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by asher_ 12y ago
Add ?share=1 to the end of any Quora url to avoid signing in.
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by asher_ 13y ago
Arduino. You are writing in C but there are plenty of examples you can use to start with. The community support around Arduino is fantastic, and is a great way to get into hardware. Although somewhat overpriced, the Arduino starter kits tha
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by asher_ 14y ago
This was interesting if nothing else. Maybe its just because I just woke up, but I didn't even realise why Q1 was interesting until after I read the HN comments. Those that are saying these are all useless for practical work are wrong in my
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by asher_ 14y ago
This isn't a question that already doesn't have an answer. Researchers showed at the Common Cold Centre in London that body temperature has an impact on the likelihood of catching flu. The reasoning is that during the cold, less blood flows
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by asher_ 14y ago
This is a rather annoying trend with devices in this class. I own a half dozen otherwise excellent devices like this, each of which require a SaaS subscription to make full use of, any most of which deny me access to the raw data. I have to
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by asher_ 14y ago
I'm guessing you're quite unfamiliar with the metric system. The different types of measurements are defined in relation to one another and are thus easy to figure out, unlike the imperial system where everything is odds and ends. A kilogra
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A message from the ISS to all human kind(youtube.com)
1 points by asher_ 14y ago|0 comments
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by asher_ 14y ago
Thanks for this thoughtful reply. I think you articulated the power dynamic between tutors and students very well. I was reluctant to use the word "tutor" in my post, and picked "coach" instead, for this very reason, but I did a poor job of
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by asher_ 14y ago
I agree, money isn't the only incentive. Some people (myself included) have a passion for teaching. Money is just an extra motivator. I don't think its true that they can necessarily make more programming themselves than I can afford to pay
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by asher_ 14y ago
When I played poker (at reasonably low-medium limits) I think I paid $100/hour for coaching if memory serves me correctly. I don't mind paying for quality coaching at all. I see it as a worthwhile investment in terms of both productivity an
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by asher_ 14y ago
Thanks for your reply. It sounds like what you are doing is admirable but not along the lines of what I'm after. I don't think that there is really any weird power dynamics in this kind of coaching, at least not in my experience. On one han
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by asher_ 14y ago
I couldn't agree more. This is exactly the experience I had being coached with poker. Sometimes you get some insight or way of looking at a problem that you probably would have never worked out on your own no matter how much time you were g
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by asher_ 14y ago
This is something I'd insist on paying for. Investment in a relationship like this goes both ways, and having a coach that was not incentivized to continue would be a deal-breaker for me.
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by asher_ 14y ago
I will check out that site, PHP is one of the languages I work in regularly. Thanks!
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by asher_ 14y ago
Online communities are useful, but not what I am looking for. I already have access to online communities. Coaching is different - it is more personal, more focused, and is based on a longer term relationship.
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by asher_ 14y ago
I work in a small psychology research lab in a university. I am one (the senior) of only two programmers. I work here because I am passionate about the problems I get to work on, as well as the freedoms afforded to me. Since I am in this si
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by asher_ 14y ago
I couldn't agree more with all you've said. I've been coding for a while, but only recently had the desire to want to turn it from a skill into a craft. I relish the challenges that I come up against and delight in finding solutions to them
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Ask HN: Do coding coaches exist?
86 points by asher_ 14y ago|67 comments
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by asher_ 14y ago
I didn't know there were so many others that did this too. My girlfriend always wonders what the hell I'm doing when I do this.
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by asher_ 14y ago
This is quite neat, thanks a lot!
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by asher_ 14y ago
I just watched the following video today: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cku6RJPIGG8 It is about the Fog Creek offices, it's well worth the money if you are designing an office.
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by asher_ 14y ago
They are opening their DC in Sydney in Q1 next year. Cloud servers wont be there at launch but will come "in the months to follow". I'm looking forward to that too.
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by asher_ 14y ago
This is great. I can't wait for Rackspace to have their offering available too. The current cloud offerings here are quite lacklustre.
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by asher_ 14y ago
I appreciate this reply a lot. This type of situation is a new one for me, I guess I should just bring up the subject as a whole and see how it goes. I hope I don't run into too much resistance since it will result in a short term decrease
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by asher_ 14y ago
Thanks! I'm in agreement with you, I don't like spending a lot of time on tooling if it isn't needed. I like only very simple tools, as I find complex ones inevitably add friction in the workflow and thus end up unused.
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by asher_ 14y ago
I see I need to add more specifics about my situation. I work at a university developing research software (primarily - some is also external customer facing). My customers are internal customers, thus profitability and other business measu
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Ask HN: Percent of time spent developing internal tools?
76 points by asher_ 14y ago|46 comments
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by asher_ 14y ago
I like the look of this. I have used a lot of different consumer EEG gear and this is by far the best looking unit I have seen for every day use. I am curious to see how it performs, as it looks like it would be difficult to maintain solid
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by asher_ 14y ago
Awesome dedication, but it makes me wonder why geo-redundancy isn't in place for companies the size of these.
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Ask HN: TDD Resources for beginners?
5 points by asher_ 14y ago|2 comments

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