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Thanks for explaining why you made Rust--! I figured it was just whimsical play, and I find it delightful. I'm especially delighted to hear that it wasn't even hard to disable the …

> Your editor can’t help you out as you write it. Must not be a vim user.

Google Translate is not good for this sort of thing, since it has no clue what words mean or why they're used. Vide: https://latin.stackexchange.com/a/4352/118

Funny that you mention this. The inspiration for submitting this question was my frustration with teaching while in grad school. Each of my four semesters so far, I've taught or as…

It seems strange that there have (so far) been so few ideas that leverage the high productivity that ought to be possible with technology and the highly interconnected economy. (So…

Unarmed security guard. Some friends of mine long ago have done this. I don't know what the money is like these days (does anyone here know?), but I expect it's bad. The advantage …

Interesting that you don't need a lot of winning bets to make a living. What about losing bets, though? Isn't this a pretty high-risk way to make a living? Also, doesn't it require…

What's the easiest way to make a living today? By "easiest", I mean in terms of time and attention. The idea is to have lots of time to work on projects that you enjoy. That time h…

I always thought management looked like a job I'd hate. Now I'm completely sure.

Doing nothing seems so counterintuitive a solution that people almost never seem to consider it. Lately, I've been seeing this in college. "What, the students are making mistakes a…

An excerpt, describing the fragmentation of managers' time: Folklore: The Manager is a reflective, systematic planner. The evidence on this issue is overwhelming, but not a shred o…

I wonder if we're having a Violent Agreement. I'm not saying that you have to consciously play status ("decide to play"). I'm saying that when you interact with someone else, you a…

Actually, status (as described on that page) is something you play , moment to moment. You are giving off a signal of "don't come near me, I bite" or "don't bite me, I'm not worth …

Wow, so this is where this new influx of traffic to my wiki came from!

I would say maybe 20% (for me). Now that I'm back in college, this time assistant-teaching as well as taking grad-level classes and sneaking in time for research, I am more amazed …

I also dropped out of high school. I just stopped showing up, and spent my days writing code. Way better education than classes. About truant officers: One day, walking along the s…

Thanks to all for the many informed and detailed replies! I am now assistant-teaching a college course in low-level computer programming. It's an excellent course: the students rep…

Testify! 15 years ago, I did Intel-style assembly--and loved it even with all its clumsiness. But I just dove into ARM a few weeks ago, and am loving it even more. Such sweet pleas…

Thanks! Especially for the numbers. I had not even heard of RTL simulation before. Wow, extremely cool.

What is hand-coded assembly language used for these days? To put that another way, in the current marketplace, what kinds of program are so worthy of optimization that it's economi…

The first rule of programming is indeed "don't program". But that's not because buying off-the-shelf code makes you more productive than writing code yourself. It's because softwar…