There is a type of flourishing available to a cat that is only rarely available to us. A human is never simply what she is, but is always striving to become something she is, as yet, not. This is the result of a self-image – a conception of herself and what her life should be – which, when unrealised, can occasion frustration and despair. What the Cat Knows (2020) | Hacker News
As scary as arguments could be, not arguing was somehow much worse. Chapter 1: A Day of Very Low Probability - LessWrong
Don’t believe everything you think Chapter 1: A Day of Very Low Probability - LessWrong
You cannot reduce the complexity of your problem by increasing the complexity of your language. Brooks, Wirth and Go. | Fredrik Holmqvist
Burnout is caused by working hard at something for a long time and not having it pay off. Vacation isn’t the answer to employee burnout | Hacker News
Indeed. It’s amazing to me that in all the conversations about work/life balance, employers never consider the mind-blowingly innovative option of working less. You Are Not Lazy or Undisciplined. You Have Internal Resistance | Hacker News
New repository: aquilax/rundo - Simple local workspace scripts runner
Be a good ancestor. Stand for something bigger than yourself. Add value to the Earth during your sojourn. “Be a good ancestor”*… | (Roughly) Daily
New repository: aquilax/matchpattern - Match Pattern go library
If you must read the rest of this document to understand the behavior of your program, you are being too clever. Don’t be clever. The Go Memory Model - The Go Programming Language
New repository: aquilax/rsimonitor - null
I am not the sort of person who worries a lot about their career growth. I never was a manager and I was always happy to just quietly hack on interesting problems. If you can find the right corners to work in, Google is a pretty great place for that kind of attitude. Tech Notes: Leaving Google
Python is the second-best language for everything.
New repository: aquilax/temporal-api - Go implementation of ECMAScript’s Temporal API
“Don’t write clever code.” Why not? “Because it’s hard to understand.” Clever vs Insightful Code • Hillel Wayne
You need to go to shit-ton of schools to be able to make simple decisions. Otherwise you’ll start to invent all kinds of over-complicated solutions. Clever vs. Insightful Code | Hacker News
When people grow tired, they call it wisdom Why Russians do not smile (2002) | Hacker News
Be conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you accept Why Russians do not smile (2002) | Hacker News
I’m envious of people who are good at being bad. It’s a skill that lets you choose how to develop yourself. The Mental Benefits of Being Terrible at Something | Hacker News
New repository: aquilax/csvdelta - Command line tool to calculate delta values between subsequent rows in csv
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities”… | (Roughly) Daily
Good developers know how things work. Great developers know why things work. - Steve Souders, High Performance Browser Networking Forewords Observing my cellphone switch towers
Ignorance isn’t a sin, but refusing to learn is. I choose to sin and remain ignorant. I can’t be bothered. Quotes from Vincenzo | thyQuotes
1 OBSERVER, 58 IDENTIFIERS, 84 SPECIES, 129 OBSERVATIONS –The World
New repository: aquilax/psql2csv - psql output table to csv convertor
A relationship is planting roots in someone’s heart. -I’m not a Robot KDrama lines on Twitter: “A relationship is planting roots in someone’s heart. -I’m not a Robot” / Twitter
when your work is done, forget it Ask HN: Those who quit their jobs to travel the world, how did it go? | Hacker News
I see solitude not as an escape from the world but as an escape from a peopled world… All by Myself | Hacker News
A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. The Last Message Sent on AIM
It’s easier to be prolific. On Writing More | Hacker News
Barriers to entry are invisible. They are invisible to people on the inside and most frequently invisible to people who have a hand in creating those barriers. Go is not an easy language | Hacker News
Salary is a negotiation between parties. Looked at soberly, you’re the business, your employer is your customer, and the salary they pay you is really the price you charge for your services. “Location-Based Pay” – Who are we to complain? | Hacker News
New repository: aquilax/ziglings - null
Be curious, not judgmental. Walt Whitman - Wikiquote
Banks are like mobile phone operators: they’d rather nobody has anything good than they and their competitors share something good. Why is there no “pay me directly” standard? – Terence Eden’s Blog
The advice about interviewing being exhausting is spot-on. Recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates is a very different type of work than most of us engineering types enjoy. Until you’ve developed a thick skin, it can also be emotionally draining to reject candidate after candidate. I’m an interviewer at my company and burnt out | Hacker News
New repository: aquilax/mdexec - Executes commands in a markdown file and embeds the result
Don’t save what is left after spending; spend what is left after saving. - Warren Buffett Warren Buffett’s Best Money Advice | Work + Money
History is what we choose to remember “History is what we choose to remember”*… | (Roughly) Daily
Ninety percent of everything is crap. Sturgeon’s law 90% of everything is crap – Mike Crittenden
HR is not your friend and your company is not your family. HR is not your friend, and other things I think you should know | Hacker News
Rule #1 of business: You can generate revenue to infinity, but you can only cut costs to zero. Ask HN: Is frugality underrated in startups? | Hacker News
If you are leading and or managing a team, one of the most important things you need to know are how do people want their feedback. My experience is that it varies from person to person (I suspect that there are many more than two camps :-)) and as such it is unlikely that you can meet that need in group feedback. Toxic positivity does more harm than good | Hacker News
A woman who lost her husband is called a widow. A man who lost his wife is called a widower. And a kid who lost his parent is called an orphan. But there’s no word for a parent who lost their kid. 16 Worth Remembering Quotes from “Hi Bye, Mama!” - Annyeong Oppa
Sadly I believe the world managed to make us feel guilty when we’re not doing something that makes someone else rich I logged my activities at 15-minute intervals for the whole year | Hacker News
New repository: aquilax/zadachko - Math template test generator.
The Visitor The coming of a person is, in fact, a tremendous feat. Because he comes with his past and present and with his future. Because a person’s whole life comes with him. Since it is so easily broken the heart that comes along would have been broken ― a heart whose layers the wind will likely be able to trace, if my heart could mimic that wind it can become a hospitable place. That poem in ‘Because This Is My First Life’ – 반짝반짝 한국어
When you want someone, you don’t say that you need that someone. Tell them “I want to be the person you need”. “Ssanggabpocha” Episode #1.5 (TV Episode 2020) - IMDb
People don’t want to be educated, they want to be entertained. The Parity Of Zero
That is why we like noise and activity so much. That is why imprisonment is such a horrific punishment. That is why the pleasure of being alone is incomprehensible. That is, in fact, the main joy of the condition of kingship, because people are constantly trying to amuse kings and provide them with all sorts of distraction.—The king is surrounded by people whose only thought is to entertain him and prevent him from thinking about himself. King though he may be, he is unhappy if he thinks about it All problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone (2014) | Hacker News