Viewing profile — koz_

> Power naps started working for me nicely once I removed the stressful requirement of actually having to sleep. This is a lesson I keep having to relearn, that rest without sleep …

Love this. How much suffering have I inflicted on myself from the sheer refusal to accept that forces other than my own will play a part in determining my destiny?

> 'In the beginner's mind, there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few' This is a great quote. Once one knows how to do something the "right" way it becomes ve…

I remember getting a new lease on life with Factorio when I gave myself permission to start again as much as I wanted. Before that I would overcommit to every base, thinking that t…

This definitely applies to programming as well. It's not uncommon to see people happily churning out mountains of highly redundant and repetitive code, or zealously pursuing far-re…

By that logic one shouldn't ever criticise let's say, Google (a separate entity), because in theory one could get a job there, work their way up to be CEO and then change how the c…

I used to suffer from regret a lot and I'm not entirely sure how I got over it. It could be just that I'm older and have had more opportunities to see that no matter how many of my…

Smart people are just as given as anybody to the idea that happiness is about controlling outcomes, hence they are no happier. The desire to control outcomes is correlated with unh…

I don't know, is it more precise to say words like "encapsulated", "testable", "mockable" and "reusable"? Aren't these all essentially the same thing? Suppose you have a class that…

Your comment describes my perspective almost to a T. I used to put a lot of stock in the idea of retiring early and then being free to do whatever I wanted, but what I want is to b…

I agree that VS Code is easier to edit code in, but Emacs is easier to program and extend. Ease of use simply isn't why people use Emacs and I think that at this point it would be …

I think what people mean when they say REPL-driven is to have a headless REPL that one never actually interacts with directly, but rather sends it snippets of code for evaluation d…

The author of the code is going to have to discover how these APIs work somehow, right? Why would the code end up worse if the author has access to a particular tool for interactin…

Ah I see, thanks for setting me straight. I must have conflated someone's later reading of the poem with the author's original intent.

This is my favourite poem and was before I even knew how layered and knotty it is. In addition to its obvious interpretation it's also about readers and reading, how even if you ar…

That's interesting. I can imagine in cases like this it's not necessarily that the doctor doubts their own diagnosis, but rather the AI is essentially offering to relieve them of r…

The thing is boring tech is often really just painful tech, where pain manifests in lots of different ways (error-prone repetition, painful manual testing, hard to read spaghetti c…

It's pretty clever advertising really. I don't imagine that having noticed an HTTP header would really give an applicant much of a boost in the interview process, but to some it pr…

Reminds me of when my team at bigcorp noticed that you got given a badge on your personal page for being quick to respond to code reviews. Cut to suddenly every code review being i…

The creator of the course, Professor Laurie Santos also has a podcast on the same topic which is quite good: https://www.happinesslab.fm/

This allergy to reality is surely the biggest trap not just for startups but people in general. It's surprising but I feel like the norm is for people to care far more about feelin…

It's not that Gmail has a dominant position and so doesn't need to care about its rating - Gmail is an app not a page and it's less important for apps to load quickly than pages. A…

This is an attempt by Google to influence the bloated websites out there, rather than a browser feature intended to attract users. It's probably mildly helpful as a user to know if…

Hooks are great! I can sympathise with those suffering from JS fatigue, but I don't think they are merely a prettier/different syntax for doing the same thing, they are a significa…

I think Google's interests are aligned with developer interests here. The main benefit to GCP that k8s success brings is that migration between clouds becomes easier (e.g. moving f…