- 2022-06-25
Posted a Hacker News comment
on The most livable cities:
It's a list of liveable cities, not partyable cities ;)
- 2022-06-17
Read Building a Second Brain - Tiago Forte
★★★☆☆
- 2022-06-14
Read 7 Rules of Power: Surprising--but True--Advice on How to Get Things Done and Advance Your Career - Jeffrey Pfeffer
★★★★★
- 2022-06-12
Posted a Reddit (readwise) comment
on Readwise Reader storage location:
- No, you can't make it pick up PDFs from your own storage location. It's not really an issue, adding a PDF is easy as dragging and dropping it into reader or emailing it.
- Yes, it has dark mode.
- 2022-06-12
Posted on Mastodon
"… LGBTQ+ professionals randomly assigned to read an organization’s business (vs. fairness) case anticipated lower belonging …replicated this experiment among female … STEM … job seekers …similarly undermines African American students’ belonging …"
In other words, if you really care about Diversity and Inclusion at work, you should talk about it less.
- 2022-06-12
Posted a Reddit (Anki) comment
on How can I reset all my decks?:
Instead of resetting, if you don't want to forget card difficulty but just schedule a comfortable catch-up: 1. In the browsers, select all cards. 2. From the menu, choose Cards -> Set Due Date. 3. Enter
1-N
, where N is the number of days you want to distribute the cards over. For example, if you have 5000 cards and you think you'd like to pick up 50 cards daily, enter1-100
. 4. Each of the cards will now be assigned a review date on a random day in this range. When the day arrives and you review the card it won't be new - it will still have the difficulty settings attached. - 2022-06-11
Read Green Pilled - Kevin Owocki
★★★★☆
- 2022-06-10
Read Levers: The Framework for Building Repeatability into Your Business - Amos Schwartzfarb
★★★☆☆
- 2022-06-06
Read Be Slightly Evil: A Playbook for Sociopaths (Ribbonfarm Roughs) - Venkatesh G. Rao
★★★★☆
- 2022-06-05
Posted on Mastodon
Possibly controversial opinion: Zelig is Woody Allen's most important movie.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086637/
- 2022-06-05
Top 10 Best Fruits by Order of Bestness
- Nectarine
- Lychee
- Pear
- Pomelo
- Watermelon with Feta Cheese
- Cherry
- Blueberry
- Gummibärchen
- Avocado
- Watermelon without Feta Cheese
- 2022-06-02
Read God: An Anatomy - Francesca Stavrakopoulou
★★★☆☆
- 2022-05-29
Posted a Hacker News comment
on Ask HN: What does a developer need to know to build their own Lisp from scratch?:
At the simplest:
1. Parse and produce S-Expresseions ("read" and "print").
2. Use the object system of the implementation language as much as possible. If necessary, implement some lisp-specific types like the cons pair, empty list, symbol. First get it to work correctly, you can optimise later.
3. Implement all the "special forms" which can't be implemented using macros in the implementation language.
4. Implement any library functions that can't be implemented in lisp itself using the implementation language.
5. Implement "eval" (evaluates S-Expresseions). Now you've got a working interpreter.
6. Use your interpreter to evaluate macros. Use that to implement any additional "special forms".
7. Write any additional library functions in your own lisp.
That's it, at this point you have a working lisp implementation. There are many opportunities for optimisation, from lambda lifting and continuation passing style to hygienic macros and even just in time compilation.
Happy Hacking!
- 2022-05-29
Posted a Reddit (AZURE) comment
on When to use AKS vs AAS (with containers)?:
There's a compromise: Azure Container Apps ( https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/container-apps/ ). You get the immediacy and ease-of-use but using standard, open tech (containers). In fact it runs on top of Kubernetes (which is fully managed under the hood) so if and when you grow to the scale where managing a full Kubernetes cluster is of benefit, switching is straightforward.
- 2022-05-29
Read A Liberated Mind: How to Pivot Toward What Matters - Steven C. Hayes
★★★★★
- 2022-05-28
Posted on Mastodon
Operation Mindfuck: The Movie
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6710474/
- 2022-05-27
Posted on Mastodon
Richard Barbieri doing Richard Barbieri things, with commentary
- 2022-05-24
Posted on Mastodon
" ... Switzerland has prospered as a haven for businesses far beyond what might be expected of a small, landlocked country with scant natural resources ..."
https://www.economist.com/business/2022/05/23/the-recipe-for-the-outperformance-of-swiss-businesses
- 2022-05-23
Posted on Mastodon
The Fins are leading (again) with a science and reason -based approach to problem solving.
https://allianceforscience.cornell.edu/blog/2022/05/finland-green-party-nuclear/
- 2022-05-22
Read Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World - Tyler Cowen
★★★★★
- 2022-05-21
Read The Candy House - Jennifer Egan
★★★★☆
- 2022-05-21
Flickchart
Flickchart is a neat website that lets you rank your favorite movies by repeatedly comparing two movies (careful: it’s addictive).
