lfowles

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by lfowles 11y ago
On the other hand, there's been a lot of value for me clearing the calendar on weekends and just playing videogames for 48 hours. Really sets priorities straight and freshens me up for the upcoming week. This is best used when I can&#x
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by lfowles 11y ago
To further the analogy: Most of us don't have the resources or knowledge to properly test our wheels after we reinvent them.
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by lfowles 11y ago
Surgeon Simulator and Goat Simulator to extend this into the ridiculous :)
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by lfowles 11y ago
Ok, I'd like my work to be addictive, as long as I'm required to keep my 5 8-hour days, I might as well look forward to it.
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by lfowles 11y ago
> I am not stupid though. > I don't have a learning disability. There's no reason you couldn't have a learning disability. I was one of the smartest in my class and turns out that I do indeed have ADHD. I've also n
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by lfowles 12y ago
Yes, it does :) The thought process was that it's hard for me to _know_ why drugs are bad other than what I've been told and other outside knowledge sources (anecdotes, wikipedia pages, etc). However, wasting time on videogames is
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by lfowles 12y ago
There's little value in introspection if there's no frame of reference.
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by lfowles 12y ago
You don't necessarily have to compete with what they are interested in. You have to compete with the boredom of sitting still at their desk for hours on end while doing trivial homework/reading assignments. _Everything_ is excitin
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by lfowles 12y ago
Last time I sent an email to that address, I got a boilerplate response back. Granted, this was during the potato sack ARG.
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by lfowles 12y ago
> probably one who once warred with you On the other hand, in the US if I drive 4 hours south, I'm firmly in Confederate states.
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by lfowles 12y ago
> The former obviously needs a proper scripting language. I wonder, have there been any experiments in major browsers to execute non-javascript code?
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by lfowles 12y ago
Do you think that was having considered the consequences and judged his family and livelihood worth it or because he had the "I'm invincible" mindset?
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by lfowles 12y ago
> Each and every one of these idiot hackers willing to risk their livelihood and families for a little civil disobedience should be celebrated for the martyrs they are. Reading TFA, it seems he's now unwilling to risk his livelihood
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by lfowles 12y ago
Title feels pretty clickbaity/inflammatory, but the article title is merely "In The Bin".
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by lfowles 12y ago
In my city, trash service is handled by private companies. I currently pay +$15/quarter for a cart for recyclables.
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by lfowles 12y ago
> It is frustrating when people hang on to certain ideas just because a famous author said it. Sometimes it holds us back. What I appreciate is that most of what he says (via GotW or the books) comes with the rationale and a code snippe
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by lfowles 12y ago
It could also go the "ivory tower" direction
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by lfowles 12y ago
I think some of the most solid and forward thinking advice I've seen and used in my C++ have come from his books. As for Carmack: I sort of meandered into C++ with Doom 3 – I was an experienced C programmer with OOP background from NeX
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by lfowles 12y ago
stitchbites.com - Was writing knitting chart software, but ultimately decided I hated doing web dev/javascript. freshhobby.com - A hobby picker, that would give you a list of items (and amazon referral links) that could kickstart a new
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Save compatibility in DCSS(crawl.develz.org)
1 points by lfowles 12y ago|0 comments
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by lfowles 12y ago
I'll start off with: poorstills.com I had originally wanted the site to serve as a gallery for my terrible photography (poor stills), but the idea morphed into documenting a mysterious expedition led by Poor & Stills (still using m
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Ask HN: What domain names do you have that you aren't utilizing?
5 points by lfowles 12y ago|17 comments
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by lfowles 12y ago
Suggestion for dylanbfox: Add a $20 one time charge to create a droplet preconfigured for $WEBSITE.
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by lfowles 12y ago
There is indeed a Bel Aire, KS. Continue. http://www.belaireks.org/
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by lfowles 12y ago
Yep, that's the one! I can get around ~60wpm (100wpm on a qwerty keyboard) with normal text and passable at programming. Took about a month of daily typing lessons to get that fast and I still need a regular keyboard around for annoyin
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by lfowles 12y ago
I did a radical switch to an Alphagrip keyboard, which is still membrane switches (as far as I can tell). No more random twinges of pain. The primary difference is that I no longer wrest my wrists on anything (even a gel type pad), but it c
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by lfowles 12y ago
Thanks for this, I'll have to try it on the charging pad when I get home. We've always had trouble making sure our phones get on the right spot on the pad, which has a 1-2 second delay before lighting up to say "Charging!&quo
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by lfowles 12y ago
Yep, there's nothing intrinsically magical about that time that made language designers better than now. In fact, 30-40 years later we even have more collective experience under our belts!
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by lfowles 12y ago
I've also written a visual BF interpreter[0], where you can watch memory and the instruction pointer as the program runs. (I think it's still broken for input though perhaps.) Pretty cool image buffer setup in yours though :) [0]:
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by lfowles 12y ago
this

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