using `Ctrl + r` in your shell, I just hope someone reading this doesn't know it yet :-)
Building on this, infinite shell history. Google how to set it up for your shell.
What Is the Most Valuable Thing You Can Learn in One Hour?
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#132Vim. 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.
The tutorial that comes with Vim is quite good.
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#133Learn to cook one or two simple dishes that don't take a lot of time to prepare.
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#135I will tell you from experience that one cannot learn "cooking" in a single hour, any more than one can learn "music" in an hour.
Meh of course you are not going to be Gordon Ramsey in an hour. To read how to cook rice, get to know when meat is ready (if you buy meat from supermarket you probably can under cook it and still be fine) and how to boil/prepare some vegetables. Then that hour where you read instructions for 10-20 mins, did an experiment that took next 30 mins... Voilà you can now cook the same thing for next couple weeks in only 30 mins without reading recipe again.
Now when you know how to cook one thing you can try out some other stuff which will be small investment because you have some base from cooking that one meal for some time.
I am by no means a chef (so not going to impress anyone with my cooking skills because it still is just basic stuff) but I am not afraid of cooking, I can now quite confidently experiment and I started with baking chicken breasts and boiling rice.
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#136This year I learned to knit and I would say it took about an hour of watching videos and just trying. Of course like the article mentions it wasn't until more practice that I became pretty good at it. If anyone has thought about knitting, it is very easy and I find it relaxing on my mind to just take my focus off of something.
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#137Vim. 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.
OK, it's been about an hour. I learned the following:
- there's a visual mode for selecting text
- I can now yank and paste text in normal mode
- I learned to use :split and :vsplit to open new files, and ctrl-w to switch between them
- I learned a few new navigation commands
- I learned that there's a replace mode (R)
Definitely useful, and I hope I remember everything the next time I open vim!
But I still feel like I'm just scraping the surface. One hour is very little time to learn about the power of vim.
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#138Excel hot keys
You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nbkaYsR94c
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#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
What crowd are you in where most people have all their money in a savings account? That is borderline financial suicide.
My family. Women I’ve dated. I’m back in my hometown for Christmas now and talking to people I knew from school. The average person doesn’t know about this stuff (though most likely has some proportion invested through the default option in their 401(k)). I mean damn, my aunt’s husband died recently and we had to bail her out of 10k credit card debt where she was paying interest. The Hacker News crowd probably knows…
If it ever comes up that you talk to them about it there are many sources of good information. But just to name one, https://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/ is pretty good, I think. (Not associated.) There is a book that I gave my kids.
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#140Taking 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…
The book was released today. https://www.amazon.com/Tiny-Habits-Changes-Change-Everything... I wrote some educational apps for language learning. Are there techniques that I could use to help and motivate my users?
The book was released today but you can still buy a used copy on Amazon. Were those pre-releases or something? Odd.