jyriand

33 ms·

331.
by jyriand 10y ago
"Prometheus Rising" by Robert Anton Wilson. This is the book that tied together lot of things that I was wondering about previously and it opened up few doors into new mazes of research that I'm still trying to traverse. Also
332.
by jyriand 10y ago
Instead of "Be yourself" I would suggest "Own yourself". Take ownership of your mind, actions, personality, failures etc. There are lot of invisible tentacles sucked into your thinking process. > It is possible I can
333.
by jyriand 10y ago
I have used Tarot cards to give me some perspective on some descisions. As a side effect I start to experience a lot more of unexplainable synchronicities in my daily life and in connection with the decision. Most striking example: I was at
334.
by jyriand 10y ago
Only Kent Beck can save them. :)
335.
by jyriand 10y ago
Somewhat related to following blogs. But how do I follow blogs anyway? Is there any good Google Reader like apps, that are easy to use?
336.
by jyriand 10y ago
That's quite ironic. http://isitdownrightnow.com is also down.
337.
by jyriand 10y ago
Only thing I'm concerned is touch typing. Rather annoying is to look away from the monitor just to locate correct key.
338.
by jyriand 10y ago
Do I understand correctly that pixie is using clojure's lisp dialect and the only difference is that it is not running on JVM?
339.
by jyriand 10y ago
This is quite addictive. Spend a good 15 minutes watching this before "waking up" from this collective dream. There were video-snippets that disturbed me(dog fighting, voyeurism of sleeping people in transportation[not sure if the
340.
by jyriand 10y ago
I thought it's some kind of app store for android phones. Not sure why I made this association. But I guess their name might be one of the reasons of failure. It's simple and short, but doesn't really tell anything about the
341.
by jyriand 10y ago
Over the years I have see a number of posts about revamping emacs. Is there anything that actually works?
342.
by jyriand 10y ago
That's how I used to get over writers block. I just start off with deliberately writing crap.
343.
by jyriand 10y ago
I think you are assuming that all of those 150 people are engineers. I guess most of them are not. You can build this blog platform with 10-15 engineers, but you also need people who will manage and sell.
344.
by jyriand 10y ago
Wouldn't be the first time Estonia is associated with Balkans, probably because it's actually in Baltics.
345.
by jyriand 10y ago
Can you please link your source to "stories made up by Estonian teenagers". I'm estonian and never heard of any teenagers making fake news.
346.
by jyriand 10y ago
Reminds me of Peter Kroptotkin's idea of Mutual Aid [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_Aid:_A_Factor_of_Evolut... Full book: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4341
347.
by jyriand 10y ago
I'm having first child in few months. I'm stressed out as it is, can't even imagine what will happen when he is born. Even worse, I'm working from home.
348.
by jyriand 10y ago
This is something I would really like to read more about. No pressure, but this would be excellent subject for a blog post.
349.
by jyriand 10y ago
Rather difficult read. Not sure what the author is doing with his language, but even after rereading some of the paragraphs I still fail to grasp the point. An example: > "Hardly a week goes by, it seems, without an enthusiastic rep
350.
by jyriand 10y ago
I guess there can be an antipattern opposite to NotInventedHere, where developers don't want to solve small problems, only reuse existing libraries that already address the problem in hand. I guess this is most noticeable in the javasc
351.
by jyriand 10y ago
I would suggest this as a 30 day challenge. Remember doing it a while back. Found out that I had no idea what my colleagues were talking about when they started discussing some recent events. I was buzzled for a few seconds, feeling like I
352.
by jyriand 10y ago
Not sure if spaced repetition is the best resource we have. I haven't researched it, but the question I have is: how much of everyday's information is stored in the unconscious. Using hypnosis people can remember long forgotten th
353.
by jyriand 10y ago
I don't think every statement that mentions 'white' or 'black' should be considered racist.
354.
by jyriand 10y ago
And I thought that my 700MB was bad.
355.
by jyriand 10y ago
Using vanilla js becomes a problem once you start building something bigger than a simple web page. Eventually you will end up with your own framework and new developers still have to understand how it works etc. It's totally fine if y
356.
by jyriand 10y ago
Half joking, but how come we always gravitate toward exploring exterior space, but not our interior universe in the brain? "God" knows what we could find, once the brave psychonauts have returned from their mind trips. We might as
357.
by jyriand 10y ago
I think it might have something to do with the structure of the fugue. > a contrapuntal composition in which a short melody or phrase (the subject) is introduced by one part and successively taken up by others and developed by interweav
358.
by jyriand 10y ago
If this seems interesting to you, I would suggest reading: "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid" [1] [1] https://www.amazon.com/G%C3%B6del-Escher-Bach-Eternal-Golden...
359.
by jyriand 10y ago
All of this fake news discussion makes me think about McLuhan. It's as if we are forgetting the point of internet. > McLuhan's central thesis, encapsulated in the famous phrase "the medium is the message", was that t
360.
by jyriand 10y ago
I don't like rules. 20 rules to effective learning, 50 rules to great success in life etc. You see those articles everywhere. Nobody can memorize those 20-50 rules; more often than not, too many rules will hide the important ideas that

More ›