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2020-02-22 14:55:50 Berlin…divides writers and thinkers into two categories: hedgehogs, who view the world through the lens of a single defining idea , and foxes, who draw on a wide variety of experiences and for whom the world cannot be boiled down to a single idea . Turtleocracy | Hacker News
2020-02-22 16:07:55 Today, workers change jobs on average every 4.2 years, according to a recent report on employee tenure from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Why You Should Change Jobs Every Four Years | Monster.com
2020-02-23 09:41:01 Why I work here game with your manager #idea
2020-02-23 09:50:43 Join subs using infra sound from master’s device #idea #spotify-family
2020-02-23 14:29:45 Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. (Brian Kernighan) dwmkerr/hacker-laws: 💻📖 Laws, Theories, Principles and Patterns that developers will find useful. #hackerlaws
2020-02-24 04:28:07 Geting screenshots from video element seems to be relatively easy
2020-02-24 04:39:29 Simple imput device which is seamless to carry around. The iWatch is the closest I can think of right now, but it tries to do too much. #idea
2020-02-24 05:06:48 Should try i3 with xfce combo. Maybe at work #idea
2020-02-26 05:32:55 Have to renew my Swedish ID Card #todo
2020-02-29 06:48:16 Depressive Realism: Depressed people have a more accurate view of the world because they’re more realistic about how risky and fragile life is. The opposite of “blissfully unaware.” 100 Little Ideas · Collaborative Fund
2020-02-29 06:50:29 System Justification Theory: Inefficient systems will be defended and maintained if they serve the needs of people who benefit from them – individual incentives can sustain systemic stupidity. 100 Little Ideas · Collaborative Fund
2020-02-29 06:52:50 Ringelmann Effect: Members of a group become lazier as the size of their group increases. Based on the assumption that “someone else is probably taking care of that.” 100 Little Ideas · Collaborative Fund
2020-03-01 08:13:52 Use dhall for package.json #idea
2020-03-01 09:02:24 When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure — Goodhart’s law as phrased by Marilyn Strathern The Original Sin of Software Metrics (2014) | Hacker News
2020-03-03 05:30:17 6% salary increase this year is worse than 3% last year
2020-03-04 19:12:11 When the emotion becomes too strong for speech, you sing; when it becomes too strong for song, you dance.” PBS: Think Tank: Transcript for “The American Musical, Part 2”
2020-03-07 07:32:10 While not disagreeing with your point, it is also worth noting that in some contexts developers are regarded as unemployable if they don’t have experience with whatever the latest technology is so it is hardly surprising that people use every opportunity they can to get exposure to the latest tools. Overthinking it and the value of simple solutions (2019) | Hacker News
2020-03-08 06:23:24 Pattern matching for JavaScript z-pattern-matching/z: Pattern Matching for Javascript
2020-03-14 12:29:27 Willys was alf empty today from stocks and surprisingly packed with people
2020-03-15 13:12:11 #til https://www.edelweiss.plus book catalog platform
2020-03-22 06:36:35 I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization. “I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.”*… | (Roughly) Daily
2020-03-22 06:38:45 A world constructed from the familiar is the world in which there’s nothing to learn “A world constructed from the familiar is the world in which there’s nothing to learn”*… | (Roughly) Daily
2020-03-24 05:00:17 - Eat a banana before singing to help improve vocal quality How I recorded an album on my own, in my room | Hacker News
2020-03-25 06:21:17 Happy Bring Your Work To Cat Month! The cat pictures will continue until morale improves | MetaFilter
2020-03-27 05:46:42 In Internet culture, the 1% rule is a rule of thumb pertaining to participation in an internet community, stating that only 1% of the users of a website add content, while the other 99% of the participants only lurk. 1% rule (Internet culture) - Wikipedia
2020-04-13 11:06:44 Record decisions #todo
2020-04-13 11:08:33 Small children are great at asking questions. Their questions are simple, direct, and utterly without ego. Asking questions - Aaron’s Blog
2020-04-13 18:17:15 #tough-conversation
2020-04-17 05:21:14 This is management porn. Faster, cheaper, better - pick all three and throw in an extra, and you unlock innovation! Fire Method: Fast, Inexpensive, Restrained, and Elegant | Hacker News
2020-04-17 05:58:38 If you want to know what an institution does, watch it when it’s doing nothing “If you want to know what an institution does, watch it when it’s doing nothing”*… | (Roughly) Daily
2020-04-19 06:00:47 “Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.” You’re a Slave to Money, Then You Die | Hacker News
2020-04-19 06:04:17 You can just say that a person it a slave to the extent of their desires/attachments. You’re a Slave to Money, Then You Die | Hacker News
2020-04-20 06:04:38 When someone dies, you lose the memories they have of you, and you lose the part of your identity that was external to you, and kept within that person. When someone dies, you lose the memories they have of you. - memory loss death | Ask MetaFilter
2020-04-22 04:56:40 Why is programming fun? What delights may its practitioner expect as his reward? First is the sheer joy of making things. As the child delights in his mud pie, so the adult enjoys building things, especially things of his own design. I think this delight must be an image of God’s delight in making things, a delight shown in the distinctness and newness of each leaf and each snowflake. Second is the pleasure of making things that are useful to other people. Deep within, we want others to use our work and to find it helpful. In this respect the programming system is not essentially different from the child’s first clay pencil holder “for Daddy’s office.” Third is the fascination of fashioning complex puzzle-like objects of interlocking moving parts and watching them work in subtle cycles, playing out the consequences of principles built in from the beginning. The programmed computer has all the fascination of the pinball machine or the jukebox mechanism, carried to the ultimate. Fourth is the joy of always learning, which springs from the nonrepeating nature of the task. In one way or another the problem is ever new, and its solver learns something: sometimes practical, sometimes theoretical, and sometimes both. Finally, there is the delight of working in such a tractable medium. The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly re- moved from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures. (As we shall see later, this very tractability has its own problems.) Ask HN: How to rediscover the joy of programming? | Hacker News
2020-04-26 13:16:23 It is amazing what one can accomplish if one does not care who gets the credit. – JohnDoveIsaacs Egoless Programming
2020-04-28 06:31:54 Updated ubuntu works fine so far
2020-05-02 10:26:42 If you don’t rephrase something in your words, you probably don’t care enough to learn it How to Take Smart Notes :: Up and to the Right — Jonathan Borichevskiy
2020-05-02 12:25:53 Suffering is all the more cruel when those suffering do not & cannot understand why. Cat Psychology & Domestication: Are We Good Owners? · Gwern.net
2020-05-02 12:27:55 The tragedy of domestic cats is their minds are as rigid as their bodies are flexible. Cat Psychology & Domestication: Are We Good Owners? · Gwern.net
2020-05-02 14:20:12 Most people think of “evil” as being synonymous with “malicious” and “doing really, really bad things.” But I have a broader view of “evil.” I consider a thing to be evil if it creates bad outcomes not just out of malice, but instinct or carelessness. Peep Show – The Most Realistic Portrayal of Evil Ever Made – Dormin
