chris-laffra

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by chris-laffra 4y ago
I worked on this at Uber in the past and you explain very well why there is no iOS flavor for devpods.
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by chris-laffra 4y ago
A free preview can be found here: https://chrislaffra.com/The%20Secret%20to%20Developer%20Prod...
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Show HN: A book on Developer Productivity written with ChatGPT(c4e.education)
3 points by chris-laffra 4y ago|1 comments
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by chris-laffra 4y ago
I have captured my personal experience of struggling with this topic during my career into a book called "Communication for Engineers". The book builds a foundation and then explores the myriad of ways we communicate as engineers.
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by chris-laffra 4y ago
See: C4E - Communication for Engineers . https://chrislaffra.com/c4e
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by chris-laffra 4y ago
C4E - Communication for Engineers. https://chrislaffra.com/c4e The book discusses a variety of "soft" skills, including reading and writing. Not specifically focused on technical writing per se, but can still be v
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by chris-laffra 4y ago
Not a book, but a comprehensive, introductory set of materials by the Google tech writing team: https://developers.google.com/tech-writing/overview
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by chris-laffra 4y ago
I should rewrite PyAlgoViz to work fully in the browser using Pyodide. Then usage would be completely client-side (no quotas). Would love to get a PR from anyone having experience doing that.
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by chris-laffra 4y ago
Actually, I assigned it a budget of $3 per month, which was reached in June. In July, usage is at $1 only, so not too sure how Google decides I reached a certain quota.
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by chris-laffra 4y ago
Creator of PyAlgoViz here: I did not want to add advertisements to the site, so working off a free-tier for a number of years now.
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by chris-laffra 4y ago
The first thing I saw when I visited the stackexchange link in this post, was a huge banner at the top of the page, which really confused me as it led me to think that this post was a clever and sarcastic meta-joke of some kind.
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Keynotes Announced for CurryOn 2019
1 points by chris-laffra 8y ago|0 comments
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by chris-laffra 8y ago
You are correct, HappyMac is open sourced at https://github.com/laffra/happymac . The license check error should simply have been a log statement. Please reinstall the app from https://happymac.app to get an
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by chris-laffra 8y ago
Of course, your concerns are valid on what installed apps can do on your machine. For HappyMac, the updates are stored in ~/HappyMac, so you can always verify what the app does. In contrast, a lot of applications perform truly silent u
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by chris-laffra 8y ago
Correct. The source is licensed with MIT license. The downloadable version from happymac.app has a different EULA. That said, the intent was to avoid people copying the app, so the EULA has been changed to now replace the two lines you quot
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Show HN: HappyMac – Make your Mac happy again(github.com)
20 points by chris-laffra 8y ago|6 comments
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by chris-laffra 9y ago
I wrote this a while back: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-prepare-technical-intervi...
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Letter to Jamie Dimon and anyone else struggling to understand cryptocurrencies(blog.chain.com)
1 points by chris-laffra 9y ago|1 comments
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by chris-laffra 9y ago
If you want to do your own visualizations using PyAlgoViz, check out http://chrislaffra.blogspot.nl/2016/12/generating-prime-numb...
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by chris-laffra 9y ago
See also https://pyalgoviz.appspot.com , where you can design your own algorithms and visualizations.
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by chris-laffra 10y ago
One use of type tracing is to automatically generate unit tests, as done by Auger: https://github.com/laffra/auger .
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Show HN: Simple serverless services for Google AppEngine(github.com)
3 points by chris-laffra 10y ago|0 comments
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by chris-laffra 10y ago
For visualizations of numerous other algorithms, check out http://pyalgoviz.appspot.com , where both the algorithms and the visualizations are editable. You can replay both the execution and the visualization step by step.
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by chris-laffra 12y ago
It also places you #1 for adventure seeking, which is fitting, considering your daily bike commute through New York City :-)
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by chris-laffra 12y ago
Interesting tidbit: Hard to imagine these days, but this language specification appears typed by hand on a typewriter, most likely this model: http://magazinesadsandbooks.com/Magazine-Ad-for-Remington-Ra...