arsey

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by arsey 6y ago
i think what you're missing is how good removing a layer of abstraction /feels/ when putting things together. it didn't quite click for me until i built something with it. it ends up being a question of "where the w
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by arsey 6y ago
I think you can still succeed at development if you want. Interviews are stressful-- don't take that trip up as a gospel reflection of your knowledge. And there's a chance that your "not very good" is better than a lot o
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by arsey 8y ago
Much of the data they use is open source, coming from OpenStreetMap.
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by arsey 9y ago
You're conflating issues, and that's fine because you're frustrated. But we are over-represented in tech, and not anywhere else. There are obvious systems-level hiring problems that this company has and they're trying to
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by arsey 10y ago
I was hoping the article would at least mention Pleistocene Park, an effort to mitigate climate change that depends on the recently extinct wooly mammoth. If it had, the question in the title would be better stated: "Can We Afford To N
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by arsey 10y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9737403
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by arsey 11y ago
The original jquery source w/ annotations: http://genius.it/5088474/ejohn.org/files/jquery-original.htm...
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by arsey 11y ago
When thinking about the API only, any one of your line implementations seems just as good as the other. But if you also ask "which of these makes sense for the client application" that will likely narrow your options down. Indeed,
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by arsey 11y ago
Pun intended? Anyways, a university experiment video that went viral [0] is the first I recall seeing a quadcopter in action. Maybe the tipping point if you care to investigate further. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y
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by arsey 12y ago
YouNow and Tinychat are the ones left that I know about. BlogTV was big but closed down and was acquired by YouNow. I'm working on a general-purpose streaming site, but with a twist in how broadcasting works. Not quite enough for a &#x
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by arsey 12y ago
Shaders have always seemed like some kind of dark magic to me. Would love to see this book happen.
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by arsey 12y ago
I am glad I read this article because it alerted me to the existence of NASA's robot astronaut named Robonaut [0]. [0] http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/robonaut.html
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by arsey 12y ago
Maybe just the idea of podcasts is broken. RSS has dying a slow death for quite some time. Why not just build a better podcast?
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by arsey 12y ago
Neat; glad to see HSL values included!
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by arsey 13y ago
My prediction average of 3 people is more than twice what I currently make. The estimate I made for someone was 70kish before I went on to see my similar one. I wonder if that's just the safe number lots of guessers are settling on?
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by arsey 13y ago
AH, apologies. Thought your current was $5 per MONTH, and were comparing to the TB plan.
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by arsey 13y ago
twice as much pay.
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by arsey 13y ago
And a text-only version with a bit more player agency http://jsfiddle.net/dariusk/3Evm4/10/embedded/result/
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by arsey 13y ago
I had planned on writing up an email gleaned from some HN comment insight, and citing the comment. "I'll just do that tomorrow" I thought. But, as we found out, there was no tomorrow.
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by arsey 14y ago
Simple Dwarf Fortress Clone in 58000 lines of Python
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by arsey 14y ago
joining in with the Tetris variants: Futilitris http://twinbeard.com/140_futilitris
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by arsey 14y ago
Would that as applicant idea be too meta?
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by arsey 14y ago
The fastest way to degrowth is [growth] ??
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by arsey 14y ago
Looks like shipping barcodes to my untrained eye.
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by arsey 14y ago
If CLANG stood for something ridiculous then I'd be in.