2020-05-04 05:34:21 One reason why the world is in a mess is because, for a long time, the ratio between ‘explore’ and ‘exploit’ has been badly out of whack. Entities like procurement have been allowed to claim full credit for money-grabbing cost-savings without commensurate responsibility for delayed or hidden costs. The Illusion of Certainty | Hacker News
2020-05-05 06:03:53 Should read man bash
2020-05-09 15:59:22 “Lazy” is just another way of saying that you’re not doing something somebody else thinks you should be doing. Ask HN: How do I overcome mental laziness? | Hacker News
2020-05-10 06:14:20 Always demand a deadline. A deadline weeds out the extraneous and the ordinary. It prevents you from trying to make it perfect, so you have to make it different. Different is better. The Technium: 68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice
2020-05-12 05:42:38 Babies love putting things in their mouths: dirt, insects, bits of grass, their own poo. They have no sense of fear or self-preservation, and come up with endlessly creative ways to place themselves in mortal peril. Once they learn to talk, their constant experimentation with the world transcends the physical to the philosophical. They want to know everything. They are bottomless pits of curiosity, with very little in the way of attention span or self-discipline. Your typical two-year-old can only concentrate on a task for six minutes at a time. Young children are not self-aware enough to feel much in the way of shame, or embarrassment. Nothing is off-limits. The Embarrassing Problem of Premature Exploitation - LessWrong 2.0
2020-05-12 05:48:28 Hence venture capitalist Marc Andreesen’s first rule of career planning: don’t. The Embarrassing Problem of Premature Exploitation - LessWrong 2.0
2020-05-12 05:49:04 The world is an incredibly complex place and everything is changing all the time… trying to plan your career is an exercise in futility that will only serve to frustrate you, and to blind you to the really significant opportunities that life will throw your way. The Embarrassing Problem of Premature Exploitation - LessWrong 2.0
2020-05-12 05:49:39 If powerful forces consistently push us toward premature exploitation, we should almost always be biased towards exploring more. The Embarrassing Problem of Premature Exploitation - LessWrong 2.0
2020-05-14 05:53:56 Cows make milk. They milk themselves. Other cows check the milk (for free). Cows - get this - PAY THE FARMER to take the milk away. Then the farmer (you won’t believe this, honestly) sells the milk back to the cows. Sometimes the farmer lets the cow drink a tiny bit of its own milk. The farmer calls it ‘longstanding commitment to Open Access’. What Is a Sustainable Path to Open Access? | Hacker News
2020-05-22 18:18:23 It’s bad form to mention money-laundering. Instead, you talk about asset-management structures and tax beneficial schemes. — John Sweeney “Money laundering is a very sophisticated crime and we must be equally sophisticated”*… | (Roughly) Daily
2020-05-22 18:23:45 The 4-Second Workout. Intense bursts of exercise throughout the day may have surprising metabolic benefits. The 4-Second Workout - The New York Times
2020-05-22 18:28:25 Cities are meant to stop traffic. That is their point. That is why they are there. That is why traders put outposts there, merchants put shops there, hoteliers erected inns there. That is why factories locate there, why warehouses, assembly plants and distribution centers are established there. That is why people settle and cultural institutions grow there. No one wants to operate in a place that people are just passing through; everyone wants to settle where people will stop, and rest, and look around, and talk, and buy, and share. Cities Are Meant to Stop Traffic
2020-05-23 06:40:40 7 helpful tips on how to be miserable: 1. Stay still. 2. Screw with your sleep. 3. Maximize your screentime. 4. Use your screen to stoke your negative emotions. 5. Set vapid goals. 6. Pursue happiness directly. 7. Follow your instincts. this isn’t happiness™ (7 helpful tips on how to be miserable, Brandon…), Peteski
2020-05-23 08:52:44 The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point. — Claude Shannon, 1948 A brief introduction to the beauty of Information Theory
2020-05-26 07:47:38 Upgraded ubuntu to focal
2020-06-04 06:13:34 Scrum is a way to take a below average or poor developer and turn them into an average developer.It’s also great at taking great developers and turning them into average developers. Leave scrum to rugby, I like getting stuff done | Hacker News
2020-06-06 09:38:04 Doing technically brilliant work may be enough for your personal gratification, but you should never think it’s enough. If you lock yourself in a room and do the most marvellous work but don’t tell anyone, then no one will know, no one will benefit, and the work will be lost. You may as well not have bothered. For the world to benefit from your work, and therefore for you to benefit fully from your work, you have to make it known. Sell Yourself Sell Your Work
2020-06-07 05:50:07 nothing in psychology makes sense except in the light of individual-differences May 2020 news · Gwern.net
2020-06-23 04:33:06 You waste years not being able to waste hours Crossing the ocean of my ignorance
2020-06-24 05:12:42 I believe trauma instills scientific-type knowledge that is factually false but locally adaptive. False beliefs need more protection to be maintained than true beliefs, so the belief both calcifies, making it unresponsive to new information, and lays a bunch of emotional landmines around itself to punish you for getting too close to it. This cascades into punishing you for learning at all, because you might learn something that corrects your false-but-useful model. Emotional Blocks as Obstacles to Learning | Hacker News
2020-06-29 04:57:12 All infra teams eventually become platforms. All product teams eventually become experiences. When viewed negatively this is called scope creep. I don’t know what it’s called when viewed positively but I expect the word “holistic” to be used unironically. The Rise of Platform Engineering | Hacker News
2020-07-03 10:22:39 The Iron law: “The expected value of any net impact assessment of any large scale social program is zero” The Iron Law Of Evaluation And Other Metallic Rules · Gwern.net
2020-07-03 10:23:01 the Stainless Steel law: “the better designed the impact assessment of a social program, the more likely is the resulting estimate of net impact to be zero.” The Iron Law Of Evaluation And Other Metallic Rules · Gwern.net
2020-07-08 05:39:02 The social status of computer scientists is zero. Why do so few people major in computer science? (2017) | Hacker News
2020-07-12 10:20:50 When I read this I see a a niche, super premium hardware company that managed to acquire tens of thousands of customers by word of mouth. Not only that, their customers are all in-effect self employed or small businesses with huge average revenue per employee. They manage global supply chains, intense competition, all while taking on and managing huge legal/compliance risk. How is is that supposedly “dumb,” criminals can do this, and yet many of us are stretching our intellectual capacities to learn new technologies and maths, developing our nth stupid app, trying to achieve a fraction of the customer traction and revenue that street thugs manage to do every day. Are these people much smarter than average, or does it mean that if you sell something people actually want, literally nothing else matters about your intelligence, education, character, background, or anything at all. When I read these drug stories, it just reinforces for me that growth solves everything. You can succeed with a crew of violent, drug addicted idiots whose only reliable characteristic is short term thinking, and who spend half their time in prison if you have product market fit. What I’m beginning to think is that the “smarter,” people are in a company, the less anyone will want their product. It’s like the success of a venture is inversely proportional to the number of ostensible geniuses it employs.

