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How to get started in VR with A-Frame(softwareengineeringdaily.com)
1 points by acconrad 8y ago|0 comments
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What you need to know about WCAG 2.1(userinterfacing.com)
4 points by acconrad 8y ago|0 comments
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by acconrad 8y ago
Snapshots feel brittle and because they assume that the first run is the correct run. I've run into issues before where I hadn't fully implemented a feature and the test then said the snapshot failed because it had evolved (in a g
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by acconrad 8y ago
> For example, Object Oriented Programming became Functional Programming What? No it didn't. An imperative language is the opposite of a declarative language. OP might want to edit this one.
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by acconrad 8y ago
Averaging 1350 calories for an adult male at over 275 lbs is incredible willpower. I cut 22 lbs in 6 months for a bodybuilding show and the lowest I ever got down to was 1750 calories and that was very, very difficult. Amazing work!
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by acconrad 8y ago
I feel like all of these "us vs them articles" (us = millennials, which I am one, and them = baby boomers, who are my parents age) are red herrings. Do you really believe that your mother/grandmother is the enemy here? My b
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Philosophy shrugged: ignoring Ayn Rand won't make her go away(aeon.co)
3 points by acconrad 8y ago|0 comments
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How to find refactoring opportunities(userinterfacing.com)
1 points by acconrad 8y ago|0 comments
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by acconrad 8y ago
It's known as "the index card"[1] and it's really the best advice for 99% of people who just want to make the most of their money: 1. max your 401k 2. buy a low cost mutual/index fund (e.g. VFINX) 3. never buy indiv
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by acconrad 8y ago
There are really 5 fundamentals you'll want to practice if you want to dive into user interface design for the web: 1. Typography 2. Whitespace 3. Color selection 4. Image use and presentation 5. Animation / iconography With those
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by acconrad 8y ago
The very first thing I do is update documentation. You're a fresh set of eyes and so documentation for onboarding, setup, and building the application on your laptop is the kind of thing that often goes by the waist side. Did a step no
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by acconrad 8y ago
It's life. I can't put it a better way. You can either accept what life has given you or you can fight it. And fighting it is fufile anyway. Embrace that you are getting older and do your best to be the best person you can be ever
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by acconrad 8y ago
These kinds of articles keep making it up the HN front page even though most are fluff. It's like we keep hoping this will be the list that finally tells us how to truly be some multiple better than we already were. If anything, this
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by acconrad 8y ago
Welcome to this entire conversation on why early employee compensation isn't fair.
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by acconrad 8y ago
> If the founders don’t take 50% raises, neither should the super early employee with decent equity. You're missing the point of my original post. If a founder owns x100 the equity, why should an early employee be bound to the sam
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by acconrad 8y ago
PGs comments on equity resonate with me, and actually align with what I would have wanted. One of the replies to my original comment actually has the article.
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by acconrad 8y ago
I vaguely remember reading that article while I was at said company making basically the same salary (with the same company valuation at the time) and realizing my equity was far below that and scratching my head. If I had PG's recomme
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by acconrad 8y ago
Most companies don't give 50% raises when you finally raise money (which is to say, most companies won't simply bring you up to market if you came in super early).
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by acconrad 8y ago
Pre-series A. Once Series A comes into play, you can get paid "market" - which is to say, the normal rate outside of FAANG.
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by acconrad 8y ago
I was the first engineer at a TechStars startup that did have a successful exit (I was there about 5 years before the exit). If there is something I want YC to know, it's this: You helped create the culture of founder empowerment. You
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by acconrad 8y ago
I've been at some great places. The problem with culture is it changes. I could tell you companies that are great, but they could change in 6 months if they get new management. I can also tell you places that suck now that were great
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by acconrad 8y ago
Okay c'mon, this is such a reductive response. Sometimes you have a string of sleepless nights for reasons unrelated to work. Sometimes you have young infants who are waking up to feed every hour on the hour. Yeah if possible I will al
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by acconrad 8y ago
In case anyone found that study difficult to read, the optimal strategy was, over the course of 3 days, one 600mg dose after 12pm on days 2 and 3 of a 3 day string of sleep loss.
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by acconrad 8y ago
I still believe in owning your data. I host my own blog on Gitlab using Jekyll (though I'm hoping to move to my own custom solution on the Elixir language later this year). Medium is still helpful but I'd rather use that for repub
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by acconrad 8y ago
You shouldn't . I did a very deep dive into the terms of service for GitHub, GitLab, and Atlassian's Bitbucket, and didn't find a real sensible alternative. All 3 of them really operate in the same manner in terms of ownersh
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by acconrad 8y ago
LinkedIn said in it's ToS update post acquisition that they'd keep their own terms separate, which I imagine will be the same for GitHub.
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If you're worried about the GitHub acquisition, here's what to look out for(userinterfacing.com)
9 points by acconrad 8y ago|3 comments
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by acconrad 8y ago
I thought ProPublica did a better job describing the state of new job "growth" in America https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/trump-job-promises
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by acconrad 8y ago
So his central thesis is that JS has been getting all of the love while HTML and CSS have been marginalized. I want to empathize with him because he's a seasoned vet in programming and has been at it longer than I have. But, I've
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by acconrad 8y ago
When I shifted to Elixir/Phoenix 1.3 I found the whole naming contexts thing to be super difficult and confusing. This is the method I use now, but I'm sure it could use refinement. I still need to read Eric Evan's book [1] b

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