nicely done! very helpful intro.
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Also, spot on with Anglo news coverage not really speaking for/ capturing the essence in continental Europe. E.g. current Anglo news criticizing northern European countries for 'austerity' measures (well, it's their money, so obviously they will not hand it out gladly).
It's an elusive topic with hardly any good information. Quite unusual to see such a balanced reply here.
yeah, Casals is the man. don't like rostropovich rendition IMHO.
currently playing those Suites on a Carbon Fiber Luis & Clark instrument - luisandclark.com
Sorry to broaden the scope, but this made me think...
In stock markets, you have the concept of "noise traders", less well-informed traders. They sort of create their own dynamics, sometimes even generating good return on investments, where better informed traders stay out of the market.
Social dynamics... not sure if it's possible to derive some new fundamental laws, because human behavior is too fluid. Maybe in the end (after years of "big data" number crunching) all we get is some empirical observations and weak correlations.
a lot of sites at MIT, CMU have that mark... the more prestigious, the uglier.
of course it has to be a certain style of ugly.
Then, of course, there are the people that are hopeless, and no amount of practice will get them over the hill.
Although, there is the rare breed of actor that plays an instrument.
Exactly. This advice might apply more to a creative process, where original thought counts above all else. I imagine being truly creative is an exhausting activity, knowing several professional artists (oil paint). You're basically holding a large set of options simultaneously in your head and try to make unique connections between them. The value is not in how many iterations of connections you go through, but coming up with something unique at all.
Development strikes me more similar to solving cross-word puzzles, or playing mine-sweeper, where activity is more guided, focused along a smaller set of options, with lots of trial and error in the process: it's sort of "focused play"/ experimentation. Here it seems more valuable IMHO to keep on going once you're in the flow. You're not looking for that one special connection, that will make your day, but are solving many little problems that aggregate over time.
I could imagine science-based development work to be creatively exhausting as well, where you're trying to prove some theorem etc. Hemingway's advice might apply itself nicely in this case.
I'd like to see more blog posts on how to solve different types of problems. E.g. I know that walking away from a hard problem after you're exhausted works out well (the subconscious keeps on working on it), or as Hemingway proposes, walking away right before you become exhausted.
My two cents.
You can't break procrastination head-on. It's gotta be tricked to defeat it.
I could see that for Big Ticket projects such as Rails/ Clojure/ Django etc. people would maintain an up-to-date 'semver' database.
The only thing is that the name 'semantic' is not really a winner (it sets people on edge). Maybe something else will survive in the end, unless people are comfortable enough with the pragmatic value of the idea and will look past the name.
Websockets + Erlang... nice.
Edit: happiness = serotonin level in spinal fluid. Suicide cases show low levels after autopsy.
Also like the fact that he doesn't use many gems, but discusses building stuff from scratch (regarding Railsspace book).