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2020-07-13 05:33:27 Part of the wisdom of meditation lies in the following: There is baggage we all carry, the self, this belief we’re the center of it all, the author of (and subservient to) our own thoughts. How do I stop doing what makes me unhappy, if that’s “who I am”? But, in reality, I can abandon “who I am” and find new processes of living and new ways of thinking about the world. A researcher on how to live a happy life | Hacker News
2020-07-13 05:54:29 Diversity at all costs: except diversity of opinion. Politically-correct witch-hunt is killing free speech | Hacker News
2020-07-14 06:07:16 Have we forgotten what a “degree” actually means? When you receive a diploma, it just means some institution is willing to attest that you have achieved some sort of qualification. A 28-year-old with no degree becomes a must read on the economy | Hacker News
2020-07-14 06:32:16 This is one of the major life-lessons I’ve taken away from card games, summarized by Captain Jean Luc Picard: ““It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life.” Recruiting Is Poker – Not Chess | Hacker News
2020-07-18 11:00:20 A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. . . . An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: it rarely happens that Saul becomes Paul. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out, and that the growing generation is familiarized with the ideas from the beginning: another instance of the fact that the future lies with the youth. The machine learning community has a toxicity problem | Hacker News
2020-07-27 05:39:58 Being right in a relationship doesn’t count for much. Even if you are objectively correct, relationships are about helping the other person live their life. All partners in a relationship compensate for the other’s shortcomings. That is one of the benefits of a relationship. Beware of Being “Right” | Hacker News
2020-07-28 04:50:19 Basically all current social media ends up optimizing for creating outrage, spawning mobs, less thoughtful discussion and more vitriolic arguments, etc. PG: The biggest source of stress for me at YC was running HN | Hacker News
2020-07-30 05:32:18 The benefits of being attractive are exorbitant. Beauty might be the single greatest physical advantage you can have in lif The Greatest Privilege We Never Talk About: Beauty | by Saeid Fard | Jul, 2020 | Medium
2020-08-08 06:12:36 When in challenging or sad situations it’s only reasonable to be grumpy, or pessimistic or what have you. Negative emotions or feelings are part of our natural range and appropriate depending on the cirumstances. Forced positivy to me always has something ghoulish, Truman-show like. It pays to be grumpy and bad-tempered (2016) | Hacker News
2020-08-08 06:26:50 Geography is only physics slowed down and with a few trees stuck in it. Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay Geography is only physics slowed down and with a… - Quotes from Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Books
2020-08-08 09:08:10 When people are born, they all start good, but even though they all start out about the same, you ought to see them after they have had time to become different from one another by picking up habits here and there!". Translation Dr. Linebarger, aka Cordwainer Smith Ask HN: Which book helped you understand the world? | Hacker News
2020-08-08 09:08:41 When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly. Ask HN: Which book helped you understand the world? | Hacker News
2020-08-10 17:02:09 Are employees paid a proportional amount to the value they bring to their organization? I would say no. I do not believe every talented European is 40% as capable as the average developer in the US. I do not believe that the same software engineer that made $10k in India, suddenly brings 10x as much value due to a 1 year masters, once they move to the US. Ask HN: Should a remote employee’s salary be tied to their physical location? | Hacker News
2020-08-12 05:02:11 Very few people tend to look at the mind as a system, and also seem to ignore that depression, anxiety, panic disorders, etc. happen for a reason. The reason why modern humanity have increased risk of these symptoms is because they know, given their perhaps wrongly learned models of the world or otherwise, that even when they achieve their so-called life goals, that they wouldn’t achieve philosophical nor psychological satisfaction that they seek. Their mind has predicted the conclusion of their efforts, and the conclusion lies far below what they seek. Thus the mind desperately attempts to re-understand, re-configure, and re-model the world to achieve its goals. Perseverance Toward Life Goals Can Fend Off Depression, Anxiety, Panic Disorders | Hacker News
2020-08-12 05:48:09 What devotees of sadomasochism do to their bodies is nothing compared to the torments that those addicted to the news and political commentary inflict on their minds almost every hour of the day. Ask HN: Is it just me? why is “news” so addictive? | Hacker News
2020-08-13 05:41:16 Despite the authors best attempts, the truth peeks out in the article: merit is often a necessary, but not sufficient cause for success. Not sufficient, particularly, for extraordinary success. A belief in meritocracy is not only false: it’s bad for you | Hacker News
2020-08-22 12:22:32 Wonder if we have a working system already
2020-08-23 07:04:34 I call it “performative productivity” since it’s actually a performance. We Don’t Need to Work So Much (2015) | Hacker News
2020-08-24 05:40:22 Since you cannot go back in time to change the past, forgiveness is about giving up the hope of a different or better yesterday. It relates to forgiving actions that were taken, that gave you the feelings of loss of control over your happiness. It’s about acknowledging those things that another did or said that caused pain and making the decision that you are not going to let that hurt or control you anymore. Forgiveness can be very empowering. It can give you the chance to be free of another person’s emotional control. It has nothing to do with the other person. As was said before, it is something that is for you and you alone.” Why forgiving someone else is about you | Hacker News
2020-08-26 05:33:29 Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do “Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do”*… | (Roughly) Daily
2020-08-26 05:38:04 Each generation thinks it invented sex Robert A. Heinlein - Wikiquote
2020-08-27 05:28:11 Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough Richard Feynman’s Perspective of Life | Hacker News
2020-08-30 07:09:11 Your developer won’t get hit by a bus. They’ll get hired by Netflix! Your developer won’t get hit by a bus. They’ll get hired by Netflix!
2020-09-03 04:59:56 I’ve found “efficiency as the opposite of stability” a very powerful concept to think about - even though it’s fairly simple, it seems to be almost a fundamental law. Efficiency is dangerous and slowing down makes life better | Hacker News
2020-09-06 11:05:34 The contradiction in management is that you must somehow know what’s going on, but it is not helpful to interfere constantly. Managing Teams Through Interfaces | Hacker News
2020-09-07 12:58:18 Sometimes the things you create grow way beyond your capacity to handle and become soul crushing endeavors that bear little resemblance to the early years of adventure, fulfillment and satisfaction in serving others, and the wise thing to do would be to step aside and preserve your sanity and peace of mind. Ask HN: What Happened to Larry Page? | Hacker News
2020-09-08 10:08:18 trust is the use of any assumptions about the behavior of other people Trust Models
2020-09-15 05:48:34 Jugaad is an attitude towards delivery which originated in India and consists of three simple tenets: Humility: use whatever works without prejudice Openness: keep your options open Frugality: small expenses keep regrets small Jugaad takes agile to the extreme – George’s Techblog
