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yoricm commented on Former Nintendo employees reveal what it took to launch the NES hanafuda.report/articles/... · Posted by u/brandrick

omosubi · a month ago

I hate to be that guy, but is there a transcript or even ai summary of the video?

yoricm · a month ago

I copy/pasted an AI summary (using Recall) of the video here:

https://sharetext.io/42b482da

And the full transcript here:

https://sharetext.io/d675f945

yoricm commented on Just Wanted to Say Thanks github.com/compumike/hair... · Posted by u/compumike

civilized · 5 years ago

Some people are pointing out how rare it is for GitHubbers to express gratitude, but GitHub doesn't exactly encourage it. Doesn't it feel inappropriate to express gratitude as an "issue"? Maybe if there was a natural place for these messages they'd be sent more often. To the extent that there are affordances for it (stars, emojis) it is actually quite popular to praise good work on GitHub.

yoricm · 5 years ago

Personally, a text area is the only thing I need to express my gratitude. I'm doubtful about a UI that would "encourage" it. The last time I wrote on a GitHub issue, I started my message with a warm thankful line to the maintainer for his fabulous work. I meant it, and I didn't need any "reminder" to say so. It felt natural and important to me. I also put relevant informations to show my interest and the time I spent thinking about it. In the end, I believe it's more about the person posting, rather than the interface encouraging it, but I may be wrong.

yoricm commented on On Writing Technical Blogs medium.com/@severinperez/... · Posted by u/sjperez

yoricm · 5 years ago

Nice read. Writing can be magic, both for the reader and the author. If only working hard to make it clear for the reader. It might be just me, but "struggling to get it" can lead to better explanations.

From the article:

- It just needs for the writer to work hard to make it clear Writing is humanity’s superpower — when done well, it informs, provokes, and entertains.

- When an author takes the time to prepare a high-quality article, knowledge flows seamlessly from one mind to another.

- If you’re curious about a topic, or even confused by it, the best thing you can do is write about it.

yoricm commented on Ask HN: What's your favorite “forgotten” technology / software? · Posted by u/higerordermap

yoricm · 5 years ago

I'm fond of my early development tools: Hypercard, Resedit, Think Pascal, MacsBug... It gives me rainbows whenever I think about it, no matter how grey my developer life currently is.

yoricm commented on Patatap: Create musical forms with your keyboard patatap.com/?play... · Posted by u/newcoders

interestica · 5 years ago

I use this (and the sister web app typeatap) with my pre-school niece. She loves composing music from keyboard letters and has really learned where the letters are on a qwerty keyboard faster than any other option for someone that age. There is seriously some untapped educational potential here. Or maybe it's just forming bad habits.

yoricm · 5 years ago

May I ask where can we find the "sister web app typeatap"? I'm slowly introducing my 3.5 yo daughter with the keyboard. She can pronounce letters from A to Z, and write them on paper in upper case. I'd love to hear about more educational app like this!

yoricm commented on Ask HN: Ways to generate income when you're at home without pay? · Posted by u/throwawayt856

projektfu · 6 years ago

And make sure you do try to sell it. https://theoatmeal.com/comics/creativity_business

yoricm · 6 years ago

Thanks, I just discovered a wonderful cartoonist. A joy to read those illustrated thoughts full of creativity and humor.

Particularly like his honesty, exposing his vulnerabilities in a way we can only laugh, and reflect on it ourselves.

Whether you're an artist, an entrepreneur or aspire to improve yourself, you certainly can relate to his work and self-reflections.

yoricm commented on The genuine polymath is still one in a million spectator.co.uk/article/t... · Posted by u/Hooke

mLuby · 6 years ago

The "problem" is how long it takes to get up to speed in various fields, now that most have decades or centuries of depth.

Accelerated learning tech will open the polymath doors again.

yoricm · 6 years ago

Exactly this. This is the future.

Accelerated learning is fascinating because learning today is so inefficient. Combine that with the massive knowledge that accumulates over the years.

Elon Musks said it himself. Along with Solar Energy, Mars colonization, AI, knowledge acquisition needs to be disrupted. Something like bio-technology with transplanted chips.

Reading books is a very old way, and it doesn't scale well. Listening to podcast isn't very efficient either. Gamification has not been effective enough so far.

You can also see it in "Matrix", when training in a virtual world with a karate-training program that interacts directly with the brain. As you do when dreaming, but in an interactive way.

In the "Fifth Element", there's also a scene where Milla Jovovich (an advanced being) learn all Human History in a matter of hours/minutes with accelerated reading/watching the Internet.

I'm sure there are many other examples of people putting "accelerated learning" as one feature of the future.

(And I'm already excited to be there.)

yoricm commented on What I’ve been reading #1 gerardclos.com/what_i_hav... · Posted by u/geclos

yoricm · 6 years ago

I like the look of this blog's minimalist design.

yoricm commented on The Most Important Thing Paul Graham Taught Me shubhamjain.co/2020/01/11... · Posted by u/shubhamjain

yoricm · 6 years ago

I agree this is an important lesson. Not everyone is aware of it, or else people would obviously avoid pointless arguments and acting in futile ways.

Arguing for 5 minutes or 10 minutes can consume your whole day afterwards (in your own mind). When you say something, be it bad or good, words will continue to resonate silently in her mind (and yours).

I also noticed when I'm working at something really important, or when I'm on an epiphany of discovering some glorious truth, I naturally don't mind any argument thrown at me. I'm just focused on that beautiful and exciting thought, and no external input could shake it out of my head. I then realized how futile other person's worries and "sadness" are.

It's relativity: the wider your awareness (and the brighter your thoughts), the more shocking it is to see people "closed minded", prisoner of their own thoughts's limitation, and self-imposed grief.

Oddly, we keep going from one to the other. Sticking with mindfulness is hard.

yoricm commented on The Importance of Deep Work and the 30-Hour Method for Learning a New Skill azeria-labs.com/the-impor... · Posted by u/madmax108

yoricm · 6 years ago

I love learning. "Deep work" and "flow" is something I'm aiming at. And I was pondering why I'm falling short.

It seems like I was blindfolded about learning. I used to see it as taking as much input as possible. Example: want to learn React? Read books, follow tutorials, do exercices on your computer. Then I realized this was not effective.

The missing part was the output. I figured out, not only I need to take input (read), to process it (practice), but also to do it for someone else. This can be explaining to someone, showing what I do, teaching, making a video or a tutorial.

I used to be very good about learning early in my life. I now realized it wasn't because of the resources (It was almost zero), but because I was so excited to show my dad, my brother and sister what I could accomplish on the computer. If it wasn't for them, I wouldn't have learn anything.

I certainly put a lot of practice into it, but it was only a consequence of my excitement to show others.

Lately I followed lots of tutorials and books, but was not excited about it, because I was learning those only for myself.

Producing output (teaching others, videos, blog, useful projects) is key.