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i like trout for older products / media and godin for newer

KOEI series

it led me to edit the save files and change the hex value (i think i used norton commander) for abilities & resources

i did the same with civ1, had 65535 gold at 4000bc, stuffs like that are now easily changed with cheat codes / editor

not really programming, i know, but that started my interest

why the impulse? do you often have to pick someone up?

after 3 years, the depreciation rate levels off for used cars so try 2005- cars

i have renault clio but don't use it often (once every quarter) ... not because i love the car, but because my basic transportation need is better covered with motorcycle (it's super crowded here with cars)

admittedly, clio was chosen because of the F1 double crown of renault+alonzo shrug ... maybe that's a flawed logic

over my 9 years studying in usa, i never used my health insurance (always paid due to school regulation)

then 4 years in my country, i never buy one

actually over my lifetime, i never ever go to hospital and ask my insurance to pay for it (too much hassle and i hate meeting doctor)

the fud tactic used (you will pay 1 million dollar when you visit a hospital) always amuses me

maybe a better way is to take care of yourself, exercise, read health textbooks, read wikipedia on generic OTC drugs, eat real food, avoid extreme sports, don't smoke, use common sense etc

never ask an insurance company, "do i need coverage?"

google shines when there's a lot of data point (say ubuntu)

man pages shine when the info is very specific (say openbsd)

first time it's better to use google (to see whether it's an issue -- where people encountered the same problem ... or non-issue -- only ME? having this problem? it could be something else)

but after facing it multiple times, man pages (and brain) are my friends

"He prefers to read books written by people that have actual experience doing something, rather than theoretical extrapolations"

i also find that books written from author's experience superior

examples: pg's essays, htgr by felix dennis, ferris among others

actually pretty much everything else (author who sings own song, cook who eats own food, etc)

another reason not to use sql

the 25% tax in mahalonomics is pretty steep

so who is the one?

is s/he yourself?

i don't use jango, but is SQL really needed? does hn use sql?

personally, not having to deal with SQL is actually a plus

seconded, there's no vi in openbsd install image

i had to use ed during installation to change the fstab (from sd0a to wd0a) of a 2.5" hdd mounted on usb

important step coz o/w rebooting from sd0a 2.5" ide put me to single user w/ read-only fs (too late for ed)

i'd say programming environment (unix/mac, vim/emacs) and skill levels (algo, data structure, etc) matter more than hardware

it costs less to hire a skillful (but expensive) developer on ok machine than less skillful one(s) on expensive machine(s)

the 10-100x gain myth on skill is pretty much true

to increase productivity, you may need to 'do without'

do without mouse and hard-to-reach keys (F1-12, arrows, numpads)

i found ide is about using mouse and using those keys (like F5? to run) etc ... but i didn't use much ide shrug

in vim, you can take those keys plus backspace, alt and even esc (i map it to ^C because ^] hurts, not because of emacs) ... also xmodmap caps to ctrl

emacs still requires at least a meta key so that adds complexity. vim cheats by using modes :D

with fewer keys, the intensity = (strokes / #key) is high and that may lead to higher productivity

oh and of course, touch typing really helps especially the often untrained part like numbers and symbols.

i used 'typing tutor for mac' and trained streams of letters, numbers and symbols ... like 'aJ8@9)x|W,~2'

does having X * (PC, monitor, laptops, servers <insert hw>) make you X times more productive?

i guess not, it could be diminishing return

or even negative return (more distractions, harder to admin / sync / whatever)

i was one of them

i'm having difficulty imagining a bug tracking? software having viral growth ... so i guess the 'interest rate' is steadily low; therefore, initial capital is important

i took undergrad research class and some grad level courses before applying

despite my Cs in english, pol sci, and other humanities courses, i got in ... to make it more dramatic, i also got graduate research assistantship :D

"Spelling errors — Because of difficulty learning letter-sound correspondences, individuals with dyslexia might tend to misspell words, or leave vowels out of words." -- wikipedia

so i guess it's only natural more spelling errors lead to more achievements ... maybe because s/he doesn't waste time being a grammar/spelling nazi

i'd give up internet for sex ... for an hour

is there any strong correlation between spelling mistakes and achievements?

imho it's as relevant as predicting an asian engineering student success based on english SAT

as time goes gnu/gpl/fsf looks like a license troll to me

i aliased "" to "hg" ... oh wait ...

nice, i'll gmail myself my pdf ebooks

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something. Richard Feynman

--- in my case, it's fish & plant (started an aquarium ~ 3 years ago)

it reinvigorated my interests in chemistry (made my own PMDD fertilizer) ... soon i found myself browing wikipedias for KNO3, pH, nitrification, etc

it's about harmonius ecosystem ... focus on plant -> it improves water quality for fish which in turn feed the plant with waste

simplicity too (i abandon pump+filter+lighting+fert to soil+plant+sun+mulm) ... yes at the end i abandon my chemistry and my knowledge (nature always amazes me ... how little i know)

watching the fish and plant grow is like letting nature writing history for you ... unparallel to any books written by human

so i dunno about u ... maybe pick a hobby (preferrably ones that actionable, no theory -> see Feynman) and if u can make a business / startup out of it, even better

i'm the happy user of suckless' dwm and dmenu :D

language style matters too

from my experiences, code-length continuum is between FP and OOP (imagine haiku vs bible)

i don't think i want to use os which kernel is designed by ui-programmer or its ui designed by kernel-programmer

i think the beauty of open source is you can work on what you love, even if it's not efficient

osx, by definition, is no familiar (aka not windows)

i see a lot of "make Windows looks like Mac OS X" from google or even "make Linux look like Mac OS X"

i believe I've never seen the reverse (OSX->xp or even OSX->linux)

to me linux is copying the wrong model, her role model should be osx

maybe the tone in multi-paradigm languages

to me python seems emphasizing more on OO than FP; lisp is the reverse

the lack of S-expressions prevents me from trying out other C-like-syntax FP languages (except js and python which i knew before lisp)

i tried erlang, but really, my mind prefers thinking in lisp :(

do i miss a lot not learning other FPs?