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#17 Rest before you are tired Time really is a constraint. It does not make much sense to try to work all the time in order to achieve your goals. As programmers, we really ought t…

Journalism ought to strive for compact, quality pieces that can be read at a fast pace. Many articles posted are much longer than they need to be, and their information density is …

I wonder what happens if you take away the reward. Neurons firing is related to energy. The reward has an associated amount of energy. Can it be something as simple as just distrib…

But is the BS intentional and is it always necessarily false? Or can it be something that is hard to communicate? "The Way that can be spoken of is not the eternal Way." Is this bu…

The article gives some interesting perspective. It talks about security vs. stress. What will be interesting is security vs. motivation. Wondering to what extent the author is moti…

Space is hard to get. So much of software involves spaces of some kind and yet we do not seem to think about it very well. Notions of space within software are so often either very…

Personally, I have enjoyed working in Qt. For anyone looking to get going, I recommend practicing by transcribing the example code and then try tweaking it a little (and more so fo…

You could start by writing comments. There is little chance of any bugs coming from that. If there are any tests available then you could work on understanding the tests and then s…

Here is the argument in a nutshell (if I read it right): (1) The economy not really working that great even though it is working as intended. So it cannot be fixed, because it is n…

Life is short, art long. If you cannot escape the bullshit, you might at least make an art of bullshitting. ;)

If I am reading this right, the argument goes something like this: (1) Nietzsche was anti-academic and did his best work independently. (2) He was against academia being used as a …

Would anyone, personally, take something like this as an opportunity to do open source work and/or research projects? Or do you feel like you want/need money as a motivator to be y…

While it is possible to disagree and argue that life really is like chess in different ways, the article still does a nice job of comparing and contrasting two different metaphors …

Motivation to innovate is going to based on the desire to produce value. That value is going to be based on the enduring value of whatever it replaces. So, to do good at innovation…

How does this compare to, say, a Q&A site where one gets positive feedback for answering random questions? Is the reason why people leave because they cannot do the work that they …

Solving bugs is not glamorous, but it does help with learning a code base and it gives you goals to hit and will make you feel like you are contributing. I find that the more that …

""I don’t know, it looks weird. It’s the picture on the TV; it just looks … too real." To me it often rather looks like everything is fake. Would be interested to see if there were…

This article covers the supply side (people stating that AI is a risk), and it is good have a counteracting force showing the lack of proof. There is also the demand side: fear. Ne…

Nice concept. It is good to question whether what you are doing is really worth it. Seems to me one of the challenges going forward with personal management is to not only set goal…

The article is not convincing that these are natural monopolies. What happened to AOL and AIM? What happened to MySpace? There is also this recent article about Chinese innovation:…

Adopt / make nutrition software and set up a diet where I am sure I am getting 100% RDA of each nutrient.

Came across this debate about OO: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4245737 Thought the discussion was pretty good. Was frustrated with OO at the time and wanting to get away fr…

From what I am reading, the author is saying they are effectively time slicing their week. Each day is like a "task", in the software sense, that gets to run and make progress to i…

It is interesting how the designers were not themselves authoritative.

The best part of the article is the concrete image of the milk cartons. On first seeing the image, your mind is going to tend to think things ought to be one way. Then it comes out…