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8,747karma·1,337submissions·October 23, 2014
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* A polyglot programmable programmer.
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The Gospel of Selfless Action
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You won't regret it if you go to entrepreneurship and ship. The problem is not about entrepreneurship but in not planning for failure and having backup plans. John Carmack: "There is wisdom …
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Set up a weekly goal setting session between you and your manager. Keep crisp feedback loop going on towards the goals you mutually set. Balance out the business needs and engineering implementation, …
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+10 to Krav Maga. From a second person perspective: My partner has been doing KM for 2-3 times a week for over a year now and since then I see clearer thinking, responding instead of reacting, better …
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I already own an iMac, I am looking at this for the following: 1. iOS development, Using Unity for games Development, (edit: Mac app development) 2. 1 VM with Windows 3. 1 VM with Linux edit: also whe…
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I wonder if instead Apple had acquired GH and today morning introduce laptops with 32 GB RAM, discreet GPU and fully tinkerable laptops for geeks to recapture losing mindshare. Well I can wish!
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Logitech Solar K750[1] has served me well. 3+ years now and still going strong. The model that I have can be easily updated to use regular batteries, once your solar interface goes bust. [2] [1] http…
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And the fewer CL programmers will run circles around P, F, C programmers :-)
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Wicked Cool Shell Scripts Book: https://nostarch.com/wcss2
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For a wider and orthogonal perspective: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16941133
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GPU and everything related. 3D graphics now has a very bright future and is not easy!
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>> You must earn respect before you trash the system True, but in addition to that and I guess more important is to get the mandate to do that from the upper management. Make that mandate a part…
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Use Practical Common Lisp [0] as the book to start learning Lisp, Common Lisp is the more production version lisp. Download LispWorks Personal Edition [1], if you want to start working with an IDE set…
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Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16518726
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>> I’m not a Unix geek. I get around ok, but I am most comfortable developing in Visual Studio on Windows. This is a lesson for me and probably many others. Don't get hung up on tools, ship…
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OP here: More context: When I say league, I mean in terms of having a vision, articulating and executing it. All other things being equal, both BG and SJ played a major role in making computers ubiqui…
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Through HN (and PG's) essays: - Insight to plan 1 year sabbatical (financially and technically) - Shipped a 3D game from ground up in that sabbatical, learn 3D graphics was the objective of that …
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>> C++...this was easier to deal with for a large team This was safer for pointy haired bosses :)