After much a-clickin’, here’s my top 20:
- Drowning by Numbers
- Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
- Mulholland Dr
- Videodrome
- The Grand Budapest Hotel
- Twin Peaks: The Return
- Brazil
- Being John Malkovich
- Lost Highway
- Dr. Strangelove
- Naked Lunch
- Cecil B. Demented
- Stop Making Sense
- Wild at Heart
- The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
- Crash
- Zelig
- The Royal Tenenbaums
- Life of Brian
- Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
300+ more movies at https://www.flickchart.com/Charts.aspx?user=intellectronica.
- 2022-05-20
Posted a Hacker News comment
on Tell HN: The loneliness of a pretty good developer:
"I worry that by not being challenged I will become complacent"
Congratulations, you have the most useful attitude towards personal growth and development. This attitude has allowed you to continuously grow and improve to an extent that most people around you couldn't even imagine. This attitude also makes you dissatisfied, unhappy and insecure.
Ultimately, it's a question of values. What do you want more, happiness, or continuing to grow? You will likely never have both, at least not in equal measure.
If you choose to continue challenging yourself, consider finding a new group of people to work with. One where you're going to be the dumbest person in the room. Such a group almost certainly exists.
- 2022-05-19
Posted on Mastodon
RIP Vangelis 🎶
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vangelis
- 2022-05-15
Read Don't Trust Your Gut: Using Data to Get What You Really Want in Life - Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
★★☆☆☆
- 2022-05-14
Read The Gervais Principle: The Complete Series, with a Bonus Essay on Office Space (Ribbonfarm Roughs) - Venkatesh G. Rao
★★★★☆
- 2022-05-08
Posted a Reddit (nearprotocol) comment
on Insight into business models of Dapps:
Decentralization for Web3 Builders: Principles, Models, How is an excellent review of the different business models and consideration for decentralized apps.
- 2022-05-06
Read Anki Essentials - Alex Vermeer
★★☆☆☆
- 2022-05-05
Posted a Reddit (Switzerland) comment
on Is there anything you don't like about Switzerland?:
The church bells are pretty much the only thing that comes to mind. Deafening, if you're too close, and utterly pointless. Otherwise it's really hard to come up with stuff to complain about - Switzerland is awesome.
- 2022-05-04
Serverless Data Centers
AWS: Want Serverless? We’ve got 84 data centers!
GCP: Want Serverless? We’ve got 88 data centers!
Azure: Want Serverless? We’ve got 164 data centers!
…
Blockchain: Want Serverless? We’ve got ∞ data centers!
- 2022-05-02
Read The Mentoring Manual: Your Step by Step Guide to Being a Better Mentor - Julie Starr
★★★★☆
- 2022-04-30
Read Just Keep Buying: Proven ways to save money and build your wealth - Nick Maggiulli
★★★☆☆
- 2022-04-28
Read Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds - David Goggins
★★☆☆☆
- 2022-04-23
Posted a Hacker News comment
on Ask HN: People who use different emails everywhere, who sold you to spammers?:
The opposite problem also exists.
I had first.last@gmail.com and indeed got a lot of email that isn't mine. A few years back I switched to token1.token2@gmail.com, where token1 = something vaguely similar but not my first name, and token2 = nonsense word. Basically an address that is something between random string and insider joke.
Of course I always include my correct real name in the From: field, fill it correctly in all the relevant fields on forms and have never suggested to anyone that my actual name is "Token1 Token2". Nevertheless it's not uncommon for people to assume that this is my name, and I get people writing to me "Hi Token1," or "Dear Ms. Token2". I even had an expensive electronic item shipped to my correct home address but addressed to Token1 Token2, and returned to sender, since such a person doesn't live here (and likely doesn't exists at all).
Some people just don't understand how email addresses work.
- 2022-04-23
Read Business Model Generation - Alexander Osterwalder
★★★★☆
- 2022-04-19
Posted on Mirror.xyz: Hello Mirror World
A decentralized blog … what a splendid idea!
- 2022-04-18
Read The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything - Michael J. Casey
★★★★☆
- 2022-04-17
Read The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma - Bessel van der Kolk
★★★★☆
- 2022-04-15
Read The Nineties - Chuck Klosterman
★★★★☆
- 2022-04-14
Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road
Inspiring, uplifting and beautiful, Long Promised Road surveys the life and career of beach boy Brian Wilson. A gentle, if tortured, soul, who continues to find refuge in creating beautiful, weird music.