2020-09-21 18:10:11 My wife has heard all of my jokes and all of my excuses. She now criticizes the former and laughs at the latter, instead of the other way around. Ask HN: What is it like to be old? What advice would you give to younger people? | Hacker News
2020-09-22 04:58:41 Probably career suicidal (never admit it in your application) but honestly the thing I’ve found helps is just not caring about work at all. It’s like the equivalent to acceptance in grief. Get the day done, look forward to the weekend, when you book time off make sure to book the following Monday. I’ll do the job as best I can for as long as I’m paid but if you think I’m here for any reason other than money to pay the bills you’re completely delusional. Survey: The average worker experiences career burnout – by the age of 32 | Hacker News
2020-09-24 06:45:04 Look into problems, you’ll find solutions. Look into solutions, you’ll find problems. Ask HN: How do I learn to write better code? | Hacker News
2020-09-29 07:18:18 Before enlightenment chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment chop wood, carry water You’re enlightened – now what? | Hacker News
2020-09-29 07:19:12 Before one studies Zen, mountains are mountains and waters are waters; after a first glimpse into the truth of Zen, mountains are no longer mountains and waters are no longer waters; after enlightenment, mountains are once again mountains and waters once again waters. You’re enlightened – now what? | Hacker News
2020-10-08 17:19:40 Processing TV schedules
2020-10-18 07:40:57 When I am angry, frustrated and disappointed or depressed, I think of the pale blue dot every single time. It helps me put things into perspective. Our little knotted lives and our petty concerns are meaningless and inconsequential in grand scheme of things. Just let it go. Enjoy what little time we have here! 100k Stars | Hacker News
2020-10-18 07:41:55 There is a palpable difference between the universe described by many religions and the universe described by science. The former is all built from concepts rooted in human society such as father, son, judgment, commandment, obedience, sacrifice, punishment etc. The latter is built from eerie ideas such as force field, wavefunction, observable, reference frame, superposition etc. The former feels small, ordinary, familiar and manmade. The latter feels like we’re fumbling for words to describe something that fundamentally transcends ordinary human experience. 100k Stars | Hacker News
2020-10-19 06:58:20 Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away”*… | (Roughly) Daily
2020-11-02 05:22:08 I dread package upgrades because it can instantly turn into an all-hands-on-deck emergency, and these are just the stand-alone packages, not all the ones I mentioned above. Webpack 5 | Hacker News
2020-11-05 05:47:12 To paraprashe Mr. Engelbart: it’s a failed tool if you use it exactly the same way the day you bought it and a year after. Re-Thinking the Desktop OS | Hacker News
2020-11-09 06:44:16 No amount of belief makes something a fact this isn’t happiness™ (“No amount of belief makes something a fact.” ―…), Peteski
2020-11-17 18:01:03 If there’s one phenomenon that marks the modern era more than any other, it’s the replacement of the relational with the transactional. The rise of platonic co-parenting | Hacker News
2020-11-18 08:04:35 Pornography and prostitution are popular because they arrive at sexual end goals, or a reasonable facsimile, with more clarity and lower costs than in the mating market. Uncanny Vulvas – DIANAVERSE
2020-11-23 04:51:49 The benefits of the stochastic life are clear. It is quicker and cheaper than almost any other system. The results are guaranteed to be fair (across the population). And it is impossible to cheat or influence. Living the Stochastic Life – Terence Eden’s Blog
2020-11-23 06:37:12 Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all “Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all”*… | (Roughly) Daily
2020-11-28 06:09:15 Halving requirements is the same as doubling capacity. - Nigel Calder Hundred Rabbits — off the grid
2020-12-06 13:58:44 Insisting that your company with 200+ employees will only hire people who will work themselves to the bone without any mention of how those people will be properly compensated is wild corporate propaganda. Hire people who give a shit | Hacker News
2020-12-06 15:55:19 I applaud this, but I also advise against this for your career. Unless the change you’re making has immediate and significant business benefits, from a PM/EM perspective you’re 1) wasting time 2) potentially introducing bugs. The correct move is to wait until the org is so bogged down with tech debt that meaningful progress cannot be made, then switch companies/teams. Always leave the code better than you found it | Hacker News
2020-12-08 12:30:21 Whenever I feel like going off my diet, I just go to my happy place. The snack drawer. You Can’t Out-Train Your Diet — Believe Me | by J.J. Pryor | BeingWell | Nov, 2020 | Medium
2020-12-10 06:56:41 Western culture has a very unhealthy attitude towards sleep in general. There is only one socially accepted sleep pattern: Eight hours a night, in one block, starting at between 10pm and 11pm and ending between 6am and 7am. This “early-bird” rhythm is celebrated in to the point of fetishisation and held up as the goal to which all productive adults must aspire. To behave otherwise is to be lazy, slothful, and not putting forward your all It’s Time to Stop Nap-Shaming | Hacker News
2020-12-11 06:37:04 It doesn’t take long before the high performers on those teams get sick of picking up the slack. The high performers move on to companies that care, while the team’s output continues to decline as everyone pushes the boundaries of how little work they can get away with. Eventually management wonders why certain teams have so many people but so little output, “restructuring” occurs to trim the slackers, and the hiring cycle starts again to build the teams back up. What changes when you work outside an office? | Hacker News
2020-12-12 10:06:53 There’s a standard way to understand the relative danger of any activity. “A micromort is a unit of risk defined as one-in-a-million chance of death " Risk: micromorts, microCOVIDs, and skydiving (Interconnected)
2020-12-17 09:03:07 Somebody apparently once went up the the great philosopher Wittgenstein and said “What a lot of morons people back in the Middle Ages must have been to have looked every morning at what’s going on behind me now, the dawn, and to have thought that what they were seeing was the sun going around the Earth, when as every schoolkid knows the Earth goes around the sun and it doesn’t take too many brains to understand that.” To which Wittgenstein replied, “Yeah, but I wonder what it would have looked like if the Sun had been going around the Earth.” Point being, of course, is that it would have looked exactly the same. swans on tea » You See What Your Knowledge Tells You You’re Seeing
2020-12-17 09:11:37 I’ve lived with me long enough to know that he needs two reasons to do a thing, one reason is never enough. #110: 2021 Yearly Themes - YouTube
2020-12-17 11:09:42 We’re the skate witches and we don’t take NO crap from NO one. Skate Witches: The true story | Dangerous Minds
2020-12-17 12:08:24 Well, that’s what this series is going to be about. How, what you think the universe is and how you react to that, in everything you do, depends on what you know. And when that knowledge changes, for you, the universe changes.And that is as true for the whole of society as it is for the individual. We all are what we all know today. What we knew yesterday was different. And so were we. The day the Universe changed
2020-12-18 10:03:33 Being misunderstood is a great temporary moat. I could write a book on this, but suffice it to say, I didn’t have confidence in my own vision until I took the time to really look at others and realized that the main difference between me and the average idiot was that I had bothered to look at the ideas of other idiots at all. It was like their entire ontology had become an ant farm. It was the moment I realized, I am a super-idiot. I only half joke, because becoming a super-idiot liberated me from the perfectionism and the addiction to approval that caused a stultifying and primal narcissistic fear of criticism. If you are struggling with this, take it from someone on the other side of it: It’s ok, you’re an idiot. The Strength of Being Misunderstood | Hacker News
