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by ohaideredevs 8y ago
The Three Body Problem is officially the most overrated book on Hacker News. I am trying to understand why. It has no soul, the "science" is garbage, not a single character is memorable, it's way, way too long for what it is.
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by ohaideredevs 8y ago
There is a difference if you plan to sell your heart, body, soul, dreams, and best years to Google for 300k one day and put down $200,000 on a house so you aren't just throwing away money and can leave with a million USD asset one day
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by ohaideredevs 8y ago
Right, thanks for the correction and right on the latter as well.
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There is genuinely little reason to believe that modern-day Russia isn't run by the mafia and the KGB, as long as you define "run by" as "government mainly compromised of current/prior members."
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That's the "natural potential plateau" question - if we are to believe this theory, then it means that you can reach your absolute maximum potential in 10-15 years. I am not so sure - I wonder if there are ways, in some field
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by ohaideredevs 8y ago
The theory is that your ability to memorize a 7 digit number (working memory) IS fluid intelligence. The problem is that memorizing an x digit number is proven to be trainable, without much carry over to g or even other working memory tasks
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by ohaideredevs 8y ago
Then you got a decent introduction sprinkled with misleading commentary.
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Fluff article with misleading quote: "In this view, knowledge does not compensate for a declining adult intelligence; it is intelligence!" This doesn't introduce anything of interest to people who already know that fluid inte
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by ohaideredevs 8y ago
I am among that 'many'. But I also disagree with adopting a slave-coping philosophy.
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In our case, it's a bunch of senior citizens who stand outside and stare down anyone who walks in and immediately call the police if someone parks in a reserved spot. I am genuinely amazed at how petty they are. They also upgraded the
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by ohaideredevs 8y ago
I will check out those links after work, thanks.
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I feel the need to "me too" here. I use MDN almost exclusively now, but W3 schools helped me a TON before I could understand MDN.
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Nowhere in the fundamental Buddhist tenets did I see anything about "transforming." All I see is "Desire causes suffering, learn not to desire anything to free yourself from suffering." Which, to me, sounds a whole lot l
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by ohaideredevs 8y ago
Meditations gave me nothing that I didn't get from reading a few of Aurelius' quotes. One of those books that you expect to be great and it disappoints. The problem with stoicism is the same problem as the problems with Buddhism&#
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This is absolutely my immediate question as well - I don't see what your end goal is.
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Thanks, watching now!
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Appreciate you taking the time to reply!
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The article is misleading. It should say "Seniority is not about time spent at a company, but skill level." If you are "senior" only through being with one company for a long time, you will have a very hard time intervie
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by ohaideredevs 8y ago
Looking to fill out your dating profile?
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by ohaideredevs 8y ago
If anyone is interested, Erik Prince is also in Saudi Arabia: https://www.google.com/search?q=blackwater+saudi+arabia&oq=b... He seems to have his hands in a LOT of things. Blackwater alone was a big deal, but the more
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by ohaideredevs 8y ago
That's true. Ideally it would be both - very clear explanations WITH code snippets, which are important to avoid missing "that one little thing" for half an hour when writing code from scratch.
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"cute shitty documentation" - reading the GCP docs has been nothing but a pleasure for me. I genuinely hate most documentation (I am looking at you Microsoft), but GCP is up there in quality, almost standing next to MDN. Could you
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I liked him from his quotes and his biography - the book didn't add much at all. If anything, I like him less after having read it.
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"He has specialized to an extreme and is taking advantage of the rewards of that specialization and natural talent in a unique way." Gates is another one of those people where most forget that his grandfather was a multi-millionai
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Martin Eden by Jack London. Really stressed why education actually matters. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. Same.
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I agree with you entirely - books are escapism. But there are levels of escapism - you would agree that a book is better than heroin, right? If so, you agree that there is a hierarchy. Reading teaches a lot of useful skills, such as, you kn