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by lazyant 6y ago
Unfortunately, once you are out of being a student or perhaps starting out your professional career, having a coach or mentor is frawn upon or at least not common https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/10/03&
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by lazyant 6y ago
This is what I do, except using a general playlist. At ~ 300 songs almost all recommendations I didn't like. At current ~ 400 songs all recommendations I don't like and Spotify gave up with a passive-aggressive message sort of &qu
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by lazyant 6y ago
> friendships don't work that way, they rely on common struggle that is needed to build trust. the older we get the less our chances of going through a common struggle (like puberty) I think this is true for "friends for life&q
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by lazyant 6y ago
Yes, The Hero's Journey seems a subset https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%27s_journey
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by lazyant 6y ago
Seems to me almost every Hollywood movie is a "man in the hole" / "boy meets girl", as in somebody leads a normal life, something happens (could be something not bad, like a new challenge) and the main character(s)
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by lazyant 6y ago
chess.com has a computer persona with her at different ages, ranked: - 800 at 10 years old - 1200 at 9, - 1600 at 10, - 1880 at 15, - 2400 at 17, - 2500 at 20 and - 2700 at 22
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by lazyant 6y ago
This is my experience as well (going to mild places in Europe and many houses without central heating being at almost the same ~ 10C - 15C temperature as outside on the streets.) Unrelated (I think) https://www.aceee.org/por
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by lazyant 6y ago
> a basic feature would be deduplication
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by lazyant 6y ago
Web pages (URLs) is not a DAG and hence it can have loops. Regardless, even if I've never designed a web crawler, I'd think a basic feature would be deduplication; a database (table) of URLs visited with a timestamp (so you can vi
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by lazyant 6y ago
Yes, competing "one level up" is a nice short way of puting it.
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by lazyant 6y ago
yep, they get to practice with better players. Ideal learning is with people better than you, but not at a completely different level (since then you won't understand what they do or won't be able to imitate).
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by lazyant 6y ago
The poignant thing that I remember (possibly mis-remembering exact numbers) is that in 20 or 30 years Jiro had only taken one day off from work, to attend his father's funeral.
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by lazyant 6y ago
As a variation of this for a sci-fi story: modify just a thing (dying at 30 - Logan - or at 200 ...) (I did it too, woo hoo!)
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by lazyant 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadsby_(novel)
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by lazyant 6y ago
Yes: http://restsql.org/
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by lazyant 6y ago
Yes, it's not clear to me that we have a moral obligation to be "best" or do the best we can, even if there was no mental/physical price associated with it. (Let alone "best" is not clearly defined but I take i
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by lazyant 6y ago
yes, some bindings may be different for meta-control like you are pointing out (the editing ones are Emacs)
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by lazyant 6y ago
Those alien "shortcuts" are Emacs bindings, the same as in a Bash shell, or a Cisco router etc.
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by lazyant 6y ago
he's done 143/230 according to https://trudeaumetre.polimeter.org/
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by lazyant 6y ago
Like a friend of mine said, where's the line between a totally honest and transparent workplace and a toxic workplace?
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by lazyant 6y ago
Writing down ideas is always a very useful exercise. Having introspection is a good trait, so writing a "User's Manual" for yourself is a very good thing. Now, having these User Manuals in a company, I don't know if they
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by lazyant 6y ago
"invented the future of the internet" If you change the skin I could barely tell the difference with Slack. This is just showing my ignorance but I don't get what's special about any of these chatroom tools, as in they a
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by lazyant 6y ago
I agree with the overall message to optimize for learning early on and check with yourself every few months and take some risks while you are young. OTOH, it must be nice to get a job into a FAANG right out of school (if you got to Stanford
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by lazyant 6y ago
Randomness is very underrated, I imagine because it's uncomfortable for us humans to admit to something other than a nice causal story and free will. Marvin Harris, known for his work on Cultural Materialism, writes in his books how su
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by lazyant 6y ago
My guess is to get ahead and be prepared before the onslaught of reporters calling.
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by lazyant 6y ago
I'd add TRAP DEBUG (running line by line) to the toolset
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by lazyant 6y ago
wasn't the QWERTY keyboard distribution done because of jamming debunked? I've read several contradictory accounts about initial typewriters.
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by lazyant 6y ago
How do you folks think regarding network bandwidth vs disk throughput? I used to think disk was way slower but now if we look at AWS ec2 instances, they are within one order of magnitude of each other: Network: ec2 instances (except tiny on
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by lazyant 6y ago
Just in case: Netflix is 15% of the Internet traffic world-wide and about 1/3 of the traffic in the US (these figures can be a bit obsolete). So the engineering challenges I'd imagine are not so much about UI and recommendation en
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by lazyant 6y ago
it's a famous spot,a rock sticking out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolltunga

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