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by text_exch 4y ago
I've found the most success with Memrise: https://www.memrise.com
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by text_exch 4y ago
Highly recommend Memrise https://www.memrise.com/
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by text_exch 4y ago
There was an HN poster a few months ago who claimed that memorizing the Python standard library made him much more productive.
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In Praise of Memorization(pearlleff.com)
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by text_exch 5y ago
For all the uninitiated, Jacob also runs Findka Essays [0] which is fantastic. My daily reading is Findka Essays and Thinking About Things [1], which is more than enough interesting reading material that I can get through. [0] https:/
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by text_exch 5y ago
There is a certain subset of programmers who get away with this at work. But if you're posting this, it sounds like you're torn between the comfortable quality of life you're living now, and the boredom and knowing you could
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by text_exch 6y ago
I run an email newsletter[1] that aims to highlight the interesting content found on personal blogs. It's a single link every other day to something interesting, the kind of blog posts that you come across every once in a while that re
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by text_exch 6y ago
I run an email newsletter[1] that aims to highlight the interesting content found on personal blogs. It's a single link every other day to something interesting, the kind of blog posts that you come across every once in a while that re
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by text_exch 6y ago
Each email contains the article's title, the genre, and an extended excerpt. I'm not sure how to link to previous emails, but here is a sample of previous links: https://mix.com/thinkingaboutthings . It started out
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by text_exch 6y ago
Thank you for letting me know. Fixed.
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by text_exch 6y ago
I run an email newsletter[1] that aims to highlight the interesting content found on personal blogs. It's a single link every other day to something interesting, the kind of blog posts that you come across every once in a while that re
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by text_exch 6y ago
This looks intriguing. Welcome to the newsletter space! I run Thinking About Things [0], a newsletter with a similar premise - that of critical thinking and seeing things in a new light. The demand for content about critical thinking is ris
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by text_exch 6y ago
It's impossible to underestimate the degree to which curation is becoming the differentiator in the digital economy. Those who can be trusted to provide valuable content from the fire hose of all that's available on the internet w
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by text_exch 6y ago
This message is expressed very well here [1]. Tl;dr internships are helpful to students for a variety of reasons, like making applicants more valuable to employers, making programming less of an abstract concept, and exposing them to intere
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To Whom It May Concern at The New York Times: An Open Letter(theimpassionata.wordpress.com)
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How to Succeed at a Technical Internship(getatechinternship.com)
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by text_exch 6y ago
https://getatechinternship.com/2020/04/27/how-to-succeed-at-... Tl;dr - 1. Don’t go straight to Stack Overflow 2. Learn the standard libraries 3. Put away your phone 4. Figure out how to unblock yourself 5. F
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by text_exch 6y ago
I get an interesting article emailed to me every day from Thinking About Things [0], so I use that to go down some rabbit hole. [0] www.thinking-about-things.com
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by text_exch 6y ago
I've long wanted to build a search engine of only personal blogs. I am less familiar with the field of information retrieval so I haven't gotten started yet, but it's always been a dream of mine and if anyone is interested pl
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by text_exch 6y ago
I've long wanted to build a search engine of only personal blogs. I am less familiar with the field of information retrieval so I haven't gotten started yet, but it's always been a dream of mine and if anyone is interested pl
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by text_exch 6y ago
For those who prefer text-based entertainment, I run an email newsletter called Thinking About Things [1], which sends out a link to an interesting article every day. It's aimed at curious people who don't have a lot of time to re
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by text_exch 7y ago
I enjoy Thinking About Things - they send a single link on arbitrary topics every day. It definitely lives up to its name. https://www.thinking-about-things.com/
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by text_exch 7y ago
Thank you for the feedback - I'll add that.
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by text_exch 7y ago
Anyone who enjoys this might enjoy an email newsletter I run, Thinking About Things [1], which sends readers a single interesting and thought-provoking link every morning. It's a similar idea - small, manageable parts of ideas for peop
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by text_exch 7y ago
I run an email newsletter[1] that aims to combat exactly this issue. It's a single link every day to something interesting, the kind of blog posts that you come across every once in a while that really make you think. The overwhelming
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Becoming a Better Engineer(pearlleff.com)
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Advice for New Developers(pearlleff.com)
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by text_exch 7y ago
Sounds like he got a scholarship.
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by text_exch 7y ago
Teaching developers how to find the answers to their problems is a crucial skill, and one that's often approached the wrong way - either new developers get all the answers easily and don't learn, or they spend days trying to unblo
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Advice for New Software Developers(pearlleff.com)
2 points by text_exch 7y ago|0 comments

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