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by otras 2y ago
Just the other day, I was checking to see if there were any active ones in the Boston area. I'd definitely be up for one, and I'd be more than happy to do a talk and/or help organize.
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by otras 2y ago
An easy way to do this is to remember this oddly grammatically correct sentence: Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo Though is it satiation if the meaning is different for different instances?
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by otras 2y ago
Willie Mays was the mystery guest on the gameshow What's My Line in 1954, 70 years ago: https://youtu.be/XoQOIf7utlY?si=FGMF0kZ5AFq86nuh&t=1021 Nearly all episodes of that show are available on YouTube. Much like
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by otras 2y ago
What was your process for starting the book club and gathering the first group of people to gather?
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by otras 2y ago
Distributed Services with Go is a great learn-by-building book for distributed systems: https://pragprog.com/titles/tjgo/distributed-services-with-g... > This book walks the reader through building a real-wo
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Harry Chapin and RATM: the problem with bleeding interests(alexanderell.is)
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by otras 3y ago
> The newly discovered corpus was acquired by the Mexican government from a local family that wants to remain anonymous, but which were not collectors but rather traditional stewards of the cultural legacy of Culhuacan and Iztapalapa It’
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by otras 3y ago
My usual recommendation is to be deliberate about time you’re setting aside for focusing. Like others said, a combination of blocked time on your calendar, closing Slack and email, a Pomodoro timer, and music (or white noise) through noise
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by otras 3y ago
Presumably the source code for the gold master - “Gold Master Source Code” was written on the disk itself. The Imgur link is no more, but you can still see a preview image of it in the original Reddit post. Judging from the comments, it als
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by otras 3y ago
I’m reminded of the time when a Reddit user bought a random box of Blizzard things on eBay and ended up finding a StarCraft gold master source code CD. Many people suggested sharing the code, but Blizzard lawyers reached out. Blizzard event
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by otras 3y ago
My top recommendations for understanding and improving how you learn are the Coursera course Learning how to Learn and the accompanying book, A Mind for Numbers . Absolute game changers for me, and many years later I continue to practice
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All of the writing I did in a week as a software engineer(alexanderell.is)
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by otras 3y ago
The Digit extraction methods ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approximations_of_%CF%80#Digit... ) section still amazes me, that we can calculate the N th digit without needing to calculate the digits before it.
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The Big Dig(wgbh.org)
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Scollay Square(en.wikipedia.org)
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by otras 3y ago
Not weird at all — really glad it helped!
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by otras 3y ago
For many reasons, I recommend creating a brag doc like Julia Evans mentions here: https://jvns.ca/blog/brag-documents/ It can help you keep track of what you've worked on. Got an interview coming up? Take a f
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Brute-forcing the NYT Digits game(alexanderell.is)
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by otras 3y ago
As another comment mentioned, there are a number of college courses that are available on line for free. Pick a subject area, then see if you can find the course websites for a few different universities' versions of the class. As a ro
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Writing an RPC from Scratch (2021)(alexanderell.is)
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by otras 3y ago
> We found a large number of books in these characters and, as they contained nothing in which were not to be seen as superstition and lies of the devil, we burned them all, which they (the Maya) regretted to an amazing degree, and whic
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by otras 4y ago
I like the idea of setting aside time for yourself. I don't like the idea of _everything_ being centered around career and money. I wonder if we'll see a shift away from this idea that everything needs to be hustle-optimized. That
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by otras 4y ago
Also a great prop for your video call background. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/28/nyregion/power-broker-tv....
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by otras 4y ago
When I was trying to transition into tech and find my first Real Developer job, I found a job posting for a local startup in a Who is hiring? thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14242143 ) and reached out. They en
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Things that are hard to measure, things that are easy to measure(alexanderell.is)
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by otras 4y ago
I'm not familiar with Jekyll, but if I recall correctly it's very, very similar. I just happened to pick Hugo at the start and haven't revisited the decision since, as it's tangential to the actual writing.
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by otras 4y ago
For the combination of Hugo and GitHub Pages, images are pretty effortless as well. For example, for a post with a path of `content/posts/post-title.md`: 1. Add the image at `content/posts/post-title/image-name.png`
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In the desert, no service, and your partner's late to the rendezvous. What now?(alexanderell.is)
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by otras 4y ago
What are your goals for writing? You say both that you don't want to beat a platform algorithm, but you mention consistency being rewarded and wanting to reach a wider audience. You can absolutely make up for infrequency with consisten
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by otras 4y ago
All of the above, but I'd say that in addition to those points, it's important to mention both luck and privilege. You don't really see self-taught stories describe these as often, especially if they're presenting a &quo

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