2020-12-19 11:21:01 Enjoy your life your way
2020-12-20 07:40:03 Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking, just as the man who spends too much time in the theater is tempted to be content with living vicariously instead of living his own life. Follow Your Curiosity. Read Your Ass Off | Hacker News
2020-12-25 08:05:52 Money makes people happier than psychotherapy. 52 things I learned in 2020. This year I edited another book, worked… | by Tom Whitwell | Fluxx Studio Notes | Dec, 2020 | Medium
2020-12-25 10:01:42 To assume you’re below average is to admit you’re still learning. I assume I’m below average | Derek Sivers
2020-12-26 08:35:05 My relationship to compliments in those days was simple: I didn’t give any and I didn’t receive any either. Talking openly about feelings - or heaven forbid - giving praise - simply wasn’t the norm. This was especially so with the older generation, people like my granddad. How to Compliment | Less Penguiny
2020-12-26 09:00:28 But then I moved. Moved to the big city, a place filled with people themselves big on compliments. My upbringing had left me underprepared for these changes. Even something as simple as receiving praise was complicated. There certainly were times when my soul would be lit up with joy. But other times, my feelings were murkier. The compliment left me feeling weirdly uncomfortable. How to Compliment | Less Penguiny
2021-01-02 13:23:48 We cannot rule those who want nothing Bimilui Soop (TV Series 2017– ) - Trivia - IMDb
2021-01-06 11:49:02 That is why we like noise and activity so much. That is why imprisonment is such a horrific punishment. That is why the pleasure of being alone is incomprehensible. That is, in fact, the main joy of the condition of kingship, because people are constantly trying to amuse kings and provide them with all sorts of distraction.—The king is surrounded by people whose only thought is to entertain him and prevent him from thinking about himself. King though he may be, he is unhappy if he thinks about it All problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone (2014) | Hacker News
2021-01-09 16:23:54 People don’t want to be educated, they want to be entertained. The Parity Of Zero
2021-01-11 19:14:05 When you want someone, you don’t say that you need that someone. Tell them “I want to be the person you need”. “Ssanggabpocha” Episode #1.5 (TV Episode 2020) - IMDb
2021-01-15 21:43:07 The Visitor The coming of a person is, in fact, a tremendous feat. Because he comes with his past and present and with his future. Because a person’s whole life comes with him. Since it is so easily broken the heart that comes along would have been broken ― a heart whose layers the wind will likely be able to trace, if my heart could mimic that wind it can become a hospitable place. That poem in ‘Because This Is My First Life’ – 반짝반짝 한국어
2021-01-23 07:09:13 Sadly I believe the world managed to make us feel guilty when we’re not doing something that makes someone else rich I logged my activities at 15-minute intervals for the whole year | Hacker News
2021-01-31 15:51:33 “A woman who lost her husband is called a widow. A man who lost his wife is called a widower. And a kid who lost his parent is called an orphan. But there’s no word for a parent who lost their kid.” -no word can describe the pain. 16 Worth Remembering Quotes from “Hi Bye, Mama!” - Annyeong Oppa
2021-02-03 05:59:07 If you are leading and or managing a team, one of the most important things you need to know are how do people want their feedback. My experience is that it varies from person to person (I suspect that there are many more than two camps :-)) and as such it is unlikely that you can meet that need in group feedback. Toxic positivity does more harm than good | Hacker News
2021-02-03 16:32:02 Rule #1 of business: You can generate revenue to infinity, but you can only cut costs to zero. Ask HN: Is frugality underrated in startups? | Hacker News
2021-02-04 06:24:32 HR is not your friend and your company is not your family. HR is not your friend, and other things I think you should know | Hacker News
2021-02-06 15:50:43 Ninety percent of everything is crap. Sturgeon’s law 90% of everything is crap – Mike Crittenden
2021-02-07 15:35:54 History is what we choose to remember “History is what we choose to remember”*… | (Roughly) Daily
2021-02-17 04:57:36 Don’t save what is left after spending; spend what is left after saving. - Warren Buffett Warren Buffett’s Best Money Advice | Work + Money
2021-03-03 06:35:53 The advice about interviewing being exhausting is spot-on. Recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates is a very different type of work than most of us engineering types enjoy. Until you’ve developed a thick skin, it can also be emotionally draining to reject candidate after candidate. I’m an interviewer at my company and burnt out | Hacker News
2021-03-04 05:46:32 Banks are like mobile phone operators: they’d rather nobody has anything good than they and their competitors share something good. Why is there no “pay me directly” standard? – Terence Eden’s Blog
2021-03-06 11:32:33 Be curious, not judgmental. Walt Whitman - Wikiquote
2021-03-07 16:02:56 Salary is a negotiation between parties. Looked at soberly, you’re the business, your employer is your customer, and the salary they pay you is really the price you charge for your services. “Location-Based Pay” – Who are we to complain? | Hacker News
2021-03-11 05:00:13 Barriers to entry are invisible. They are invisible to people on the inside and most frequently invisible to people who have a hand in creating those barriers. Go is not an easy language | Hacker News
2021-03-14 13:19:09 It’s easier to be prolific. On Writing More | Hacker News
2021-03-18 06:38:46 A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. The Last Message Sent on AIM
2021-03-19 10:03:53 I see solitude not as an escape from the world but as an escape from a peopled world… All by Myself | Hacker News
2021-03-29 05:16:06 when your work is done, forget it Ask HN: Those who quit their jobs to travel the world, how did it go? | Hacker News
2021-04-12 17:51:20 A relationship is planting roots in someone’s heart. -I’m not a Robot KDrama lines on Twitter: “A relationship is planting roots in someone’s heart. -I’m not a Robot” / Twitter
2021-05-05 13:32:37 1 OBSERVER, 58 IDENTIFIERS, 84 SPECIES, 129 OBSERVATIONS –The World
2021-05-16 09:43:17 Ignorance isn’t a sin, but refusing to learn is. I choose to sin and remain ignorant. I can’t be bothered. Quotes from Vincenzo | thyQuotes
2021-05-17 05:16:50 Good developers know how things work. Great developers know why things work. - Steve Souders, High Performance Browser Networking Forewords Observing my cellphone switch towers
2021-05-28 05:07:29 Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities”… | (Roughly) Daily
2021-05-31 05:34:30 I’m envious of people who are good at being bad. It’s a skill that lets you choose how to develop yourself. The Mental Benefits of Being Terrible at Something | Hacker News
2021-06-13 10:01:33 Be conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you accept Why Russians do not smile (2002) | Hacker News
2021-06-13 10:02:35 When people grow tired, they call it wisdom Why Russians do not smile (2002) | Hacker News
2021-06-26 10:01:08 You need to go to shit-ton of schools to be able to make simple decisions. Otherwise you’ll start to invent all kinds of over-complicated solutions. Clever vs. Insightful Code | Hacker News
2021-06-26 10:02:07 “Don’t write clever code.” Why not? “Because it’s hard to understand.” Clever vs Insightful Code • Hillel Wayne
2021-07-06 06:45:57 Python is the second-best language for everything.