- 2022-04-12
Read The Magic of Thinking Big - David J. Schwartz
★★★☆☆
- 2022-04-09
Read The Language Game: How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the World - Morten H. Christiansen
★★★★☆
- 2022-04-07
Posted a Hacker News comment
on Ask HN: Share your personal site:
https://intellectronica.net/ (mostly just aggregates stuff I post elsewhere, also some local posts). Hugo and a bunch of Python scripts for scrapping, GH actions and deploying to Azure Static Web Apps.
- 2022-04-07
Read Limited Edition of One - Steven Wilson
★★★☆☆
- 2022-04-07
Balaji Srinivasan on The Knowledge Project
Balaji Srinivasan: The Network State [The Knowledge Project Ep. #134]
Balaji Srinivasan makes a return appearance to The Knowledge Project, this time to go in-depth on Web3, Crypto, and the state of the world today. Srinivasan offers his unfiltered thoughts on the advantages and disadvantages of established democracies, the Russia-Ukraine situation, housing as an investment, education, legacy wealth, and which country he would bet on to dominate the future.
You might not agree with everything, you might not agree with anything, but if you’re looking for an opportunity to hear about the extreme libertarian take on Web3 and its place in our future from someone who’s intelligent, articulate and well-meaning, this is it.
- 2022-04-02
Read Hugo in Action: Static sites and dynamic JAMstack apps - Atishay Jain
★★★★☆
- 2022-04-02
Signed: Declaration for the Interdependence of Cyberspace
I just signed A Declaration for the Interdependence of Cyberspace! (about)
sig:0xc4b0dddef8f868dde539f75dc6dbdebf1620ae4aa6d61480a234afcd1557dcea6faf84a5d102db29563be92016444beda6a794f315f8a2d19d38e76d15d9810e1c
- 2022-03-31
Read The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale - John A. List
★★★★★
- 2022-03-31
Resolved: Will Manifold Markets enable login with username (or email) and password by April?
Resolved my first manifold market, on the rather mundane and meta question of whether Manifold Markets will provide a non-Google login by April (no, they didn’t). I took the liberty to resolve it 3 hours too early (the official end of the month is at midnight when I usually sleep) but I think that’s acceptable by Manifold Markets’ relaxed standards. During the month and a half of the market’s lifetime it behaved pretty much as expected - initially predicting high probability (driven by many hopeful users) and converging towards single digit as the deadline approached with no sign that the feature will be released.
- 2022-03-27
Snipd
Snipd is a new podcast player with some really cool AI features. Talk is automatically transcribed and the podcast is divided into several chapters for easy lookup and for saving fragments as highlights to Readwise. It also has a nice podcast discovery system based on these fragments.
- 2022-03-18
Posted a Hacker News comment
on Ask HN: I'm changing my job after a 15-year tenure. How should I proceed?:
What seems to work for me and many people is: soon after you join, start meeting with many people one on one. First with your immediate team, then with people in closely related teams, stakeholders, people doing a similar role, people who are a bit more senior, etc ... It can be a bit awkward initially to schedule these meetings, but almost everyone would be happy to have a chat, tell you about themselves, the company, the projects they're working on. They will often also tell you about other people you should be talking to. Listen well - people will tell you what's important, what they would be interested in collaborating on, what are some gotchas you should watch out for. After a while you'll kinda naturally get a feel for who are "your people", so just continue talking to them and find excuses to do cool stuff together. Most people are biased towards not doing enough of this sort of thing, so unless you know yourself to be some kind of hyper-social connector, assume that you're not doing enough of that and correct by forcing yourself to do more. A good rule of thumb is to meet someone new every day for a few weeks.
- 2022-03-06
Read Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It - Chris Voss
★★★★☆
- 2022-02-28
Posted a Hacker News comment
on Ask HN: Books to read when you transform from SWE into SWE Management?:
- Power: Why Some People Have It and Others Don't by Jeffrey Pfeffer
- What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful by Marshall Goldsmith
These two books are not specifically on the topic of becoming an engineering manager but cover the important aspects of how to work effectively as a leader in organizations. Turns out that's very important too.
- 2022-02-28
Posted a Hacker News comment
on Ask HN: Books to read when you transform from SWE into SWE Management?:
Excellent book. Also many great posts on his blog https://lethain.com/
- 2022-02-23
Read The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance – What Women Should Know - Katty Kay
★★★☆☆
- 2022-02-22
Read Malignant Self-Love: Narcissism Revisited - Sam Vaknin
★★★★☆
- 2022-02-15
Read Beginning Rust: Get Started with Rust 2021 Edition - Carlo Milanesi
★★★★★
- 2022-02-13
Posted a question on Manifold Markets:
Will Manifold Markets enable login with username (or email) and password by April?
Manifold requires users to log in with their Google ID, which is undesirable to some users. Will a feature be added where users can use a username or email and password combination to log in directly and without required a connected Google account?
