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Comment · 11 years ago
"Teach Yourself Management in Ten Years" haha

Management isn't that hard, specially compared to engineering where competition is fierce. The degrees are an absolute joke. I had virtually no social life during my CS studies, but the other one? Some of the managers I know don't even have one.

If you're the average HN reader you might have to hone up your soft skills and that's about it. Any competent developer would do just fine without training, even with autism going rampant in our industry.

It's not like we all jumped into the management career path in search for a challenge.

Comment · 11 years ago
For the past two years I've been using a Nexus 5, which I never really liked (should have gotten the LG G2 instead) because of the average build and camera quality.

Then Google bricked it with the 5.1.1 update, so while waiting for the replacement to arrive I got a cheap Lumia 535 that I'm loving so far.

Fast forward one week, Nexus 5 replacement arrives, and updating to the latest version bricks it again (this time a soft brick :)

Having realized that Google is apparently packed with morons I'll stick with Windows Phone for a while. Looking forward to the upcoming Lumia 940 or the successor of the Lumia 1020.

Comment · 11 years ago
Over eating on high quality bacon won't stop you from being a lard-ass.
Comment · 11 years ago
I've just lost 20 minutes guessing the age of Hitler portraits.
Comment · 11 years ago
Home: i7-4770k, 16gb RAM, AMD r9 290x running Windows 8.1. I might be getting an XPS 13 to replace my old laptop.

Work: i5, 8gb RAM 2015 MacbookPro running OS X.

I develop on Debian VMs (VirtualBox + Vagrant) at work and Ubuntu Server VMs (VMWare Workstation) at home. Almost everything is done remotely, sshing into the dev VM and running emacs there, the only exception being java stuff. Other than VM management tools and Eclipse my client boxes don't have much development stuff installed.

Tools: Emacs, Notepad++, Eclipse, Perl, Java, Clojure, Git, Putty/iterm2, Firefox, MySQL, redis. I'm playing around with OCaml but I'm a total noob.

Comment · 11 years ago
SQLToad is unmatched on Windows IMO.
Comment · 11 years ago
I use xkeymacs on my win boxes and I'm quite happy with it.
Comment · 11 years ago
No, what is making the difference is the boost of cortisol and adrenaline levels caused by HF/LC diets.
Comment · 11 years ago
Sometimes Perl can be a beauty:

  sub sum_of_squared_pairs {
    reduce { $a + $b } map { $_ * $_ } grep { $_ % 2 == 0 } @_
  }

  sub schwartzian_transform {
    map  { $_->[0] }
    sort { $a->[1] <=> $b->[1] } # use numeric comparison
    map  { [$_, length $_] }     # calculate the length of the string
         @_
  }
Comment · 11 years ago
TIL programmers evolved from being secretaries to bricklayers.
Comment · 11 years ago
I might not be the average HN user, but I have to choke down ~4500 daily calories in order to maintain both weight and athletic performance, and doing so without simple sugars would be a pretty difficult task, not to mention if I suddenly started drinking oil instead as per advice.

Even at a standard 2500kcal diet half a can of coke still leaves enough room for micronutrient dense foods so I don't see what's the big deal.

Perhaps it's time to stop blaming it on foods.

Comment · 11 years ago
Comment · 11 years ago
You are comparing mundane things with posting nudes on the net.
Comment · 11 years ago
Are we reddit now?
Comment · 11 years ago

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