2021-07-09 06:46:34 I am not the sort of person who worries a lot about their career growth. I never was a manager and I was always happy to just quietly hack on interesting problems. If you can find the right corners to work in, Google is a pretty great place for that kind of attitude. Tech Notes: Leaving Google
2021-07-22 05:30:49 If you must read the rest of this document to understand the behavior of your program, you are being too clever. Don’t be clever. The Go Memory Model - The Go Programming Language
2021-08-01 06:07:40 Be a good ancestor. Stand for something bigger than yourself. Add value to the Earth during your sojourn. “Be a good ancestor”*… | (Roughly) Daily
2021-08-12 05:31:45 Indeed. It’s amazing to me that in all the conversations about work/life balance, employers never consider the mind-blowingly innovative option of working less. You Are Not Lazy or Undisciplined. You Have Internal Resistance | Hacker News
2021-09-04 09:41:45 Burnout is caused by working hard at something for a long time and not having it pay off. Vacation isn’t the answer to employee burnout | Hacker News
2021-09-05 08:38:25 You cannot reduce the complexity of your problem by increasing the complexity of your language. Brooks, Wirth and Go. | Fredrik Holmqvist
2021-09-25 16:49:03 Don’t believe everything you think Chapter 1: A Day of Very Low Probability - LessWrong
2021-09-25 16:53:02 As scary as arguments could be, not arguing was somehow much worse. Chapter 1: A Day of Very Low Probability - LessWrong
2021-09-26 05:45:11 There is a type of flourishing available to a cat that is only rarely available to us. A human is never simply what she is, but is always striving to become something she is, as yet, not. This is the result of a self-image – a conception of herself and what her life should be – which, when unrealised, can occasion frustration and despair. What the Cat Knows (2020) | Hacker News
2021-10-07 05:30:59 Furthermore, everyone has a limit and you have to understand yours. Too much suffering won’t make you stronger, it will actually break you. A cruel realization is that there are poor people and laborers who’ve went through more suffering than you can imagine, and they don’t have anything to show for it. Everything Is Difficult. So What? | Hacker News
2021-10-21 05:07:11 We all strive to be like the others - more exactly, like the others, but better. (Chapter 2) Book Review: The End of Average - LessWrong
2021-10-29 06:16:57 I will never understand this obsession with “scaling”. Modern web dev seriously over-complicates so many things, it’s not even funny anymore. How we built a serverless SQL database | Hacker News
2021-11-16 09:30:23 A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation. Why Tokyo Works | Culture | Metropolis Japan
2021-12-08 04:49:10 Being agile means having no long term plan. Even with Agile and Scrum waterfall will sneak in | Hacker News
2021-12-10 04:56:11 A group will never admit they were wrong. A group will never admit, “We made a mistake,” because a group that tries to change its mind falls apart. Groups never admit failure | Hacker News
2021-12-10 05:45:02 The consistent feature of all of your dysfunctional relationships is you Ask HN: Am I the only “unlucky” software engineer? | Hacker News
2021-12-18 10:18:31 Having been at several companies, I think I was happiest about my career when I didn’t have a fancy title and did not really know anyone else’s either What does a Principal Software Engineer do? | Hacker News
2021-12-20 05:19:17 I enjoy development. I just don’t want to work as a developer anymore. It is an analogous situation to that friend of yours who enjoys cooking but doesn’t want to work in a restaurant. The Blog is the program • AndreGarzia.com
2021-12-24 14:20:50 Created https://github.com/gosimple/slug/pull/66
2022-01-17 05:30:13 It’s a full-time job to look for another job. Poll: Why are you staying at your job? | Hacker News
2022-01-30 04:57:26 Real failure sucks. People you considered your friends stop returning calls. Doors close to you. You feel empty and lost. You can learn from it, but you can’t celebrate it. Failure hurts. And that’s OK. It’s supposed to hurt. A toast to all the rejects | Hacker News
2022-01-31 06:42:39 The price of Bitcoin didn’t go down, the price of the world has gone up Bitcoin value tumbles almost 50% since record November | Hacker News
2022-02-01 18:25:14 When the water has run dry, sit and watch for the rising clouds. The Poem of a Loyal Heart and Infinite Longing… | Feeding My Procrastination
2022-02-04 06:37:43 I’ve heard that being a soldier in a combat zone is long hours of idleness, punctuated by short periods of terror and stress. That pretty much describes my time as a manager, without the “terror” part (and the bullets and explosions). People don’t work as much as they say | Hacker News
2022-02-04 06:41:49 I sometimes struggle to finish dramas not because they are bad but because of the dread that something really bad is gonna happening to a character i like
2022-02-06 05:49:29 Internally at these companies, there’s also no reason for developers to care about quality. It’s not rewarded by the managers. Ask HN: How do you explain the sloppiness of modern software? | Hacker News
2022-02-17 06:45:58 Writing free software is like painting. You should do it if you feel like it, or if you, yourself, get something out of it. The moment you start to feel that you are owed something is the moment that you should stop doing it, because what you do from then on is probably not going to be any good. Is it even worth working on FOSS anymore? | Hacker News
2022-02-23 04:39:46 The problem is that by 35 you can’t get by on novelty anymore because you’ve seen some version of everything there is to see. Ask HN: How do you deal with getting old and feeling lost? | Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30230620)
2022-02-24 06:20:50 Displacement value: Benefit caused by the displacement of negative impact, rather than the creation of positive impact. The Theory of Displacement Value
2022-02-24 06:21:49 After the decline of traditional faith, the ensuing churn of political religions makes me believe that total religiosity is largely conserved; we’ve just been shuffling it around between better or worse vessels. The Theory of Displacement Value
2022-02-25 05:08:25 If a completely context-free self-tracking app exists, I am not aware of it. Every tracking app seems to apply only to a certain narrow topic - often sport or food. And then all the apps send the data to a central server, which makes me uncomfortable. A Syntax for Self-Tracking
2022-02-26 16:57:32 Once more: we are not modeling reality, but the way information about reality is processed, by people. — Bill Kent Why You Should Read “Data and Reality” • Buttondown
2022-02-26 17:04:50 You can’t tell people; here is a dial, you can pick ‘fast and you’re screwed later’ or ‘slow and careful now’. You’re setting yourself up for failure; they cannot pick ‘slow and careful’, because that’s not their job; their job is to quickly deliver value/outcomes/whatever. We sound like idiots when we talk about technical debt | Hacker News
2022-02-26 17:18:49 I guess you already know, and you’re asking exactly because you know.. But programming does not create value, it creates programs, which may create value.. Ask HN: What’s the best way to monetize actual programming? | Hacker News
2022-02-27 19:20:28 Does something like poetry kata exist?
2022-02-28 05:29:18 That’s why everyone quits is because it’s literally the only action they can take. The only button employees have is the big red one. Do Not Change Your Job | Hacker News
2022-03-01 18:50:29 It’s a busy life just trying to live and eat Go Back Couple (2017) - MyDramaList
2022-03-02 13:22:05 Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get. Uncle (2021) - MyDramaList
2022-03-04 17:53:04 A person’s feelings don’t have one answer like a math problem. Fantasy and Love: Mischievous Kiss Quotes | Korean Drama Quotes
2022-03-08 06:42:56 So many interesting projects, so little time … and also so many excuses
2022-03-11 06:44:44 A mind that is stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions “A mind that is stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions”*… | (Roughly) Daily
2022-03-12 11:11:37 Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love “Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love”*… | (Roughly) Daily
2022-03-16 06:47:38 All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Anna Karenina principle - Wikipedia
