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by nexus2045 7y ago
I used to be obsessed with many different things during childhood, perhaps because I am an only child and had large chunks of time where I was in my own room, alone, as a child. I would do things like lay out a paper map of a city, and star
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by nexus2045 7y ago
Made me think of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-body_problem
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by nexus2045 7y ago
I've bought quite a few of the cheaper earbuds from Aliexpress, and there are problems with the really low end ones that you should watch out for: - left and right earbud need to first pair with each other on startup before pairing to
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by nexus2045 7y ago
Seems like being able to not see the holes in your own ideas, believing your own ideas are infallible i.e. narcissism as mentioned below, are very valuable traits in a founder, at least in certain phases. To this day, I still don't get
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by nexus2045 7y ago
I’m currently prepping for these kind of questions and “online assessments” as well. I have accepted that my worth as a developer is in most part going to be dictated by how diligently I can game this glorified IQ test. There are common pat
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by nexus2045 7y ago
Sounds exactly like me. I was and am still in somewhat depressed states. Lot of anxiety preventing me from putting myself out there, impostor syndrome whispering "you're not smart enough to be a developer", self shaming, etc.
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by nexus2045 7y ago
Surprised to see you hang around here! Your TED talk with the ukulele + chords was also an eye-opening introduction to this idea. Also check out this guy who documents his progress playing table tennis everyday for a year: https:/&#x2
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by nexus2045 7y ago
HKers simply refer to the Tiananmen event as “64” in Cantonese, read separately (six four, not sixty four).
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by nexus2045 7y ago
Heck, English is my most fluent language (though Chinese is my mother tongue) but I always have trouble understanding comments here on HN. I can understand every word and don't need to open the dictionary, but then I can't follow
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by nexus2045 7y ago
To play devil's advocate a little bit contrary to what other people have commented: you being rude is just an efficient way of filtering out unnecessary interactions and social niceties. If you were polite like everyone else, then you
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by nexus2045 7y ago
If their phones have some sort of surveillance and catch them bad mouthing the government, they are going to have a bad time. In an authoritarian government, every level of society lies - it's not worth it to do otherwise.
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by nexus2045 7y ago
HK born and raised here and enjoyed this comment. Not sure why it's downvoted - it offers a solid perspective.
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by nexus2045 7y ago
There seems to be a lot of hate on Sapiens every time it's posted here in HN. From what I gather, the criticism of his book comes from getting a lot of things wrong, or pushing some incorrect narrative. I assume that those who critique
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by nexus2045 7y ago
I use Ubuntu inside Virtualbox at work, but it has caused almost everyone on my team issues at some point - the whole thing freezing and needing to be restarted, very laggy GUI (scrolling in VS Code gets ugly), network connectivity issues w
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by nexus2045 7y ago
I did the same, but it was because I have very low self control since a young age, and telling myself "OK this will be the last round I'll ay tonight" (of League of Legends, Super Smash, etc.) never, ever worked. The cumulati
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by nexus2045 7y ago
His recent podcast with someone whose name HN hates was unbelievably informative and inspiring. Also talks about the flywheel applied to his own life.
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by nexus2045 8y ago
+1 to this. If you try to live the same way as you did in the States, without trying any of the more hole-in-the-wall restaurants, and only go to like, Pizza Hut (which is considered a decent mid-end fine-dining restaurant), for sure you wi
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by nexus2045 8y ago
Especially given how much the icon reminds me of Calibre :D.
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by nexus2045 8y ago
Grew up in a very traditional Chinese household - never thought of it that way - somehow connects the dots with how my culture values being conservative, being stable, not rocking the boat - because there isn't much to go around in the
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by nexus2045 8y ago
This quote actually captures the sort of issue/gripe I have with being a developer (let's say you don't ascend high into management) for the rest of your career. No matter how good you are, you still have to write individual
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by nexus2045 8y ago
> For years I’d tried to learn algorithms to clear big 4 style interviews. But for reasons ranging from subject matter difficulty to motivation I’d fail again and again. When I got an interview call I had a competitive programmer teach m
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by nexus2045 8y ago
I personally almost never comment unless I feel I have an original opinion, and one that isn't stupid so it'd get shot down. I guess I have a very strong filter. I wonder how many people voice things out that really shouldn't
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by nexus2045 8y ago
I can identify a lot with what you said; one of my biggest weaknesses is being afraid to ask questions, fearing it might signal my lack of trying to figure things out on my own, and I can't seem to know when I'm actually wasting t
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by nexus2045 8y ago
Agreed. I actually spent the early part of my 20s thinking money wasn't so important, but I started to regret it when I realize I wanted to become independent, eventually start a family, and it all required money to achieve those means
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by nexus2045 8y ago
I have thoroughly consumed a lot of Peterson content. I can vouch that aside from the political controversy, that he has a powerful message for young men: to find the meaning in life through responsibility and sacrifice, to go out there and
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by nexus2045 8y ago
Interestingly, the biggest eye-opener of reading the 4HWW is the part when Ferriss defines the word muse. I used to only think that it was a dichotomy of 1) boring 9-5 selling out your soul for the rest of your life, or 2) VC-backed startup
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by nexus2045 8y ago
sadamznintern, are you Asian by any chance? Because I'm Chinese, and I feel that this "comparison" sort of mindset has been ingrained into me since I was born and I've struggled to ignore it my whole life. It most likely
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by nexus2045 8y ago
To add to this (as a Hong Kong native): Hong Kong is definitely a weird, special case, having belonged to Britain until 1997 and basically most people growing up there on some level despise the mainland, communism, and the language. To this
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by nexus2045 8y ago
Well put, I definitely grew up with resentment of my parents ways, especially when all the cool kids around me were partying and having fun and they told me to go home for dinner, and I felt this really hampered my social skills which weren
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by nexus2045 8y ago
We are talking about making money, not feeling good about your moral compass, although that can always come later.

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