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Re:In Praise of Memorization
on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @08:26AM (#30765197)
I've found the most success with Memrise: https://www.memrise.com
Re:In Praise of Memorization
on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @08:23AM (#30765172)
Highly recommend Memrise https://www.memrise.com/
Re:In Praise of Memorization
on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @01:50AM (#30763107)
There was an HN poster a few months ago who claimed that memorizing the Python standard library made him much more productive.
In Praise of Memorization
Re:Show HN: The Sample – newsletters curated for you with machine lear...
on Monday June 28, 2021 @05:00PM (#27668037)
For all the uninitiated, Jacob also runs Findka Essays [0] which is fantastic. My daily reading is Findka Essays and Thinking About Things [1], which is more than enough interesting reading material that I can get through.
Re:Ask HN: Feeling guilty for doing the bare minimum at work
on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @12:26PM (#27593703)
There is a certain subset of programmers who get away with this at work. But if you're posting this, it sounds like you're torn between the comfortable quality of life you're living now, and the boredom and knowing you could be doing more.
Some ideas:
* Can you do a rotation on a different team? (For example, if you're devops, you might learn a lot on SRE/ops.)
* Can you start side projects at work, for work?
Re:Ask HN: Where do you find thought-provoking articles on the internet?
on Sunday November 15, 2020 @11:09AM (#25102202)
I run an email newsletter[1] that aims to highlight the interesting content found on personal blogs. It's a single link every other day to something interesting, the kind of blog posts that you come across every once in a while that really make you think. The overwhelming feedback is that being able to read the kind of non-viscerally-targeted news and analyses that aren't easily found online is incredibly valuable.
I've been asked multiple times about starting a community with discussion, but don't currently have the bandwidth. If someone else would like to create one I will happily support it.
[1] www.thinking-about-things.com
Some example articles are at www.twitter.com/thinkingaboutt6.
Re:Ask HN: Where do you go to read interesting articles, besides HN?
on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @08:56PM (#25065545)
I run an email newsletter[1] that aims to highlight the interesting content found on personal blogs. It's a single link every other day to something interesting, the kind of blog posts that you come across every once in a while that really make you think. The overwhelming feedback is that being able to read the kind of non-viscerally-targeted news and analyses that aren't easily found online is incredibly valuable.
[1] www.thinking-about-things.com, www.twitter.com/thinkingaboutt6
Re:Hunting the Nearly-Invisible Personal Website
on Thursday August 27, 2020 @09:08AM (#24293287)
Each email contains the article's title, the genre, and an extended excerpt.
I'm not sure how to link to previous emails, but here is a sample of previous links: https://mix.com/thinkingaboutthings.
It started out as an every day email, but readers told me that every other day would give them time to read the articles.
Re:Hunting the Nearly-Invisible Personal Website
on Thursday August 27, 2020 @08:59AM (#24293207)
Thank you for letting me know. Fixed.
Re:Hunting the Nearly-Invisible Personal Website
on Thursday August 27, 2020 @08:53AM (#24293152)
I run an email newsletter[1] that aims to highlight the interesting content found on personal blogs. It's a single link every other day to something interesting, the kind of blog posts that you come across every once in a while that really make you think. The overwhelming feedback is that being able to read the kind of non-viscerally-targeted news and analyses that aren't easily found online is incredibly valuable.
Re:A newsletter about mental models and rational thinking
on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @11:42AM (#24121547)
This looks intriguing. Welcome to the newsletter space! I run Thinking About Things [0], a newsletter with a similar premise - that of critical thinking and seeing things in a new light.
The demand for content about critical thinking is rising exponentially. I'm happy to collaborate and show you the ropes - you can find our contact info on the site.
[0] thinking-about-things.com
Re:Show HN: Want to share my newsletter with HN readers
on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @11:04PM (#24056886)
It's impossible to underestimate the degree to which curation is becoming the differentiator in the digital economy. Those who can be trusted to provide valuable content from the fire hose of all that's available on the internet will become the new information brokers.
Re:Limitations and pitfalls of the job interview
on Monday July 06, 2020 @02:44PM (#23751259)
This message is expressed very well here [1]. Tl;dr internships are helpful to students for a variety of reasons, like making applicants more valuable to employers, making programming less of an abstract concept, and exposing them to interesting subfields of computer science.
