project. Something that creates discomfort but not crippling anxiety (this will require self-awareness - too small, you won't learn much, too big, you may give up and take a confident hit). - split the
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by jwdunne 11y ago
Funnily enough, it's possible to have such experiences on a trip that is otherwise very positive. I panicked a few times that I may have severed my genitalia and been unable to feel it due to LSD - my partner was helpful in calming me
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by jwdunne 11y ago
I enjoy working as a programmer but I do not enjoy it as much as programming as a hobby, which I do too. I have found that my growing skills outpace the level of challenge provided in my day job. I just think this is a fact of life when you
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by jwdunne 11y ago
Seems like a bit too either-or. An effective pattern in physical services (such as private healthcare) is to implement an SEO strategy with the expectation results could take around 6 months to realise. In the meantime, PPC campaigns can be
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by jwdunne 11y ago
In fairness, in my own notes, formulas are rare. The only thing close to drawing in my notes is a spider diagram and MindNode is probably a lot easier and friendlier than pen and paper for that. I can probably cover my ground in Photoshop t
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by jwdunne 11y ago
Interesting article. I can touch type but I prefer pen and paper for to do lists, mind maps, exploring problems and note taking. It's always seemed more "effective" than using a computer or my phone - even crossing off a task
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by jwdunne 11y ago
That's interesting. I do the reverse. I have a trail of hundreds of mind maps and lists on paper, some of them probably recycled by now. I've always wondered if it would have been better to save them and review. I think I've
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by jwdunne 11y ago
Great advice here. Regarding beat drawing of diagrams with lines drawn from the elbow, there is a great set of online lessons that teach this through exercises. I totally recommend it: http://drawabox.com/lesson/1 I ha
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It's not that it can make just IDEs 'work better'. The compiler can work better with a great static type system. Haskell, for instance, is mind blowing. Perhaps the problem is that static typing is confused with how some lang
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by jwdunne 11y ago
Your last point really stood out to me. Reading through the commentary, it's difficult to see what is so magical about Rails after spending a lot of time using and especially abusing vanilla Ruby. Sure, I can concede that code that tri
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by jwdunne 11y ago
What a huge coincidence. My phone autocorrect Alan Rickman to that when talking about his passing with a friend. Very sad month, I have to admit.
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by jwdunne 11y ago
This hasn't really been a problem. Not as far as I can see from my life time. The TV shows have never been any worse than private competition, especially considering the 'original 5'. In my opinion, BBC shows tend to be bette
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by jwdunne 11y ago
Yeah, the waters meant to be a lot harder down south. In the north west, you can taste the difference between filtered water and tap water but I happily drink tap water all day long.
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God forbid having a manager that plays Crusader Kings II or Europa Universalis IV!
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I don't think these are cases against a growth mindset but rather cases against overconfidence and biting off more than you can chew. I don't think the point is to say "wow I can get better at anything so I'll take on th
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by jwdunne 11y ago
To supplement this comment, How to Solve It by Polya is a nice little handbook on the education of mathematics. I'm reading through this at the moment and I've learned quite a bit. It's especially useful to see how I have unk
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by jwdunne 11y ago
I've been anticipating this for a while. Some great additions, especially scalar type hinting and type hinting on return types. The ability to enable stricter typing via a directive is also great. It's a shame internals voted down
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by jwdunne 11y ago
It does help a lot. If you take more than prescribed, it can become addictive. Having this disorder, taking twice the dose by accident is a rite of passage (early morning, you forget you've already taken it). After that, it became clea
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by jwdunne 11y ago
I recognise the plight "in some ways". Professional work does not tend to keep pace with the constant need for ever more stimulating activities. I have no hope in hell of applying recent learning about discrete mathematics in my d
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by jwdunne 11y ago
I do this. Games are highly stimulating and conducive to hyperfocus. Before I do, I tend to feel lethargic, low in mood due to a sense of never having the focus to see anything through or even be decent at something and a lot of 'bounc
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by jwdunne 11y ago
If you are reading SICP or want to, Racket is also a good choice here. I bounced between SICP and The Little Schemer with Racket. I didn't use the SICP language until later on but I found that Rackets documentation was so good that it
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by jwdunne 11y ago
Thanks for the tip :) I'll explore that. Do you have any recommendations for textbooks to sink my teeth into?
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I notice this learning maths as an adult. A good intro to logic and proofs opened up a new world. After struggling with a proof, I came to the conclusion that I needed to study the axioms I was obviously expected to know futher - most impor
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Type-first development (2012)(tomasp.net)
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by jwdunne 11y ago
I'll hold my hands up and say I did have a knee-jerk reaction to the criticism but then I remembered when I started learning Lisp. I did often wonder where the arrays, hashmaps and other data structures were. I remember I had my own pr
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by jwdunne 11y ago
Thank you. 1. I'd heard of Agda but never read any code. What a brilliant language. I've added it to my list of my languages to spend time with. 2. I think your experience with Agda, especially the realisation that programs = proo
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by jwdunne 11y ago
I found the book 'Discrete Mathematics and It's Applications' a helpful book. People often recommend 'Concrete Mathematics' too.

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