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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

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