Bjorkbat

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by Bjorkbat 11y ago
Sure, why not. Outsourcing to Romania is kinda like outsourcing to some of the more rural parts of the United States. Only they speak Romanian in this case and the price difference is far greater. But still, more or less the same. Now that
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by Bjorkbat 11y ago
This is great. I've been wanting to play around with motion graphics for a while now but am kinda on the fence about learning process. This is much more aligned with my style.
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by Bjorkbat 11y ago
So much for not negotiating with terrorists.
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by Bjorkbat 11y ago
He won the lottery first time around. The second time around he gambled a bit, but he also put in the work to give his app the right amount of polish, struck a partnership with a marketing company, found a way to haggle with Parse, etc. Sur
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by Bjorkbat 11y ago
Yeah, I'm so used to the pricing tiers used by Digital Ocean, Amazon, and Google Apps that I'm looking at this and going "Wait, the $995 a month tier isn't for enterprise?" Everyone else is almost in a sort of prici
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by Bjorkbat 11y ago
Yeah, as a former farmer I'm a little bit skeptical. Last I checked the vast majority of farms out there aren't large operations, but incredibly small family-owned "hobby farms" or market gardens (what most of us would
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by Bjorkbat 11y ago
Can't help but wonder if they stole this from some anxious college dropout who left their company to form their own compression startup. ;)
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by Bjorkbat 11y ago
This is why I don't exactly hold Startup Weekend in high regard. I think it's a good idea, and I think the people who organize these things are (mostly) alright, but unfortunately they more often than not attract creeps looking f
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by Bjorkbat 11y ago
Medium is pretty cool, I've actually intentionally visited a few times just to check it some stories on their front page. Still, there's far too much noise in a platform that hosts so much published content. Of course, I could &q
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by Bjorkbat 11y ago
I like this. I tried Ionic, didn't like the complexity or the fact that one of the downsides of the "write once, run everywhere" approach is that my app looked too identical and didn't respect the design conventions of
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by Bjorkbat 11y ago
Well now that means that Etsy is just a marketplace for people with quirky ideas and a number of knockoff competitors. I'm not entirely certain I like that.
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by Bjorkbat 11y ago
I personally use an Oculus DK1 (it was the only thing available at the time) and play around with three.js + WebVR. You'd be surprised the fun you can have with WebGL. I can't show it off just yet unfortunately, but I made this w
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by Bjorkbat 11y ago
Straight out of high school? Well, if they had the experience and portfolio for the job and won-out against the competition, sure. Just bear in mind, it's hard to shine when you're fresh out of high school. At the end of the day
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by Bjorkbat 12y ago
I clearly brought up designing planes and bridges, I figured both were enough to demonstrate that my definition of engineering includes the structural, the mechanical, the electrical, etc. The point is, the engineer who designs the plane on
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by Bjorkbat 12y ago
To say that a professor is the best person to learn from isn't 100% true. I had a linear algebra professor who simply lectured by reading straight from the book and then occasionally drew the diagrams. Alas, he apparently was a valua
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by Bjorkbat 12y ago
The comments are amusing. It seems there's a popular opinion that to be an engineer requires a higher understanding of mathematics than what most mere mortals require. My understanding was that to call yourself an engineer one must be
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by Bjorkbat 12y ago
This is super rad! +1 for android as well. No pressure though. If anything I might just create a personal clone for myself.
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by Bjorkbat 12y ago
Immerse yourself via project. Not tutorial though, project. Tutorials are nice, but ultimately very hand-holding, and leave too many questions left unanswered (i.e. "why the hell is this here?"). If you can build something where
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by Bjorkbat 13y ago
I'm going to bookmark this, in case I ever feel the need explain the Uncanny Valley to others through example.
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by Bjorkbat 13y ago
Likewise, I was somewhat disappointed. On the other hand, I've discovered a new method for breaking just about anyone.
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by Bjorkbat 13y ago
An embarrassing amount of Civ 5. Part of it has to do with a fascination with watching a crude simulation of the human epic unfold. The other part has to do with the enjoyment derived from nuking my opponents. It's a pretty awkward
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by Bjorkbat 13y ago
Great idea. As a former horticulture major who dropped out, became an organic farmer, and then somehow found myself studying computer science, I often marveled at how so many people had really awful black thumbs. The concept of plant nutri
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by Bjorkbat 13y ago
Ah, coSmic sans. For a moment I thought this was going to be some sort of parody, kinda like that enterprise version of fizzbuzz someone wrote a while back. I'm actually rather fond of this font given the first impression its bestowed
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by Bjorkbat 13y ago
Some input as a former organic farmer: wheels. But a start is a good start, and really wheels can be a hassle, seeing as tractors can't operate on muddy soil (well, shouldn't). I'm actually somewhat glad someone is doing this
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by Bjorkbat 13y ago
Funny you should mention that, I've been slowly working on this idea for a circuit-sim that basically teaches you electronics, to be eventually complemented with video-lectures which I keep putting off due to school and a hunger for ot
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by Bjorkbat 13y ago
Back when I dropped out and went on my little "farming adventure" I was put in a position where I was working around 90 hours a week. So yeah, pretty close. I didn't get more done than the other guys. One guy I met managed
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by Bjorkbat 13y ago
I don't know, I used to go out of my way to buy those Jelly Belly brand Jellybeans, but I do agree that ice cream sandwichs and for that matter donuts are a cheap food, kinda realized that while I was thinking about the post. Still, Ki
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by Bjorkbat 13y ago
KitKats aren't a dessert item, they're a cheap brand of candy people buy at gas stations or at the grocery store checkout line either because they want some no-thrills candy to snack on, or because their kids won't shut up. I
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by Bjorkbat 13y ago
I'm afraid I'm having a hard time understanding how calling 20% time dead vs insisting that it became 120% time are two different things. I feel that the reason 20% time captured the attention of those wishing to become future Goo
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by Bjorkbat 13y ago
I dual boot, use Ubuntu for majority of my work, but occasionally I switch to Wintendo 7 when I feel like killing time with games.

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