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"My hypothesis is that in like 10 years gen z is gonna have a big cult boom the way the boomers did in the 70s " https://www.tumblr.com/withhereyeswideshut/64649078205384294...

For anyone who thinks they could never solve a Rubik's Cube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ron6MN45LY

It looks hard at first, but once you learn it, it's not too bad.

I read half of Graeber's book Debt before realizing he was always taking the most pessimistic opinion every chance he got for no real reason. I had to stop reading it.

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I took a business class where one assignment was to run a simulation program and try to find the combination of factors that gave the best result. Professor said we could run as many combinations as we liked and he would use the average of each simulation to see who did the best. I had AHK so I ran every simulation combination once and then wrote a script that ran the best outcome over and over to make my initial attempts statistically insignificant. I had the highest average score for that assignment.

I know too many burnouts to personally want to try drugs. I'm high on life, thank you.

Twitter for real

You Are Not a Gadget is a great book by Jaron Lanier.

I love how blue the evenings look. Green leaves especially.

A major benefit of working from home is less pollution. A super commute would be regressive.

Social contagion happens in families as well.

Yes, commenters should read the book (Superforcasting). The forecasters in The Good Judgment Project are assessed on their self-assigned confidence in their prediction and how soon they can make their prediction. Some people seem to be provably better at this than others, they are Superforcasters.

What was most useful to me in the book was the notion of being more specific and testable when thinking about the future. I think the better you are at predicting the future (a delta between you and everyone else, not 100% accuracy, which is impossible) the better you are at understanding the world and the better you can plan ahead.

I love Pinboard.

i'm not a spam bot. that's just how good I am at making recommendations.

How to Write, Speak and Think More Effectively by Rudolph Flesch is still a great book and good bang for your buck. I got mine on bookfinder.com

I wanted to prove this to myself programmatically so I made this Python script: https://gist.github.com/snitzr/7ecf0abaacce610893e9364b13bce...

It’s better to switch.

One way to think about it is in an exaggerated way. If there was a googolplex number of choices and you chose one and then all but your choice and another door were taken away, you’d have almost a 100% chance of being correct if you switch.

When I was at the Grand Canyon, I saw the milky way right after the sun set and before the sky was fully dark.

I've also seen the milky way in West Virginia.

Yes. I like to weight it out on a digital scale and make 2.5 liter batches. Seal the bag of unused powder with tape.

How does Apple make these nice animated videos?

I bought a Kia minivan in 2018 just because it had the most real buttons and dials.

Active voice.

How does one upgrade?

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I can't remember who said it, but a customer buying a shovel is actually buying a hole. The customer doesn't care about the shovel he / she cares about solving a problem.

Recommended: Is The Man Who is Tall Happy? on Netflix. A nice introduction to Chomsky and his linguistic ideas.

This article is 100% trolling. Don't feed.

I also have an MBA and I read hacker news.

I'm not going to tell people to get an MBA or a CS degree or take some kind of sabbatical. My MBA found me a better job even before I graduated (I went to evening classes). So I consider it to be helpful to me. I paid my tuition as I went.

Still, an MBA pushed me to start learning programming after seeing the MBA job market vs. programmer job market. Plus I was just used to learning at night after 3 years of evening classes.

If you don't want to get an MBA, maybe consider having one on your team. Don't think you can give yourself an MBA by reading HN. Most of the articles on HN relating to business are simplistic overviews of some of the basic concepts they teach MBAs. This includes anything related to finance, economics, marketing, branding, communication, leadership, critical thinking, and public speaking. It's disappointing when I go to a meetup and the speaker(s) cannot communicate their great ideas or businesses.

Other than the stress of school and work, the worst thing about getting an MBA was the blank stares when I mentioned something about Star Trek in class once (something like, "This case is just like Kobayashi Maru"). Maybe I'm different, then.

Don't have too much of a negative view about MBA people or the degree. They're closely related to computer folks. For instance, like CS, it helps to like math to be good in finance.

Always know your audience. Hacker News readers are not most users and you won't always be designing for them. You wouldn't believe what hangs up most users unless you saw it yourself. This is true for the web as well as all devices. Forgo testing with real users and prepare for a high bounce rate.

Microsoft owns part of Facebook. Is DNT the opposite of Facebook's own tracking goals?