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by wainstead 6y ago
"Never memorize what you can look up in books" is often attributed to Albert Einstein; the long version is "[I do not] carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books. ...The value of a college educat
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by wainstead 6y ago
Indeed, and if you have to work with those languages, a good templating system like emmet or yasnippet will save you a ton of typing. Let the machine do the typing for you.
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by wainstead 6y ago
There are a few shell modes in Emacs. I think ansi-term might do what you want for a full screen interactive terminal application.
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by wainstead 6y ago
> Yes, I know Emacs has a text-based UI for configuration, too. I've used it. It's bad. Okay? It's just bad. The controls are non-standard and weird, the organization is utterly mystifying to someone who doesn't alrea
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by wainstead 6y ago
> I do disagree with a lot of it since I believe more in maximizing human potential through mindfulness and tuning ourselves instead of our tools. Cannot one do both?
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by wainstead 6y ago
Yup, this comment should be at the very top. The first problem with this analysis of job salaries is it's based on a self-selected survey and not a random sample.
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by wainstead 7y ago
Hi Tyler! :)
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by wainstead 7y ago
> so how could Git have succeeded because of Linus, other than Linus originating the genius design of it? Perhaps that is exactly the point. There was a fair amount of hype and press coverage over Git when it was first unveiled. And it w
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by wainstead 7y ago
I used ratpoison for a while on one of my Linux boxes and much liked it. > The name "ratpoison" reflects its major design goal: it lets the user manage application windows without using a mouse. Unlike other tiling window manag
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by wainstead 7y ago
This is a technique called "active recall" and is a good practice!
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by wainstead 7y ago
I find the act of creating the card is part of the process of memorizing and internalizing the fact. I agree with others here that using Anki can be a real chore sometimes; one has to devote a chunk of time just learning how to use Anki. Wi
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by wainstead 7y ago
Really, any of the scripting languages. My recollection is there was a lot of disdain for scripting languages because they could not match the speed of C or other low level languages. Today, computer speed is so many orders of magnitude fas
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by wainstead 7y ago
Actually, this is excellent advice. Many of the people I know who went through art programs and hung out in the art scene later applied their aesthetics to things like the construction trade (fashioning complex plaster jobs, painting) or st
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by wainstead 7y ago
> What do people think Florida is going to do? They're already losing their drinking water and they're still in denial. > Build pumps, dikes and create flood plains. Just want to point out this approach won't work for F
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by wainstead 7y ago
> I have a few books in progress, some farther along than others, and seeing posts like this with actual numbers on revenue is extremely helpful. This. You might find @b0rk's post on her zine sales interesting: https://jv
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by wainstead 7y ago
> It's insane how much programmer instincts maps to mathematics. It's not fully 1 to 1, but it helps a lot more than it harms. I worked on khanacademy videos and problems for a few months and had the same experience! I enjoyed
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by wainstead 7y ago
Second this, and I wonder how people who live near the equator respond to seasons and light vs. people closer to the Arctic circle.
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by wainstead 7y ago
And, I would add, in an entirely keyboard-driven way. I appreciate, as an Emacs user, how much I can get done without using the mouse.
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by wainstead 7y ago
Indeed, to your point: https://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/10/science/groups-protest-us...
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by wainstead 7y ago
> There's a growing body of evidence that early specialization produces less champions. Kids are encouraged to participate in other sports well into their teen years. This is the subject matter of the book "Range": https:
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by wainstead 7y ago
> This is why it’s funny when literary novelists who couldn’t write a competent John Wick novelization (I put this challenge squarely to A.S. Byatt) call J.K. Rowling a bad writer. Neal Stephenson wrote a lengthy reply (item #2) to a que
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by wainstead 7y ago
I'll add sixdegrees.com to the "missing" list, which may have been the first social media site. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SixDegrees.com
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How can a person create their own alphabet?(quora.com)
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by wainstead 7y ago
But the tiny learning curve made them so accessible. Back then you could introduce a wiki for your team and start churning out project documentation right in a meeting. Where the wikis back then didn't hold up was for long term documen
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by wainstead 7y ago
If by "zone" you mean "flow," then yes; here's a relevant quote from Deep Work: > The connection between deep work and flow should be clear: Deep work is an activity well suited to generate a flow state (the phra
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by wainstead 7y ago
> Remarkably, the same material that stupefied me just prior to "shorting out" would become crystal clear the next morning. Very much in line with what one reads in Barbara Oakley's "A Mind for Numbers," and her
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by wainstead 7y ago
The universe may have... https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/26/us/politics/ufo-sightings...
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by wainstead 7y ago
The Soviets succeeded in returning surface images from a number of their landers, and the photos are quite tantalizing. http://mentallandscape.com/C_CatalogVenus.htm "Venus Revealed" is a pretty good read: https:
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by wainstead 7y ago
Second this, if you only work through the Khan Academy stuff on the various things like scatter plots, standard deviation, the normal distribution, etc. you'll be much better off for it.
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by wainstead 8y ago
The age is skewed heavily to younger programmers, so your hunch has merit.

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