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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.

This is just a project someone made to put in their portfolio, it's nothing serious.

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.

> nostalgia is pretty awesome.

> (Question: Why is Netflix in that group aside from the unfortunate new acronym?)

Because they pay massive salaries, at the same level of the other companies.

I thought 6-8 hours was considered the "normal" range, so there is nothing wrong with your 6.5 hours.

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.

If you meditate then ironically you're trying to achieve the state of mind this man has achieved and lives every day.

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.