I can't quite put my finger on it, but there is something about this format that I do not like. I feel like I don't retain anything maybe? Content is good, but something about the "Vice Documentary" thing...
Indeed, it's incomplete. It doesn't discuss digital/CG audiovisuals, popular genres, fashion, or world events. Memphis is important and worth diving into but it's only one facet.
Everything you share is visible to all your friends AND their friends, so you are grabbing attention of few hundreds/thousands of people, most of whom are total strangers to you - that's called spamming.
> Since Groovy is Java, you can paste Java code into the Groovy REPL and it works fine
Did you mean Java 7 and previous versions? You certainly can't paste Java 8 code into the Apache Groovy REPL if it has lambdas because Groovy hasn't been updated for Java 8, not to speak of the new features in Java 9. My guess is the sad state of the Groovy ecosystem is probably why Oracle even created JShell.
In fact, you can't even paste Java 7 code in there and have it behave the same because of lots of little incompatibilities like the meaning of the == operator. Every Java developer should know never to paste Java code into a Groovy REPL and rely on the result for testing purposes.
Groovy isn't Java. Like Java, Groovy generates JVM code, though it typically runs slower than Java code because Groovy is a dynamically-typed language. Although it added annotations for static typing into Groovy 2, they don't work for bulk code, only isolated test cases, and the latest versions of Groovy are still written in Java, not statically-annotated Groovy.
While this is a decent guide, I find that being skillful in latex comes from memorizing many highly specific commands. I spend most of my time googling for things such as "How to use (a), (b), (c) for enumerating lists".
True enough. But I agree with OP in that being "good" with LaTeX is essentially just memorizing lots of commands. I've never written a document without having to constantly search for specific commands.
If you usually sleep 7 hours a night, and you're only getting 4, then you will feel tired grumpy and sad. But if you stay up all night, you may start to feel euphoric and energetic. Of course, you'll need a good long sleep the next day or so.
According to the article, this is the case for slightly over 50% of people. Hardly good enough odds to suggest that someone who doesn't experience this is just 'doing it wrong'.
Idea: Combine a dollar shave club subscription service with learning.
User gets a starterpack deal, which includes some beans and a nice mug and a french press or something. Then, you'd have a series of videos/tutorials teaching the user how to use the tools and how to make great coffee. There'd be a monthly subscription to refill the users coffee supply and provide new tools to make even better coffee. This goes on until the user has learned to make great coffee, at which point you can continue to supply them coffee beans.
Market it as easy for the user, and worthwhile because they get a new skill out of it.
The important point is proving the learning and the goods, that way you can retain users. Think Blue Apron, but they taught you how to cook and also sold you ingredients.
Not sure if you're being glib, but this is a misunderstanding of both survival of the fittest and of nature.
Fitness is an environmental criteria - not one based on strength. A great example are small adorable dogs; they're certainly not the strongest or brightest, but because we share an environment and take care of them, they proliferate.
To say nature means for only strong individuals to survive is missing the depth of what "survival of the fittest" was meant to encompass.
>But how to persuade creative people to do so? First and foremost, there must be ease, relaxation, and a general sense of permissiveness. The world in general disapproves of creativity, and to be creative in public is particularly bad. Even to speculate in public is rather worrisome. The individuals must, therefore, have the feeling that the others wont object.
Absolutely true. Brainstorming only works if anything goes.
What particularly annoys is also that every idea must have a creation story, aka a logical explanation how it came to be in a logical,incremental, analytical step by step way. Even if it never was born this way.
I guess, "I stuffed strange stuff and books into my brain- and one sunny day my sub-conscious gave birth to this. It can invent a how-its-made-story too, if you need that." scares a lot of people, because the process cant be learned, not be controlled, not refined or quantified.
Agreed. The process is spontaneous and natural. But it can be and usually is damaged, that is confined to smaller and smaller areas of one's life or worldview.
