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by arthurjj 9y ago
I initially felt similar. But once I realized that Seveneves is actually two RPG novels [1] it gets much better. Part 1 & 2 are universe backstory. Like the Horus Heresy in 40k or the story of Lilith in Vampire. Part 3 is just to advanc
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by arthurjj 9y ago
My son's a little shy of 3, which is clearly too young to actually learn programming. But I wanted him to at least know some of the concepts like "computers talk in zeros and ones". Also nothing beats coming home and having y
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by arthurjj 9y ago
As someone who's only hired freelancers through Upwork, something I really like was that they required I pay them every week. Once the first payment went through the freelancer knew I was legitimate. It also made it easier for me to bu
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Programming Books for Babies and Toddlers(arthur-johnston.com)
3 points by arthurjj 9y ago|2 comments
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by arthurjj 9y ago
Congrats on shipping! I've bookmarked this site for the next time I'm looking for a sideproject.
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by arthurjj 9y ago
I was hoping this article was going to be a serious look at if an AI could run on a currency like Ethereum. A few months back I wrote a tongue in cheek version about if the DAO hack was to prevent the singularity [1]. But I'd be curiou
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by arthurjj 9y ago
I ended up getting fat and a few health issues working at a unicorn start up. It took me 18 months to realize how badly I was handling it. Correcting for that work culture required a decent about of self reflection and introspection, that w
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by arthurjj 9y ago
Thank you. The article is treating the NYT bestseller list as sacrosanct. Someone figured a (relatively) cheap way to hack it. Good for them. As someone who just published a children's book if I thought this would work I would try it.
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by arthurjj 9y ago
I wrote a children's picture book "The ABCs of Programming" to explain what I do to my toddler. Previously I was telling him "Daddy talks to robots". Hasn't made much money yet, but I launched only this week.
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by arthurjj 9y ago
Thanks! I hope she likes it
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Show HN: ABCs of Programming, a children’s picture book
8 points by arthurjj 9y ago|5 comments
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by arthurjj 9y ago
Agreed. Assuming he's salaried and not hourly there's no argument in my mind that he should feel required to tell them. If he's hourly I'd say it might be a gray area.
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by arthurjj 9y ago
I feel like keeping a journal/working notes is an underused tool by most programmers. It's amazing how often I think. "What was that bash command I used 9 months ago" or " What project was I working on 2 years ago.
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Georgia Tech manages to teach a CS degree for $7k(nytimes.com)
37 points by arthurjj 9y ago|6 comments
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by arthurjj 10y ago
Just in case someone reads this comment and thinks it's a joke, this is a real issue i.e. I've seen it cause issues in production
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by arthurjj 10y ago
I actually had a heisenbug related to Google calendar not caring about timezones. One of our internal scheduling tools used Google Calendar as the backend but had a custom frontend, It was to schedule a service call and the scheduler didn
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by arthurjj 10y ago
I actually did some market research on creating a service to use 23andMe anonymously because of this worry (I'd call it 32andYou). Essentially the user could pay the service, and then the service would pay 23andMe. At higher paying pla
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Check Sums in Everyday Life(arthur-johnston.com)
3 points by arthurjj 10y ago|0 comments
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by arthurjj 10y ago
I feel like Amazon affiliate money is "swingy" I have affiliate links when I review or recommend books on my blog (arthur-johnston.com) I won't make any money for a few months and then I'll make $50 in a month. The only
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by arthurjj 10y ago
This is a great example of a webpage that does one thing really well. The problem of "when should I go to bed?" seems simple. But just doing the subtraction of REM cycles is to much friction for me to have ever done it. What made
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by arthurjj 10y ago
I don't have my copy handy, but I believe that's actually the second system effect
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by arthurjj 10y ago
He makes a good point that the "scoring function" for what we think of as a good anagram is actually the more important. In general just generating the solution space is actually much easier than coming up with a satisfying scorin
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Ask HN: Do Programmers from Different Universities Have Different Styles?
2 points by arthurjj 10y ago|0 comments
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by arthurjj 10y ago
It's nice to see their strong continuing support for F#. I'm no longer in the .NET ecosystem but when I was learning F# and using it day to day was some of the most enjoyable paid programming I've done
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by arthurjj 10y ago
What's crazy is Ubiquitous language isn't even that hard to start doing. It starts with a common glossary. I like to use an internal wiki, but that's just me. The harder part is getting people to use the language and not misu
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by arthurjj 10y ago
Limiting the scope can't be emphasized enough if you're married with kids. I've failed to ship 6-7 side projects because of limits to my free time. The best side project I've successfully shipped, besides blogging, was l
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by arthurjj 10y ago
He's stated elsewhere he thinks the chances of this scenario are only ~30% IIRC
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Wasting Code vs. Recycling Code(arthur-johnston.com)
1 points by arthurjj 10y ago|0 comments
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Using a Word Replacer to get up to speed faster(arthur-johnston.com)
1 points by arthurjj 10y ago|0 comments
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Was the DAO Hack to Prevent Roko's Basilisk?(arthur-johnston.com)
4 points by arthurjj 10y ago|0 comments

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