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   by sivers 7y ago

   Yep. That was my Catalina frustration, too. My phone broke last week so I bought an iPhone 11. My Mac wouldn't connect/sync with it unless I upgraded to Catalina. So I upgraded to Catalina, and now all of the software I used on Ma
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   by sivers 7y ago

   Best bit of tech advice I ever got was way back in 1997 when I was building an e-commerce site. I was totally new to this, not a programmer, and needed guidance. I was about to go with some commercial software called Drumbeat, that ran on
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   by sivers 7y ago

   Only because sometimes I edit them directly, and remove columns or data there with vim.
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   by sivers 7y ago

   Versioning: sorry I'm not sure what you mean. Same as if you had queries in an ORM and views using the results, you'd need to branch and make changes, then merge the branch together at once. I just do the same. If the database str
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   by sivers 7y ago

   I'm the author. Thanks to Ludwig for posting this here. I've been doing all of my database work like this for 5+ years now, and love it. Many more examples here: https://code.sivers.org/db-api/ It works grea
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   PostgreSQL example of self-contained stored procedures(sivers.org)

   7 points by sivers 7y ago|0 comments
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   by sivers 7y ago

   A couple years ago, I sat down to check out Esperanto the same way that any of us programming language nerds check out another programming language. Polyglot Benny Lewis recommends that if you don't know any foreign language, the best
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   by sivers 8y ago

   A great book on this subject is “Start Small Stay Small” by Rob Walling : https://sivers.org/book/StartSmallStaySmall Rob was running ten simultaneous businesses by himself, (and he has a few kids), diligently managing
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   by sivers 9y ago

   Thanks for beating me to saying all of that. It's been my experience, too. Void Linux has made me say a good "wow" more than any other Linux. I love that I can use many of my favorite bits of OpenBSD, even doas. xbps takes j
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    by sivers 9y ago

    I kept my book notes private for years because I assumed it would violate some copyright law to post them. But one day I tried it anyway. Kept it quiet. But after years, people kept discovering it. Now the authors contact me thanking me f
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    by sivers 9y ago

    Lunchtime and weekends. Don't save it until night time. Prioritize it over other things.
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    by sivers 9y ago

    When reading a paper book, I just underline or circle the bits I find surprising or useful. Then when I'm done reading the book, I type those bits into a text file. On Kindle, I just highlight the bits I find surprising or useful. Th
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    by sivers 9y ago

    I don't, no. I just keep plain text files.
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    by sivers 9y ago

    I'm still working on this. Best idea I've got so far is to save all my notes as individual ideas in a database, tagged, then use them for deliberate lateral thinking - randomizing - reflecting. But also searching for themes when
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    by sivers 9y ago

    Wow! Thanks Mark!
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    by sivers 9y ago

    I read slowly too! I think it's an advantage. The real learning comes when you reflect upon what you've learned. This great book - "How to Read a Book" - https://sivers.org/book/HowToReadABook - has
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    by sivers 9y ago

    Surprised to find this here. For what it's worth, for anyone interested, a few things: #1 : That list is sorted with my top recommendations up top. You can also click to re-sort it by newest or by name, but by default, I highly recomm
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    by sivers 9y ago

    Great example, reading the acknowledgements. The Rolling Stone story is here at “Call the destination, and ask for directions” : https://sivers.org/destdir
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    by sivers 9y ago

    P.S. Using Anki spaced repetition flash cards helped a lot : https://sivers.org/srs
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    by sivers 9y ago

    Yes and yes, I think. Now I think it’s better to describe it as “fluent” instead of “great”, but yeah this approach made me completely fluent in Ruby.
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    by sivers 9y ago

    Thanks Ron!
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    by sivers 9y ago

    No need for the (2008) thing in the title. This is actually a new article from February 2018. I had an old post there, but completely re-wrote it last week, keeping only the title and URL. Thought you guys might like a programming example
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    by sivers 10y ago

    Amazing book. Out of the 250+ books I have notes on, this is in my top 10. Here are some excerpts from it: https://sivers.org/book/OnWritingWell
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    OpenBSD 6.0: why and how(sivers.org)

    102 points by sivers 10y ago|48 comments
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    by sivers 10y ago

    Cool. Thanks for the Michael Nelson tip. In return, I think the musician I've found that has the most helpful advice for fellow musicians is Ari's Take: http://www.aristake.com/?post=all#sort=newestFirst&filter
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    by sivers 10y ago

    Thanks! God, that $5 sale was one of my best ideas. I should write about it some time. The $5 price didn't kick in until you had at least 3 CDs in your cart that were in that $5 sale. So it was a way of encouraging people, who came to
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    by sivers 10y ago

    Mmm, sorry but have to correct for the record: CD Baby has never had an annual fee. See http://members.cdbaby.com/cd-baby-cost.aspx It was always just a one-time up-front cost because for every incoming album, I (and late
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    by sivers 10y ago

    Thanks Al! These days I think companies like Bandcamp and Distrokid - https://www.distrokid.com/ - are doing it better than CD Baby. This article made me beam with pride. I love that companies like Bandcamp are still thrivi
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    by sivers 10y ago

    This is by Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett's less-public partner. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Munger There are two great books collecting his thoughts: https://sivers.org/book/Seeking
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    by sivers 10y ago

    Ha! Hi Jeremy. Can't believe you remember that. Sold those big Sun machines with the company, unfortunately.