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by sofal 18y ago
I think you may be able to hold the accomplishments/time ratio constant while varying the quickness of thought. However, the quickness of thought that I'm talking about may be different than what the article is addressing. For example, in a
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by sofal 18y ago
I haven't taken an IQ test, so I don't know exactly what that is like, but I've taken PSAT/ACT/GRE/GMAT tests, and it seems obvious to me that your performance on those tests is greatly influenced by how fast you can think. If the IQ tests
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by sofal 18y ago
Bash is a decent command line shell, but it sure makes a lousy attempt to be a programming language. I wouldn't mind so much except that because of this, people keep creating big ugly bash scripts and I have to keep opening them up and read
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by sofal 18y ago
I'm not advocating a ban on that sort of thing. I think that codifying it into some sort of law and forcing it upon everyone else would be the dumbest thing possible. What I'm suggesting is that people like you and I should shun that kind o
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by sofal 18y ago
Here's what a legitimate parrot expert has to say about it: http://goodbirdinc.blogspot.com/2009/02/buyer-beware-parrot-...
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by sofal 18y ago
If you went up to my grandma and started telling her why she needs to buy a $100 book that tells her how to get rich, with enough convincing she would seriously buy it from you. This is because my grandma is not very money-wise and is espec
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by sofal 18y ago
There are a lot of "working business models" that consist of tricking older people into paying much more than they should. There is a lot of money to be made off of unsuspecting people in a perfectly legal way. Are you into that kind of thi
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by sofal 18y ago
One of the reasons why I ditched Reddit for HN is because every time (yes, every single time) a Yegge article was posted, the comment thread was inevitably 90% whining or wisecracking about the length. I think it's a good measure of how muc
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by sofal 18y ago
Now we're accusing Jeff to be the thought police. That's definitely not Redditish. Plenty of people on this site get all bent out of shape about copyright violation or ad-blockers, but obviously not illegal drug use, crude swearing, or porn
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by sofal 18y ago
I can understand the "that's not the bottleneck" argument. But the problem with going too far down that road is this: Imagine if you had to wait one second for your keyboard to respond to any key you type (and one second between keystrokes)
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by sofal 18y ago
That reminds me of the reasoning behind wanting faster processors in our personal computers. From one (mistaken) perspective, you could argue that there is no justification for buying a faster processor because it will just be idle for more
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by sofal 18y ago
If the methods have a clear purpose with well-defined inputs and outputs and no side effects, then I think the trade-off is generally in favor of smaller methods. Once you introduce side effects, longer methods then have the advantage of sh
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by sofal 18y ago
I just keep thinking to myself, "here I am working so hard at improving my programming abilities so that I can create more ambitious applications, and this guy is making a small fortune selling a freakin' Bingo card maker."
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by sofal 18y ago
If you explored outside of your boundaries and learned different ways of programming (like functional programming), you might realize that there are perfectly valid styles of programming where lambdas are as common as if-statements and for-
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by sofal 18y ago
I think the ones that go for the intersection between what people want and what will genuinely improve people's lives are the best.
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by sofal 18y ago
So... shun the superficial Web 2.0 social networks in favor of the new, innovative technology with more substance: virtual sex toys. It's absolutely inspiring.
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by sofal 18y ago
I'm self-critical enough as it is just realizing that someone else is going to read the finished product, let alone everything I wrote before exposing it. I would have a hard time letting my thoughts flow. In addition, for school papers I w
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by sofal 18y ago
I've learned a lot about the nature of opinions. There are as many ways to approach a subject as there are people. I've read several comment threads where people were countering each other and yet I couldn't help but upmod both sides becaus
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Jamis Buck lets go of Capistrano(weblog.jamisbuck.org)
62 points by sofal 18y ago|41 comments
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"But the kid's so smart"(blogger.aims-unm.org)
7 points by sofal 18y ago|2 comments
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by sofal 18y ago
I love the Usability Post setup. Having a vertically oriented monitor like that allows for a wonderful amount of context when coding. http://cdn.cloudfiles.mosso.com/c25361/usabilitypost.jpg
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by sofal 18y ago
That's a nice little group of quotes. Quote 7 is a mismatched metaphor though. Somebody finish this sentence for me: If programmers wrote programs the way builders built buildings...
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by sofal 18y ago
"You're not going to be damaged," he said. "You're going to be enhanced." That sounds just like a pre-supervillain scenario in just about every superhero movie I've seen.
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by sofal 18y ago
Comments like that are frequently dogmatic assertions about down-the-middle controversial issues (like religion or politics) that draw knee-jerk up/down votes from the two ever-combative groups. The comments with one upvote can sometimes be
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by sofal 18y ago
The purpose of a hiring filter is to reduce the false positives. Your discovery of false negatives doesn't say much about the filter quality in this respect. If you could take random samples from the group of people who would apply to Haske
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by sofal 18y ago
I worked on the same team as Jamis Buck at BYU (I was a student). He introduced me to Ruby. If you think you know something about the culture there, I'd be very interested to hear about it.
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by sofal 18y ago
I don't want to program in English... When you tell someone to do something, do you lament the fact that you can't tell them in a programming language, detailing every single step precisely? When I talk about programming in English, it is
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by sofal 18y ago
Regarding Iron Man: It is hard for me to suspend my disbelief when movies feature world-shatteringly advanced artificial intelligence and yet pay no attention whatsoever to the obvious implications of such technology. Forget the silly flyin
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by sofal 18y ago
I think it would be great to see a day when the relative abstraction distance between Ruby and C is negligible compared to the available programming abstractions. A day when you can tell computers what to do in English, and when commanding
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by sofal 18y ago
I applied to master's programs because I wasn't sure that I was going to get a PhD. It was a mistake. Top schools don't like master's students, and don't fund them by default. Some professors were confused as to why I didn't apply for a PhD

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