yoricm · HackerTrans

6 か月前議論

That's an impressive bug hunt. Same code, different behavior. I can't imagine how much time the guy spent on finding this one. And how much satisfaction once he finally nailed it.

yoricm

9 か月前議論

I copy/pasted an AI summary (using Recall) of the video here:

https://sharetext.io/42b482da

And the full transcript here:

https://sharetext.io/d675f945

yoricm

6 年前議論

Personally, a text area is the only thing I need to express my gratitude. I'm doubtful about a UI that would "encourage" it. The last time I wrote on a GitHub issue, I started my message with a warm thankful line to the maintainer for his fabulous work. I meant it, and I didn't need any "reminder" to say so. It felt natural and important to me. I also put relevant informations to show my interest and the time I spent thinking about it. In the end, I believe it's more about the person posting, rather than the interface encouraging it, but I may be wrong.

yoricm

6 年前議論

Nice read. Writing can be magic, both for the reader and the author. If only working hard to make it clear for the reader. It might be just me, but "struggling to get it" can lead to better explanations.

From the article:

- It just needs for the writer to work hard to make it clear Writing is humanity’s superpower — when done well, it informs, provokes, and entertains.

- When an author takes the time to prepare a high-quality article, knowledge flows seamlessly from one mind to another.

- If you’re curious about a topic, or even confused by it, the best thing you can do is write about it.

yoricm

6 年前議論

I'm fond of my early development tools: Hypercard, Resedit, Think Pascal, MacsBug... It gives me rainbows whenever I think about it, no matter how grey my developer life currently is.

yoricm

6 年前議論

May I ask where can we find the "sister web app typeatap"? I'm slowly introducing my 3.5 yo daughter with the keyboard. She can pronounce letters from A to Z, and write them on paper in upper case. I'd love to hear about more educational app like this!

yoricm

6 年前議論

Thanks, I just discovered a wonderful cartoonist. A joy to read those illustrated thoughts full of creativity and humor.

Particularly like his honesty, exposing his vulnerabilities in a way we can only laugh, and reflect on it ourselves.

Whether you're an artist, an entrepreneur or aspire to improve yourself, you certainly can relate to his work and self-reflections.

yoricm

6 年前議論

Exactly this. This is the future.

Accelerated learning is fascinating because learning today is so inefficient. Combine that with the massive knowledge that accumulates over the years.

Elon Musks said it himself. Along with Solar Energy, Mars colonization, AI, knowledge acquisition needs to be disrupted. Something like bio-technology with transplanted chips.

Reading books is a very old way, and it doesn't scale well. Listening to podcast isn't very efficient either. Gamification has not been effective enough so far.

You can also see it in "Matrix", when training in a virtual world with a karate-training program that interacts directly with the brain. As you do when dreaming, but in an interactive way.

In the "Fifth Element", there's also a scene where Milla Jovovich (an advanced being) learn all Human History in a matter of hours/minutes with accelerated reading/watching the Internet.

I'm sure there are many other examples of people putting "accelerated learning" as one feature of the future.

(And I'm already excited to be there.)

yoricm

6 年前議論

I like the look of this blog's minimalist design.

yoricm

6 年前議論

I agree this is an important lesson. Not everyone is aware of it, or else people would obviously avoid pointless arguments and acting in futile ways.

Arguing for 5 minutes or 10 minutes can consume your whole day afterwards (in your own mind). When you say something, be it bad or good, words will continue to resonate silently in her mind (and yours).

I also noticed when I'm working at something really important, or when I'm on an epiphany of discovering some glorious truth, I naturally don't mind any argument thrown at me. I'm just focused on that beautiful and exciting thought, and no external input could shake it out of my head. I then realized how futile other person's worries and "sadness" are.

It's relativity: the wider your awareness (and the brighter your thoughts), the more shocking it is to see people "closed minded", prisoner of their own thoughts's limitation, and self-imposed grief.

Oddly, we keep going from one to the other. Sticking with mindfulness is hard.

yoricm

6 年前議論

I love learning. "Deep work" and "flow" is something I'm aiming at. And I was pondering why I'm falling short.

