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Ultra-fast speech comprehension in blind subjects engages primary visual cortex(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
2 points by bzalasky 9y ago|0 comments
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by bzalasky 9y ago
Honestly, you need both. Here's a comment on code review I wrote year ago or so that seems relevant: Code reviews shouldn't dwell on style issues that can be handled by linting. To the extent that you can automate some of the revi
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by bzalasky 9y ago
Perhaps creating niche visual DSLs is a more viable approach to developing visual programming environments than to focus on creating a general purpose programming environment. It'd be interesting to see if there are any existing soluti
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Network Protocols for Anyone Who Knows a Programming Language(destroyallsoftware.com)
2 points by bzalasky 9y ago|0 comments
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Smart Contracts: One Lawyer's Perspective(zalaskylaw.com)
3 points by bzalasky 9y ago|0 comments
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by bzalasky 9y ago
While I can appreciate your perspective, there are plenty of hard problems on the frontend. Many of them might fall outside the confines of the label frontend (into graphics programming or linear algebra), just like Google scale falls well
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Loose Language: Noble V. Samsung(zalaskylaw.com)
1 points by bzalasky 10y ago|0 comments
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by bzalasky 10y ago
To someone who isn't a "coder" it may be difficult to tell the difference between someone cranking out landing pages with HTML and CSS, and someone building the checkout flow for a different part of the same app. If you were
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by bzalasky 10y ago
The $40M is for Pebble's assets and intellectual property. They're hiring the engineers on the side. Sometimes acquisitions are done this way so the acquiring company can avoid the outstanding liabilities/debts of the company
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by bzalasky 10y ago
Generally the candidates that don't pass that first question don't have sufficient experience with JavaScript. Sometimes this is because they have more experience on the backend and for whatever reason said they knew JavaScript on
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by bzalasky 10y ago
It's not meant to be difficult. You'd be surprised how many people don't pass this. The most important part of the interview for me is when we advance to talking about what a candidate has actually done.
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by bzalasky 10y ago
Generally, I start by getting an idea of how well a candidate understands JavaScript with a problem like this: Write a function that enables the following API... createOlympian() .name('Katie Ledecky') .sport(&#x
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by bzalasky 10y ago
sfchronicle.com is their premium, subscription-based offering. I suppose it'll only allow you to read 10 or so articles before putting up a paywall. sfgate.com is their free ad-based offering.
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by bzalasky 10y ago
The book you're looking for is The Little Schemer (just noticed another commenter suggested this as well). Even if you're not that interested in LISP, you'll come away from this book with a solid grasp of "programs as re
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by bzalasky 10y ago
How many employees does the company have (roughly), and how much money has been raised?
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by bzalasky 10y ago
With regard to adopting React, coming from Backbone in the past. I've found that it simplifies the view layer, particularly when it comes to extracting shared functionality. It's not to say that you can't do this in a Backbon
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by bzalasky 10y ago
These two videos from Scott Murray are a great intro to D3 if you haven't worked with it before: https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/an-introducti... https://www.safaribooksonline.com&#x
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by bzalasky 10y ago
After using several different libraries over the past few years, I've started using D3.js on its own. While it's more work than dropping something ready-made into an app, it's more flexible. If you have specific designs/
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by bzalasky 10y ago
Henry Petroski is well known for writing about the history of civil engineering failures, so perhaps he's just extrapolating from his experience?
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The Software Developer’s Library(medium.com)
1 points by bzalasky 10y ago|0 comments
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by bzalasky 11y ago
Code reviews shouldn't dwell on style issues that can be handled by linting. To the extent that you can automate some of the review process, and prevent sloppy commits from being merged in by having them fail CI, you'll eliminate
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by bzalasky 11y ago
Frontend Masters has a lot of content that you may find helpful... https://frontendmasters.com/ Egghead.io also has some good courses https://egghead.io
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by bzalasky 11y ago
For advertising no up front costs, 22.5% of first year salary upon graduation spread over 12 months is a pretty aggressive payment plan. At 100k that's over $1800/month. It could be a good deal for someone that's still increa
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by bzalasky 11y ago
Budget time for clean up after you get the deliverables. If you're bringing on the right person, hopefully they won't leave you with pile of messy code. But even if it's mostly clear and organized, giving them paid time to in
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by bzalasky 11y ago
Bughouse chess might fit the bill in this case. If you're not familiar, there are two boards with four players, with teammates playing opposite colors on each board. A captured piece on one board can be held in reserve by the teammate
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by bzalasky 11y ago
Moz.com is really solid if you're not already familiar. They have tools to manage campaigns, in addition to content and community.
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by bzalasky 11y ago
I'd start with the repos for the libraries/framework(s) you've been using lately. Or for something a little different, take a look at Babel's codebase ( https://github.com/babel/babel ).
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An Open Letter to Mayor Slay and Co. Executive Steve Stenger(techli.com)
1 points by bzalasky 11y ago|0 comments
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by bzalasky 11y ago
Completely agree. I had to implement something like this when I worked at Stipple in the past, and the biggest problem became optimizing the DOM interactions (adding and removing images from a masonry feed as the user scrolled). Vanilla JS
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by bzalasky 11y ago
Elixir (which leverages the Erlang VM) has been gaining some momentum, so it could be related to that. Alternatively, distributed systems are more abundant than they've ever been, and many of the problems they present have been solved

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