towaway1138

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   by towaway1138 8y ago

   I was, and in many ways still am. And to the degree that I focused on being able to retire early, it was so that I could work on software projects of my choice. In my case, various forms of adversity struck, and early retirement is no long
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   by towaway1138 8y ago

   I think it has for me, both psychology and philosophy. The former has some useful techniques. Check out "behavioral activation" for a lesser-known idea. The latter provides perspective, both for ways to think about the world, an
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   by towaway1138 8y ago

   Does telling someone they're an awful person _ever_ work as a means to motivate them to improve?
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   by towaway1138 8y ago

   This is a good read. For many years, C++ fanboys have been dutifully removing it (and other C++ criticism) from the C++ WP page, but it has many worthy ideas.
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   by towaway1138 8y ago

   I hope this idea gets terminated with extreme prejudice.
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   by towaway1138 8y ago

   I could mention something about the prevalence of this skill, but I don't want to spoil the surprise...
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   by towaway1138 8y ago

   I stumbled a bit on "write BFS" at a FAANG interview. The specific question was to write it for the Facebook friend graph. I just blurted out my reaction, which is that this was a terrible idea (given the space requirements). H
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   by towaway1138 8y ago

   Headline is (now?) "What People Actually Say Before They Die", which is way more descriptive.
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   by towaway1138 8y ago

   Interesting paper. I once had a very brief (an hour or two) episode of mania, and it was quite pleasant, at least for me. Clearly it qualifies as a disease, though, if present in severe enough form for any real length of time. This '
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    by towaway1138 8y ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quis_custodiet_ipsos_custodes%...
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    by towaway1138 8y ago

    Makes me sad. But ultimately, nothing is forever.
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    by towaway1138 8y ago

    I've been married (or the common law equivalent) three times, each about ten years. (edit: no biokids either) I can definitely relate, and you have my sympathies. That said, what you've said doesn't sound like a very bad s
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    by towaway1138 8y ago

    My polyrepo cautionary tale: Two repos, one for fooclient, one for fooserver, talking to each other over protocol. Fooserver can do scary dangerous permanent things to company server instances, of which there are thousands. Fooserver sprou