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wumpushunteron Do What You Love? Screw That

Daniel, I'm interested in reading more about this. Where did you discover this factoid?

wumpushunteron Shortcuts to Move Faster in Bash Command Line

Shift-T (the opposite of up`t`o) and then `s`.

You can hit `;` if there are multiple incidences of 's'.

wumpushunteron Do You Really Want to be Doing this When You're 50?

Check out chapter 4 of his book, "Work Habits".

Available at http://edweissman.com/53640595 and as a PDF (top of the linked page).

To summarize: Use simple tools and eliminate distractions. At the end of the day, code and refactor away from the computer (on printouts). This forms the basis of the next day's work at the computer.

wumpushunteron Do You Really Want to be Doing this When You're 50?

Would you mind sharing the the "few other wonders"?

I've been able to pull many programming lessons from the other activity I enjoy, woodworking. When I first started, I was overwhelmed by the sheer number of items in catalogs and stores. I didn't know where to begin!

And then I discovered Japanese woodworking, and traditional woodworking, and people like James Krenov and Roy Underhill.

It is impressive what people have built with a small set of simple, sharp tools.

I love seeing these gems, regardless of the domain!

wumpushunteron Why the days are numbered for Hadoop as we know it

Okay, I'll bite. I'm ready to be 100x more productive—where do I begin?

wumpushunteron Show HN: A CLI for HNSearch

Yeah, it's been like that for about a week now. Things from about 7 days ago are the most recently indexed.

wumpushunteron Skinny fat founder strips for launch of startup

I strongly recommend The Hacker's Diet (by the founder of Autodesk, John Walker).

http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/www/hackdiet.html

I found that when I got up to 208 lbs six or seven years ago, I now weigh 159. (I'm 6'3".)

wumpushunteron I don't hire unlucky people

Would you please email me? I have a few questions for you re: your resume.

My email is in my profile.

wumpushunteron Ask HN: How do you book-mark web pages

I use diigo.com; it was recommended by another HN user (j45) some months ago. Prior to that I was using Google Bookmarks, but I've moved all the bookmarks from there into Diigo.

I love Diigo's ability to highlight a snippet of text on a page.

wumpushunteron Why we should teach our kids to code

A long shot, but: Do you happen to remember the title of the article? Or at least where you read it?

wumpushunteron The Pyramid Method: A Simple Strategy for Becoming Exceptionally Good

One of the headings is "The Ballad of Sickabod Sane", and a quick Google search turns up his MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/sickabodsane

An article in Flak Magazine[1] describes him as "a popular MC from the Manhattan club scene."

You don't specify what you mean by "a good career," but it would appear that he's not reached the Cristal-filled-hot tub stage in life yet.

I did enjoy his songs, though.

[1] http://www.flakmag.com/features/makingrap.html