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by noud 4y ago
I think there is only one 100% accurate method to ensure you never start reading a non-awesome book, and that's by never read any book at all. Instead, admit quickly that you made a mistake and stop reading a book if it turns out to be
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by noud 4y ago
Yes, most books are useless. > What tools/metrics are there to help find meaningful books? Okay, first I never read a book that is less than 10 years old. Why? Because 10 years is roughly the time needed for a book to withstand the
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by noud 4y ago
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone. - Blaise Pascal
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by noud 4y ago
"Your browser does not support playback of available video formats. Please install Adobe Flash player or upgrade to a more modern browser." ...Okay? I found the videos on youtube as well: https://www.youtube.com/wa
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by noud 4y ago
When someone tries explaining something to me, I try to summarize what this person said when they are finished. E.g., "So you're saying that <summary here>" or "It seems like <summary here>". This forces
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by noud 4y ago
I think you're way off base. It's called rosy retrospection, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosy_retrospection . As you already mentioned in your comments, you're judging the past disproportionately more p
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by noud 4y ago
I lost the big picture of my company a long time ago. Maybe I've never seen the big picture at all... and never been more happy with my job. Ignorance is bliss. On a more important note, do you know the big picture of your own life? Wh
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by noud 4y ago
I would recommend reading the chapter "The Dignified Professor" from the book Surely you're joking mr. Feynman. [1] Richard Feynman was one of the best physicists from the 20th century. He helped creating the atomic bomb, and
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by noud 4y ago
I'm not responsible for solving other people's problems and behavior.
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by noud 4y ago
I use two filters: 1. I only buy (and read) a book that is at least 10 years old. For me, 10 years is enough for other people to figure out if a book is worth to read. 95% of all books that are today's bestsellers turn out not to age w
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by noud 4y ago
Second this book. The book contains 99% of all the things I need git to do on a daily basis.
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by noud 4y ago
To put in my two penny worth, although it's not really answering your question: Don't bother reading the articles and newsletters. There is too much information available, and you'll never be satisfied. Fortunately, this is n
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by noud 4y ago
On a more serious note. I think that a lot of product production processes can be optimized way better than they are now. Especially in large companies, where people have become conservative. They think the current way of working is the mos
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by noud 4y ago
Politics, people talk too much, but nothing gets done and no one will take responsibility for it in the end. Not sure if it's interesting to tackle. ;)
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by noud 4y ago
Unpopular tip: you can store your data for the project in a simple csv file 9 out of the 10 times and load all of it in memory (with pandas for example). Don't waste your time on building a scalable data storage when you don't nee
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by noud 4y ago
...and are you willing to share that knowledge?
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by noud 4y ago
Essays from Michel de Montaigne. I enjoy reading the opinions of de Montaigne. He writes in a pleasant, easy, and funny way. Moreover, it gives you an interesting view on how people in the 16th century thought.
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by noud 4y ago
I was once added to a team to help improving their code base. At the end of the project they made an overview how many lines each of the team members added to the code base. Mine was negative. :)
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by noud 4y ago
I'm amazed how large satellites have become. They are larger than small countries, like Luxembourg, Cyprus, Trinidad, ... How do they get these huge satellites up in space? Unbelievable...
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by noud 4y ago
I work in a big company as one of the more experienced guys in the department. There's definitely more work to do than I can do. Some coworkers work hard to get rid of as much work as possible by putting it on other peoples desks. In t
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by noud 4y ago
One of my teachers taught me this: "If you apply a trick once, it's a trick, if you apply it twice, it becomes a method."
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by noud 4y ago
100% agree with this statement. My personal 2ct: first understand how to solve "real" problems, then move on to the abstract theory. I cannot understand the theoretical mathematics behind a concept if I don't have at least on
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by noud 4y ago
Not tired, but not impressed either. Looks cool, but I think it gets pretty boring after a couple of usages. Highly overrated and hyped if you ask me.
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by noud 4y ago
[author]-[year]-[title].pdf Pdfs are then grouped into folders per topic.
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by noud 4y ago
This paper hits the nail on its head. My personal 2ct on being busy and how I fixed mine. I believe that being busy is often a case of not having priorities set right. Usually I have a list of 4 or 5 work related items per week that are hig
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by noud 4y ago
Are there? Not saying they don't exist. But I've yet to meet someone who only sleeps 5 hours a day, doesn't have bags under the eyes, and doesn't fall asleep in every meeting.
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by noud 4y ago
The more I work with advanced JS frameworks, the more I think I could also have done it with just vanilla javascript (with some jquery). Webapps I made 10 years ago where no less responsive than the webapps I make now. Nor do they take more
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by noud 4y ago
+1 I do exactly the same. Just journal all your thoughts, ideas, worries, and things to do into one joint place. The idea is that you don't have to ruminate anymore, because it's on paper and you can start on it the next day.
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by noud 4y ago
Keep the attitude! In the end, few things really matter. Better be jolly and funny too often, than taking too much (too) serious.
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by noud 4y ago
Bourbaki

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