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Rich Hickey on becoming a better developer

Rich Hickey • 3 years ago

Sorry, I have to disagree with the entire premise here.

A wide variety of experiences might lead to well-roundedness, but not to greatness, nor even goodness. By constantly switching from one thing to another you are always reaching above your comfort zone, yes, but doing so by resetting your skill and knowledge level to zero.

Mastery comes from a combination of at least several of the following:

Dan Dan noodles

4 wrapped packages of soba noodles. There are usually 3 in a big package
1/2 cucumber
1 red pepper
3 medium carrots
2/3 cup chopped cilantro
2/3 cup chopped thai basil

For sauce

Debug Horizontal Scroll

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    var w = d.documentElement.offsetWidth,
        t = d.createTreeWalker(d.body, NodeFilter.SHOW_ELEMENT),
        b;
    while (t.nextNode()) {
        b = t.currentNode.getBoundingClientRect();
 if (b.right &gt; w || b.left &lt; 0) {

	#!/bin/bash
	mkdir /tmp/curl-ca-bundle
	cd /tmp/curl-ca-bundle
	wget http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.22.0.tar.bz2
	tar xzf curl-7.22.0.tar.bz2
	cd curl-7.22.0/lib/
	./mk-ca-bundle.pl
	if [ ! -d /usr/share/curl/ ]; then
	sudo mkdir -p /usr/share/curl/
	else

	-- show running queries (pre 9.2)
	SELECT procpid, age(query_start, clock_timestamp()), usename, current_query
	FROM pg_stat_activity
	WHERE current_query != '<IDLE>' AND current_query NOT ILIKE '%pg_stat_activity%'
	ORDER BY query_start desc;

	-- show running queries (9.2)
	SELECT pid, age(query_start, clock_timestamp()), usename, query
	FROM pg_stat_activity
	WHERE query != '<IDLE>' AND query NOT ILIKE '%pg_stat_activity%'