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by vymague 5y ago
> This is not bad advice I was going to say this article was a bad advice. I second the solving problems approach. It's pretty mainstream opinion really, at least among math/phys students. You can try to follow the article and
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by vymague 5y ago
Yep. Much more effective than ESR's guide.
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by vymague 5y ago
But they have options. The mini, SE, old smaller phones.
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by vymague 5y ago
That's actually on the list of advice from Gian-Carlo Rota. The one linked in the blog article. https://alumni.media.mit.edu/~cahn/life/gian-carlo-rota-10-l... No. 7.
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by vymague 5y ago
> Taylor's books What is the book title? This article or the previous Dan Luu's "Some reasons to measure" doesn't seem to mention his name. Googling "Taylor measure" just gave me some pure math textbook
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by vymague 5y ago
I was going to ask how to identify the "hotspots". But I guess, for most people, the mentioned learn how to touch-type fast and editor shortcuts are good enough first steps. And of course there's the obvious improve your prog
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by vymague 5y ago
"HN comments are terrible. On any topic I’m informed about, the vast majority of comments are pretty clearly wrong." From https://danluu.com/hn-comments/ . I happen to agree.
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by vymague 5y ago
I was going to post that link. There also several language-specific lists like https://github.com/rby90/project-based-tutorials-in-c .
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by vymague 5y ago
I always find the whole thing ridiculous. They literally just needed to copy-paste the original book. In their effort to discourage people from buying the international edition, they scrambled the exercises and their numbers. And introduc
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by vymague 5y ago
HN is one of those social media. It comes with the same problems. But people are good at mental gymnastics and convinced themselves that it's different.
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by vymague 5y ago
> basic system operations knowledge Perhaps you can suggest a book or roadmap to learn it?
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by vymague 5y ago
> What's the point of this post? OP is serving a file at 50req/sec. I'd guess a response to the mangadex thread? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28440742
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by vymague 5y ago
> What topics specifically are you interested in? Well, for example, what's the old-school alternative to mangadex's solution? > And where do all the people like you hang out? We are here on HN.
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by vymague 5y ago
Looks cool, all browsers look samey these days. The big firefox update some time ago basically turned it into chrome. Appearance-wise.
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by vymague 5y ago
I agree. I thought it's a bug with a software used by the Japanese football association.
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by vymague 5y ago
> If they went old-school they'd get another order of magnitude savings. Many veterans know of systems doing 10x that in 10x less cost. Remember C10K was in 1999. How to learn more about the old-school way without getting a job rela
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by vymague 5y ago
I think privacy as in the mangadex team don't want to get sued. So they avoid popular services who are more willingly share their identity.
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by vymague 5y ago
> their hasty self-inflicted take down earlier this year nearly killed the entire hobby It won't kill the hobby. Because these scanlators are making mad money from ads, patreon, crypto mining. I'll never get why they don't
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by vymague 5y ago
> But for the frameworks that aren't doing those things, the benchmark is solid. Any example of such frameworks?
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by vymague 5y ago
I don't think double-entry bookkeeping is such a common knowledge. Anyways, there are discussions and links trying to teach "accounting for developers" on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23964513 I perso
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by vymague 5y ago
I wonder why this is downvoted. They mostly cover the same thing iirc. I think he mentioned he has been giving the same lecture multiple times at different venues.
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by vymague 5y ago
Ikr. The advice doesn't sound that convincing coming from the smartest man alive.
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by vymague 5y ago
There are several versions of this. There's this html page. There's the book. And there's the videos. Which one is the best?
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by vymague 5y ago
Just general physics/math Dover reprints. They share similar style to the one OP posted.
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by vymague 5y ago
Reminds me of Dover textbooks.
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by vymague 5y ago
I sometimes wonder if getting hired as a self-taught programmer is only possible in the US. Because their software industry has so much money. And perhaps cultural difference. It seems everywhere else requires you to have the relevant degre
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by vymague 5y ago
Ok, so the mnemosyne doesn't contain the answers. But just a prompt/question. And then you write the solution/answers on paper every time mnemosyne shows a particular card. From the way you described it, you change all statem
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by vymague 5y ago
And there's the usual claim that many charities are super corrupt. Yes, there are lists of "good" charities. But you know.
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by vymague 5y ago
Obvious question, the people you blew the whistle on didn't hire people to track and harass you? Or worse.

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