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by suprfnk 8y ago
This article is a pretty good summary of the book "Deep Work" for a programmer.
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by suprfnk 8y ago
> Had way less of a learning curve than my ergodox. The big difference to the keyboard you linked, the Ergodox is an ortholinear keyboard. It is to be expected that that comes with a learning curve if you've only typed on a staggere
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by suprfnk 8y ago
It wasn't battery life, it was stability. The day Apple brought out the feature toggle for you to choose whether you wanted to throttle your device or not, I turned the throttling off. The phone was as fast as when I got it again. That
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by suprfnk 8y ago
It might be a good start to get people moving, but I can't imagine this being enough. That amounts to not even an hour of exercise in the 168 hours in a week. Do you have any source for "you will be fine"?
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by suprfnk 8y ago
> all that tracking cookie opt-in/out malarky Since GDPR, this is really getting out of hand...
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by suprfnk 8y ago
But in that case it's nothing more than a strictly worse set of F-keys, as you lose the tactility.
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by suprfnk 8y ago
> If I'm asking, I've already considered options. I think there are more people that haven't considered other options when asking. They just got stuck for a bit and want others to help them out. This makes people that answ
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by suprfnk 8y ago
Yeah, trackpad is more usable. But also more of a hassle. I do most things with the keyboard with both hands on the home row. This is great, but there are still applications and some websites where I need to use the mouse. For those things,
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by suprfnk 8y ago
Does anyone have experience with any of these books? Any you'd recommend?
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by suprfnk 8y ago
> the font color on this blog is absolutely horrible. Yeah, I've noticed more sites do this. Super annoying. I made this bookmark for those cases: javascript:(()=>{document.querySelectorAll("p,div,article,section,ul,ol
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by suprfnk 8y ago
> given proper environment. I think a lot of languages will give a pleasant experience in a proper environment. The question then becomes, does a strict language like Haskell require less of a 'proper' environment? That would b
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by suprfnk 8y ago
The problem is that times have changed. Back then the scenario you are describing was everyone. Right now, if you were to go 'back' to that life, you will be an outcast. People won't understand why you don't respond to t
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by suprfnk 8y ago
Exactly. Bye. You don't need my personal information to show me a story in a paper.
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by suprfnk 8y ago
Do you know how doom-emacs compares to spacemacs?
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by suprfnk 8y ago
Same, and this seems to happen so much on different websites that I made this bookmark: javascript:(()=>{document.querySelectorAll("p,div,article,section,ul,ol,li").forEach(x=>{x.style["font-family"]="Ve
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by suprfnk 8y ago
John Carmack himself? He seems like a great guy. Or wouldn't you call him a genius?
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by suprfnk 8y ago
Next you'll have people claiming vaccines cause autism and global warming isn't real and you'll have to believe them because "it's just a combination of knowledge, experience, analysis and 'see what happens&#x2
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by suprfnk 8y ago
Would you not consider cron to be 'general knowledge' in the Hacker News community?
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by suprfnk 8y ago
Got that too. Interesingly enough, these automated processes were able to get through: https://web.archive.org/web/20180501183242/https://queue.acm... https://webcache.googleusercontent.com&#x
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by suprfnk 8y ago
Ah that's what I missed. This makes more sense. Thanks.
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by suprfnk 8y ago
I am absolutely flabbergasted that the `is-odd` package on NPM [1] was downloaded 3 million times last week. In any project, a check for an odd number would half the time not even have its own _function_. Even an aggressive build server tha
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by suprfnk 9y ago
> autostarting video and streaming Super annoying. In Firefox in about:config, you can set: media.autoplay.enabled to false. That works well for me.
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by suprfnk 9y ago
Interesting, can I ask what kind of work you do? I'm assuming programming, what kind of programming do you primarily do?
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by suprfnk 9y ago
> but it could certainly mess with a tailgater. Unless the tailgater also has this system!
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by suprfnk 9y ago
Are you running into problems because of it? Or what's causing the anxiety?
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by suprfnk 9y ago
Still rather unsafe, right? "Cambridge" would be closer to "Woodbridge" than "Woodbridge Lane".
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by suprfnk 9y ago
> Why else would they be so successful? Any other attempt to replace Facebook (or even copy it) as a social network had failed or remained insignificant. Would this not be adequately explained by the first movers advantage (or maybe not
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by suprfnk 9y ago
> Funnily enough, breakfast is kinda important for fat-loss. What you eat in the morning will be burned throughout the day. Meanwhile a significant chunk of what you eat in the evening is not going to be burned and will be stored in fat.
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by suprfnk 9y ago
> Actually "proper nutrition" and "enjoyment of food" are closely related. I don't think that is the case for the vast majority of people. If I would only eat according to my "enjoyment of food" I would
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by suprfnk 9y ago
If you count around a 10-20% difference as "completely different amounts". Your height, weight, and activity level play a bigger role.

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