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by acbabis 5y ago
> I’ve also learned to write code in a way that reduces cognitive load so that interruptions aren’t so disruptive to my productivity. I have too, but sometimes I have to read other people's code, and I don't have any control ov
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by acbabis 5y ago
I've found that learning to empathize with future-me, also made me better at writing code that others want to read. Kind of like dogfooding.
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by acbabis 6y ago
The overall portion of athletes are vegetarian or vegan is low, but the ones who are can still perform very well. This suggests that the difference is based, at least in part, on preference.
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by acbabis 6y ago
There could be a lot of reasons for that. I doubt the reason is that meat is the healthiest option for them; meat contains a lot of saturated fat, which athletes try to avoid too much of. It's more likely that meat is healthy enough
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by acbabis 6y ago
This. In conversations about vegetarianism, it's pretty common for people to give their distaste of fake meat as their primary reason for not reducing their meat consumption. I really wish that wasn't the default counter-argument,
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by acbabis 6y ago
I've experienced this first-hand. Joining an existing project and being put on test-writing duty very quickly turned me into our team's chief advocate of writing testable code.
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by acbabis 6y ago
I don't think volume of articles is a very good measure. The distribution of people who publish things has changed over time.
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by acbabis 7y ago
I'm not a Twitter user myself, but the character limit is what made Twitter unique. It might be fun to laugh at people who only want to read 140 characters, but we shouldn't assume they aren't going elsewhere to post and read
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by acbabis 7y ago
I've also done a lot of accessibility work. For people looking to get into it, another crucial thing is using "Semantic HTML". If every button is a <button> tag and every link is an <a> and every form element ha
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by acbabis 7y ago
It's also a great way to persuade managers. Actually, a lot of the time you can just tell them you're doing SEO because nowadays they're fundamentally the same. Almost everything you do for accessibility has a positive impact
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by acbabis 7y ago
Bathrooms and kitchens
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by acbabis 7y ago
"Agile transformations" are bad, but I still think agile itself is fine. Teams of self-organized, competent developers tend naturally toward agile-like practices. I've seen agile's story-centric model of development help
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by acbabis 7y ago
I feel like people who study subjective topics like the value of human life (philosophers) have already internalized "learned helplessness". It's empirical-oriented people like us who have a harder time grappling with the ide
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by acbabis 9y ago
I once read someone give similar advice about estimation. What stuck with me most is that if someone pressures you to change an estimate, it's no longer an estimate. Most managers don't actually want estimates.
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by acbabis 9y ago
My internal kid voice said "Yeah!". Until I read the other reply, it hadn't occurred to me that your rhetorical question's intended answer might be "No"
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by acbabis 9y ago
Another very important reason was left out: The 5th edition of the game was very well designed and received critical acclaim among veterans who were disappointed by the 4th edition. The article makes it sound like there's been a resurr
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by acbabis 9y ago
It is if there's large barriers to entry
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by acbabis 9y ago
I haven't researched it, but the two statistics could be reconciled if there are fewer smokers than non-smokers.
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by acbabis 9y ago
Those givens are far from trivial, and getting them wrong is dangerous. You may as well say "Given we can perfectly predict the market, it's possible to make a lot of money"
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by acbabis 9y ago
This is neat. I'll make sure to use it whenever I post something here or on Reddit. Great work
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by acbabis 10y ago
Adblock Plus has an "Acceptable Ads" program that allows non-animated, non-sound ads to remain on the page. People who think supporting the sites they visit is the right thing to do, can enable acceptable ads while blocking annoyi
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by acbabis 10y ago
Neat. Bookmarked
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by acbabis 10y ago
The post on programming hex grids is another really good one
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by acbabis 10y ago
My wife does this. One time a support scammer called trying to get her to install malware. It went something like this: "Ok. Please press the Windows key" "Ok (long pause)" "Did you press it?" "Yes" &
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by acbabis 10y ago
In a sense, holding corporations criminally liable is better. The fact that a corporation can't go to prison almost balances-out the lack of mens rea requirement.
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by acbabis 10y ago
When I saw this in the HN feed, my first thought was "I should see if I got that email"
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by acbabis 10y ago
Yeah, that's my biggest concern. It's already hard to buy a PC without a copy of Windows. Imagine if you couldn't even buy a PC without relinquishing the right to switch your OS later. Or if you had to agree to leave the bloa
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by acbabis 10y ago
> I can't play video games "for fun". I want to be good and that costs time. Video games have the downside of giving players easy rewards. I think it does something bad to your brain. Not necessarily altering it forever, b
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by acbabis 10y ago
Our meeting format was for each person to say a) What they worked on, b) What they were about to work on, and c) If they needed help with anything. Our rule was that you could ask for help as long as you were just scheduling a time to meet
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by acbabis 10y ago
While I agree that free content isn't inherently better (and usually worse), I disagree that good content will emerge in free venues. Social media has crowd-sourced the costs of discovery. You don't have all day to separate the

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