DIRT Protocol

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The prescription is to notice and have a shift in perspective. I've found that The Witness is a good game to practi… https://t.co/V0uNRNTHk0

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But I think this is an effect of designing our systems with Place-orientated programming (via Rich Hickey). If ever… https://t.co/KZetOeecGB

So it's not actually global state that's the problem. it's that variables don't have the read/write semantics that… https://t.co/Y2FtcqYoj1

The main reason to avoid global variable is to rid of unwanted side-effects. If two objects / components refer to t… https://t.co/NjKIOwH5rq

I was revisiting this concept, and the first answer I came up with was "to reduce coupling" in the system. Turns… https://t.co/buj6vadc0Y

It's been a long time since I was a beginning programmer. So it's been a long time since I thought about global sta… https://t.co/ohSSIhdaXm

https://t.co/SHL1anentN has some really insightful conclusions, but a remarkable example of how poor design gets in… https://t.co/G5m6OitXE1

In a meritocracy, those advantages will be hidden, because its ideal is to hold everything else as a constant, exce… https://t.co/i7sppsbEKq

Working hard isn't sufficient. You should work hard to accrue unfair advantages, and it's the unfair advantages tha… https://t.co/5XaAcJ9AJe

Does working hard lead to success? People on twitter go back and forth. I think the question is missing a piece of… https://t.co/zC0GKAK0h0

So hopefully, you can look at threads today, and know what it should feel like as you pull on it.

It only takes a single clear thread to pull on for a whole lot of consequences to play out, if it has the right pro… https://t.co/eol9mq6kca

I remember @paulg saying that when he realized software could be distributed without gatekeepers and updated iterat… https://t.co/63WZr4XqAh

And because SQL is domain specific (about querying), I find myself looking at imperative again. It seems to be a cy… https://t.co/ciDDeBk8NZ

I first learned imperative programming. Frustrated with dealing with state, I learned functional programming to hel… https://t.co/FtNOeBNvUD

Maybe I did college wrong since I worked really hard to learn all that engineering. https://t.co/gAxwnm6rQw

I think we need a https://t.co/y8NZoGwmij for nutritional and sleep science, so we're not just using journalists to keep up with this stuff.

My guess? Positional, skill, and social advantages also contribute a large part to success. Working hard is a mostl… https://t.co/XHJmMnksdq

So even if most successful people work hard, you also have to consider all the unsuccessful people that are also wo… https://t.co/hRkQoApzXB

Whatever definition of your success, it's probably a smaller ratio than half. If most people are successful, it's c… https://t.co/VNb4g0h9th

Isn't this the time to apply Bayes Theorem for fun and profit? We want to know: P(Success | Work Hard). It's not en… https://t.co/eluQYxyztV