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by ohduran 6y ago
Agreed. Go straight to the source: How to read a book, by Mortimer Adler. Ironically you will find there that you must grapple with the good books, which arguably disqualifies just reading about it in a blog.
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by ohduran 6y ago
Anything good that can be said about it is an understatement. A true masterpiece.
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by ohduran 6y ago
I have a contrarian view about reading productively, which is: READ WHAT OTHERS AREN'T READING. It's as if there is a similar process as the Efficient Market Hypothesis happening with books: the best-sellers define our shared real
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by ohduran 6y ago
There's a running assumption pervading organizations like the World Bank: that trade is ALWAYS better. More trade leads to a better world. Truth is, I think, more complex than that. Trade is usually better, but increases the overall fr
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Beware of the Man of a Single Book(alvaroduran.com)
6 points by ohduran 6y ago|0 comments
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Against Agile(alvaroduran.com)
1 points by ohduran 6y ago|1 comments
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by ohduran 6y ago
> And critically by “highly recommend it to you” I do not mean “I agree with all the takes.” I think contemporary society is willing itself into a state of incredible stupidity by people wanting to evaluating the worthwhileness of readin
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by ohduran 6y ago
Not really. Say I'm shortsighted, and still a potential mating partner due to a variety of other traits (being a billionaire, or looking suspiciously similar to Ryan Gosling). In that case, I would be able to transmit my genes to my ev
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by ohduran 6y ago
Not an expert here but, IF a gay gene existed, wouldn't have it been evolved into extinction?
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by ohduran 6y ago
utterances! https://github.com/utterance/utterances
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by ohduran 6y ago
I was talking about this movie the other day, and I hypothesized that it was so successful (most people I know have fond memories of it) because it struck a cord with those of us who came of age with Disney movies. In other words, this movi
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by ohduran 6y ago
This please! Spend your time wisely. Just saying no (or yes, for all that matters) isn't a helpful heuristic.
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by ohduran 6y ago
that's what I thought when I read the article. > One in three girls was unhappy with their personal appearance by the age of 14, compared with one in seven at the end of primary school. That comparison doesn't support the hypot
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by ohduran 6y ago
>IKEA is continuing to try and remain true to their principals—protecting the environment and striving to become a carbon neutral company, while still remaining one of the world’s most pleasurable shopping experiences. They lead the art
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by ohduran 6y ago
> They tell of a technology company that seems to see its employees first and foremost as raw materials from which it wants to forge its own success. How unlike any other company I know.
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by ohduran 6y ago
Does this work with a 7Plus as well? Asking for a friend.
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by ohduran 6y ago
In case you're looking for something similar, but django-boilerplate doesn't adjust, try cookiecutter-react-django instead. It has Heroku deployment, and a minimalistic approach. https://github.com/ohduran/coo
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by ohduran 6y ago
Agreed! That's precisely why it's important that she (or someone supporting the "against" argument) is mentioned: it keeps us honest. Which is the whole point about the scientific method, by the way; "The first prin
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by ohduran 6y ago
The author managed to write an article on the problems of scientific method without even mentioning Paul Feyerabend's "anything goes". He didn't mention either the fantastic "Lost in Math" by Sabine Hossenfelde
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by ohduran 6y ago
Thanks for this! The format of the interview is clearly not aimed at clarifying how to (seriously) read scientific papers, with contradicting views among the interviewees.
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by ohduran 6y ago
Ah, that's interesting, I read it the opposite way: computers are so different from the brain that the end result is that they complement each other really well.
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by ohduran 6y ago
I always thought that Brave New World was more prescient than 1984: you won't be forbid to write, we'll instead give you something more fun and distracting to do instead.
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by ohduran 6y ago
Maybe the reason we are in this mess is because we relied too much on science, and too little on actual humanities (rhetoric, logic, and so on)? I hear about hermeneutics more and more in my circle: how to communicate trumps what is communi
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by ohduran 6y ago
I was expecting a one liner: "because banks do not lose money if fraud happens, as they simply trickle down costs to their customers".
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by ohduran 6y ago
Can't not see the favicon they have is Ghost's instead of their logo.
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by ohduran 6y ago
Uninteresting book, to be honest. Not the worst story, though, but uninteresting.
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by ohduran 6y ago
Absolutely great!
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by ohduran 6y ago
I have both 'nightly' versions on my laptop, Atom Nightly and VSCode Insiders, and the commit activity in the former pales in comparison with the latter. Eventually moved onto VSCode. As a former Atom hardcore fan, this was an emo
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by ohduran 6y ago
The whole purpose of daily standups is to be short, to the point, and force developers to discuss blockers. That can't be async, because I need the other members of the team to answer. The issue the author is addressing is that for som
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by ohduran 7y ago
I read until I saw "As an article for Farnam Street recommends", and then I stopped reading.

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