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by rabidrat 7y ago
I thought so too, but it turned out for me that having a 'break' in the middle of the week interrupted my work momentum, and I also never got the luxurious feeling of a 3-day weekend. 4+/3- worked a lot better for me (both w
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by rabidrat 7y ago
I don't have a smartphone that can install apps. SMS would be one thing, requiring a smartphone is, indeed, crippling.
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by rabidrat 7y ago
It's harder to go from 0 to $4k MRR than from $4k to $40k.
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by rabidrat 7y ago
Moore's Law is responsible. Computers in the 80s were much more modifiable and long-lasting, but back then 5 years was an absolute eternity for hardware performance. So we learned to buy cheaper computers because we'd have to re
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by rabidrat 7y ago
sqlite databases are binary blobs which don't have meaningful diffs if you check them into source control.
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by rabidrat 7y ago
And then there's Jevons Paradox[0], which notes that higher efficiency leads to greater overall consumption. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
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by rabidrat 7y ago
Okay, let's say that's the solution. A) people en masse haven't studied those topics adequately so far (empirically), so even if all students were to have adequate education in philosophy and math, there would be a multi-gen
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by rabidrat 7y ago
One person is sitting at the machine, the other is sitting beside them. Like how one person is flying the plane, the other is sitting beside them. Pilot/navigator is a common role division. In pair programming, the person at the key
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by rabidrat 7y ago
Forth is special. It's lower-level than C, in that you have more control over every aspect of the system; but you can refactor mercilessly and change the parser with a few lines of code, so you can develop your own DSL for the particu
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by rabidrat 7y ago
You take each symbol in sequence and append a reference to the compilation output. It's super easy and it results in a very small code footprint (it can often be smaller than compiled C for equivalent code).
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by rabidrat 7y ago
One of the things about Forth, is that the techniques have not proven to be amenable to generalization. Chuck Moore himself says[0]: > I wish I knew what to tell you that would lead you to write good Forth. I can demonstrate. I have dem
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by rabidrat 7y ago
It teaches you to set things up so that the code doesn't have to do stack manipulations and other minutiae in the typical case. Most other languages seem to encourage modules with general APIs and hard boundaries so that the caller
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by rabidrat 7y ago
168 hours in a week; 56 hours sleeping (7 days * 8 hours/day); 112 awake hours/week; 1/3rd of 112 = 37 hours/week
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by rabidrat 7y ago
This is peephole refactoring. Architectural redesigns (the ones that result in 1/10th the code with the same functionality but more robust, maintainable, etc etc) aren't feasible to do incrementally like this. If you're res
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by rabidrat 7y ago
Oops! Then that's a terrible design.
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by rabidrat 7y ago
I read this as "we should be content with being well-paid wage slaves because there are lots of underpaid wage slaves". Having to give our best 40+ hours every week to simply exist is soul-crushing and society-weakening. If you
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by rabidrat 7y ago
"It's almost like ___" is common internet vernacular for "I can't believe this isn't obvious to everyone, but apparently it's not, so here it is: __"
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by rabidrat 7y ago
Focus on the other half.
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by rabidrat 7y ago
On average, humans have one breast and one testicle.
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by rabidrat 7y ago
In SQL, how can I search all columns which contain some text?
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by rabidrat 7y ago
There are two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors. Eschewing local variables means you have fewer things to name.
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by rabidrat 7y ago
Sounds like being third is not profitable for them though.
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by rabidrat 7y ago
In 2006, I started a blogstore called "Reasonable Goods", and this was the whole premise. I got a Consumer Reports subscription and did a bunch of online research and tried hard to pick the one I thought would work well for ~80%
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by rabidrat 7y ago
AB and AE are not hand-curated, and often as not just as crappy.
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by rabidrat 7y ago
For the first level context, you're right. Does faceted search also allow the ability to specify "near this link"? Like a "warmer" or "colder" approach to searching, where I can train the engine during t
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by rabidrat 7y ago
What I really want, is not another search engine for contextless queries. Except for really basic queries (which Google/etc already do a good job at), I'm trying to answer a question, perhaps open-ended, and it will take multiple
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by rabidrat 7y ago
Evergreen State College is (in)famous for its lack of traditional grades and curricula: "non-traditional undergraduate curriculum in which students design their own paths of study...Faculty write narrative evaluations of students'
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by rabidrat 7y ago
This is a really good observation. What if we required all ad-based services to make available an equivalent premium offering that showed no ads? I think 99% of people would be stunned at the necessary price and would not pay it anyway, b
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by rabidrat 7y ago
I enjoyed the stories, many were new for me, but this was a major foul: > But the RSA encryption algorithm—one of the basic building blocks of modern cryptography—is elegant enough that it can be written out in just four dense lines of P
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by rabidrat 7y ago
> learning ML does not make you forget what you already know I often feel that learning something new takes such energy and mental rearrangement that it does crowd out what I already "know". The brain is a neural network whose

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