Same here, some of my earliest memories are of an old ms-dos mickey mouse game, where you were required to look through a booklet and enter in codes to perform actions.

Learned how to spell quite young to use a CLI, first word was "DOS" lol.

It's short for Graphic Interchange Format, not Jraphic Interchange Format.

By that logic, GIMP, which stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program, should be pronounced "IMP"

His last point is my favorite, I feel useless at work if I don't get decent sleep. He should append working out and going for walks to that as well.

The best way I've found (cold showering only for muscle recovery) is to get your face/head wet first. Every other way seems less comfortable to me. It's similar to jumping into a pool versus stepping in slowly.

That's called the mammalian diving response!

I would imagine the cost of isolating patient zero like this is much lower than letting it spread.

Just say "We're still incubating here but I can pay you in exposure!" on the way in. That should get the message across :-)

And you could mention that you're pretty agile, so if they don't like your terms, you might move fast, break things, and make a disruptive exit that leads to an acquisition they won't like.

I wonder why they chose to use a clock, something that only ever moves in one direction, as their analogy.

Maybe a thermometer would be more optimistic, as that can rise and fall.

The doomsday clock goes in both directions, it went "backwards" significantly for 10+ years after the Cold War.

Specifically in 1991 at the end of the Cold War, it was set back to 17 minutes.

"build something that scratches your own itch."

Awesome advice.

I'm not sure this is solid advice. As a programmer it would mean I'd have to build my own compiler and editor, but the low-hanging fruit has already been taken in this area, so perhaps it's better to scratch someone else's itch in some niche area that nobody has explored yet.

The implication here is that the best way to know that someone else has an itch to scratch is to have that same itch yourself.

And "itch" is to "problem" as "scratch" is to "solve." The fact that you know or use something doesn't make it a problem to solve. But if you think you can do it better or different, then maybe someone else agrees.

If you only do programming, sure. But there's probably more in your life than that.

It could just be any household task. In this case, OP's iptv playlists.

This is awesome, but doesn't seem to work for people looking to gain healthy weight.

5,000 calories/day is hard enough without needing to eat 3 bowls of corn flakes and 9 cups of greek yogurt for breakfast.

You can rent a jetski at Treasure Island, FL and see wild dolphins in the bay for the same price as SeaWorld tickets.

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