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by arthurjj 8y ago
Any suggestions for good non-Windows laptops in the $1000 price range? I'm seriously considering just buying a refurbished MacBook Pro from 2013 at this point.
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by arthurjj 8y ago
An interesting take away from the article is that games like Animal Crossing might be a better staring point for building TYLIP than the methods in the OP article
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Designing a 'Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer' from Diamond Age(medium.com)
153 points by arthurjj 8y ago|104 comments
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10 Steps to Safely Change an API(arthur-johnston.com)
1 points by arthurjj 9y ago|0 comments
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by arthurjj 9y ago
The first edition suffers from being a victim of its own success. Much of it has become common wisdom and many of the refactoring techniques now have IDE support. "Working Effectively with Legacy Code"^1 is usually what I recommen
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by arthurjj 9y ago
That's what I get for just copy pasting a personal note. Thanks for the fix.
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by arthurjj 9y ago
My list in reverse chronological order: baumol's cost disease, Chesterton's fence, Berkson's paradox, goodhart's law/Campbell's law, Gell-Mann Amnesia affect, Ship of Theseus, The Zeigarnik effect, Conway'
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by arthurjj 9y ago
Learning the proper names for these concepts has been a huge benefit of reading HN. I've been collecting them for the past few years and now have enough for a bingo card.
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by arthurjj 9y ago
I'm reading through the book now and the besides the signalling vs human capital argument the most interesting part is how he breaks down what college students are signalling into 3 parts that companies are interested in. 1. Intellig
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by arthurjj 9y ago
I'm currently using "Teach your Child to read in 100 Easy Lessons." with my 3 year old. He hasn't had trouble with the reading, but a few of the exercises were too long for him. It uses the DISTAR method which seems to h
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by arthurjj 9y ago
For most HN readers this means you should be buying more stock.
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by arthurjj 9y ago
I think YIMBY related issues are one of those issues where directly contacting your rep. does the most good. It's a locally decided issue that can reap huge benefits. So go call your rep!
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by arthurjj 9y ago
You should. There's nothing wrong with asking for donations especially since it's helping fund an open source project that people use. If anything not asking for donations is worse since there's nothing really supporting th
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by arthurjj 9y ago
Thanks. That's a much more complete and nuanced explanation of what I wanted from the book for my kid. Even if he just knows that the word "Queuing" is about ordering things it gives him the vocabulary to look up a better exp
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by arthurjj 9y ago
I think the idea of posting each page online as it was finished would have worked great. Even without a Kickstarter. If I do another children's book I'm definitely using this tactic. Thanks!
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by arthurjj 9y ago
You can buy in the UK from https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1548489778/ Thanks for letting me know that it was confusing that the picture was a link. I updated the page with a more obvious amazon.com and amazon.co.uk l
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by arthurjj 9y ago
Kickstarter definitely would have been a better way to launch. Especially since the funding goal to get a book illustrated would be less than $2k on the conservative side. If I were doing it again I would probably use KickStarter. Making th
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by arthurjj 9y ago
I've been looking for a book like this since I had my first kid three years ago! Thanks! We wrote the book after searching for a couple weeks for a book like it. I actually ended up writing a list of all the different programming bo
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by arthurjj 9y ago
>Seems like it is getting harder and harder to promote original content on the web without being considered spam That's a pretty good summation of my experience marketing. I don't know if there is a solution to it though... I f
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by arthurjj 9y ago
It's nice to hear someone else had a similar experience marketing their book. I didn't try GoodReads giveaway, did you see any increase in sales from it? Also care to link to the book?
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by arthurjj 9y ago
Thanks! Hope you like it.
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by arthurjj 9y ago
Glad to hear you like the rhymes. Your right, some of the words are a advanced for a little kid. Many of them were just so I could tell my son "The Garbage Collector was too slow today"(I work in Java) or "I had to shave a ya
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A Hacker Writes a Children's Book(arthur-johnston.com)
171 points by arthurjj 9y ago|68 comments
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by arthurjj 9y ago
tl;dr If you have an Enum don't have the 0 value be semantically meaningful. 2nd tl;dr If sex/gender is an Enum you should have at least 4 values unspecified, female, male, other. A few years ago I was working on a front end tha
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by arthurjj 9y ago
> I would argue that the most commonly used programming language is Excel. Anytime another programmer asks me what language they should learn I tell them Excel and they think I'm joking. Besides being a quick and dirty way to solve
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by arthurjj 9y ago
If anyone's interested in a fiction that partially explores this try Corey Doctorow's new novel Walk Away [1]. It's about people who 'walk away' from regular society. They to create their own high tech society becau
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by arthurjj 9y ago
CLRS was also the undergraduate textbook at my school, RIT. I didn't think it did a very good job of explaining algorithms if you didn't already have a good grasp of them. Skiena on the other hand does a nice job of both describin
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by arthurjj 9y ago
Eh. Having worked at a Defense Company, a unicorn and then a Big 5 tech company I can honestly say the work life balance is probably the best at the the Big 5. At Defense companies you're both clearly a cost center and a cog in an unfa
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by arthurjj 9y ago
> People who are driven to early retirement & financial independence are people who DESPISE jobs and are willing to spend their whole life at a much smaller income bracket in exchange for not having one. I was surprised by the negati
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by arthurjj 9y ago
Looks pretty cool. Actually the only thing stopping me from signing up was that because rediscovering highlights was so terrible on kindle, I stopped higlighting years ago. It's an interesting chicken and egg problem you have to solve.

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