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As a teenager who would play games often into the early morning hours (I remember I'd just be going to bed as my father went off to work) feeling like complete garbage and just mentally slower for a few days because of it. I couldn't imagine this all the time...

I wasn't actually trying to help per se. I was just wondering if it was something he's/she's tried is all.

I'm curious have you ever tried working out in the early hours after waking up? This alone determines if I'm getting good sleep or not. I'll end up staying up way later into the night unless I worked out that morning.

Correct me if I'm wrong, doesn't South Korean have Gaming/Internet Addiction Centers for those with "Gaming Disorders"? I remember seeing something about this from a eSports documentary some time ago. Unfortunately I don't remember name of it.

Edit: found it https://youtu.be/of1k5AwiNxI?t=1150

Although I didn't play Vanilla, as I said above. I've experienced this with the end of Wotlk and beginning of Cata. The introduction to group finder and the ability queue from anywhere for anything really ruined that experience. This caused the game's world to feel empty at least for me anyways.

Oh most definitely! It's certainly not for everyone. I mean even back then, if I'm remembering correctly. There was a site called Thottbot for exactly that. Which I occasionally turned to when the quest was lacking in information. Even before Blizzard officially added a quest helper to the game there was a third party add-on. However, with sites like Thottbot you still had to investigate to figure out what you had to do and I think this still gives you sense of accomplishment over just being told what and where all the time.

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This was my first thought too. Although I must admit I didn't play WoW until the release of BC (Burning Crusade) and stopped when Cata finished. So I never really got to experience what was special about Vanilla. More specifically for why I'd want WOTLK is for Arena. The last season was the most balanced that I ever experienced it and some of the most fun I've ever had playing WoW or any game in general.

Jumping back to Vanilla one thing I hate about the current expansions is quest helper and honestly this rings true for other games (Destiny for example) as well. I think the lack of a quest/mission guide is a better experience for the player. I remember playing BC and had a blast trying to complete quest. You had to really pay attention and read the quest for specifics and clues to figure out what was needed or where to go. The completion of quest back then felt so rewarding. Now you just look at your map and follow the "little dotted line"[1] then rinse and repeat. This struggling with quest is what I'm most looking forward to with classic WoW.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzOCkXsyIqo

SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) - http://libsdl.org

I thought Windows 10 dark mode was only to the metro ui (or what ever it's called now). So things like Window Explorer (Finder on macOS) are still not dark themed.

My favorites:

* Every Frame a Painting[1] - film essays (No longer making videos)

* Good Blood[2] - game design and music

* Hodges U[3] - mini-docs on various subjects

* kaptainkristian[4] - "visual love letters" for comics, films, musics, animations and more

* Lessons From the Screenplay[5] - film's script/story

* Game Maker's Toolkit[6] - game design

* WAVEFORM[7] - sound design (focus on sound design in games)

* noclip[8] - video game documentaries

* Will Schoder[9] - philosophy and other things

1. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjFqcJQXGZ6T6sxyFB-5i6A

2. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC55OV4HSSKJEthG4ulsKkyw

3. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUcfU0Kuv8niOazZohyetZg

4. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuPgdqQKpq4T4zeqmTelnFg

5. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCErSSa3CaP_GJxmFpdjG9Jw

6. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqJ-Xo29CKyLTjn6z2XwYAw

7. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIoNgwHpavUi2UnC68cKgbw

8. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0fDG3byEcMtbOqPMymDNbw

9. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcRdUHUuBqU9uCsEuG39Nmg

Thoughtbot: https://thoughtbot.com/playbook/our-company/apprenticeship

Most of these seem web based, I wonder if there's any out there for low level / systems.

Edit: IBM: https://careers.ibm.com/ShowJob/Id/185175/Software-Engineer-...

Retro Game Dev: C64 Edition[1] build two games (shooter/platformer) in 6502 Assembly Language for a Commodore 64 emulator. Some other similar books are Making 8-bit Arcade Games in C[2] and Making Games for the Atari 2600[3].

- [1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/0692980652/

- [2] https://www.amazon.com/dp/1545484759/

- [3] https://www.amazon.com/dp/1541021304/

There's a Github repo[1] with a collection of project based tutorials.

1. https://github.com/tuvtran/project-based-learning

Spot on from what I was thinking.

Yep, I see this question on Reddit all the time. Here's the previous HN discussion post on TYCS: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13862284

For those that want to know more there's the unofficial Jai Primer: https://github.com/BSVino/JaiPrimer/blob/master/JaiPrimer.md

Why electronic books? Is this just about owning less physical things?

They're working on Exercism v2 that includes the difficulty level on the exercises: https://v2.exercism.io/tracks/lua/exercises

I've never understood the stock piling of gold. I feel like in doomsday life goods like guns, food, water, tools, etc. Would be of more value then gold or bitcoin. Maybe my view of doomsday life is harsher then others.

1. Preview / Questions - Take a gander at the chapter by reading the introduction, headings, sub-headings, diagrams, images, example code, summary, exercises, questions, etc. Also, write down questions as I preview for myself to answer after step 2.

2. Read / Recall - After previewing I start reading in full. During code examples I like to soak them in without running them. Then I'll close book and try to recall the code by typing.

3. Teach / Explain - I follow up with pretending to teach / explain the code examples and my exercise solutions out loud. This helps me figure out what I didn't really understand.

4. Project - I try and apply what I've learned from book to a personal project.

Any books or other resources you recommend to learn these things? On learning to learn I have enjoyed A Mind for Numbers[1] by Barbra Oakley with Coursera course[2], Make it Stick[3] by Peter C. Brown, and How We Learn[4] by Benedict Carey.

1. https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Numbers-Science-Flunked-Algebra/...

2. https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn/

3. https://www.amazon.com/Make-Stick-Science-Successful-Learnin...

4. https://www.amazon.com/How-We-Learn-Surprising-Happens-ebook...

No problem! I forgot to add in my original post that after the first 5 or 6 lectures the course switches to Python from C. You'll end up hitting two birds with one stone.

Also, there's a very active community around CS50 on Reddit[1] where you can get help when ever you need it.

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/cs50/

There's a really great course from Harvard called CS50[1][2]. This course teaches C with training wheels on so to speak and later removes them. Would highly recommend taking it. It's also free!

1. https://cs50.harvard.edu

2. https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-computer-science-har...

Found [1]this while browsing /r/learnmath, it might be of some help.

1. https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/micromass-insights-on-...

If I enjoyed my time "over learnig" is it really wasting my time? I understand that not all learing is enjoyed, but if it's subject I enjoy learning more about it's not wasting my time.

This [1]guy dropped out of school to pursue his own data science curriculum using nothing but MOOCs (including Udacity's nanodegrees) it seems.

1. https://medium.com/@davidventuri/i-dropped-out-of-school-to-...

Yes it does it's called A New Hope.

What you're describing sounds very similar to how [1]Khan Academy teaches programming. Which is probably one of the best ways I've seen programming taught through a browser.

1. https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-programming

I'm probably wrong, but can you not type "ps" into CMD and get the PowerShell prompt? If so, can you do it the other way around as well?