This post very much appeals to me. I hate the idea of hacking being something you do until you move up far enough on the corporate ladder to pawn it off to someone else. It is a creative, fun, activity that creates immense value and I want to keep on doing it well past my 50's.
Google states that it "may use everyone's blocking information to improve the ranking of search results overall" so this may be the best way to take action.
I love this idea. My knowledge of lisp is very basic but I wonder if optional declarations could be added to functions: e.g. f(Number) -> (Number,Number) (sort of similar to haskell) and then these could be used in the pretty printing / presentation layer. This would help lisp from missing those implicit clues that are present in other languages without compromising its flexibility.
This post really resonates with me. I feel that the brain suffers without being used as a "memory store" of some kind. Maybe we use the same brain action to access memory as to access thought processes so that without the constant need to access memory we lose the other portion as well.
I am going to follow your advice, disconnect, and try to really understand some books.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/04/28/business/Doubl...