sirmarksalot

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by sirmarksalot 4y ago
> We should be praising progress. Not everything should be a 'sprint', it should be a 'march'. What's all the sprinting for? I'm of two minds on this statement. On the one hand, "sprint" isn't
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by sirmarksalot 4y ago
I remember two programs like that, one that my middle school had called "Fun Physics," and one my high school had called "Conceptual Physics." The interfaces were exactly the same, and it wouldn't surprise me if Con
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by sirmarksalot 5y ago
So there's a difference between being able to handle emotions, and not feeling them at all. The point of a lot of these exercises isn't to desensitize you to these feelings, but to teach you how to recognize, process and deal with
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by sirmarksalot 5y ago
Social alienation is a coping mechanism, and like most/all coping mechanisms, it provides some value, but at a cost. The value of social alienation is that you can walk down a crowded street and not be asked by every single person how
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by sirmarksalot 5y ago
It gets complicated, doesn't it? I mean, in your example, you're doing things that help people, vs. the author creating social pressure to do unreasonable things, but in either case, you're both still pulling people out of th
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by sirmarksalot 5y ago
I'm curious if this was actually done under the guidance of a mental health professional, or if it was more of an informal team-building type of thing. I say that because I can see this backfiring under some circumstances. Sort of like
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by sirmarksalot 5y ago
That was the point, but on closer inspection, it turns out Oahu is right about where it ought to be, and the pieces sticking out into the next logical time zone are mostly uninhabited. So my anger was in fact irrational.
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by sirmarksalot 5y ago
Growing up in Hawaii, this map makes me irrationally angry
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by sirmarksalot 5y ago
So I recognize that everyone's trying to give you advice and you didn't ask for it, so I'll just say this one thing and then I'll shut up. They sell things called "full-spectrum" lightbulbs that actually do a p
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by sirmarksalot 5y ago
And what sort of instrument might you use to track elapsed time?
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by sirmarksalot 5y ago
I was a huge fan of this article and Misko's accompanying talks back in 2012 or so, but a lot of this hasn't aged that well. These ideas all assume that in all cases, the class should be the unit under test, and you can see how th
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by sirmarksalot 5y ago
I'm seeing a bug where if you interrupt a listening exercise, i.e. by pressing "try again" because you missed something, it starts playing it at max speed. Any ideas what could be causing this?
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by sirmarksalot 5y ago
True, though a lot of times the professional help will mostly consist of coaching you through how to "prepare more and eventually get it." The block is around taking the steps that help you improve. Yeah, medication is sometimes n
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by sirmarksalot 5y ago
And a hit counter
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by sirmarksalot 5y ago
There's a compromise in here that's worth looking into. Leet code has multiple difficulty levels for problems, and FAANG generally set their bar at the medium level. By contrast, I've had success asking senior candidates an &
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by sirmarksalot 5y ago
I think companies are generally willing to pay money for software, but the things they're willing to pay money for are generally not the things that would make their employees' lives easier. Employees value reliability, ease of us
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by sirmarksalot 5y ago
This sounds very self-blaming. Are you sure that's what's really going through your head? Personally, when I get avoidant like that, it's because of anticipation of the amount of process-related pain I'm going to have to
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by sirmarksalot 5y ago
A theory I heard is that Japan has a fixed idea of what things should cost, and if anything ever costs more or less, there needs to be a good reason. Using price as a market signal is culturally unacceptable. Conveyer belt sushi still costs
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by sirmarksalot 6y ago
I wouldn't call NeXT a success. They did some really great R&D, lost a ton of money, and basically donated all that work back to Apple. They did great work, but weren't successful as a corporate entity. Pixar, OTOH, was hugely
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by sirmarksalot 6y ago
I wouldn't say it's always been very good. How well do you remember MSDN? In the mid-2000s, Microsoft documentation lived on three or four separate sites, and I don't remember the names of all of them. The two that spring i
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by sirmarksalot 6y ago
I understand there's a whole lot of FUD behind rebase, but I still don't like it. To me, a project's branch structure provides a history of how it all went down, and when I'm trying to hunt down a mysterious change in th
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by sirmarksalot 6y ago
This is a really interesting tangent to go off on. I wonder if the reason for this is that Japan and Korea never really had a frontier the way the US did. I think the idea of a wide open wilderness, yours if you can tame it, contributes to
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by sirmarksalot 6y ago
It's an interesting idea. My only issue is that if you decide to call an existing function from your "neverthrows" function, there's no way to tell whether it's okay to call that function without actually running th
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by sirmarksalot 6y ago
What's interesting about this is that the Mac's option-character mapping has basically remained unchanged since at least the '90s, maybe earlier. They managed to design for a relatively uncommon use case (QWERTY typists who t
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by sirmarksalot 6y ago
I have a keyboard with a similar arrangement, and I've still never quite gotten used to it. I make extensive use of the Mac's built-in text editing shortcuts, and chording them all gets very confusing. Beginning of line: right
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by sirmarksalot 6y ago
Thanks for this. I found the article to be really naive in a Dale Carnegie kind of way, that probably appeals to someone in their mid-20s trying to reinvent themselves, but is actually a psychological dead end. For me, procrastination has d
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by sirmarksalot 6y ago
So you're arguing that Jews, Blacks, and LGBT don't exist?
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by sirmarksalot 6y ago
GP chose green-eyed people in order to be inoffensive. It doesn't take much imagination to realize who they're really talking about.
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by sirmarksalot 6y ago
I think that's a dodge. It implies that there is something inherently different between government power and other forms of power. And yes, there are subtle differences, like use of force, but at the end of the day, power is power. To
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by sirmarksalot 6y ago
I was thinking the exact same thing. I wonder if any of their higher-profile hosts will jump ship if that happens. I'll quit listening out of principle, but also because I feel like I have an alternative in Radiotopia. If Gimlet really

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