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The onset of frustration comes so much more quickly if you expect yourself NOT to be frustrated.

OP here. Link is in the github repo! You'll find my motivations for making this in the readme. It's still quite rough but I'd love to get some early feedback on the idea. If you'd …

#4 is interesting I've never heard that before. I recently graduated as well but from a heavily liberal-arts oriented uni. Most of my friends didn't even know a CS major even exist…

Yeah I think that's an important distinction. A lot of kids are picking up CS as a second major or as a minor because it's believed to make you more marketable for a non-tech field…

What is the biggest reason for this growth?

I posted a text description but just found out that you can't post both in a submission. This is still in the very alpha stages but here are the main ideas of the project: 1) Simpl…

Oh I see!

Ah sorry about that. Fixed!

> But can you say you will remember this insight in 6 months if you don't serendipitously encounter it again? 1 year? 5 years? Good point. I think I misunderstood your intention be…

Still pretty rough ... Emphasizes: 1) Simple, no-frill dashboard for managing posts (files). 2) Lightweight markdown editor 3) Relationships: taxonomy (file tagging) and fast linki…

In general it's absolutely relevant to not just solving A problem but the RIGHT problem. People might ask for X when they really want Y.

This is also a great article about HOW spaced repetition systems should be used in language acquisition: http://www.hackingchinese.com/if-you-think-spaced-repetition...

It's just a review tool designed for storing Question / Answer pairs to your long-term memory. Nothing else. If that means using it to review and remember specific answers to WHY q…

The best way to learn JS is very much the same as the best way to learn anything. If you don't know how to learn something effectively then no tool can help you. What do I mean by …

It's a great tool for memorizing things that need to be rote-memorized. Chinese characters often fall into that category. Arcane Chemistry vocabulary probably do as well. It's just…

> If you’re hanging out with your friends trying to come up with an idea, I don’t think you should start that company The difference between a founder that started a company this w…

> This is a ridiculous game, and I think every wise person should refuse to participate in it in the first place and set their own priorities. Regardless of whether or not that 19y…

Oh this is neat. Would be super cool if you could view how others did the same exercise.

> What I find surprising is that the recruiter still wants me to interview even after I explained who and what I am. Did you tell him that you're a psychopath? My point is that if …

> Don't think that the fact of recruiter getting in touch mean anything -- they are playing their own numbers game. Exactly. In some conversations I've had with fellow dev's they s…

I like live coding too but I think how much of it is acceptable depends on what you're trying to demonstrate. If you're doing a programming tutorial video then yes by all means typ…

Nice! I wonder if interactive programming might end up encouraging a trial and error approach to coding which can be a very bad habit. Just a minor tip: I feel like you spend way t…

You know what really pisses me off? When any change to your profile gets broadcasted to your entire network. This needs to be off by default. My "feed" is inundated with updates wi…