2022-03-16 07:29:30 Everything related to compensation becomes much less confusing once you accept that hiring is a market. Like any market, supply and demand drives the prices. Nothing else matters much. Ask HN: Is your company considering inflation in this year’s comp review cycle? | Hacker News
2022-03-17 05:30:16 Technical Solutions Poorly Solve Social Problems Technical Solutions Poorly Solve Social Problems - Xe
2022-03-17 08:14:17 I’ve always found that “living at my means” has paid dividends. To many folks, ‘round these parts, they’d consider it “living below my means,” but that’s mostly because they “live beyond their means.” Ask HN: How can I prepare for hard economic times? | Hacker News
2022-03-20 11:02:08 Torture the data, and it will confess to anything “Torture the data, and it will confess to anything”*… | (Roughly) Daily
2022-03-21 13:47:53 Be warned that people are reciprocal. Tell HN: Did you know you can negotiate price on many things? | Hacker News
2022-03-26 07:19:22 Lisp is so powerful that problems which are technical issues in other programming languages are social issues in Lisp. The Lisp Curse
2022-03-26 07:57:05 The moral of this story is that secondary and tertiary effects matter. The Lisp Curse
2022-03-26 07:57:36 The moral of this story is that secondary and tertiary effects matter. Technology not only affects what we can do with respect to technological issues, it also affects our social behavior. This social behavior can loop back and affect the original technological issues under consideration. The Lisp Curse
2022-03-26 08:00:07 Employers much prefer that workers be fungible, rather than maximally productive. The Lisp Curse
2022-03-31 07:37:28 I’d like to see more attention put into carving out a subset of Mastodon’s functionality that would allow you to host your fediverse node on a static site, à la blog feeds powered by RSS/Atom. Mastodon 3.5 | Hacker News
2022-04-03 06:46:38 Inside every large graph is a small graph dying to get out. Tools for visualizing a codebase | Hacker News
2022-04-04 16:11:08 If you’re losing the game, try instead playing the different game that is one level up. The Universe of Discourse : Playing the game one level up
2022-04-05 16:56:07 Work is a lie, play the game. Exit interviews are a trap | Hacker News
2022-04-06 07:27:42 People get into game development because they want to have fun programming. Getting projects done involves a lot of things that are not fun, so it usually goes nowhere because the incentives are misaligned. Accidentally making a language, for an engine, for a game | Hacker News
2022-04-10 06:09:38 You’re well-aware of the benefits of a healthier lifestyle: less pain, more energy, more mobility and autonomy, a higher life expectancy, and so on and so forth ad nauseam. Unfortunately, this knowledge doesn’t compel you to action. Your behavior mostly follows simple hyperbolic discounting - healthy actions pay off in the future, but the future is far away, and your TV / smartphone / snack is much closer. Why Take Care Of Your Health? - LessWrong
2022-04-12 05:47:35 Relationships have two key components: ‘being close’ and ‘feeling close’. “Relationships have two key components: ‘being close’ and ‘feeling close’.”*… | (Roughly) Daily
2022-04-12 07:52:50 Decentralization comes at very high costs. A self-authenticating social protocol | Hacker News
2022-04-12 07:56:43 The young man, who does not know the future, sees life as a kind of epic adventure, an Odyssey through strange seas and unknown islands, where he will test and prove his powers, and thereby discover his immortality. The man of middle years, who has lived the future that he once dreamed, sees life as a tragedy; for he has learned that his power, however great, will not prevail against those forces of accident and nature to which he gives the names of gods, and has learned that he is mortal. But the man of age, if he plays his assigned role properly, must see life as a comedy. For his triumphs and his failures merge, and one is no more the occasion for pride or shame than the other; and he is neither the hero who proves himself against those forces, nor the protagonist who is destroyed by them. – John Williams in Augustus I thought I’d have accomplished a lot more today and also before I was 35 (2020) | Hacker News
2022-04-12 09:09:56 The fundamental difference between human society and ape society is that we humans keep track of several thousand people, and apes do not. Dunbar’s number and how speaking is 2.8x better than picking fleas | Hacker News
2022-04-12 09:22:44 villains never break up because they’re tenacious even when they love. kdramaspace
2022-04-13 07:31:36 dogs have owners, but cats have staff How Intelligent Are Cats? (2004) | Hacker News Copy
2022-04-14 07:57:07 Critic reviews are prescriptive: what they think the masses should watch. User reviews are retrospective: how much did they actually enjoy watching the movie. Are film critics losing sync with audiences? | Hacker News
2022-04-14 09:16:59 Among a multitude of stars, one stares down at me. Among a multitude of people, I stare up at that one star. As the night grows deeper, it fades into brightness and I disappear into darkness. Where, when, as what will the two of us… you, one so warm, and me, one so tender, meet again? Encounter – My Kdrama Addiction
2022-04-17 11:58:57 I’m exhausted. I don’t know when it all started to go wrong but I’m exhausted. Every relationship feels like work. Every moment that I’m awake feels like work. kdramaspace
2022-04-17 12:01:49 English is probably the worst language you could use to translate any Asian language into Lost in Translation: Drama Titles That Steer You in the Wrong Direction - MyDramaList
2022-04-19 20:08:07 This isn’t a friendship, it’s a starship. Are you a star or not?” Patch 41 – Release Notes | Star Trek Fleet Command
2022-05-08 13:24:27 I was someone who only had to survive today. But ever since I met Moon Soo, I began to wonder and wait for tomorrow. kdramaspace
2022-05-12 07:44:02 “We build our computer systems like we build our cities - over time, without a plan, on top of ruins.” — Ellen Ullman Ellen Ullman: We Have to Demystify Code (2017) | Hacker News
2022-05-19 07:45:31 We don’t have meaningful social connections anymore like our parents or their parents geeration had. We are so scattered, that I am unsure how many of my friends are actually friends and how many are just professional contacts. Everytime I switch job, almost 70% of my friends suddenly fall out of contact. Heck, I don’t even know the people who live in next apartments both left, right, up and down on the same building. Socializing with my friends mean, setting up an appointment weeks ahead to see if we can align on a free-slot and this often involves all of us commuting to somewhere and disbanding by 22:00 hours because family, work next morning, chores to do, doctor appointment and other human things. Why do you waste so much time on the internet? | Hacker News
2022-05-25 04:38:51 We’re lovers only during the good times, and a burden to each other in the bad times. Quotes From ‘Twenty-Five Twenty-One’ that will make Your Heart Ache | allkpop
2022-05-26 04:48:58 Status replaces achievement https://www.gleech.org/2022/04/30/status-is-a-wall.html
2022-06-05 09:23:29 The “news” makes very little impact on the average person’s daily life. Why won’t some people pay for news? | Hacker News
2022-06-13 05:07:13 If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. Feeling like a victim is a perfectly disastrous way to go through life | Hacker News
2022-06-20 07:45:57 I’ve never been able to say what I really want to. I’m not talking about yammering away just to feel like I exist. I want to say something that will allow me to relax. Conversations, words… that somehow feel restful. kdramaspace
2022-06-25 07:40:54 Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument “Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument”*… | (Roughly) Daily
2022-07-03 06:07:14 Hierarchies make people optimize for raising in the hierarchy, and accumulating power, at the expense of actually doing what the group needs. Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity | Hacker News
2022-07-15 07:00:28 Just because you’re not crying doesn’t mean you’re not sad. Just because you’re smiling, doesn’t mean you’re happy. Radio Romance K-pop and K-drama quotes — Just because you’re not crying doesn’t mean you’re…
2022-07-24 06:14:05 your job will never love you back Tell HN: I have the perfect job, why is it not enough? | Hacker News
2022-07-24 14:52:51 When the vally is deep, the peak is high – Why Her?
