aethos

What situation is TripAdvisor in?

I can't quite put my finger on it, but there is something about this format that I do not like. I feel like I don't retain anything maybe? Content is good, but something about the "Vice Documentary" thing...

Facebook Newsfeed Eradicator performs a similar function, but with inspirational quotes!

Can you expand more on the _sharing is spamming_ ?

Seems like a point with some depth to it.

Simple, but I am most excited to see a REPL here -- JShell. I have written so so many Tester classes when I just wanted to run a few lines of java.

While this is a decent guide, I find that being skillful in latex comes from memorizing many highly specific commands. I spend most of my time googling for things such as "How to use (a), (b), (c) for enumerating lists".

I think it's a matter of degree.

If you usually sleep 7 hours a night, and you're only getting 4, then you will feel tired grumpy and sad. But if you stay up all night, you may start to feel euphoric and energetic. Of course, you'll need a good long sleep the next day or so.

Idea: Combine a dollar shave club subscription service with learning.

User gets a starterpack deal, which includes some beans and a nice mug and a french press or something. Then, you'd have a series of videos/tutorials teaching the user how to use the tools and how to make great coffee. There'd be a monthly subscription to refill the users coffee supply and provide new tools to make even better coffee. This goes on until the user has learned to make great coffee, at which point you can continue to supply them coffee beans.

Market it as easy for the user, and worthwhile because they get a new skill out of it.

The important point is proving the learning and the goods, that way you can retain users. Think Blue Apron, but they taught you how to cook and also sold you ingredients.

What do we do about this?

>But how to persuade creative people to do so? First and foremost, there must be ease, relaxation, and a general sense of permissiveness. The world in general disapproves of creativity, and to be creative in public is particularly bad. Even to speculate in public is rather worrisome. The individuals must, therefore, have the feeling that the others wont object.

Absolutely true. Brainstorming only works if anything goes.

Overall good article. But I disagree with the distinction made between bullshitiness and profundity. And even a randomly generated sentence has the possibility for profundity.

You can read any of those bullshit examples and come away with some wisdom, but the wisdom is more in your interpretation than in the actual example.

I've yet to graduate, but I find myself in the same position. I've got other non-CS related hobbies that I enjoy and so I don't really end up making any good side projects.

CS seems to have this feel around it where it has to be both your job and your passion. Recruiters want to see that you spend all your time outside of work/school programming, which makes it difficult for people like us who have other hobbies they like too. I wonder if it will ever change?

I have to say, this feels like a lazy hype-train post. Everyone is complaining about the lack of the esc key, but I'm sure it won't be so bad. It does depend somewhat on how integrations work with the bar. I could imagine hopping between files and functions in your IDE using the bar. And surely you would be able to map the section where esc was to esc?

I am a cyclist in NYC and I try my best to follow the mentality of "I am a car." I do not run red lights. When I see bikers do this it seems highly dangerous. Maybe the Idaho stop works in Idaho, but I doubt it would work in busy crossings in NYC.

Why? (not agreeing or disagreeing, just asking)

It seems this article ends before it gets to the main argument.

Do you have any leads on bpm detection? I tried doing it in Python a while ago for a project and the library I used was always 5-10bpm off...

I appreciated that this article spent some time instructing on how to leave your job, instead of just praising the decision to leave.

thank you for sharing your experience

It doesn't seem like it, but it's still pretty nice! Window hints is my favorite feature.

I'm fine with open office as long as you still have a dedicated desk. Otherwise it's annoying and difficult to find people.

I would like to take the opportunity to plug for my favorite adblocker, Ublock Origin. It doesn't have a whitelist like ABP, and has a very good picker to remove ads in case some sneak through.

While this is true, be aware that parameter and argument are commonly used interchangeably.

To generalize: "pick your battles".

Excellent github != good programmer

Your example is incongruous. Height is something you have no power to change, while intellegence can be made. And even if it cannot, it can often be substituted for hard work -- this is why the common trope of the smart person beat by the hardworking less smart person exists.

Not just you -- video is a real time medium, a 3 minute video takes 3 minutes to watch. Text is at your reading speed, and also a lot easier to index.

I would argue that "purposeful" users like yourself are in the minority.

>"Still, I think people use Snapchat to share more inconsequential parts of their lives than we ever did on facebook"

Actually, I think this can be chalked up to the age of you and your friends. Snapchat feels very "middle school", when a status update could have been something like "I just saw a cute dog!!" -- a very low bar. Now as a 20-something a status is something I would use to say "Flying back home for a week!" -- more major events.

I think the real development will be the AI to predict which actions might cause it pain and thus avoid those actions.