- 2022-02-13
Posted a Reddit (Futurology) comment
on Will at least 10 world cities have a generally available self-driving taxi service by 2025?:
Are we on the cusp of the era of self-driving taxis, or is it still a pipe dream? Facts on the ground suggest that we've made real progress - there are real services already in operation. But how quickly will we get from the experimental phase to general availability? Make your prediction with skin in the game on Manifold Markets (play money prediction market).
- 2022-02-13 Posted a link on Reddit (Futurology): Will at least 10 world cities have a generally available self-driving taxi service by 2025?
- 2022-02-13 Posted a link on Hacker News: Will self-driving taxi service be generally available by 2025?
- 2022-02-13
Posted a question on Manifold Markets:
Will at least 10 world cities have a generally available self-driving taxi service by 2025?
Resolved to YES if on 2025-01-01: - 10 cities with more than 300,000 inhabitants - Have a taxi service of fully self-driving cars (no test, backup or remote human driver - passengers are the only humans in the car and they control where the car is going by specifying a destination). - The service is generally available (anyone can register for the service and order rides with no restrictions other than the obvious ones that would be placed on similar human-operated services like Uber and Lyft - for example: need a smartphone, credit card), subject to availability (supply constraints are OK). - It is reasonable to assume that the service is not considered a restricted experiment by the operating company or local authorities (based on publicly available media and reports). Mar 4, 8:27pm: John Carmack is betting quite a lot of real money on a very similar proposition, but 5 years later: https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1499803694522589187 | https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-2030-self-driving-car-bet/
- 2022-02-08
Posted a Hacker News comment
on I would like a job writing Haskell:
The Cardano blockchain system is heavily based on Haskel. It is one of the largest ecosystems in this space and is growing rapidly. The author can try to find work with IOHK ( https://iohk.io/ ), the Cardano foundation ( https://cardano.org/ ) or one of several other companies doing commercial or research work around Cardano.
- 2022-02-03
Read Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History - Lea Ypi
★★★★★
- 2022-01-30
Posted a Reddit (KingCrimson) comment
on Frustrated:
There are lots of great videos of KC concerts. Even better than going to the concert hall - you get to experience it in your own home without the noise, beer spillage and crazy expensive ticket price.
My personal favourites are Live in Argentina (90s double trio formation) and Meltdown (superb 2018 concert of the penultimate incarnation of the band with the three drummers and still alive Bill Rieflin), but there are many more.
Enjoy!
- 2022-01-22
Read High Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become That Way - Brendon Burchard
★★★☆☆
- 2022-01-16
Read Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave - Ryan Holiday
★★★★☆
- 2022-01-13
Posted a Reddit (JimmyJoyFood) comment
on Plenny Shakes satiety:
I do. 3/d is no problem. 2/d takes a bit of getting used to - initially I feel the gap but after a few days I get used to it (until I break it with more intake a few days later).
- 2022-01-12
Read Strengths Finder 2.0 - Tom Rath
★★★☆☆
- 2022-01-06
Read Demystifying the Azure Well-Architected Framework: Guiding Principles and Design Best Practices for Azure Workloads - Shijimol Ambi Karthikeyan
★★★☆☆
- 2021-12-31
Posted a Hacker News comment
on Ask HN: How did you move on from past experiences?:
I've been in similar situations and it was both really hard and eventually possible to move on and continue growing and developing. There is no simple answer. What is required is balancing accepting and integrating the past experience with actually moving on and doing new things. You can't have one without the other, and you can't rush things. Rather, you end up advancing one step at a time across both fronts. It often takes longer and requires more effort than you would have liked, so being ready for a long run is important.
Accepting and integrating the past means approaching it neither through rumination nor through avoidance, but with as full awareness as possible and some distance and perspective. Learning whatever there is to learn. Making peace with whatever happened (and most importantly with yourself). Your past will forever be your past, you will never be able to change it, so better get comfortable with that.
Doing new things, living a new life, that's easier said than done, but can also be fun and empowering when you're ready. As the saying goes, today is the first day of the rest of your life. Exciting! But to avoid "contaminating" your future with your past, you really need to also accept and integrate that past. If you don't, the choices you make and patterns you establish might be dominated by that past experience.
Some people can do this all by themselves. Many don't. If you're not sure, assume that you are one of those people who can benefit from getting help and support from a qualified professional. Many people who did will report that this is one of the best investments they made in their lifetime.
