benrhughes

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by benrhughes 8y ago
That, over time, you lose the fulfillment your felt when first achieving your ambitions. Or, put otherwise, the further you are in time from an achievement, the less fulfilling it is.
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by benrhughes 11y ago
For the first 10 years of my job, I never used them. In my current job (working on hydrologically modelling software), every now and then I wish I could remember highschool maths.
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by benrhughes 11y ago
Light weight compared to VS proper, which on my mid-sized solution is sitting at 1.2GB, and 250MB with no files open.
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by benrhughes 11y ago
He was dropping his son off at school. There's a limit to how early you can do that. Leaving home 5 minutes early won't help if the "issue" is the commute between school and work.
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by benrhughes 11y ago
IME, children (I have 4 of them) have extremely high concentration levels, if they choose the thing they're concentrating on. My 8yo will read for hours, uninterrupted. My 6yo reads for 30min+. Even my 3yo will happily look through pic
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by benrhughes 12y ago
Not MS hardware, but you are forced to use Win 8
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by benrhughes 12y ago
Out of the box, ctrl-[ is mapped to escape. It took me about a week to un-learn Esc, but it is one of the better vim decisions I've made (along with mapping j to gj and k to gk, and mapping tab to :bnext).
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by benrhughes 12y ago
Installing VsVim was thing that really helped me get comfortable with vim. I'd use it at home, but I write way more code in the ~40hrs/week I'm at work. VsVim doesn't cover everything, so as you start to get more advance
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by benrhughes 12y ago
That would be almost anyone who's automated a build for, say, a CI server. I also use it to compile outside of VS, because 1) it's often quicker on large solutions and 2) it mirrors the CI build (sometimes VS is too smart and pape
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by benrhughes 12y ago
I completely agree. It's not surprising though: Discourses and The Enchiridion were delivered as lectures; Meditations is a personal diary. Marcus was obviously heavily influenced by Epictetus, and at times manages to state some of his
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by benrhughes 12y ago
While that's true, I think it's possible to find your own corner of the world that's not obsessing over the issues du jour and generally worrying themselves to death. After trying many time to cull the people I follow to crea
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by benrhughes 12y ago
Amazon's CTO Werner Vogels blogs pretty regularly at http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/
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by benrhughes 12y ago
I'm Australian and thought it was in fairly common usage.
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Spritz threatens legal action to force use of their API(pastebin.com)
3 points by benrhughes 12y ago|0 comments
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by benrhughes 12y ago
Interesting, again because of the parallels to autism. My son's therapist recommended a book called All Cats Have Aspergers[0] as a way to help him relate to how he sees the world. http://www.amazon.com/All-Cats-Have-As
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by benrhughes 12y ago
You're conflating freedom from government suppression and freedom from social consequences. Free speech refers to, and only to, the former.
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by benrhughes 12y ago
I'm not sure it's bigotry when people are held accountable for their public opinions. Free speech cuts both ways.
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by benrhughes 12y ago
I'm not sure people are being snarky - more pointing out that there are much cheaper ways to create an alternative. Plus, it's often a whole lot easier to add a DIY platform to an existing desk than to get your company to shell ou
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by benrhughes 12y ago
A couple of crates and a 1800mm sheet of melamine worked well for me: https://www.flickr.com/x/t/0094009/photos/benrhughes/1082833... . Cost all of about AU$40. Because I have a corner desk, I can si
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by benrhughes 12y ago
Although I'm very, very sympathetic to the idea that class hierarchies often cause more pain than they're worth, using JS to make that point is a bad idea. In most actual OO languages, there is a clearly defined interface betwee
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by benrhughes 12y ago
We just have a company supplied expresso machine and try to convince the team leader to put work lunches on his company credit card. Much simpler :-)
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by benrhughes 12y ago
I went from CS at Uni into a full time dev job for a government agency. Since then I've worked for a mature micro ISV and now an environmental not for profit. I have a paid android app and an OSS windows app that gets donations. The
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by benrhughes 13y ago
I really dislike his transformation of the dichotomy into a trichotomy. It takes a simple, deep insight and muddies it. The middle category is just a subset of "things not completely in our control", all of which we should be indi
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by benrhughes 13y ago
Wow, that was a brilliant lecture, thanks! Part 1 is one of the best summaries of stoicism that I've heard.
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by benrhughes 13y ago
IME there's a massive but not that often discussed overlap with Stoicism and Buddhism. I'll have to look into Taoism a bit too now.
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by benrhughes 13y ago
A Guide to the Good Life has its issues, particularly around complicating simple ideas (for example, his "trichotomy of control" adds nothing at all the the basic dichotomy, other than confusion). However, he does a good job of gi
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by benrhughes 13y ago
The problem with all of the standing desk additions I've seen is that there's no way they'll fit 3 large monitors. I got bored of trying to convince work to buy me a sit/stand, so I built this: https://www.fl
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by benrhughes 13y ago
ROFL, yes - "hide the sausage" has quite a different meaning. Though you could argue that rebasing is, um, hiding the sausage with history.
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by benrhughes 13y ago
For me it depends on the content and my mood. With my app [0] I read at about 5-600wpm, whether it's 1, 2 or 3 words at a time. If I'm having trouble with a particular article, changing the number of words often fixes it. Though o
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by benrhughes 13y ago
Nice! As I mentioned in the original Spritz thread, I've just released an android app[0] that does something similar. Think I'll use the positioning concept from (open)spritz to improve things. I do wonder what the Spritz team wer

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