Disclaimer: Everyone's skin, facial structure, and beard are different. Like, seriously so. It may be 12 bladed triple moisturizing single use monstrosities are required for some, but by no means should it be the standard! ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c2qccwp4lU
A beginner tutorial series on 3 basic things to start using Vim.
Episode 2: A new motion
Change action, Dot action, High/Middle/Low motions
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJP1u_la_JQ
I had a bit of a realization that took me, and probably no one else, by surprise. I have begun to like keyboards. Not just for work... for the feeeelz... But also, lets talk a little about pencils as input devices!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=185AWX6_pHE
Well this one took a dark turn!
Who are we at our optimal? Who are we at sub-optimal?
The curse of creativity: https://bit.ly/2LfCAGo
Edit: Someone else who hints at the negatives of creativity: Elon Musk, throughout the interview in bits and pieces. Mostly here: https://youtu.be/ycPr5-27vSI (@ 2:20:07) Joe Rogan says "You have a gift" and Elon laughs. He LAUGHS. The response of a man who understands the cost.
Here are some more of my related thoughts: https://youtu.be/SiGjBXrhQd4 (@ 14:40)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxTSPZMt1YI
0:56 Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy: " ... magazine headlined an article with the words 'When you are tired of Usra Minor Beta you are tired of life,' the suicide rate there quadrupled overnight."
2:30 Confirmation of conclusions when talking tech at a code meetup
3:24 "Doing with Images makes Symbols" Alan Kay 1987 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2LZLYcu_JY
4:44 Once you start to see this stuff in tech, you can't UNsee it...
5:41 What is the value of software work?
6:23 "There is no software industry if an 11 year old can write near-commercial level software"
6:50 The standardization and the corporatization HAS had some good results.
8:53 The Tech Tower of Babel
9:46 Mass production made War possible
10:40 All wars are banker wars
11:35 "What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it." -Herbert Simon
12:50 "Basically, I don't think the software industry, as itself, should exist,"
14:30 "Don't you want FASTER internet???" "No."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIJzqhg8TZA
A quick demo of the new version of Triple Tap SMS for Android phones.
Save custom messages for each contact so you can text with taps instead of a keyboard.
Tap a contact, tap a message, tap send.
Tap the contact, long press the message for instant send.
Long press the contact to call.
NEW: Home screen and Lock screen widgets of your top 4 contacts.
Don't waste time typing out common messages, and don't send silly shorthand. Long press messages to instant send and long press contacts to call them!
Fully version only 99c
https://goo.gl/rvz4qb
Free version available!
https://goo.gl/j3DMxP
[...if you want to be tiny, I guess...]
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aTIcHLjlSk
1:30 Scheme lisp and church numbers
2:40 The beautiful simplicity of nested lambda
3:25 The ugly complexity of nested objects
4:10 Docs are incomplete because you can just figure it out yourself lol
6:13 "omg look at this idiot requesting data from the object!"
8:00 Maybe I "failed" at C++ when I first started because I (accurately) thought it was dumb and made no sense.
10:30 Objects could have been different! Smarter!
11:50 "Well obviously the API requires high levels of object security!" HET
"This is stupid."
"Well, maybe you just don't understand it."
"Oh, I understand it, that's how I know it's stupid."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1Q1TrGYFS8