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by npsimons 10y ago
Yeah, the assumption that only bad actors will fail is galling; the unstated assumption that even high performing good actors will never fail just smacks of ego or naivety (how good can you be if you've never failed?).
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by npsimons 10y ago
> In fact, I'm of the opinion these days that if you can't communicate effectively and proficiently over text, you're in the wrong field Considering that the Linux kernel was developed 90% on a mailing list, I think it put
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by npsimons 10y ago
As someone who wakes up at 4AM to hit the gym, I would second all of these recommendations, and add a few: 1) Multiple alarm clocks, strewn about the room where you have to get up to turn them off. 2) A sunrise alarm clock. 3) Exercise, har
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by npsimons 10y ago
One of the things they don't tell you about getting old (or you don't believe it, or you ignore it) is that once you've seen/heard enough stories/music, it all starts to sound/look the same. I can tell from a t
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by npsimons 10y ago
> I'm not sure if I'm just old, or if everything is getting to be too expensive. Yes. (I say this a someone else who is getting old and everything is too expensive).
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by npsimons 10y ago
> This sounds an awful lot like there's no good music/books/films/TV any longer which various people have been saying pretty much forever. No. People in the know have noticed the decline in originality in Hollywood, a
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by npsimons 10y ago
It occurred to me that we only seem to see the same couple dozen of actors in the most highly advertised movies any more. Why is that? Surely there are plenty of actors who could cover many of these parts. I mean, good for these actors if t
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by npsimons 10y ago
> I would love to catch movies as they are released but I have to wait until they're available on the streaming service. To be fair, the wait time used to be at least months , and then you still had to drive somewhere and hope they
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by npsimons 10y ago
> I feel like what happened to the author epitomizes the experience of a generation that graduated in the year or two right before the crash of 2008. Same could be said for many who were laid off in the crash of 2000/2001. I was one
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by npsimons 10y ago
I've found three things to help motivate myself in endeavors such as this: 1) recognize that if you really want to be good at it, it will take time and consistent, proper work at it (see deliberate practice). 2) maybe you don't
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by npsimons 10y ago
> Sure, it might be more difficult for me to learn to play the piano than for some virtuoso, but my life will still be richer after I learn it, instead of giving up because it is difficult. No? The very process of working to improve at
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by npsimons 10y ago
> Or rather, especially assuming they already work hard, they should be motivated to try different approaches (i.e. new techniques for studying or approaching exercises), and ask for help or guidance if they're stuck. Just working h
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by npsimons 10y ago
> The old way of doing things was to tell kids they are "smart" or "gifted," which resulted in many of those students simply giving up when they failed because smart and gifted are static qualities. So when a smart or
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by npsimons 10y ago
> I haven't had a Facebook for years, yet I'm absolutely convinced that Facebook has maintained my social graph through pictures my friends and others have posted with me in them. Considering that Facebook is known to construct
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by npsimons 10y ago
> I knew this would get downvotes from a crowd that simultaneously abhors surveillance yet trumpets spyware like Nest as innovative. Cognitive dissonance is strong here. Shouldn't be a big surprise from the same crowd that thinks &q
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by npsimons 10y ago
> What kind of person says "this is a job for nano, while this is a job for emacs?" Depends on what you're used to. Even I as a seasoned die-hard Emacs user who is aware of both TRAMP and emacsclient will still fire up VIM
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by npsimons 10y ago
> What people fail to realize is that Moore's Law and memory eventually make the problem go away. Spend a little extra on memory today and don't make memory requirements a deciding factor. What's interesting to consider, t
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by npsimons 10y ago
At least at higher altitudes, things decay and grow a lot slower. This is why you will see signs forbidding campfires above certain elevations and also why you have to pack out excrement in many places.
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by npsimons 10y ago
http://blog.vivekhaldar.com/post/3996068979/the-levels-of-em... "It was all just text. Why did you need another application for it? Why should only the shell prompt be editable? Why can’t I move my cursor up
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by npsimons 10y ago
I too spend a lot of time in the Sierras, though more of the Southern end. I would concur with your conclusions. While I'm not the most cognizant of foliage, I can say that the watershed has dropped noticeably over the years. People mi
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by npsimons 10y ago
> I'd also say that any story can be reduced to a couple of sentences, if you're being really cynical Lord of the Rings LITE(tm): Some guys take a long vacation to throw a ring in a volcano. See also: https://www.you
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by npsimons 10y ago
> we realize nobody knows what they're talking about. And here is precisely why you should read, because you obviously don't know what you're talking about. Sure, nobody's omniscient, nobody can have perfect knowled
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by npsimons 10y ago
> health definitely is not the only factor But it is the biggest factor; without your health, you have nothing. When I'm weighing alternatives and tradeoffs, I tend to think in a sort of "three laws" mode: 1) If it's
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by npsimons 10y ago
> because technology is a product of the people and processes that created it. And since people and processes aren't neutral (who is, after all), the technology they create won't be, either. Karl Schroeder expounds upon this id
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by npsimons 10y ago
That's what I've heard, that you want pitons for those ice filled cracks which would normally take cams or chocks but are currently otherwise occupied. I've not had a chance to do ice climbing yet, but am looking forward to t
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by npsimons 10y ago
It was more an overview, a "well, if you're going to use pitons, here's how to use them safely" at least in the case of the tie-off loop with a piton that had bottomed out.
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by npsimons 10y ago
> Their initial fall test actually broke some carabiners! So they adjusted it to be a smaller load. I'm surprised they didn't go by the UIAA standard of 80kg factor two falls; it's been in effect for a while and makes comp
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by npsimons 10y ago
> are things like ice screws and pitons always single-use? No. Ice screws are definitely something the follower cleans (just unscrew them) and pitons can generally be removed, either by hammering them back and forth, prying them out like
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by npsimons 10y ago
As someone who has created templated subclasses with both private and public virtual inheritance, I don't think that's a bad thing. C++ is wildly powerful, but it's a mess, and most people should stick to easily understood id
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by npsimons 10y ago
Don't forget control-R. I find that even the GP's example of up arrow 20x to be ridiculous when I can type C-r and a few unique letters that were anywhere in the command to find it instantly.

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