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by stakkur 6y ago
Yes, and of course this applies to everything : 'To get better at [x], you need to develop a habit of doing [x]'.
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by stakkur 6y ago
The real truth is: hiring is a crapshoot. For any position and any field. Software engineering is no different. There is no meaningful data that any hiring process--good or bad--improves the outcome of a hire. If there were, everyone wo
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by stakkur 6y ago
>> Though I fully admit that giving Japanese as an example of a more monocultural language in this context is a poor choice given how many non-native words it borrowed from Chinese Japanese did (and does) use Chinese characters. But J
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by stakkur 6y ago
Printer manufacturers don't make money on printers. They make money on ink. Making money on ink requires a closed system to require the ink purchase. There is aftermarket ink, but companies are always working to defeat it.
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by stakkur 6y ago
1. You're not 'too old'. 2. You already are a software developer; you're just not paid to do it. 3. You do have experience (projects, a little freelancing) 4. Find ways to show your experience to potential employers or
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by stakkur 6y ago
Language is always evolving in some fashion--no language is truly 'static'. This varies by language and culture. One way to observe this is to see the development of dictionaries over time.
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by stakkur 6y ago
English, unlike the 'symbolic' languages they studied, doesn't have narrow cultural roots; it agglomerates Proto-Indo European, Germanic, Celtic, Italic, and others. Chinese and Japanese are far more monocultural, and develop
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by stakkur 6y ago
When it's an entirely new topic, I always build a big picture first: glossary, Key Concepts and How They're Related, What Is Thing For. But that's just how my mind works--have some framework to hang things on. Then, I tend to
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by stakkur 6y ago
You're still looking outside yourself for the answers. Nobody else's past choices are going to help you. There is no template. No blueprint. You've got to make your own. Trust me.
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by stakkur 6y ago
You have a choice to make: align your work more closely with your own values and mental health needs, or keep playing the corporate game in the same way, both mentally and physically. The corporation isn't responsible for your mental h
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by stakkur 6y ago
Also, a 20-year-old CRT monitor (21") consumes almost four times the electricity of an LCD, and can cost about 5x more to run-even with energy saving mode.
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by stakkur 6y ago
There's an XKCD for everything
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by stakkur 6y ago
What if you really just wanted one goat?
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by stakkur 6y ago
What date for what? Here's more information: https://www.etymonline.com/word/viking
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No, viking didn't originate with Anglo-Saxon; the term's origin is not certain, but it goes something like this: from Old Norse víkingr, from vík ‘creek’ or Old English wīc ‘camp, dwelling place’. There are Norse grave marke
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by stakkur 6y ago
'The Vikings' weren't a people; it's a term. The people who went a-viking were from several countries (Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Frisia, some others), and were (of course) somewhat varied in their genetic makeup. And, the
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Richard Feynman: Can Machines Think? (1985)(youtube.com)
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by stakkur 6y ago
I can't remember the details; I think it was some kind of hexadecimal-binary converter.
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by stakkur 6y ago
Chrome is the new Internet Explorer: companies and developers lazily optimize for it, and users (and developers) suffer the consequences.
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by stakkur 6y ago
I once discovered a C64 program I wrote in the 80s, buried in a box of cassettes in the garage and filed between The Cars and Dio. No lie. Still alphabetized.
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Neither are you or I. We're just expressing opinions. Like Cicero.
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by stakkur 6y ago
Learning 'how to think' isn't exactly a goal for 6-8-year-olds. At this age, the focus should be on integration --learning to get the mind and body (and will or spirit) working together, being in the world. 'Thinking&#x
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by stakkur 6y ago
>>It's really odd of you saying that for Buddhism, life a "dance". This is really not what Buddhism is about. Alan Watts--who had a thing or two to say about Buddhism--disagrees with you: https://www.youtube.
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by stakkur 6y ago
Cicero, like many other philosophers of antiquity, places ultimate value on the goal of 'a life well-lived'. In this essay, he basically says 'old age is fine, if you lived a good life beforehand', and hedges by saying d
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by stakkur 6y ago
The problem for you is not climate change, it's anxiety. Focus your energy on learning how to manage your anxiety, not how to avoid thinking about specific topics. A book I strongly recommend: Rewire Your Anxious Brain: How to Use the
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by stakkur 6y ago
Remember, when you say 'LinkedIn' you're really saying 'Microsoft'. That's most of the answer to your question.
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by stakkur 6y ago
Is this not just Coda reworked?
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by stakkur 6y ago
Bill Gates was the prototype for the amoral shitshow that is Mark Zuckerberg. Cory Doctorow has a great thread on Twitter today about this very topic: https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1304811968398729218
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by stakkur 6y ago
I don't have a single favorite motto, but here's what I'm striving to live like, described in two minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERbvKrH-GC4
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by stakkur 6y ago
researchers conducted a series of in-lab experiments with 86 four-person teams, and also traced the communications and experiences of 134 teams doing a semester-long project in a university class This research isn't based on what&#x2

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