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I cant' believe it's almost 10 years since he died. My favorite quote of his is "Who needs a bucket list when you have love?” I wish more people would take his ideas seriously, esp…

Also sad that now all three are gone.

Elm started as a FRP language and ended up giving up FRP[1] for ease of use. If ease of use is targeted, signals might not be the best approach. I distinctly remember things becomi…

Pleasure is not the right goal. Homeostasis, balance, equanimity, peace are much better. Learn to appreciate beauty. Learn to create beauty. Learn how to get better at both.

Learn Argentine Tango. If you live in a big enough city, most likely there will be a tango community. Classes 2 times a week, one practica and one milonga and puff most of your wee…

I think that it is more important to remember that Montessori tried to bring education in the 20th century using the science that was available to her 100+ years ago. Most schools …

My favorite approach remains the Dome of Visions - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Bn2o-xyS6M

You might want to read first "How to Read a Book" and then proceed to the recommended list [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Read_a_Book#Reading_lis...

Long ago I found an approach to 3D modeling [1] that used a morphable model that was then morphed into the desired shape. Would something like this be possible for voice? A voice m…

> "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame." - CmdrTaco Apple is very good at maximizing "consumer satisfaction". This means giving consumer the best deal for their money consid…

I personally think the self-help movement peaked with "Lead the Field" by Earl Nightingale. The only things better than that program can be found in science backed endeavors from s…

Good enough for vertical markets and admin/back-office apps.

Go to Buenos Aires. Programming is draining on the brain and you need a way to disconnect from your project in order to rest your mind. Tango will provide you with the much needed …

Even good software runs in a context. The last commit I did was just to add a comment about a specific ordering in an argument to a function call that had to be that way to compens…

Hate is such a strong word and most likely not the best description here. We all have beliefs about reality and these beliefs generate a lot of emotions. We also interact with our …

Gerald Sussman of SICP fame was asked why they stop teaching SICP and he said that the way programming was being done changed mid 90s. It moved from programming from first principl…

> Why are people seemingly so drawn to identifying themselves as anything at all? This is biologically preconditioned. We have brain wiring for identifying "Us" and "Them". BigThin…

> I’ve never fully understood why the events emit a value of some message type In Elm, the Model can be updated faster than the DOM. In other words, the view is rendered at the spe…

> “Correlation doesn’t imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing ‘look over there.’” - Randall Munroe The way I see this is…

There is an interesting book coming out later this year: "The Bias That Divides Us: The Science and Politics of Myside Thinking" by Keith E. Stanovich (applied psychology professor…

Alan Kay said at one point: > I have always done my work in the context of a group that is set up to maximize a wide spread of talents and abilities. Just as “science” is “a better…

Hotmail offered 2Mb space and Yahoo proudly claimed "twice the space of other providers" with their 4Mb offer. I had a GMX.de account that was providing 25 Mb and felt like a king.…

Tim Ferriss is responsible for a large amount of studies on the effect of psilocybin on depression. I think he invested something like $2M in research.

Switching to using stack and cluster has simplified my layouts tremendously.