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by koz_ 3y ago
> Power naps started working for me nicely once I removed the stressful requirement of actually having to sleep. This is a lesson I keep having to relearn, that rest without sleep is still beneficial. And of course there's always a
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by koz_ 3y ago
Love this. How much suffering have I inflicted on myself from the sheer refusal to accept that forces other than my own will play a part in determining my destiny?
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by koz_ 4y ago
> 'In the beginner's mind, there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few' This is a great quote. Once one knows how to do something the "right" way it becomes very difficult to do it any o
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by koz_ 4y ago
I remember getting a new lease on life with Factorio when I gave myself permission to start again as much as I wanted. Before that I would overcommit to every base, thinking that the "real game" only began after you get past the b
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by koz_ 4y ago
This definitely applies to programming as well. It's not uncommon to see people happily churning out mountains of highly redundant and repetitive code, or zealously pursuing far-reaching nit-picky refactors of dubious benefit and I thi
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by koz_ 4y ago
By that logic one shouldn't ever criticise let's say, Google (a separate entity), because in theory one could get a job there, work their way up to be CEO and then change how the company works. In fact, why ever criticise anything
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by koz_ 4y ago
I used to suffer from regret a lot and I'm not entirely sure how I got over it. It could be just that I'm older and have had more opportunities to see that no matter how many of my dreams I achieve there is always room for perfect
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by koz_ 4y ago
Smart people are just as given as anybody to the idea that happiness is about controlling outcomes, hence they are no happier. The desire to control outcomes is correlated with unhappiness because that very desire is predicated on the belie
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by koz_ 5y ago
I don't know, is it more precise to say words like "encapsulated", "testable", "mockable" and "reusable"? Aren't these all essentially the same thing? Suppose you have a class that is techni
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by koz_ 5y ago
Your comment describes my perspective almost to a T. I used to put a lot of stock in the idea of retiring early and then being free to do whatever I wanted, but what I want is to build interesting things as a team, i.e., exactly what I have
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by koz_ 5y ago
I agree that VS Code is easier to edit code in, but Emacs is easier to program and extend. Ease of use simply isn't why people use Emacs and I think that at this point it would be hard for it to ever compete with VS Code on that front.
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by koz_ 6y ago
I think what people mean when they say REPL-driven is to have a headless REPL that one never actually interacts with directly, but rather sends it snippets of code for evaluation directly from one's editor. Typing code into a shell pro
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by koz_ 6y ago
The author of the code is going to have to discover how these APIs work somehow, right? Why would the code end up worse if the author has access to a particular tool for interacting with these APIs? A shell and curl is a REPL for interactin
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by koz_ 6y ago
Ah I see, thanks for setting me straight. I must have conflated someone's later reading of the poem with the author's original intent.
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by koz_ 6y ago
This is my favourite poem and was before I even knew how layered and knotty it is. In addition to its obvious interpretation it's also about readers and reading, how even if you are the mightiest ruler who has ever lived you still can&
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by koz_ 6y ago
That's interesting. I can imagine in cases like this it's not necessarily that the doctor doubts their own diagnosis, but rather the AI is essentially offering to relieve them of responsibility for it either way. It's like in
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by koz_ 6y ago
The thing is boring tech is often really just painful tech, where pain manifests in lots of different ways (error-prone repetition, painful manual testing, hard to read spaghetti code, etc). Programmers who are too insensitive to pain will
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by koz_ 6y ago
It's pretty clever advertising really. I don't imagine that having noticed an HTTP header would really give an applicant much of a boost in the interview process, but to some it probably feels like finding a ticket to Willy Wonka&
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by koz_ 6y ago
Reminds me of when my team at bigcorp noticed that you got given a badge on your personal page for being quick to respond to code reviews. Cut to suddenly every code review being immediately responded to with the comment "got it, will
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by koz_ 6y ago
The creator of the course, Professor Laurie Santos also has a podcast on the same topic which is quite good: https://www.happinesslab.fm/
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by koz_ 7y ago
This allergy to reality is surely the biggest trap not just for startups but people in general. It's surprising but I feel like the norm is for people to care far more about feeling that everything's okay, rather than everything a
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by koz_ 7y ago
It's not that Gmail has a dominant position and so doesn't need to care about its rating - Gmail is an app not a page and it's less important for apps to load quickly than pages. Apps tend to be long lived and so a slow start
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by koz_ 7y ago
This is an attempt by Google to influence the bloated websites out there, rather than a browser feature intended to attract users. It's probably mildly helpful as a user to know if a site is slow (as opposed to it just being slow for y
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by koz_ 7y ago
Hooks are great! I can sympathise with those suffering from JS fatigue, but I don't think they are merely a prettier/different syntax for doing the same thing, they are a significant conceptual simplification. This: `const { data,
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by koz_ 8y ago
I think Google's interests are aligned with developer interests here. The main benefit to GCP that k8s success brings is that migration between clouds becomes easier (e.g. moving from EKS to GKE would presumably be easier than moving f
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by koz_ 13y ago
I suspect the person who got fired wouldn't have self-identified as someone who finds it difficult to avoid saying sexually inappropriate things, either.
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by koz_ 14y ago
Meditation is a great way to train one's attention and focus. A lot of ink is spilled describing what companies and bosses could do to enable programmers to get or stay in the zone, but all of that is immaterial compared to one's intrinsic
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by koz_ 14y ago
Or worse than never going, you'll keep going, but you'll always just do whatever you feel like and never push yourself. Then years down the track you've made no progress, but poured countless hours into the habit. It's probably not going to