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Yeah this kind of stuff makes my blood boil. One can shame and belt their kid into compliance, and it might even get them (barely, only if they're lucky) all the way through univer…

To add a data point, I used to do Pomodoro timing (25+5 min) but now switched to 15 min timer with a loose 2-5 min break. It's still hard to actually pull out of hyper-focus/anxiou…

Reminded me of one of my favourite text-art/PETSCII adjacent creators I follow - Mrmo - who creates satisfying retro stuff like this custom font/tileset: https://mrmotarius.itch.io…

Suburbs are not the only place to raise kids though. Probably not the best place for it either.

One clever hack I've seen is Yield Prolog ( https://yieldprolog.sourceforge.net/ ) which basically translates the querying/backtracking execution model into mainstream language syn…

I also want to mention the Lichee Pi Nano, though it is much smaller and targeting a different use case: https://www.cnx-software.com/2018/08/17/licheepi-nano-cheap-... . Made an e…

I'd say for 95% of data fetches https://github.com/slorber/react-async-hook works really well without needing generator syntax or explicit promise cancellation boilerplate. I'm not…

At least for parsing PDF into table I had decent success with Tabula.

The fact that choosing to use Uber represents a certain amount of trust in the driver (basic background check, identity information, etc), makes it more than lead generator or tran…

Law as an industry is pretty dysfunctional. Plenty of data governance issues, losing track of documents, etc. A lot is at stake there, for sure, but that's actually the thing that …

I had some success with https://www.beeminder.com/ in my short time of using it so far. Essentially, it moves items from "important + not urgent" quadrant to "not important + urgen…

Apparently, Peter Naur (the N in BNF) wrote this up nicely back in 1985 in "Programming as Theory Building": http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf

This is a really neat looking project (and the GH readme references the original HN discussion). For folks who are generally into TTY UIs and dashboards, I also want to point out t…

Rules like DRY or keeping line counts low are based on surface metrics and definitely lead people to over-fit the model based on incomplete information. Underlying principle of mai…

This is an impressively thorough walkthrough.

I think one of the biggest saps of motivation in that situation is that even successes are meaningless. Because one instinctively doubts the whole thing then (even a broken clock i…

Re #2: - patio11 recently fired off a few tweets about doing away with comments on his blog: https://twitter.com/patio11/status/813895918692876289 Can't say I would disagree. A lot…

I became so much happier when I realized how much my education-minded parents and my environment gave me a leg up (even in the economically declining Eastern Europe of the time). H…

Most performance problems with websites/webapps out there are just due to sheer nastiness of the shovelware that they embed. No need to have fine-tuned debugging and profiling when…

People need to be reminded of obvious things. In this case especially because there is active pressure to collect things - from your typical BigBoxCo flyers, sales, TV doorcrashers…

Every approach has ups and downs, but my fundamental gripe with ORM as it exists is that it does not match business data model very well. Here is a shameless link to something I wr…

One thing to remember, too, is that the original Facebook was quite different from what we have today. It focused on personal profiles, and had features of almost like a dating sit…

It makes sense to have centrality of vision for how code should be laid out. This is software architecture (as skill and role, not title though!). And as people have a limited focu…