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I'm super passionate about Swing Dancing. I learned some of it in Highschool but started learning Lindy Hop in college. Unfortunately I had to skip the latest event my friends went to because I'm sick, but I really want to get back out there. A _fantastic_ video. Look at how well all the leads communicate to their follows what to do without any verbal directions. They use their movements to direct the dance. I'm not…
Hello from Astana, Kazakhstan. I just spent wonderful night playing World of Warcraft, coding some lua addon for it and tinkering with VPS. It's Sunday's morning and I'm going to prepare more coffee. Now I need to endure till the evening so I can actually attend work at Monday with proper schedule. At work I'm working on creating an ECG device which hopefully will be useful and cheap for local hospitals. And some oth…
I've been passionate about learning classical guitar for a few years, but that's really ramped up since COVID lockdowns. I'm working through a standardized exam system, and completed my grades 5, 6, 7 and recently, 8. During part of the process I realized that I wanted to get feedback on my raw practice sessions - think 30 minutes warming up with C major scales, followed by an hour working on one line of a piece - so…
While I can't play this guy's yet, my winter project is to take a shot at one of Alan Mearns' new arrangements. (https://www.alanmearns.com/) Highly recommend, and godspeed!
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If the administrators of this site do not understand, that by not removing such comments, they become themselves what the poster obviously is, they have a very big problem. They have an even bigger problem if they do understand.
We also know there are not 10s of thousands of russian trolls and hackers doing the samw to us.
I am currently in this phase where tech stuff does not interest me very much. I still work a tech job and do a fair bit of coding, but mostly put a stop to obsessively reading every tech article on this website, code up something new in my free time, learn a new language etc. Sometime during the pandemic, I stopped caring, perhaps fell into a bit of anhedonia. Thankfully, reading HN kept me informed about boreout (th…
>informed about boreout (the relatively unknown cousin of burnout). Thank you for giving a word to this vague thing that I thought was unique to my situation. I worked as the solo IT guy for a small firm of about 50 people, half in house, and when I started in 1998 I was busy 40 hours per week... at the end in 2012 I'd show up and wait for things to break. That job broke me Ever since I'm afraid to start projects, or…
Over time it's been teaching me to say no to projects when they're out of scope or beyond my ability. I used to say "I'll try" to everything which led to some great learning experiences but also a lot of stress and disappointment. Still trying to find some kind of balance there.
None of the tech.
Laurus. This book was awesome. But no one I know has read it and I just want to talk about it. Maybe finding those random strangers to talk about it with is part of the spirit of the internet of old.
I've read it and really loved it. Was thinking about that book just yesterday and mixing up some of the themes with The Aviator (related to time). With Laurus the main thing to me was the sense of a living in a world where people thought and valued differently, and not a kind of made for TV Game of Thrones modern-people-living-in-a-medieval world thing. Have you read others of the author's work?
But that was the main thing I noticed, was like, this is a world that thinks completely different from me.
Hello from California. I'm a full stack developer. Primarily Scala/JS/TS. I do some Haskell and Python on the side. Love functional programming. I built a bunch of Haskell projects that people still use. I don't have the time to maintain them anymore. Want to get back into it again. Kind of want to learn Rust. I'm currently trying to build Strava for the command line because I like minimalism. Want to build a few iOS…
I love Haskell! I once wrote an interpreter for an OOP language with Haskell, and I've loved the elegance ever since.
I finished a coaching certification program recently and I've come to realize that this personal development work is basically a form of "self-coaching". Now I'm passionate about helping other people with their personal development, through teaching self-coaching skills and partnering one-on-one with people who are ready for that kind of thing.