2022-07-27 07:48:09 In typography, an asterism, ⁂, is a typographic symbol consisting of three asterisks placed in a triangle, which is used for a variety of purposes. Asterism (typography) - Wikipedia
2022-07-31 13:41:29 You start playing with you words… And once you start enjoying drawing attention to yourself with your words… theres no turning back Writers of Dramaland: Park Hae Young - MyDramaList
2022-08-07 05:39:08 Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. - Gustave Flaubert You can be both dull and innovative | Hacker News
2022-08-10 18:53:25 Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance “Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance”*… | (Roughly) Daily
2022-08-11 19:15:39 Wouldn’t we all be happier if we just accepted people for what they are instead of being disappointed with them for what they’re not? The Orville: New Horizons Season 3 Episode 10: “Future Unknown” Quotes - TV Fanatic
2022-08-13 18:48:55 if you fail in a way that is common, nobody blames you Ask HN: Why did smartphones become a single point of failure? | Hacker News
2022-08-14 13:27:23 by which the future life expectancy of some non-perishable things, like a technology or an idea, is proportional to their current age. Thus, the Lindy effect proposes the longer a period something has survived to exist or be used in the present, the longer its remaining life expectancy. The disproportionate influence of early tech decisions — brandur.org
2022-08-14 14:19:00 If you want good grades, study. If you want to lose weight, exercise. If you want to communicate, make an effort. 100+ Quotes From “Extraordinary Attorney Woo” – KORB
2022-08-20 07:27:24 real world software development is a never-ending series of compromises Thoughts on why sometimes programming/software engineering discussions suck | Hacker News
2022-09-06 05:01:33 Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on “Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on”*… | (Roughly) Daily
2022-09-08 06:53:38 Hard times create strong men. Strong men create autocratic dynasties. Autocratic dynasties create supernumerary bureaucracies. Supernumerary bureaucracies create eunuch castes. Eunuch castes create drama. Drama creates Heavenly displeasure. Heavenly displeasure creates hard times. Book Review: 1587, a Year of No Significance | Hacker News
2022-09-09 06:44:33 The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings “The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings”*… | (Roughly) Daily
2022-09-11 14:18:16 Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people “Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people”*… | (Roughly) Daily
2022-09-13 07:08:03 There is one thing we must remember in our lifetime. We weren’t born in this world to suffer or feel miserable. We were born to be happy. 100+ Quotes From “Our Blues” Korean Drama – KORB
2022-09-16 07:04:37 Read the first 50 pages, if the author hasn’t earned your attention by then, you can stop reading. You’ll never read all the good books anyway, don’t waste your time on the bad ones. Reading fast, reading well, and reading widely (2020) | Hacker News
2022-09-18 05:35:54 Everyone you meet is living a story that you know nothing about Everyone you meet is living a story that you know nothing about | Hacker News
2022-09-21 07:48:04 Look, sir, I know Angua. She’s not the useless type. She doesn’t stand there and scream helplessly. She makes other people do that Look, sir, I know Angua. She’s not the useless… - Quotes from Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Books
2022-10-07 06:27:17 Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance “Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance”*… | (Roughly) Daily
2022-10-31 05:30:33 Awareness leads to empathy. How I survived a year in ‘the hole’ without losing my mind | Hacker News
2022-11-06 07:48:06 We don’t pay people based on how hard they work. If we did, stay at home parents would be filthy rich. Programmers should plan for lower pay (2019) | Hacker News
2022-11-12 11:52:02 Do you not know, my son, with how very little wisdom the world is governed? The world is run by people no smarter than you | Hacker News
2022-12-11 08:26:41 It may help to disdain boredom in a moral sense. “Only boring people get bored”. get hype
2022-12-14 06:33:06 If intelligence enables a person to identify problems, and problems make a person unhappy, then an intelligent person will have at least one factor that tends to increase unhappiness. If you’re so smart, how come you’re not happy? | Hacker News
2022-12-15 06:41:53 All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust The Evolution of Trust
2022-12-19 05:12:48 Looks are a major driver of getting matches on dating apps but have zero predictive power for relationship satisfaction. Why Are Women Hot? – Put A Number On It!
2022-12-20 06:33:51 Since you’re a fallible human, you will screw things up. And when you do, you’ll be tempted to mislead and cast blame elsewhere. Resist. Advice on being managed
2022-12-24 14:40:51 The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time. The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time. Zeno’s Paradox and Why Modern Technology is Rubbish – Terence Eden’s Blog
2022-12-25 15:24:11 Tests usually cannot prove absence of defects. But they can show presence of defects I found a bug in SQLite | Hacker News
2022-12-27 06:20:50 I think boredom is a real force that pushes ourselves to the edge, to hopefully make a change in life, like going out to see real people. Social media creates this cozy, safe place to keep your mind occupied, letting life pass without realizing it. Social media may prevent users from reaping creative rewards of profound boredom | Hacker News
2022-12-28 06:38:53 It’s a bit harder with cats, because they’re made entirely out of cat. “It’s a bit harder with cats, because they’re made entirely out of cat.” | MetaFilter
2023-01-01 07:22:13 2022 EOF
2023-01-07 06:54:59 Depression is not about how things are but how things seem. An ontology of hope — nutcroft
2023-01-27 10:10:39 Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. Pluralistic: Tiktok’s enshittification (21 Jan 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
2023-02-05 09:10:43 I did the best I could with the motivation I had. mastodon.cloud
2023-02-05 14:07:32 It’s Easier To Fool People Than To Convince Them That They’ve Been Fooled mastodon.cloud
2023-02-18 15:58:23 There is a Polish saying that great Polish literature requires three people to suffer: the main character, the writer and the reader. If all three are suffering book becomes part of the school curriculum. A genius at suffering | Hacker News
2023-02-19 13:49:36 The worst thing about being smart is how easy it is to talk yourself into believing just about anything. After all, you make really good arguments. Effective altruism has a sexual harassment problem, women say | Hacker News
2023-02-21 05:15:51 You shouldn’t rely on what you believe to be true. You might be mistaken. Everything can be questioned, everything doubted. The best option, then, is to keep an open mind. Scepticism
2023-02-26 18:52:33 We do what we do; not because it is easy, but because we thought it would be easy. From Ugly to Beautiful | Hacker News
2023-03-05 11:22:36 I like coffee because it gives me the illusion that I might be awake Coffee
2023-03-09 05:41:54 Governments become self-interested entities. The Absurdity of Income Tax | Hacker News
2023-04-02 19:30:34 Writing doesn’t just clarify your existing ideas; it generates more of them. Engineers Need to Write | Hacker News
2023-04-03 06:44:50 I’ve always said if you want to get a developer to do something, just question their intelligence. This works on way too may otherwise smart people. Managers exploit loyal workers over less committed colleagues | Hacker News
2023-05-26 06:24:19 Rules are created to optimize outcomes, not to be logically consistent. Blackmail as a Victimless Crime: Reply to Altman (1998) | Hacker News
2023-06-16 17:24:16 People are happy if they are healthy, well fed, see the people they care about are happy, don’t live in anxiety all the time, and feel what they do day for day has some kind of meaning. Experiences won’t make you happier than possessions | Hacker News
2023-06-16 17:32:54 If everybody contemplates the infinite instead of fixing the drains, many of us will die of cholera Helpful context for thinking about AI
2023-07-02 08:25:46 “I make people laugh everyday, but all I have is pain and sadness” Taiwan in Time: Taiwan’s tragic Charlie Chaplin - Taipei Times
2023-07-12 18:54:28 Changing your mind is hard because it’s easier to fool yourself into believing a falsehood than admit a mistake. Mental Liquidity · Collab Fund
2023-07-23 10:41:47 Speculation, accusation, defamation, and conspiracies will always get more eyeballs then careful balanced well researched reporting. Lying about something now is cheaper and more profitable than sending a reporter out and getting the facts tomorrow. Forget Spotify for news – let’s fix the real problem (2017) | Hacker News
2023-07-26 12:15:40 I heard that people confuse what they want to do with what they want to become. 80+ Quotes | King The Land (2023) – KORB
2023-08-19 17:53:45 Contrary to popular belief, burnout isn’t caused by a lack of work-life balance. It’s driven more by the lack of ability to do meaningful work. Why I Find Bullshit Work Intolerable | Hacker News
2023-11-18 09:21:08 - does this need to be said? - does this need to be said by me? - does this need to be said by me, now? When to Shut Up: A Visual Guide (With Included Algorithm) | Hacker News
2023-12-17 05:49:06 Learn to recognize kindness and do not mistake it for niceness. Kind people are always nice. Nice people aren’t always kind. Life lessons from a 44 year old (2022) | Hacker News
2023-12-29 15:15:42 In society in general there is only a weak correlation between skill and reward in lots of places and the variance in outcomes is very high and is dominated by factors like the socioeconomic background of your parents, race, gender etc that you don’t control. How to Become a Great Software Engineer | Hacker News
2024-01-15 17:51:17 We derive pleasure from anticipation, so ensure there are a number of things to look forward to. If Money Doesn’t Make You Happy Then You Probably Aren’t Spending It Right [pdf] | Hacker News
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