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We are social animals that thrive in groups, not as lone individuals. This requires certain social behaviors.
Modern technology has made a mockery of the days when it took an entire family's labor just to raise an acre or two of crops.
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#202Investing. Read a few solid, no BS books by people like Bernstein. Realize that there is a ton of BS out there. Develop your own investing strategy and execute it yourself. In the end you save money, get some financial security and stop asking yourself “do I know what i’m doing?”
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#203Readline —- I’m sometimes amazed at the number of relatively seasoned developers who don’t know simple commands like ctrl-r. This one really pays off because almost all shells and repls like ipython or the mysql client implement it. Sample cheat sheet: https://readline.kablamo.org/emacs.html You don’t have to learn it all, but mastering the basics like moving to the end/beginning on the line, moving/deleting by word,…
If you're a vi user, edit ~/.inputrc and add: set editing-mode vi set keymap vi-command This changes readline behavior from emacs to vi. This, along with "set -o vi" in bash, are really handy (though can be frustrating for others if you ever share a keyboard pair programming).
I’m a vim person, but I feel like the modal workflow does not work well at all in a shell.
Re: Ask HN: What things have richly rewarded the time invested in mastering them?
#204Investing. Read a few solid, no BS books by people like Bernstein. Realize that there is a ton of BS out there. Develop your own investing strategy and execute it yourself. In the end you save money, get some financial security and stop asking yourself “do I know what i’m doing?”
Re: Ask HN: What things have richly rewarded the time invested in mastering them?
#205Investing. Read a few solid, no BS books by people like Bernstein. Realize that there is a ton of BS out there. Develop your own investing strategy and execute it yourself. In the end you save money, get some financial security and stop asking yourself “do I know what i’m doing?”
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#206> Your most important asset is your ability to produce income. You... may want to reconsider that one.
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#208Earlier quoted context omitted.
We are social animals that thrive in groups, not as lone individuals. This requires certain social behaviors.
Modern technology has made a mockery of the days when it took an entire family's labor just to raise an acre or two of crops.
Re: Ask HN: What things have richly rewarded the time invested in mastering them?
#209Computer Science degree. Sure, lots of us "learnt" programming in our bedrooms or whatever by doing our own thing and messing about in whatever language. I went into my compsci degree arrogantly thinking that I pretty much knew how to code already so please just give me the bit of paper saying I have the degree and I'll be on my way thanks very much. I was very wrong. Although I was pretty good at the coding (or at l…
Things like dependency injection work the same in most languages so it's more helpfull to understand what it solves than how to solve it in language [x]