- 2021-12-28
Read Mastering PowerShell Scripting: Automate and Manage Your Environment Using PowerShell 7.1 - Chris Dent
★★★★★
- 2021-12-26
Posted on Mastodon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slFU_KyKcEA
- 2021-12-26
Posted a Reddit (languagelearning) comment
on Best Language Learning App:
One app that isn't mentioned and which I find very useful is Glossika. Nothing fancy, but it throws at huge a large (~5000) corpus of sentences with content that is typical for regular use of the language, read by a native speaker with typical pronunciation and, importantly, typical speed. You practice repeating the sentences and making sure that you can understand, pronounce and reproduce them with confidence.
- 2021-12-26 Posted on Mastodon
- 2021-12-25
Posted on Mastodon
The choice is an illusion. You already know what you have to do.
- 2021-12-25 Posted on Mastodon
- 2021-12-24
Posted on Mastodon
Boosted!
- 2021-12-22
Posted on Mastodon
Curb season 11 is the best one in years. Hope it's not the last one. #curb
- 2021-12-22
Read C# 10 and .NET 6 – Modern Cross-Platform Development: Build apps, websites, and services with ASP.NET Core 6, Blazor, and EF Core 6 using Visual Studio 2022 and Visual Studio Code, 6th Edition - Mark J. Price
★★★★★
- 2021-12-21
Read Shell of an Idea: The untold history of PowerShell - Don Jones
★★★★☆
- 2021-12-18
Read The Way of the Linguist: A Language Learning Odyssey - Steve Kaufmann
★★★★☆
- 2021-12-12
Posted a Reddit (askswitzerland) comment
on Is Switzerland (on the whole) accepting of transgender individuals and/or other members of the queer community?:
...what everyone already said: Switzerland is both conservative and tolerant; At the very least in the big cities the experience of trans/queer people is positive (it has been for me - trans/queer immigrant living in Zürich).
One subtle thing to keep in mind is that for better and worse, culturally, Switzerland hasn't picked up wholesale everything the Anglosphere came up with in recent years. You'll find that people are tolerant out of general commitment to being tolerant, not out of following a specific "code" or having an in-depth awareness of the needs of smaller communities. That can create the impression of intolerance when compared to standards of other countries, but it isn't necessarily the case. It also varies a lot depending on how engaged people are with international culture, and their age. Some very lovely Swiss people could end up saying things that sound terrible and inappropriate to you, not because they are mean or bigoted, but because they never learned about the new emerging cultural standards like how to address non-binary people, how to discuss people's transitions, etc. And while Swiss people generally tend to avoid making jokes, when they do, they might make jokes that are offensive, again, simply because they don't see how and why that would be offensive.
Keep that in mind especially when approaching employment (and maybe some things like looking for a place to rent). If you deal with large international companies, or even with larger Swiss companies, they will be aware to contemporary international standards and committed to them. But if you're dealing with smaller businesses or private people, it will vary a lot, and in some cases people will simply have no experience, no information, and not even the understanding that it's on them to educate themselves and hold themselves up to international standards. In most cases they will be open to you educating them and will do their best to adjust, but they'll expect you to be patient and accommodating too.
Tip: one thing Swiss people tend not to tolerate is any criticism of Switzerland or Swiss culture. If you have a difficult experience, discuss it as a specific instance without generalizing to statements about the culture as a whole as that can really put people off.
- 2021-12-12
Posted a Reddit (zurich) comment
on Where to have a nice Sunday breakfast:
https://mazi-morgarten.ch/ have great weekend brunches - both Greek style and classic European.
- 2021-12-12
Read Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone - Satya Nadella
★★★★☆
- 2021-12-11
Posted a Hacker News comment
on Ten years of experience, still failing phone screens:
The best interviews are designed not to filter out bad candidates but rather to allow good candidates to demonstrate that they are good. The best companies know that and design their interviews in that spirit.
Some technical test interviews appear pointless to experienced candidates because they are designed to give an opportunity to someone without any experience to show that they know enough to get started. That's how some companies can hire people without work experience.
Many (most?) companies are simply bad at hiring and use poorly designed cargo-cult test interviews. They have a vague notion that more successful companies use test interviews so they try to do the same, only without designing an actual effective hiring process. As a result, their hiring is essentially random - they interview some people, which they put through a test interview ritual, and then hire a random selection of these people. Even if you can get a job at such a company, would you want to work somewhere where you'll end up with randomly selected colleagues? These also tend to be the companies that have high employee turnover - they have to let underperformers go to compensate for their random hiring, and the best people leave because they don't like their randomly selected team.
If you have a realistic view of your own skill and fit for the role and the interviews don't make sense then either you're overqualified or it's just a bad company or both, and you wouldn't want that job anyway.
- 2021-12-10
Posted a Reddit (zurich) comment
on Where to stay in Zurich?:
Zürich is very safe - there's basically nowhere where two women wouldn't be safe walking around any time of the day or night. Find whatever nice hotel you can afford in the area. You can stay near the Halle 622, or somewhere more central. Either way it's very easy to get around with public transport (~15m to the city centre).
