nico λ
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just a hacker tryna survive
nico λ
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The personal development / productivity space is littered with conflicting advice of varying utility. It attracts the intellectually promiscuous. Commitment-phobic concept sluts endlessly dabble with frameworks and tools, hoping to someday reach a moment of certainty when they’ll finally take action…99% of self-help is escapism.
Daniel Kazandjian • 80/20 Personal Development
In this world, with content as a supreme cultural value, it’s better for something to be interesting than ethically sound. Widespread attention bestows an aura; becoming content is how reality is made real.
Drew Austin • The grifter content mill
I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important. Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.
Arend van Beelen jr. • Post-Architecture: Premature Abstraction Is the Root of All Evil
The world of quantum mechanics and quantum field theory introduce a different conception of what things are though. It turns out that elementary particles can’t be thought of as individual ‘things’ which have a volume. In fact, if particles did have a volume, physics wouldn’t work! We would end up with "surfaces" of electrons behaving in an... See more
An Intuitive Guide to Maxwell’s Equations
There have been a number of studies that survey overdose deaths across the country, but in particular, a study from NYU which compared Oregon's rates of overdose fatalities to data from states that didn't have decriminalization initiatives. What they found is that there was not any statistically meaningful difference between deaths in Oregon and... See more
Drug recriminalization in Oregon: 5 Questions for attorney Jon Dennis
- Simple and explicit control flow : Favor straightforward control structures over complex logic. Simple control flow makes code easier to understand and reduces the risk of bugs. Avoid recursion if possible to keep execution bounded and predictable, preventing stack overflows and uncontrolled resource use.
Tiger Style
Never be afraid to say that you don’t know something
Don’t be afraid to ask for help
We all suffer(ed) impostor syndrome
Don’t be afraid to ask for help
We all suffer(ed) impostor syndrome
Ólafur Waage • Advice to new Programmers
The contrarian’s enemy is not only random conformists. It’s also ridiculously smart people who have studied the topic in incredible depth and concluded that they’re wrong. And as we all know from certain creative offshoots of rock, paper, scissors, high-IQ mega autists beats public intellectual.
Bentham's Bulldog • Losing Faith In Contrarianism
We have to give up. You surrender to the reality that things just take the time they take, and that you can’t quiet your anxieties by working faster, because it isn’t within your power to force reality’s pace as much as you feel you need to, and because the faster you go, the faster you’ll feel you need to go. If you can let those fantasies... See more