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by rbrogan 9y ago
#17 Rest before you are tired Time really is a constraint. It does not make much sense to try to work all the time in order to achieve your goals. As programmers, we really ought to get that there are constraints and trade offs to things. I
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by rbrogan 11y ago
Journalism ought to strive for compact, quality pieces that can be read at a fast pace. Many articles posted are much longer than they need to be, and their information density is not that great. It's not that it is never good, but rat
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by rbrogan 11y ago
I wonder what happens if you take away the reward. Neurons firing is related to energy. The reward has an associated amount of energy. Can it be something as simple as just distributing energy over time?
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by rbrogan 11y ago
But is the BS intentional and is it always necessarily false? Or can it be something that is hard to communicate? "The Way that can be spoken of is not the eternal Way." Is this bullshit? If so, how is this information able to pro
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by rbrogan 11y ago
The article gives some interesting perspective. It talks about security vs. stress. What will be interesting is security vs. motivation. Wondering to what extent the author is motivated by his goals vs. a sense of obligation to his patrons,
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by rbrogan 11y ago
Space is hard to get. So much of software involves spaces of some kind and yet we do not seem to think about it very well. Notions of space within software are so often either very rigid and jam-packed or infinite and formless.
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by rbrogan 11y ago
Personally, I have enjoyed working in Qt. For anyone looking to get going, I recommend practicing by transcribing the example code and then try tweaking it a little (and more so for Qt / GUI development than with other technologies). I
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by rbrogan 11y ago
You could start by writing comments. There is little chance of any bugs coming from that. If there are any tests available then you could work on understanding the tests and then step through the code in the debugger. Hope that helps.
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by rbrogan 11y ago
Here is the argument in a nutshell (if I read it right): (1) The economy not really working that great even though it is working as intended. So it cannot be fixed, because it is not broken (2) For businesses to create new value, they need
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by rbrogan 11y ago
Life is short, art long. If you cannot escape the bullshit, you might at least make an art of bullshitting. ;)
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by rbrogan 11y ago
If I am reading this right, the argument goes something like this: (1) Nietzsche was anti-academic and did his best work independently. (2) He was against academia being used as a means to nation-state ends, and he disliked how that undermi
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by rbrogan 11y ago
Would anyone, personally, take something like this as an opportunity to do open source work and/or research projects? Or do you feel like you want/need money as a motivator to be your most productive and a way to keep score in the
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by rbrogan 11y ago
While it is possible to disagree and argue that life really is like chess in different ways, the article still does a nice job of comparing and contrasting two different metaphors for the same (nebulous) thing. Another nice thing about Tetr
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by rbrogan 11y ago
Motivation to innovate is going to based on the desire to produce value. That value is going to be based on the enduring value of whatever it replaces. So, to do good at innovation, one ought to have an appreciation of what came before, bot
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by rbrogan 11y ago
How does this compare to, say, a Q&A site where one gets positive feedback for answering random questions? Is the reason why people leave because they cannot do the work that they want (time used up in collaboration) or is it because th
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by rbrogan 11y ago
Solving bugs is not glamorous, but it does help with learning a code base and it gives you goals to hit and will make you feel like you are contributing. I find that the more that you plan to do with knowledge, the easier it is to learn it
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by rbrogan 11y ago
""I don’t know, it looks weird. It’s the picture on the TV; it just looks … too real." To me it often rather looks like everything is fake. Would be interested to see if there were a study that could show whether peoples brai
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by rbrogan 11y ago
This article covers the supply side (people stating that AI is a risk), and it is good have a counteracting force showing the lack of proof. There is also the demand side: fear. News articles that tap into fears will resonate. It is good to
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by rbrogan 11y ago
Nice concept. It is good to question whether what you are doing is really worth it. Seems to me one of the challenges going forward with personal management is to not only set goals, but also to set constraints. What the author is doing is
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by rbrogan 11y ago
The article is not convincing that these are natural monopolies. What happened to AOL and AIM? What happened to MySpace? There is also this recent article about Chinese innovation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=108063
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by rbrogan 11y ago
Adopt / make nutrition software and set up a diet where I am sure I am getting 100% RDA of each nutrient.
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by rbrogan 11y ago
Came across this debate about OO: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4245737 Thought the discussion was pretty good. Was frustrated with OO at the time and wanting to get away from it. Interestingly, it is currently the s
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by rbrogan 11y ago
From what I am reading, the author is saying they are effectively time slicing their week. Each day is like a "task", in the software sense, that gets to run and make progress to its goal. You have to consider all the things that
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by rbrogan 11y ago
It is interesting how the designers were not themselves authoritative.
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by rbrogan 11y ago
The best part of the article is the concrete image of the milk cartons. On first seeing the image, your mind is going to tend to think things ought to be one way. Then it comes out and says, "No, it is the opposite." That creates
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by rbrogan 11y ago
Whatever it is, it is only so different from your past work. It may help if you sit down and try to put together an argument either that you can or you cannot do the work. I would be skeptical and rigorous about it and try to force it into
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by rbrogan 11y ago
Meditation, fasting, cleaning / organizing, exercise. Never intended to do it old school, but that is how it turned out, interestingly enough.
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Do Not and Call That Out(rbrogan.github.io)
1 points by rbrogan 11y ago|0 comments
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Tracing through the Code of the World(rbrogan.github.io)
1 points by rbrogan 11y ago|0 comments
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by rbrogan 12y ago
Personally, I try to differentiate between something that is work, something that productive, versus something that is keeping busy but not really accomplishing anything. Keeping busy will most likely be worse than being idle. It is wasting

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