[1] https://getatechinternship.com/2020/04/27/why-do-i-need-an-i...
To Whom It May Concern at The New York Times: An Open Letter
How to Succeed at a Technical Internship
Re:Ask HN: Tips for students before starting their first job
on Saturday June 13, 2020 @10:55PM (#23514727)
https://getatechinternship.com/2020/04/27/how-to-succeed-at-...
Tl;dr -
1. Don’t go straight to Stack Overflow
2. Learn the standard libraries
3. Put away your phone
4. Figure out how to unblock yourself
5. Figure out when to ask for help
6. Keep track of what’s going on in the industry
7. Stop being insecure
Re:Ask HN: Where do HN readers spend their online downtime?
on Thursday May 28, 2020 @07:37PM (#23344432)
I get an interesting article emailed to me every day from Thinking About Things [0], so I use that to go down some rabbit hole.
[0] www.thinking-about-things.com
Re:If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs
on Saturday May 16, 2020 @09:11PM (#23208558)
I've long wanted to build a search engine of only personal blogs. I am less familiar with the field of information retrieval so I haven't gotten started yet, but it's always been a dream of mine and if anyone is interested please contact me at [redacted] [at] the world's largest email provider.
Discovering unknown parts and blogs on the internet is one of the enduring goals of a newsletter that I run [1], which provides a single link to an interesting article every day, usually by lesser-known authors and blogs across the internet.
[1] www.thinking-about-things.com
Re:Ask HN: Is there a search engine which excludes the world's biggest...
on Saturday May 16, 2020 @09:11PM (#23208551)
I've long wanted to build a search engine of only personal blogs. I am less familiar with the field of information retrieval so I haven't gotten started yet, but it's always been a dream of mine and if anyone is interested please contact me at threemillionthflower [at] the world's largest email provider.
Discovering unknown parts and blogs on the internet is one of the enduring goals of a newsletter that I run [1], which provides a single link to an interesting article every day, usually by lesser-known authors and blogs across the internet.
[1] www.thinking-about-things.com
Re:Show HN: To fight quarantine boredom I build a site to watch movies...
on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @05:44PM (#22688780)
For those who prefer text-based entertainment, I run an email newsletter called Thinking About Things [1], which sends out a link to an interesting article every day. It's aimed at curious people who don't have a lot of time to read - each email has an extended quote from the article so that you can see if it interests you. It's gotten very good reviews from readers.
Re:Ask HN: What are the underrated newsletters you like reading?
on Sunday February 09, 2020 @03:04PM (#22284008)
I enjoy Thinking About Things - they send a single link on arbitrary topics every day. It definitely lives up to its name.
Re:Show HN: Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a time, in y...
on Thursday November 28, 2019 @08:36AM (#21657197)
Thank you for the feedback - I'll add that.
Re:Show HN: Notimeforbooks.com – Read a book, one page at a time, in y...
on Thursday November 28, 2019 @06:57AM (#21656555)
Anyone who enjoys this might enjoy an email newsletter I run, Thinking About Things [1], which sends readers a single interesting and thought-provoking link every morning. It's a similar idea - small, manageable parts of ideas for people who are too busy to pursue idea discovery full-time.
[1] thinking-about-things.com
Re:Sacha Baron Cohen Uses ADL Speech to Tear Apart Mark Zuckerberg and...
on Friday November 22, 2019 @12:47PM (#21607969)
I run an email newsletter[1] that aims to combat exactly this issue. It's a single link every day to something interesting, the kind of blog posts that you come across every once in a while that really make you think. The overwhelming feedback is that being able to read the kind of non-viscerally-targeted news and analyses that aren't easily found online is incredibly valuable.
Becoming a Better Engineer
Advice for New Developers
Re:Nine-year-old child to graduate university
on Friday November 15, 2019 @03:01PM (#21548207)
Sounds like he got a scholarship.
Re:Developers mentoring other developers: practices I've seen work well
on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @06:12AM (#21513230)
Teaching developers how to find the answers to their problems is a crucial skill, and one that's often approached the wrong way - either new developers get all the answers easily and don't learn, or they spend days trying to unblock themselves. I recently wrote about that challenge in an article for junior developers. [1]
[1] http://www.pearlleff.com/seven-tips-for-a-junior-developer