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Verbiage is proof of work, and journalists need to make a living, just the same as planning-to-plan product managers.

You can train yourself to skim for maximal extraction per minute. I burned through the article in about 3-4 minutes. I tend to get bogged down by my software developer's close-reading instincts.


tldr tl;dr

Our bodies self-correct to maintain a constant calorie expenditure. Marathoners and lean-mean bush people were found to burn as many calories daily as a middle aged woman from Chicago. Takeaway: eat less if you want to lose weight.


Lots of sour grapes rationalizing.

Every deprived addict, from the grounded Minecraft player to the imprisoned dope fiend, will tell you the deprivation was good for him, but as soon he's given a shot at another fix, he'll instantly take it.

I hate Slack's always-on nature. That I keep using it should tell me how I really feel about it.


Both can be true. We can hate the things that addict us and still be uncontrollably driven to them.

If I could guaranteed overpower all my subconscious drives by choice I'd take that opportunity in a heartbeat.


You can hate the guilt, but you can't hate the pleasure -- that wouldn't make any sense.


Automatic plug whenever I see this asked: nnhackernews.


Thanks for the tip, I just installed (via MELPA), added it as a secondary select method, and restarted Gnus. I can see the "groups" show up, but when I try to enter them I get

> Symbol’s value as variable is void: t1

Open an issue at https://github.com/dickmao/nnhackernews ?


decent people with decent products just don't make it.

Which is why you need to make your product a little more than decent. "Evil will always triumph because good is dumb." So be less dumb, and you can stay just as good.


The legal driving age for men should be raised to 40. Problem solved.


Taking average statistics of a population group and applying them to individuals is pretty much the description of discrimination.

And anecdotally, I've met plenty of bonkers female drivers, too. Including two who tried to run my bicycle off the road because they felt that cyclists should not be on the road (in both cases, I was in the cycle lane).


You can always end the contract

Most people don't have the kind of eff-thou money, which is why OP asked his question conditioning on unionization.


Then they are probably not managing their finances as well as they ought to be. Given OP is talking about software jobs, which are among the highest paying in any region.


What are some good resources on Emacs?

Google.

how long did it take you to debug issues?

For many years, I googled for little elisp snippets I didn't understand.

If you use doom/spacemacs, do you feel the bloat?

Doom and spacemacs users care more about limiting time to productivity. If they cared about bloat, they'd have stuck with vi.


Never heard the author, but having read his blog, I've concluded I am this guy modulo the talent and the fact that he got to my way of thinking in half the time.


Attempting to learn mathematics as some sort of pattern matching... does not work

China (and other countries who put American math education to shame) disagrees.

For you, math may have been a deduction from first principles, but to us mere mortals, math is a decade-long slow reveal through wax-on-wax-off repetition.


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