Having worked with non-technical people, one of the most useful things you can learn in an hour (less actually) is markdown.
What Is the Most Valuable Thing You Can Learn in One Hour?
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#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
"In the long term" is the important point there. Index funds are not a replacement for FDIC insured accounts. You should be using both.
I did not write that you should only use index funds for everything. In fact I wrote you should follow the Reddit personal finance flowchart.
Yeah, I wasn't disagreeing with you. I was reinforcing something you said.
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#93Take an hour to sit in a quiet room without any stimulation. You'll learn a lot about your mental situation, and understanding where you are is really helpful for understanding where to go (if anywhere).
"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” - French philosopher Blaise Pascal
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#94Taking this also as a bit of an Ask HN: Easily the Tiny Habits habit formation regime created by Stanford researcher BJ Fogg. A lot of the addictive design patterns you see in apps like Snapchat, Instagram, etc. are built off his research. Quite nefarious use of psychology for advertising/“engagement”, but the plus side is you can use the same strategies to build habits you want to build. Step 1: Consider the habit y…
In my case the flossing problem was solved by trying out certain rubber sticks made for that purpose. They're MUCH more convenient to use than the classic dental floss and make the whole process quicker, to a degree it took me almost no effort to consistently do it every day.
Do you have any brand to recommend?
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#95Vim. I think it can be in the list as well. It takes a long time to properly learn. But one hours is defiantly enough to get to know the main Vim bindings, to be as productive as in other editors. In the end it makes you super productive.
Serious question: I keep seeing Vim thrown up and down like it's the holy grail. I've been using VS Code for two years maybe now, and I don't see how Vim could help me be a better/more productive coder. What am I missing?
This is how I explain VIM to people (although I used to use it full time, I now use Atom with the VIM plugin):
Most of what programmers do is a lot of navigation and text manipulation correct? In normal scenarios, what keys are available to us to do that? Just the arrow keys and modifiers (Ctrl, Alt, Command).
But what if we had essentially the entire keyboard available to us for either text manipulation or navigation? We could move around or manipulate text in more efficient ways because we have more keys available to us to do different things (like say "delete until the next closed parenthesis" rather than control shift right-arrow 20 times).
That's why VIM is useful for programmers or anyone who manipulates plain text all day.
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#96Vim. I think it can be in the list as well. It takes a long time to properly learn. But one hours is defiantly enough to get to know the main Vim bindings, to be as productive as in other editors. In the end it makes you super productive.
> one hours is defiantly enough to get to know the main Vim bindings
I'm going to do an experiment. I've been struggling with Vim for a long time. I need to leave in about one hour. Instead of wasting time here on HN, I'll now spend an hour learning Vim.
I doubt that this will get me very far, but I'll let you know how far I got.
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#97First aid is good. Also general investing in index funds like VTSAX and VTIAX. It is so simple, yet most people I run into on a regular basis just save their money in a checking account earning 0.01% APY. Follow the reddit personal finance flowchart. Learn about Roth and HSAs and ESPP and the benefits of diversification. We’re literally talking about multiples of your net-worth over your life if you invest compared t…
Not USA, but if you have a KBC in your country (a Belgian bank, but you'll find them in other EU countries) they offer a quite easy way to start investing in index funds. Essentially, each time you use your debit card, they round up the amount you owe the shop, and put that in a special account. For each 10 euro in that account - they invest it. So for example, let's say I go to the shops and pay 9.30 for groceries.…
I wonder if this can have a detrimental effect for compulsive buyers: “Oh I shouldn’t buy this widget but a chunk of it will go towards my retirement anyway!”
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
Serious question: I keep seeing Vim thrown up and down like it's the holy grail. I've been using VS Code for two years maybe now, and I don't see how Vim could help me be a better/more productive coder. What am I missing?
This is how I explain VIM to people (although I used to use it full time, I now use Atom with the VIM plugin): Most of what programmers do is a lot of navigation and text manipulation correct? In normal scenarios, what keys are available to us to do that? Just the arrow keys and modifiers (Ctrl, Alt, Command). But what if we had essentially the entire keyboard available to us for either text manipulation or navigatio…
> Most of what programmers do is a lot of navigation and text manipulation correct?
Possibly I'm a terrible programmer, but most of what I do is thinking and looking shit up. Entering or modifying code, and navigating non-linearly within one file is like... a couple percent of what I do on an average day? Maybe 5% tops? Some days it may get as high as 20% of my time. Maybe.
[EDIT] add "communicating", broadly, to the list of things I do a lot of at work that's not editing code.
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
The vim key bindings can help you write code faster and more efficiently. Try the vim plugin for vscode. It's pretty good.
I'm always skeptical of this claim (and yes I do know vim fairly well). Programming isn't that much typing. For every burst of typing there's probably an equally long or longer lull where you are leaning back and looking at the screen or sketching something out on paper. If your productivity is limited by how fast you can type then you are either a far, far better programmer than most people or your skills are being…
Vim commands are more than just typing. It’s searching, deleting, replacing, selecting, moving entire lines of code.
I can get to any location in a massive codebase within seconds. I can drop the cursor to any character I see damn near instantly. I can construct entire macros on the fly and repeat them endlessly until I’m satisfied and destroy repetitive tasks. I can move entire sections of code to anywhere else I please, just tell the line numbers and it’s done. I don’t even have to open the files. When you’re working really fast in Vim it’s easy to get a high from the amount of code you are slicing through.
In short, classical editors are like a ball and chain for developers trying to get shit done, and I cringe every time I see a developer using a mouse or trackpad while working. It’s so slow, so inefficient, I can’t stand it anymore. I need vim-like shortcuts in every application I use.
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#100Excel hot keys