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   I know exactly what you mean, and there are many things that factor into my evening energy. Here are a few that I use as a mental checklist, roughly ranked in order of impact: 1. Sleep: did I get enough high quality sleep for the past few n
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   Lock picking is a technical, logical, and interesting hobby you may enjoy. It's a classic hacker (as in Hacker News) skill. Here's a great line from the absolute classic MIT Guide to Lock Picking [0]: " The big secret of
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   I love portraits like this, as the lifestyle is so far from anything I experience in my day to day. Along these lines, although this seems very tame in comparison, I'm reminded of the "A Day in the Life" chapter from Anthony
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   Ha, I know what you mean! I found the information extremely valuable, but I do agree that the production value leaves a lot to be desired. I'm not sure if you've read her book A Mind For Numbers , but it has largely the same in
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   This is a very meta response, but the best skill I've ever learned is how to learn. Barbara Oakley's Learning How To Learn class [0] was immensely helpful for understanding how brains work and how I could learn efficiently. I m
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   Although it's not directly related to webdev, I highly, highly recommend the Coursera course Learning How to Learn as a starting point: https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn For the computer side of
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   Here’s a link to their calculator: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-operations/global-c...
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   Looks like that is still true. They’re pretty open about their model of location-based pay [0]: "Market rates for roles are different for different regions and countries. We pay market rates instead of paying the same wage for the sam
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   > Why are people still debating syntax when programming by example is clearly the future? In your opinion, why is it clearly the future? From the abstract of a paper about this topic [0]: " Programming by Examples (PBE) has the pote
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    Not yet! So far I've made it through the short codebases and many of the medium ones. I started a new job recently, and I've found that the ramping up period has sapped much of my "reading code outside of work" energy (
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    I also recommend the author's follow up article " Balancing Creativity and Usability " [0]. [0]: https://medium.com/@borism/balancing-creativity-and-usabilit...
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    I got the ranty vibe as well. It looks like the author completed a BS and went straight into a PhD that he's still pursuing, with summer internships at Google, RethinkDB, and the Recurse Center. I wonder if the author's perspecti
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    If you're interested in reading JavaScript, I put together a short reading list of JS libraries/codebases to read organized by size [0]. I highly recommend the small but powerful "JSON in JavaScript" and Redux, and as a
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    I second the advice on CS50. I took it when learning to program and found it very valuable. There is a subreddit [0] for the class where the instructor (David Malan) posts frequently. Very helpful for asking questions and learning more! [
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    I greatly enjoy AI startup press release bingo. - .ai domain name - No mention of how they use or define AI - "AI + Humans" - Banner picture from science fiction film (Prometheus) (Disclaimer: I used to work at an AI
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    I highly recommend Richard Feynman's talk [0] on imagining physics from the BBC series "Fun to Imagine": "In the case of science, I think that one of the things that make it difficult is that it takes a lot of imaginati
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    I'd recommend the following: Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship [0] is a great book on writing and reading code. Similarly, Clean Architecture: A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design [1] is, n
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    Although a much less extreme example, this brings to mind GitLab's model of location-based pay [0]: " Market rates for roles are different for different regions and countries. We pay market rates instead of paying the same wage fo
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    In AvE's case, it's an unlisted YouTube video that is embedded and linked to from his Patreon page, then a publicly listed YouTube video for the regular release.
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    Onboarding and dividing work between 100 engineers is hard. Makes me think of Brooks' law: " Adding human resources to a late software project makes it later ." [0] MyPinPad's careers page [1] lists four positions (Andro
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    CS50, Harvard's introductory CS class, introduces students to programming with C. I took the online version in 2016, and I greatly enjoyed the way it was presented. I'm not in the best position to compare and contrast teaching m
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    As another comment pointed out, the actual title of this article is ‘Oumuamua, Thin Films and Lightsails . While the question " Could ‘Oumuamua be debris from a technological civilization, a discarded lightsail? " occurs in the
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    I've heard very good things about Monument Valley [0] (not affiliated). From its Wikipedia page: Critics praised its art and sound design, but noted its lack of difficulty and short length. A short length may be the sign of the antit
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    I was recently investigating a CSS shadow issue that looked like an uneven shadow across the bottom of an element that had a lighter section and a darker section, but it turned out to be illusion #6! I had to do the color picker method on t
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    There’s a restaurant in Boston that has a robotic kitchen. It’s called Spyce [0], and I’ve seen them post in Ask HN who is hiring threads here. I’m not affiliated with them at all, but it seems like an interesting idea. [0]: https:/&
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    I highly recommend this relatively recent article from the New York Times: The Man Who Cracked the Lottery . From the relevant Wikipedia page[1]: In 2017, Eddie Raymond Tipton, former information security director of the American Multi-S
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    > I also don’t know how to study or actually learn things by the way. I just posted this in a different thread, but it's very relevant here: For the idea of building and improving the analytical part of your brain, I highly recomm
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    While it's not broken down into such specific categories, Hacker Newsletter [0] is a great way to get a weekly summary of posts separated into topics. For instance, here's [1] their most recent one, where you can see posts broken
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    For the idea of building and improving the analytical part of your brain, I highly recommend the Coursera course Learning How to Learn by Dr. Barbara Oakley. [0] An excerpt from her Wikipedia page[1]: After her Army duties ended, Oakley
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    by otras 8y ago

    Fantastic, thank you for for the explanation.