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skadamat
5,837karma·1,157submissions·August 2, 2011
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Jonathan Blow has a great talk on long projects (The Witness was like 8 years in development?) here which I watch once in a while: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0m0jIzJfiQ Some hig…
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Interesting idea -- any size limitations?
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Super interesting, love the live coding community
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I own a home but not for financial reasons, mostly personal. In HCOL areas, renting honestly is less risky (smaller % of your income to housing), more flexible (stay for 5 years or 1), less headache (…
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I would also recommend people try adding a weighted backpack to some of their social walks! On days when I don't want to hit the gym or am recovering from a workout, I join my wife in a walk wher…
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Renting is underrated, especially in the US I feel where people are constantly encouraged to buy a house. https://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/renting-is-not-a-waste... …
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Notebooks aren't necessarily for production but are a really great way to explore data & models and move at the speed of thought. It's for prototyping, collaboration, and feedback. I sen…
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Stack Overflow / Fog Creek famously embraced private offices: https://stackoverflow.blog/2015/01/16/why-we-still-believe-i... …
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Using XetCache a bunch daily, I've honestly found the opposite . Here are a few situations: - My notebook queries a database for some data -> I run some downstream calculations. Re-querying r…