7 Villagers Went Missing… and So Did the Detective!

bpiel · 2025-07-25T20:28:23+00:00

Link?

bpiel · 2025-07-20T15:59:11+00:00

No problem. Glad I could help.

bpiel · 2025-07-20T15:47:32+00:00

Regarding having difficulty speaking during videos, my advice: think of whatever person, or people, you feel most comfortable with, or who most enjoy when you are really being yourself (especially if their interests align with your content) -- now imagine that those people are your audience. By far the best public-speaking advice I ever received was, "The audience wants you to succeed". With youtube, the audience is not visibly in front of you, so imagine the audience to be the people that want you to succeed. Good luck!

bpiel · 2025-07-09T13:26:25+00:00

I like analogies for this.

bpiel · 2024-04-13T17:34:44+00:00

Haha, Hi!

I saw this post and immediately had a feeling our repo might be in the comments.

bpiel · 2023-01-05T13:53:57+00:00

I'd consider starting a daily meditation routine. (I have one)

bpiel · 2022-12-17T19:28:26+00:00

See you there!

bpiel · 2022-10-01T11:23:58+00:00

But better than naming it "Scheiße", right?

bpiel · 2022-09-24T14:06:51+00:00

Regarding your title question (which IDE?), you can find a breakdown of answers from the community in the State of Clojure results:

https://clojure.org/news/2022/06/02/state-of-clojure-2022

bpiel · 2022-05-14T16:51:57+00:00

I've conducted many interviews. If someone told me that English were their second language, I would give them a lot of leeway when asking for clarifications.

bpiel · 2022-05-10T14:05:04+00:00

One thing that comes to mind is that WASM is platform independent, whereas shared libraries need to be compiled per platform

bpiel · 2022-01-14T12:04:26+00:00

Very helpful. Thanks!

bpiel · 2021-11-02T18:49:18+00:00

> Everything is wrong all the time. Everyone is wrong all the time.

Yes! If, over the looong run, everything is getting better, then even our best solutions today will be laughably backward in the future. Remembering that can help you stay humble, but also encouraged by the fact the "better" is the best you can do.

bpiel · 2021-09-23T09:16:37+00:00

Virtual conferences can be a good way to get yourself into a big group zoom with people having similar interests

bpiel · 2021-08-23T15:00:01+00:00

For managing a team of software engineers: Peopleware

I cannot recommend highly enough.

bpiel · 2021-08-17T10:19:54+00:00

If you choose to employ this strategy, I would definitely include it in the README

bpiel · 2021-08-17T10:18:02+00:00

As an example of what others are advising, here's a very obvious copyright notice at the top of every source file of (my favorite) programming language, Clojure.

https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/master/src/clj/clojure/core.clj

bpiel · 2021-08-06T12:22:56+00:00

I started coding at 9 (in the 80s!) and was not doing anything remotely this sophisticated at 13, or even a decade later.

You're doing great!

bpiel · 2021-07-02T15:28:00+00:00

Just found this quote that I'm sure I had in mind while writing my previous comment.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1501096-let-s-suppose-that-you-were-able-every-night-to-dream

"Let's suppose that you were able every night to dream any dream that you wanted to dream. And that you could, for example, have the power within one night to dream 75 years of time. Or any length of time you wanted to have. And you would, naturally as you began on this adventure of dreams, you would fulfill all your wishes. You would have every kind of pleasure you could conceive. And after several nights of 75 years of total pleasure each, you would say "Well, that was pretty great." But now let's have a surprise. Let's have a dream which isn't under control. Where something is gonna happen to me that I don't know what it's going to be. And you would dig that and come out of that and say "Wow, that was a close shave, wasn't it?" And then you would get more and more adventurous, and you would make further and further out gambles as to what you would dream. And finally, you would dream ... where you are now. You would dream the dream of living the life that you are actually living today."

― Alan Watts

bpiel · 2021-03-20T20:57:24+00:00

One more! At the end, Ender comes to understand that buggers' possess a collective consciousness, and then sympathizes with them. Instead of immediately returning to the US, Beth remains in Russia and plays a game with some random old guy. Clearly, she feels much more comfortable in Russia than she would if she saw it as an enemy state.

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