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by npsimons 5y ago
> I agree with your overall point but Rip seems agnostic on bicep curls. Unfortunately I don't have the book to hand (loaned it out), but I'm pretty sure I remember him saying something along the lines of "you don't n
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> which is why he advocates ancillary exercises as somebody progresses. IIRC, he poo-poos assistance lifts such as bicep curls. The one exception is chins, which is in the official program and he insists on overhand because it works more
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> It doesn't give you the practical "do this" sort of advice a true beginner needs or at least this true beginner needed. What are you talking about? He lists an example two week program complete with sets and reps in th
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> I’m not sure what there’s to discuss about the content itself as I can’t listen to it. Am I doing something wrong? No, and you're not the only one. I've come to despise podcasts, because they are almost always very badly orga
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> Generally in modern languages you use libraries rather than language features This was exactly the feeling I got as I read his list: "these aren't features, they are, at best, nice to have library functions and syntactic suga
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Funnily enough, I picked up "Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training" by Mark Rippetoe based on an HN recommendation. In my view, free weights beat out just about everything else for strength training because if you do the basic
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> I wouldn’t call it modern however I wonder how the claim stands up if we remove that "modern" adjective. Or perhaps consider that "modern" languages don't have some of these features as they turned out to be &q
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Upvoted simply out of controversy and curiosity. It's been a long time, and I've not delved deeply in to a wide swath of languages (recently), but surely the features he's citing are in other languages? Hell, even the list of
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Agave nectar.
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> // The fact that we have to do this at all > // is stupid, and the actual maneuvers we need to go through > // are just painful. If programming were like this all the time, > // I would
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> I don't mind criticism, as long as it's constructive I think the point of "criticism-free" brainstorming is that it is time constrained, and a free for all. It's precisely geared towards getting people to not h
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> Similarly, seeing a list of past failures may inspire variations that seek to overcome the shortcoming without having to waste time first reproducing the same failure. One can try to learn _why_ it failed and use that to guide future a
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by npsimons 5y ago
> JS people gonna JS. Also reinvent the wheel. They can list four other configuration formats du jour, but conveniently leave out s-expressions, which have solved most problems people bring up over half a century ago.
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> Not only do we feel healthier, it's also so cheap. Better for the environment too.
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> Emacs is not really an editor either! I believe that Emacs is the ultimate editor building material. That quote reminds me of this quote: > Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material. -- Alan Kay Funny, Emacs seems to
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by npsimons 5y ago
> This is the main reason I keep using Emacs for my everyday use. This might be my number two reason. I learned Emacs in 2000. Meanwhile, I've not had to learn, over and over again, all those other editors and IDE's. To be sure
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> More paleo-carnivore rubbish? Probably. It always amuses me that people automatically associate "paleo" with "eating mammoths every day", when a simple glance to other primates shows a heavily plant-based diet, on t
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> Honestly it doesn't feel that great. You get used to it. After a while, you prefer it, in no small part due to having that outside perspective that is all too valuable in realizing how bad groupthink is.
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> Social cues are overwhelming but most of the time the crowd is wrong or usually late. This alone speaks to why it's not just good for outsiders to be outside, but good for society as a whole.
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> Mentioned and used as the Lisp baseline in the link I gave. ;) Just saw that, nice. I like Norvig because he really cuts to the chase.
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Norvig had a response to Prechelt as well: http://www.norvig.com/java-lisp.html
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> I wonder if this mentality exists for other languages Visual Basic, PHP and Java come to mind. Probably C# as well.
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> "People who know one language think it's the greatest in the world. People who know more than one think they all suck." The Blub paradox: http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html (BTW, the TL;DR is people that
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by npsimons 5y ago
> but there's very little evidence to support that Not if you don't go looking for it: http://www.norvig.com/java-lisp.html ETA: And don't get me started on Design Patterns: https://norvig.com&#
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> I think you would be surprised by the amount of type-checked bugs that can be eliminated in dynamic languages with standard software engineering practices. have a look at how common lisp To second this, I just read someone's ane
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by npsimons 5y ago
Second org-mode - I used to have Firefox setup similarly to your Chrome setup, but that extension broke, and I've missed it ever since. It's not perfect, but C-l followed by C-c will get me the URI for pasting in org buffers. Or I
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> I would agree (and really wish I could) if most people would recognize disinterest and stop there, For all the whinging about anti-social nerds, I've found the people most obtuse when it comes to social niceties to be the overtalk
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> I stopped reading at that point, as RP1 is turgid 80s-fan-boy scribblings and hardly a 'masterpiece'. I almost stopped reading there as well. The irony of bemoaning peoples' lack of experience in the bigger world, while
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by npsimons 5y ago
Every site that presents content to search indexing bots, but requires a signup by actual users should be shunned into irrelevancy on the spot. This seems like such shitty behavior that the response to nuke from orbit seems like a no-braine
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"Hey, look at this guy over here, claiming to be a 'one-person company', when he pays for a VPS instead of constructing a server from hardware, then self-hosting it himself. Pfft, I'll bet he doesn't even personally

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