- 2021-12-09
Posted a Reddit (cloudcomputing) comment
on What cloud computing provider would you recommend?:
It really depends on your use case. In a nutshell, if you just need basic services like a VM, storage, etc, you can probably live with something from group 1 - you'll save money and it will probably be a bit easier to learn and operate. If you need a comprehensive cloud provider with IaaS/Paas/SaaS products to cover all your needs, you'll go for a provider from Group 2, pay more, have to learn a bit more, but then be covered for all your current and future needs.
If you go for Group 1, choose Digital Ocean (because they are the bigger and most established provider with a great community).
If you go for Group 2 then any of the big 3 you mention are good, and again depending on your use case there are trade-offs. AWS is the biggest and most established, so it will be easier to find other people who know it well. MS Azure is arguably the most developer-friendly and easiest to get started with, and have a great combination of infrastructure, platform and cloud software. Google Cloud is the smallest and is often a bit cheaper.
- 2021-12-06
Read The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels - Michael D. Watkins
★★★★★
- 2021-12-01
Read Powershell Cookbook: Your Complete Guide to Scripting the Ubiquitous Object-Based Shell - Lee Holmes
★★★★★
- 2021-11-20
Read Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Things You Need to Know About the World - Vaclav Smil
★★★★☆
- 2021-10-11
Read Language Families of the World - John McWhorter
★★★★☆
- 2021-10-05
Posted a Reddit (Onyx_Boox) comment
on Which apps do you use for reading across multiple platforms?:
Moon+ Reader Pro - on phone, ebook reader and PC (using BlueStacks).
- 2021-10-02
Read Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It - Gabriel Wyner
★★★★☆
- 2021-09-28
Posted a Reddit (etymology) comment
on Jordan, Yarmouk and Yarkon:
No idea regarding the Yarmuch and Yarkon, but the interpretation you suggest, that
Yar'den
is related to the territory of Dan (which used to be located in the north where the Dan tributary is before relocating southwest to the coastal plain) sounds plausible. - 2021-09-28
Posted a Reddit (etymology) comment
on Jordan, Yarmouk and Yarkon:
The ancient Egyptian word for river is
Ya'Uru
(which is also the source for the name of the river Nile in the Hebrew bible -Ye'Or
). That word entered the Akkadian (the first lingua franca of the fertile crescent) and morphed intoYar
, and from there to Canaanite (the precursor to Hebrew and other languages of the Levant). So it's basically the equivalent of "the river Den", "the river Mukh", "the river Kon". - 2021-09-27
Read Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World - David Epstein
★★★☆☆
- 2021-09-24
Posted a Reddit (GalaxyWatch) comment
on For those of us in the US bp not approved by FDA but this video shows the way to sideload it with your phone and I got it working! https://youtu.be/8FAYt6vylmE:
Thanks!
- 2021-09-24
Posted a Reddit (galaxywatch4) comment
on Experience of using the watch with a non Samsung device?:
Can you explain or a share a link for "install the modded app for ECG and blood pressure"?
- 2021-09-23
Posted a Reddit (galaxywatch4) comment
on Experience of using the watch with a non Samsung device?:
I'm using it with a Google Pixel phone. All-in-all it's not a problem and everything works just fine, but: 1. You need to use the Samsung Health app on the phone. It doesn't work directly with Google Fit (though you can sync from Samsung Health to Google Fit with an afforable 3rd-party app called Health Sync). 2. Some of the health functions don't work without a Samsung phone (electrokardiogram and blood pressure). Everything else works fine though. 3. The watch doesn't have Google Assistant, only Samsung's Bixby (though there are rumors that eventually it will be made available), so if you're used to that from your phone it can be disappointing. 4. Google Pay works, but the default button configuration is for Samsung Pay (you can use both, but if you're not a Samsung Pay user then you have one "useless" button configuration.
- 2021-09-21
Posted a Reddit (readwise) comment
on Readwise - Moon Reader integration:
It works just fine for me. When I want a title I highlight, choose to create a note, add
.h1
, of.h2
, etc and it uses it correctly as the title in Readwise. Haven't tried.c1
,.c2
, though. - 2021-09-21
Posted a link on Reddit (KeybaseProofs):
My Keybase proof [reddit:intellectronica = keybase:intellectronica] (0r06wiJ-Q0qx8GX2fKJYzenFv8YITEcDeh9pVeSMUmQ)
Keybase proof
I am:
- intellectronica on reddit.
- intellectronica on keybase.
