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Like you said, Meraki got better because the core team, including engineering and sales as well as the founders, stuck around for about two years. Things did go significantly downh…

Yeah, I was astounded by how quickly my singing improved when I started practicing with a metronome. Keeping time seems to me the easiest thing to improve if you focus on it (but t…

> If you look up "Victor Wooten Music Lesson" on YouTube I can't recommend Victor Wooten enough. His book "The Music Lesson" is also great.

> Grinding to make money in your thirties and beyond I sort of think grinding is generally wrong at any age. If you feel like you're grinding, perhaps it's time to take stock and c…

> Knowing what to want to know seems much harder. This is truly the most important question and one that only you can answer for yourself, unfortunately.

Not only have I never heard of this kind of "handbook" (in spite of having an advanced degree), it isn't clear to me how they actually would be a reliable source of wisdom. It soun…

> you have to CHANGE THE CODE YOU SHIPPED in order to properly debug it If I'm at the point where I need to debug a production process with breakpoints, I'd rather just find a new …

Many if not most "hard" science cultures (math, physics, etc.) have a strong undercurrent of competitive gamesmanship. In its worst form, it becomes about vanquishing your rivals m…

> You fault him for not knowing "there's no sex in the Champaign room" No, I fault him for being an entitled asshole. > I recommend that you don't look into the sex lives of famous…

> Other religions and subcultures didn't manage to make people afraid of speaking their mind on the Internet. Have you ever heard of gamergate? Do you have any idea what it's like …

Forgiveness doesn't mean that certain behavior was ok. Feynman was a very complicated figure. I find the stories he wrote about going to the strip club in Surely you're joking, Mr.…

Sure, but the lesson isn't necessarily that we should emulate this particular human, genius though he may have been.

The experience of time has as much to do with focus and your capacity to take in information at a given moment. With sports, it is quite possible to play for many years and never g…

I think people like the idea of democracy more than they like actual democracy. On some level, most people would agree that pure democracy as in one person one vote in every organi…

Raises the question whether or not anyone writing this kind of software actually uses it.

> All we need now is for some brave soul to improve Scala 3 support for treesitter, Brave soul is an understatement.

Sure, but an embedded database is still simpler than client/server. For many tasks, postgres does not offer any meaningful benefit over sqlite so why add the complexity?

The key to understanding Musk is that he truly believes that he will be the most powerful person in the world (see https://web.archive.org/web/20200725103243/https://www.nytim... f…

Yeah, it's sort of funny how much scorn people heap on astrology. I am not trying to convince anyone to take astrology seriously, but I think it's foolish to condescend to those wh…