Who can blame readers for supporting an author they know can produce good output that they enjoy. Maybe there are good books by other lesser known authors out there, but then you have to take a risk with something new.
Up until 6 months ago, I had read probably 3 books in 10 years. 6 months ago I started reading again.
I started with Rothfuss' Kingkiller Chronicles, books 1 and 2. That set a high bar.
Next was the Dune trilogy after I saw the movie. Overall it was good but a bit heavy for reading before bed, I often didn't manage for more than 30 mins before starting to drift off, whilst with Kingkiller chronicles I could easily read 1+ hours. I gave up on Dune book 3, I'll read it on vacation some time.
Then I tried Ready Player One, which opened up a whole world of realizing that books can be really bad, just like other art forms. I feel like I've never read a bad book before this (despite not reading for 10 years, I did read a lot as a teenager).
The first 25% of the book relies 80s references every other sentence, clearly the writer is trying to nostalgia trip the reader into enjoying it. Then after that he is describing playing a video game. People bemoan how there is a big cultural shift towards watching people play video games, but here is even worse; he describes a super boring boss battle involving an 80s arcade game. Every chapter I read, I got more annoyed at how bad the book was, until I realized I could just abandon it.
And now I just started Sanderson's Mistborn #1: The Final Empire, and it feels good to be reading something quality again.
I think it's easier to recall the "idea" of each algorithm, than visualizing the flow of the code. There's normally also some key implementation detail that's helpful to remember.
Quicksort - pivot - i <= hi
mergesort - merge - auxiliary array
When I started practicing DSA, I would code these algorithms from scratch ever week, to try and memorize them. Then as I did more general leetcoding, I realized that these are just solutions to problems, and there's no need to memorize the code exactly, just knowing the key idea is enough.
People dump on leetcode because they think it's memorizing solutions to problems, but it's not practical to do that. It's more like memorizing one sentence per problem, than memorizing a page of code. And when you see a new problem, you just adapt one of the "sentences" you memorized for a similar problem.
But if you've never looked at an efficient algorithm for dependency resolution, it's going to be impossible to come up with a good solution for a related problem in an interview.
Having seen amazing movies on Prime, when I struggle to find anything decent to watch, I blame it on the fact that Prime is only listing a small fraction of movies that exist, not that movies are dead.
The author seems to wear his extreme disorganization as a badge of honor. Also from the article:
> having 500 tabs open in mobile Safari, which I always do, doesn’t hurt my system performance at all because the tabs are freeze-dried when I’m not using them.
When you have so many open tabs, there's no difference between a "freeze dried" tab, and just an entry in your browser's history. If your system performance on desktop is hurt by having 37 windows open, the solution is to just close all these windows. I guarantee you're not going to miss them.
Apple aren't doing this to eliminate malware from their systems. Probably just gearing up to the point where it's impossible to run any application that Apple isn't getting a cut of (or is free).
Realistically, malware only affects a tiny fraction of users, and only a further tiny fraction suffer demonstrable loss from it.
Ever thought that these executives are not as dumb as you think they are, and maybe that they are aware that individual developer productivity may drop, but there are broader benefits to having everyone on site.
Any warts when using it with Doom? I only recently switched from vim to Doom, and I love it, but it can be a bit laggy when using it with some of the C/C++ IDE features turned on.
Perhaps your method of dumping the water works fine for you, but it is a very inconsistent method. There's a video on Youtube[1] of a "coffee brewing champion" who uses this method sometimes, and admits you are essentially playing roulette with your brew. But it can lead to more varied flavor profile from cup to cup.
You may be better off grinding coarser, and not skipping the initial "bloom" phase. When not simply dumping water into the brewer, there are of course many other variables to tweak to try and achieve a tasty cup.
You are erroneously conflating investing with gambling. Astute investing in index funds is essentially risk-free if your retirement is far enough away. As you get closer to retirement, you should start moving from funds to bonds (or cash if you want to be extra safe), so you are protected in the case of a crash.
I am not OK with losing the money I have invested, but it is so unlikely that I do not need to worry about it.
A situation where the global stock market crashes, and never recovers, is basically an apocalypse. That is not worth planning for.
I think you can't judge whether TSLA is overvalued or not until they are no longer instantly selling out of all their products. People are bullish on TSLA because they have a product that many, many people want, more than they have the capability to supply.
Once they have their peak production capacity and have surplus stock across all markets we will get a better idea of their true value.
The most that the price of TSLA and BTC have in common is that both their values can be represented on a graph.
Hedge fund managers are never going to publicise an impartial view about anything, especially not something they are heavily invested in. Forming a positive opinion about Bitcoin based on what two hedge fund managers, both bullish on BTC, have to say, seems pretty dumb.
Unless fiat is abolished, the price of something in BTC will always be pegged to USD. As USD devalues as a result of inflation, the price of a product in BTC decreases.
I don't see the difference between someone in Venezuela choosing to hold their net worth in BTC (which could halve at any moment), versus their native, rapid inflationary currency. Both are risky, but if the central bank sorted itself out and fixed the currency issue, no one will have any reason to hold BTC any more.
> With its sudden uptick & strong Reddit community, really curious what you all think will happen next with its price?
I thought the same when I bought a bunch in 2014. I held for years and didn't make any money (maybe a little from BTC increases?). You could buy some and hold and check the price every waking hour for the next few years waiting for another pump where you can 2x your investment, or you could move on with your life and not got get sucked into stupid fantasy money making schemes.
Just looking at this from a technical perspective, it'll be pretty exciting if all this ends up leading to an explosion in the take up of self-hosted social media platforms.
The question is, will the creators of these communities trust cloud providers where the platforms are hosted to not de-platform them, or will we end up with P2P, distributed networks instead?
Hm, drone doesn't support AWS CodeCommit where my main repo is hosted, so I don't think I can even consider it.
Had a look at self-hosted GitLab, there is immediately a warning at the top of the installation page that there should be at least 4GB of free memory. I could upgrade my droplet, but I don't really want to.
> 4GB RAM + 4GB swap supports up to 100 users but it will be very slow"
It's looking like I will probably go with BuildBot...
Up until 6 months ago, I had read probably 3 books in 10 years. 6 months ago I started reading again.
I started with Rothfuss' Kingkiller Chronicles, books 1 and 2. That set a high bar.
Next was the Dune trilogy after I saw the movie. Overall it was good but a bit heavy for reading before bed, I often didn't manage for more than 30 mins before starting to drift off, whilst with Kingkiller chronicles I could easily read 1+ hours. I gave up on Dune book 3, I'll read it on vacation some time.
Then I tried Ready Player One, which opened up a whole world of realizing that books can be really bad, just like other art forms. I feel like I've never read a bad book before this (despite not reading for 10 years, I did read a lot as a teenager).
The first 25% of the book relies 80s references every other sentence, clearly the writer is trying to nostalgia trip the reader into enjoying it. Then after that he is describing playing a video game. People bemoan how there is a big cultural shift towards watching people play video games, but here is even worse; he describes a super boring boss battle involving an 80s arcade game. Every chapter I read, I got more annoyed at how bad the book was, until I realized I could just abandon it.
And now I just started Sanderson's Mistborn #1: The Final Empire, and it feels good to be reading something quality again.