Proof:
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- 2021-09-01
Read Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams - Matthew Walker
★★★★☆
- 2021-09-01
Read The Science and Technology of Growing Young: An Insider's Guide to the Breakthroughs That Will Dramatically Extend Our Lifespan . . . and What You Can Do Right Now - Sergey Young
★★★★☆
- 2021-08-01
Read Four Thousand Weeks - Oliver Burkeman
★★★★☆
- 2021-08-01
Read The Science of Can and Can't: A Physicist's Journey Through the Land of Counterfactuals - Chiara Marletto
★★★★★
- 2021-08-01
Read Move: How the New Science of Body Movement Can Set Your Mind Free - Caroline Williams
★★★★☆
- 2021-07-21
Posted a Hacker News comment
on Ask HN: for senior positions is it advisable to list side projects on your CV?:
Yes, sometimes, but you need to have a good sense for what is actually impressive to the people reviewing you, not just impress yourself (and you are the easiest person to impress).
Merely the fact that you put in the time to build something isn't going to be that impressive for someone considering you for a senior role. They'll want to know that your work was valuable to others, that it had impact. So if you just built something for fun or as an exercise, I don't think it's worth showing it. But if you wrote or contributed to a popular open-source project, or built something that is used by a large number of people, or you got published somewhere respectable, or you were successful in achieving some impressive goal like helping a community you care about, do share.
Make sure to explain how your work was impactful with numbers, quotes, use-cases, etc...
- 2021-07-18
Read The Invention of God - Thomas Römer
★★★★★
- 2021-07-01
Read Influence, New and Expanded: The Psychology of Persuasion - Robert B. Cialdini
★★★★☆
- 2021-06-28
Read The Wall Street MBA - Reuben Advani
★★★★☆
- 2021-06-26
Read Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time - Keith Ferrazzi
★★★☆☆
- 2021-06-20
Read The Fast800 Diet: Discover the Ideal Fasting Formula to Shed Pounds, Fight Disease, and Boost Your Overall Health - Michael Mosley
★★★★☆
- 2021-06-19
Read The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play - Neil A. Fiore
★★★☆☆
- 2021-06-12
Read Stoicism and the Art of Happiness (Teach Yourself) - Donald J. Robertson
★★★★☆
- 2021-05-26
Read You're Invited: The Art and Science of Cultivating Influence - Jon Levy
★★★★☆
- 2021-05-22
Read 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do: Take Back Your Power, Embrace Change, Face Your Fears, and Train Your Brain for Happiness and Success - Amy Morin
★★★★☆
- 2021-05-19
Posted a Hacker News comment
on Ask HN: How can I move away from engineering?:
Are you already working or can get a job at a large/growing company? Such companies have a need to fill very specific roles that are adjacent to engineering (for example: project/program manager, people/business manager, architect, writer, etc) and often make it easy for strong performers to make a lateral move. The advantage is the you can gain experience and refocus your career without having to start from scratch.
- 2021-05-10
Posted a Hacker News comment
on Ask HN: How can I read faster?:
Map the book before starting to read end-to-end. Review the chapters, and the internal structure. Develop a mental plan for what you're going to learn from the book, and only then start reading. You'll be able to vary the speed a lot - some things you'll read very carefully and even reread to make sure you understand (and take notes for stuff you'll want to remember), other parts you'll skim or even skip altogether.
- 2021-05-01
Read Power: Why Some People Have it and Others Don't - Jeffrey Pfeffer
★★★★★
- 2021-05-01
Read NEXT: A Manual for Disruption: An Essential Toolkit to Help You Navigate in a New Reality - Adi Yoffe
★★★★☆
- 2021-04-25
Read HBR Guide to Persuasive Presentations - Nancy Duarte
★★★★☆
- 2021-04-24
Read Build Your Resilience: Teach Yourself How to Survive and Thrive in Any Situation - Donald J. Robertson
★★★★☆
- 2021-04-24
Read FAST THIS WAY: Burn Fat, Heal Inflammation and Eat Like the High-Performing Human You Were Meant to Be (Bulletproof 6) - Dave Asprey
★★★☆☆
- 2021-04-24
Read The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't - Julia Galef
★★★★★
- 2021-04-01
Read Remain in Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina - Chris Frantz
★★★★☆
- 2021-03-23
Read Skip the Line: The 10,000 Experiments Rule and Other Surprising Advice for Reaching Your Goals - James Altucher
★★★★☆
- 2021-02-19
Read Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment - Daniel Kahneman
★★★★★
- 2021-01-01
Read The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything...Fast - Josh Kaufman
★★★★☆
- 2020-12-01
Read Ageless: The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting Old - Andrew Steele
★★★★☆
- 2020-11-01
Read The Psychology of Money - Morgan Housel
★★★★☆
- 2020-10-01
Read The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous - Joseph Henrich
★★★★★
- 2020-09-01
Read The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness - Eric Jorgenson
★★★★☆
- 2020-09-01
Read How to Fight a Hydra: Face Your Fears, Pursue Your Ambitions, and Become the Hero You Are Destined to Be - Josh Kaufman
★★☆☆☆
- 2020-08-25
Read Age Later: Healthspan, Lifespan, and the New Science of Longevity - Nir Barzilai
★★★★☆
- 2020-08-22
Read The Unicorn's Shadow: Combating the Dangerous Myths that Hold Back Startups, Founders, and Investors - Ethan Mollick
★★★☆☆
- 2020-08-01
Read The Body: A Guide for Occupants - Bill Bryson
★★★★★
- 2020-08-01
Read Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit - Ashley Mears
★★★★☆
- 2020-07-03
Posted a Hacker News comment
on Ask HN: Did you take any fresh MOOCs as of 2020?:
I took https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/the-mind-is-flat and it was great. Loved the book and the course was a great complement. The platform is nothing to write home about but the course itself was so good it didn't matter at all.
