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by aiwv 3y ago
Like you said, Meraki got better because the core team, including engineering and sales as well as the founders, stuck around for about two years. Things did go significantly downhill once the founders left but by that point the company was
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by aiwv 4y ago
Yeah, I was astounded by how quickly my singing improved when I started practicing with a metronome. Keeping time seems to me the easiest thing to improve if you focus on it (but that's just my subjective opinion). Once you can keep go
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by aiwv 4y ago
> If you look up "Victor Wooten Music Lesson" on YouTube I can't recommend Victor Wooten enough. His book "The Music Lesson" is also great.
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by aiwv 4y ago
> Grinding to make money in your thirties and beyond I sort of think grinding is generally wrong at any age. If you feel like you're grinding, perhaps it's time to take stock and consider what you could be doing differently so
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by aiwv 4y ago
> Knowing what to want to know seems much harder. This is truly the most important question and one that only you can answer for yourself, unfortunately.
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by aiwv 4y ago
Not only have I never heard of this kind of "handbook" (in spite of having an advanced degree), it isn't clear to me how they actually would be a reliable source of wisdom. It sounds like they are supposed to be a meta-analys
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by aiwv 4y ago
> you have to CHANGE THE CODE YOU SHIPPED in order to properly debug it If I'm at the point where I need to debug a production process with breakpoints, I'd rather just find a new job than worry about my coworker's coding
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by aiwv 4y ago
Many if not most "hard" science cultures (math, physics, etc.) have a strong undercurrent of competitive gamesmanship. In its worst form, it becomes about vanquishing your rivals more than it is truly about advancing the human con
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by aiwv 4y ago
> You fault him for not knowing "there's no sex in the Champaign room" No, I fault him for being an entitled asshole. > I recommend that you don't look into the sex lives of famous and admirable thinkers through ou
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by aiwv 4y ago
> Other religions and subcultures didn't manage to make people afraid of speaking their mind on the Internet. Have you ever heard of gamergate? Do you have any idea what it's like to be a woman on the internet?
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by aiwv 4y ago
Forgiveness doesn't mean that certain behavior was ok. Feynman was a very complicated figure. I find the stories he wrote about going to the strip club in Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman quite disturbing. He quite explicitly deh
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by aiwv 4y ago
Sure, but the lesson isn't necessarily that we should emulate this particular human, genius though he may have been.
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by aiwv 4y ago
The experience of time has as much to do with focus and your capacity to take in information at a given moment. With sports, it is quite possible to play for many years and never gain enough skill to truly play well. When I have had a time
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by aiwv 4y ago
I think people like the idea of democracy more than they like actual democracy. On some level, most people would agree that pure democracy as in one person one vote in every organization is ridiculous. Any organization of sufficient complex
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by aiwv 4y ago
Raises the question whether or not anyone writing this kind of software actually uses it.
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by aiwv 4y ago
> All we need now is for some brave soul to improve Scala 3 support for treesitter, Brave soul is an understatement.
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by aiwv 4y ago
Sure, but an embedded database is still simpler than client/server. For many tasks, postgres does not offer any meaningful benefit over sqlite so why add the complexity?
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by aiwv 4y ago
The key to understanding Musk is that he truly believes that he will be the most powerful person in the world (see https://web.archive.org/web/20200725103243/https://www.nytim... for his friend's ta
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by aiwv 4y ago
Yeah, it's sort of funny how much scorn people heap on astrology. I am not trying to convince anyone to take astrology seriously, but I think it's foolish to condescend to those who take an interest in it. The archetypes that astr