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Great list of what the best devs do, such as: • Read the source, docs, error msgs • Simplify problems, write simple code • Get their hands dirty • Write to share & write well • Have beginner's mind & keep learning • Not afraid to say: I don't know
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Scaling up clean energy is more effective when it is paired with retiring fossil fuel infrastructure.Their words
Building clean energy is much more likely, and much more effective, if we're also shutting down dirty energy.
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The dirty secret is that many professors do not write their own op-eds.
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The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real MagicTheir words
Mind candy fantasy: in which an early-21st-century American young woman, whose English-lit thesis and love life are going equally poorly, does a good deed; gets rewarded with three wishes, without realizing it; and, in consequence, wanders off, first into Faery and then into a Fantasyland which is convincingly poor, sexist and dirty, but also magical.
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A beginner cannot learn from material made for native speakers: at the start, authentic media is noise.Their words
If you are starting a language completely from scratch, authentic media is just noise. You’ll absorb very little. You need highly repetitive, simple input.
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STOPS is designed for quick-and-dirty calculations and is known to choke on New York.
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From one piece Finding hidden growth opportunities in your product | Albert Cheng (Duolingo, Grammarly, Chess.com) 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I saw some of the highest performers just being people that had very high agency, had that clock speed, had that energy. Um, yes, they they cared about the mission, but they didn't necessarily need to have deep experience on that matter. And in fact, sometimes that experience could be a crutch in certain ways. Especially in this world where the grounds are shifting so fast with AI, a lot of your like learn habits actually need to be intentionally discarded. You know, you need to have a beginner's mind on this type of stuff.
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like what we see is that over 75% of our new users, they classify themselves as like, I'm completely new to chess or I'm a beginner. And unfortunately, if you're new to chess and you're a beginner, you're not going to have that fun of a time playing live games. We see this in the data. It's like less than a third of those users actually win their first game. And when you lose a game, user retention is 10% worse than when you win a game.
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but if I was, you know, at the zero or 10th percentile, it can certainly get me even today very quickly up to like the 60th 70th in terms of um what the state of the art is.
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A lot of what they're facing isn't the challenge of learning a new art. It's friction introduced by failures of programming language design.
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"Simplify onboarding" is an action, not a problem, and a roadmap line written that way will not work.Their words
But, if you ever have a line item on your roadmap that says simplify onboarding, please please cross it out. It's not going to work because simplifying onboarding is an action.
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The primary driver of increased impact, longer time scales before displacement, and catastrophically high levels of avoidable pollution is environmental protection regulations.
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The most important thing you can do as a designer to make great new technology usable is to simplify.
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