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by lastofus 4y ago
I've since lost interest in learning technical minutia for the sake of learning minutia. Instead, everything I learn is in service to reaching an end goal that is important and meaningful to me. Thus, motivation comes down to find some
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by lastofus 4y ago
Some people have built it. For example: https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/49459/draft-control
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by lastofus 4y ago
Wealthy people have access to lines of credit, secured against their wealth, at low interest rates unheard of to us common folk. This further widens the spread between a very cheap mortgage, and the average 6-7% expected returns from invest
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by lastofus 4y ago
I’d think the latency between the app servers and the DBs would be a problem, given they didn’t live in the same data center. How was that mitigated?
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by lastofus 4y ago
Check out the Sinclair Method, which is basically taking Naltrexone before you drink. Also check out the book "The Cure for Alcoholism: The Medically Proven Way to Eliminate Alcohol Addiction" by Eskapa. I used this method, along
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by lastofus 4y ago
You have to accept that being a parent is a second full time job, and you are just going to be slower for a little while. It's now on you to compete with being a great parent. The free time will slowly return as the kiddo gets older.
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by lastofus 4y ago
I put in notice at the 3 month mark at my last job. It wasn't a problem at all, though I don't bother to list it on my resume.
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by lastofus 4y ago
The 2nd edition is much more recent (2018), and re-written with examples in modern(ish) Javascript. Even if what you say about IDEs is true (which I don't think it is), it's still instructional to know the "why" of a ref
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by lastofus 4y ago
Same here, except the Chrome broke the v6 legacy plugin with an update, which makes it kinda useless. I ended up switching to Bitwarden just so I could auto-fill in Chrome again.
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by lastofus 4y ago
I don't think anyone is suggesting medical providers do not get paid.
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by lastofus 4y ago
Consider seeing a doc or PA/NP in Physiatry. They tend to take a much more holistic and thorough approach to diagnosing issues, including neck-spine related pain. Physiatry is a small specialty which most folks have not heard of. I&#x2
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by lastofus 4y ago
After writing Clojure for a few years, there were several times where I ended up with a complex function with unbalanced parens, and the only way I could fix it was to basically re-write the function piece by piece. This is something I&#x27
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by lastofus 4y ago
Do you have any material you would recommend on these subjects to start diving in?
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by lastofus 4y ago
Consider working for a non-profit, or company with a mission that you feel strongly about. When you see the end result of your days labor bring good to some people, it can be quite fulfilling in a way that bringing home a FAANG paycheck can
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by lastofus 5y ago
A typical retiree portfolio should have a significant portion in bonds (or more likely, bond funds). Initially this will hurt, but over time, higher rates mean higher bond returns Equity markets can take a hit at pretty much any time for co
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by lastofus 5y ago
I wish I knew. I've noticed recently the sequence count has been upped to 4 emails, thus inundating my inbox further. They are clearly automated, yet there is never an unsubscribe link. Perhaps we need a service that will send an autom
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by lastofus 5y ago
"Naked Statistics" by Charles Wheelan is a very approachable entry level book. As opposed to a textbook, it's something that can be read casually in a relatively short amount of time, while still building a solid intuition on
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by lastofus 5y ago
Most everyone agrees the price to earnings of stocks is crazy high right now for stocks. Everyone is expecting a crash at some point. That said, no one has any idea when it's going to happen, and how bad it will be. If history is any i
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by lastofus 5y ago
Unless you are an exceedingly clever person, it's unlikely you will re-discover all of the advanced/extreme techniques needed to solve the hardest Sudoku puzzles that are out there. Here is an example of one of the aforementioned
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by lastofus 5y ago
My brain is in the exact same state, which is frustrating when doing live coding interviews, as suddenly it's impossible to not come off looking like a complete beginner. Throw it some nervous jitters on top and it gets ugly fast.
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by lastofus 5y ago
The amount of immediate unsupported skepticism showing up in these comments is incredibly disheartening. I feel rather certain at this point humanity as a whole is unable/unwilling stop this impending disaster due to the perverse insen
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by lastofus 5y ago
I work on exactly this at work using Python/Django along with: - Python Social Auth: handles social login - Django Rest Framework: does all the heavy lifting for API dev Django takes care of all of your other requirements such as user
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by lastofus 5y ago
Rob Berger's youtube channel is pretty great, especially w.r.t investing for retirement. He's quite articulate and straight to the point on a lot of somewhat complex topics. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9
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Go'ing Insane Part Three: Imperfect Interfaces(jesseduffield.com)
2 points by lastofus 5y ago|1 comments
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by lastofus 5y ago
> Is lack of subtle/direct snarkiness a good thing? It's quite possible to call out and dismantle bad ideas, without making it reflect poorly on the originator of the idea. A snarky tone can have an underlying implication that
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by lastofus 5y ago
Sounds like you might have a View Model. One option would be to define this View Model that takes your Model in the constructor, then make this view model object available in the template context.
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by lastofus 5y ago
"99 Bottles of OOP" by Sandi Metz does a fantastic job IMO of answering the first 3 questions listed. > Can I write a serious program without OO... Absolutely! See any program written in a functional only language, or C. > S
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by lastofus 5y ago
Check out “99 bottles of OOP” by Sandi Metz for a fantastic beginner friendly book on OOP concepts. It does a great job of starting you from first principles and showing you not just the how, but the why of applying OOP to solve problems.
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by lastofus 5y ago
Check out Babashka if you enjoy lisps/Clojure. https://github.com/babashka/babashka
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by lastofus 6y ago
Check out the book "The Charisma Myth" by Olivia Fox Cabane. The premise of the book is Charisma is just another skill - something that can be learned and practiced, and is something the author coaches to C-level execs with a hist

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