- 2020-07-01
Read The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win - Maria Konnikova
★★★★☆
- 2020-07-01
Read Hostage at the Table: How Leaders Can Overcome Conflict, Influence Others, and Raise Performance - George Kohlrieser
★★★★☆
- 2020-06-10 Posted a link on Hacker News: After 34 Years, Sweden Says It Knows the Killer of Olof Palme
- 2020-05-20
Posted a Hacker News comment
on The silence of the owls:
the owls are not what they seem
- 2020-05-12
Posted a Hacker News comment
on Linux is Most Used OS in Microsoft Azure – over 50 percent of VM cores:
dog bites man
- 2020-05-01
Read The Personal MBA - Josh Kaufman
★★★★★
- 2020-05-01
Read The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done - Peter F. Drucker
★★★☆☆
- 2020-04-01
Read Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To - David Sinclair
★★★★★
- 2020-03-17 Posted a link on Hacker News: Humankind as Emojis
- 2020-03-08
Posted a Hacker News comment
on On Being a Generalist:
There are exceptions, but the vast majority of tech positions at Google are for generalists. Hiring managers, interviewers and hiring committees look for strong signal that a candidate is a good generalist and only incidentally that they have any specific skills (more as a proof that they are able to acquire a skill to a high level of mastery than out of need for that specific skill).
- 2020-03-01
Read But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking about the Present as If It Were the Past - Chuck Klosterman
★★★★★
- 2020-01-01
Read The Compound Effect - Darren Hardy
★★★★☆
- 2020-01-01
Read A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing - Burton G. Malkiel
★★★★☆
- 2020-01-01
Read The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business - Charles Duhigg
★★★☆☆
- 2020-01-01
Read Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World - Cal Newport
★★★★☆
- 2020-01-01
Read The Motivation Myth: How High Achievers Really Set Themselves Up to Win - Jeff Haden
★★★★☆
- 2020-01-01
Read Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense - Rory Sutherland
★★★★☆
- 2019-12-01
Read The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses - Dan Carlin
★★★☆☆
- 2019-10-22
Posted a Hacker News comment
on Ask HN: How was life for a regular dev during the dot com burst?:
One day it was all froth and then all of a sudden there was no work. I was lucky enough to have had enough money in the back to be able to spend the following two years studying, travelling and working on open-source software, and actually had a really good time that I look back on fondly, but I knew many people who had to switch from a very lucrative job at a startup to waiting tables and such.
Lesson: if you're making good money now, save (and if you then find yourself with nothing to do which pays, try to make the best of that time by doing interesting things that you would normally not have the time to do).
- 2019-10-01
Read Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career - Scott H. Young
★★★★☆
- 2019-09-13
Posted a Hacker News comment
on Tza'ar Ba'alei Chayim:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shechita#Animal_welfare_contro...
- 2019-09-01
Read The Mind is Flat: The Illusion of Mental Depth and The Improvised Mind - Nick Chater
★★★★★
- 2019-08-01
Posted a Hacker News comment
on Ask HN: Your favourite tutorial for total beginners?:
The Emacs interactive tutorial (type "C-h t" to start) is awesome. After you complete it you know all Emacs basics and can get to work.
- 2019-08-01
Read 21 Lessons for the 21st Century - Yuval Noah Harari
★★★★☆
- 2019-06-01
Read Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero - Tyler Cowen
★★★★☆
- 2019-05-01
Read Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis - Jared Diamond
★★★☆☆
- 2019-04-03
Posted a Reddit (seancarroll) comment
on [April Discussion Post] Mindscape Guest?:
- Keith E. Stanovich (Darwinism, Memes, Intelligence)
- 2019-04-03
Posted a Reddit (seancarroll) comment
on [April Discussion Post] Mindscape Guest?:
- David Deutsch and/or Chiara Marletto (Constructor Theory)
- 2019-04-01
Read The 33 Strategies of War - Robert Greene
★★★☆☆