It seems like I was blindfolded about learning. I used to see it as taking as much input as possible. Example: want to learn React? Read books, follow tutorials, do exercices on your computer. Then I realized this was not effective.

The missing part was the output. I figured out, not only I need to take input (read), to process it (practice), but also to do it for someone else. This can be explaining to someone, showing what I do, teaching, making a video or a tutorial.

I used to be very good about learning early in my life. I now realized it wasn't because of the resources (It was almost zero), but because I was so excited to show my dad, my brother and sister what I could accomplish on the computer. If it wasn't for them, I wouldn't have learn anything.

I certainly put a lot of practice into it, but it was only a consequence of my excitement to show others.

Lately I followed lots of tutorials and books, but was not excited about it, because I was learning those only for myself.

Producing output (teaching others, videos, blog, useful projects) is key.

yoricm

6 年前議論

I can relate about this problem: I love to read, but can't find the time to do so.

Mindfulness about "distraction" is the first step. We don't need more time, we need to prioritize what we do every moment of the day.

What also helped me is to switch my mental approach when reading: I don't see it as a "read it from A to Z" task.

I took the opposite approach, reading only the first 20 pages of lots of different books. It gives a wide perspective of what's available, it broaden the spectrum of knowledge. Then I rate each book so I can come back and read through the ones that look the most appealing to me.

yoricm

6 年前議論

Clearly a prank (and an uninteresting one).

yoricm

6 年前議論

I agree coding as much as you can might not be the best approach.

My opinion is do what you feel most excited about.

For me, it was drawing and coding from age 10 to 20. And I seldom read books.

Now, I'm mostly excited about reading on a wide range of topics (non fictional books). I find it amazing to discover the world through books, just like having a conversation with the most interesting people that ever existed on Earth.

Our taste change over time. Just like I couldn't eat garlic, salad or pomelo when I was a kid. Not true anymore.

If you "force yourself" to do coding while your interest is elsewhere, it can be as harmful as forcing a kid to eat garlic and pomelos.

Just do the right things at the right time. Listen to your inner excitement when doing things, or after completing a task.

yoricm

6 年前議論

Love the Magnetic Needles, Micro Spirograph, Pop Balloons, LavaLamp: they are very cool.

Visual sort is also impressive.

It reminds me all those little programs I used to do in my 10-18 yo days. (I was programming mostly on a Mac with Hypercard, Think Pascal, Resedit back then).

I used to reproduce all the small games I could program (Snake, Tetris, Solitary, Pacman, Breakout...) plus some educational projects (vocabulary quizz, irregular verbs, math plot, fractal drawing)

yoricm

6 年前議論

Browsing quickly a few random videos is a nice concept to get a glimpse at what random people do. (reminds me of "zapping" on Canal+)

I noticed same people on different videos, and was thinking the "randomness" might not be so random. I wonder what's the algorithm to pick a random video?

yoricm

6 年前議論

I love reading about your enthusiasm for Couchsurfing and your philosophy that comes with it. You should write a book. I'd love reading real stories, along with some reflections. It sounds like a nice way to meet people as they are. Authenticity is scarce and we need it.

yoricm

6 年前議論

    - Learning how to learn (Barbara Oakley).
    - Keeping track of my reading
    - Journaling
    - Jim Rohn's philosophy (any book, or 7 Strategies For Wealth)
    - Osho's philosophy (any book)

yoricm

6 年前議論

  Location: Europe (Spain)
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Go, Rust (learning), PHP, Git, HTML/CSS, Javascript, React, Docker, Linux, MySQL, PostgreSQL 
  Résumé/CV: https://yoricm.com
  Email: [email protected]

Fullstack Developer, CS degree, 15 years professional experience, 2 years remote as lead developer.

yoricm

6 年前議論

Fullstack Developer, CS degree, love coding, fluent in english/french

  Location: Europe (Spain, Valencia)
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Php, Golang, Javascript, C, Linux, HTML, CSS, GIT, Docker, MySQL, PostgreSQL
  Résumé/CV: yoricm.com
  Email: [email protected]

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