walljm

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by walljm 9y ago
Even in some western cultures, specifically christianity, the idea that the soul/spirit provides the body with the energy to move exists. There is not a strict connection to physicality, the line between what we feel as "energy&q
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by walljm 9y ago
> After 28 years, I ended up preferring working close to the actual users. This is key.
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by walljm 9y ago
I agree. Its also worth noting that the need to publicise your work should not be taken so far that people perceive you as boastful. So there is a balance, but you definitely can't just be quiet all the time.
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by walljm 9y ago
Almost anywhere outside of a major city will allow you to live on 55k a year comfortably. You would have to be diligent about budgeting, but this is doable. I lived in Saint Louis on 48k a year as a single guy, but i was also spending a l
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by walljm 9y ago
> Why suggest a worse solution (encouraging all drivers to go faster) instead of punishing more people for driving irresponsibly? The article addresses this. the posted speed limit doesn't affect how fast people drive (slow or fast
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by walljm 9y ago
> Without seeing what you have, a general remark would be that everyone and his cousin has clocked at least some time developing at least one ToDo app. It's a right-of-passage thing for a lot of developers, just like a Weather app i
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by walljm 9y ago
And a lot of it isn't. https://www.fiscal.treasury.gov/fsreports/rpt/mthTreasStmt/b... breaks out how military spending is allocated to some level of detail.
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by walljm 9y ago
Though not comprehensive in that it doesn't cover state/local government, the federal government does publish a monthly statement that does go into a fair bit of detail: https://www.fiscal.treasury.gov/fsreports&#x
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by walljm 10y ago
yes, exactly. i feel like sometimes people take these instructions far to lightly. "be yourself" can be understood to mean, "you should pursue life in such a way that it aligns with your core values and your core identity&q
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by walljm 10y ago
> He basically causes Job to suffer on a whim. Not out of some kind of theological necessity, but simply as a cruel experiment. This isn't technically true. What God does is choose to not prevent Satan from testing Job. I'm n
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by walljm 10y ago
Good point. I hadn't considered the importance, not just in recognizing your part of the problem (humility), but accepting that it is you who can and should fix the problem (confidence, determination).
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by walljm 10y ago
There is so much truth to this. I interviewed recently with a company I really liked, and had this exact experience. The deciding factor came down to how I approached a specific problem they gave me. The challenge was, I was solving the
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by walljm 10y ago
I think boredom is important, and if you aren't experiencing it in some measure on a regular basis then it is possible you're depriving yourself of the ability to experience maximum pleasure from the world around you. Ok, that was
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by walljm 10y ago
> I see this belief in probably about 80% of people I encounter, and it has little correlation with how smart one is. The virtue he is discussing is humility vs pride, and I think you're right that it isn't really correlated wi
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by walljm 10y ago
The pacific coast is amazing and gorgeous. I would not necessarily want to live in a major city (SF or LA) but would want to be within a couple hours driving distance. But a house on the beach? yes please. Really, anywhere where there is
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by walljm 10y ago
The executive order was backed by the law though. The President does have the powers he exercised, at least, near as I can tell from the US Code cited in the order. I don't necessarily like the order, or how it was carried out, but I
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by walljm 10y ago
I'm currently working on a project that hasn't died yet, but has gone through a lot of pain in the last couple years partly because of technical debt. I ran the project for the first four years. It was my first large project and
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by walljm 10y ago
The problem with null, i think, is that in some languages its harder than it should be to reason about when to expect a null. tooling helps, but it still catches people by surprise, and handling it often feels cumbersome. This is possibly
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by walljm 10y ago
> However, RW makes it easier for slackers to slack off; it is difficult for less effective managers to detect, let alone handle it. This is, I think, because most management techniques don't rely on any sort of objective measuremen
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by walljm 10y ago
>The motto for this goes like 'teams work better if they are collocated, yada, yada'. The real reason is that managers want to feel in control (plus they want to drive away a lot of people by taking RW away). This is so much tr
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by walljm 10y ago
My dad used to do all his studying at McDonalds (he was a pastor), and he worked there when I was growing up. We spent a lot of time as a family (because we were pretty poor) eating there and playing on the playgrounds. For most of my child
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by walljm 11y ago
is that true? i thought the gates foundation also invested in new and better ways to transport and deliver the vaccines. i, of course, have no citation for this.
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by walljm 11y ago
like For me, its always been about Rhythm and Contrast, which, if you think about it, is the foundation of all art. Poetry, and prose, in a different way, use rhythm and contrast to draw attention to things, to make words mean more than
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by walljm 11y ago
Though there is truth to that quip, not all the pairs of that triangle are equal. Its much easier to deliver quick and cheap, easier to deliver cheap and quality, and really hard to deliver quick and quality.
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by walljm 11y ago
Though your point about cultivating the discipline is applicable, not all brains process data the same way, and its possible the posters habit is a factor of biology not effort.
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by walljm 11y ago
I love a well paced but slow film... some of them feel almost dream like, like poetry.
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by walljm 11y ago
"I'll have to continually go back and re-read what I feel like I've just read. " This happens to me sometimes, but its rare and usually means I'm tired or not interested in the subject matter. If I'm intereste
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by walljm 11y ago
I'm a software developer. I hated being bored and I didn't like working hard. ;) When I was a teenager I asked myself what kind of activities I enjoyed doing for long periods of time that made decent money and working with a comp
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by walljm 11y ago
You're assuming zaphar reads/comprehends the same way you do. I can't read that fast period, and if i'm reading fast don't comprehend as much, but I have first hand experience with how good zaphar's comprehens
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by walljm 11y ago
I think balabaster's point still stands, and your points (though good) only serve to illustrate. also, its important to keep in mind that not everyone is as good at switching. this could be because only some people have the time and

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