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by chrisa 8y ago
I don’t remember the official name for it, but one common technique to overcome all sorts of fears is to progressively visualize the experience. For your flying example, that might mean to sit and think about just packing for a trip. How d
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by chrisa 8y ago
Our library has a program to read 1,000 books before Kindergarten (age 5 or so), and the kids get prizes along the way. It's easier than you might expect - the books are all short picture books at that age, so it's easy to just si
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by chrisa 8y ago
I toured a datacenter 5 years ago or so - and yes, they had a big flywheel for temporary power loses (until they could get the generators running)
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by chrisa 8y ago
I recently started posting about this here: http://www.breakintoconsulting.com My basic advice is: become a visible expert in the space by starting a blog, posting articles, and go to meetups and speak. Then, start with your net
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by chrisa 8y ago
https://nutritionfacts.org/ Is a great resource (and nonprofit) where Dr Greger reviews all the latest scientific studies about nutrition, and then summarizes them in videos. They also post to youtube: https://w
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by chrisa 8y ago
As I started to get more work than I could handle, I hired one person to help. That worked out well because we had known each other for a long time and had a shared history, but it also taught me that I wanted to think very hard before hir
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by chrisa 9y ago
I'm sorry you feel that way! Yes, there is an email opt-in form there; but my goal really is to help people who are trying to get started in consulting. I have a lot more content planned, so I wanted a way to contact people who were
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How to Find Consulting Clients(breakintoconsulting.com)
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by chrisa 9y ago
I use the free version of slack for https://github.com/nanohop/sketch-to-react-native I mostly chose it because it was free (despite the 10k message limit - which I don't see us hitting anytime soon), and people a
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by chrisa 9y ago
There's a really good, single page webpage called "Concise electronics for geeks": http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/electronics/ It's a good read if you're trying to learn the fundamentals.
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by chrisa 9y ago
Many people probably don't know how much taxes they have to pay until right before tax day (because they haven't done their taxes yet). Especially with something like cryptocurrency, where actually calculating your true tax can b
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by chrisa 9y ago
I'm not affiliated with medium at all - it's just the easiest way to get started blogging (in my opinion), and it's what I use (I cross post this blog to medium). I guess you're right about the three vs one though - I sh
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by chrisa 9y ago
I actually just wrote a blog post about this :) https://www.breakintoconsulting.com/blog/2018/4/4/tips-for-w... Basically - I think the point of a blog (at the beginning) is not really to be lead gen for
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by chrisa 9y ago
I've thought about doing something like that (for React Native) - and either blogging about it, or doing a screencast for each one, etc. What would you want to see the most out of something like that?
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by chrisa 9y ago
Yes! They were an inspiration for this actually. They can generate sketch files from react components ( https://github.com/airbnb/react-sketchapp ) but not the other way around. The painting with code demo ( https:/
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by chrisa 9y ago
Sketch to React Native: https://github.com/nanohop/sketch-to-react-native It takes designs for mobile apps (from Sketch files), and tries to convert those into React Native components. It's still early days, but
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by chrisa 9y ago
Kraken has gotten better since their big rewrite (just this year), but it's still not as great as other options (like GDAX). It is better than it was though. Also, Kraken has margin trading (and shorting), and GDAX doesn't (if y
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by chrisa 9y ago
They get one BCH for each BTC they held, but it's not double in terms of USD. Bitcoin is currently selling for around $17k, and BCH will open at $3k
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by chrisa 9y ago
Here's a youtube video that explains the new capsule idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKoLGnq15RM (I'll admit that I don't fully understand it yet), but I think the major thing that capsules tries to fix
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Show HN: Convert Sketch Files to React Native Components(github.com)
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by chrisa 9y ago
I'm a react native consultant, so I've seen several different projects (of all different sizes). Overall, I've been super happy with React Native, and would easily recommend it to anyone looking to build an Android and iOS v
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by chrisa 9y ago
In terms of poor performance: while it is possible to get good performance, the naive implementation of features might give you (accidentally) bad performance. For example: if you have a list of 1,000 things, you might put them in a scroll
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by chrisa 9y ago
React Native actually does use native controls - when you say you want a ScrollView for example, you're getting a real native scroll view. That is one thing that makes it different from many other cross platform libraries. It is true
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by chrisa 9y ago
There's a chrome plugin called video speed controller that can speed up any html5 video (including YouTube, vimeo, etc) to whatever speed you want. It's great!
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by chrisa 9y ago
The devil (of course), is in the details - I would definitely check with a lawyer. If money is an issue, then call around - many lawyers will do a free consultation, where they could probably tell you if your situation required a lawyer to
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by chrisa 9y ago
I have a free advanced (and beginner) daily email course to help you learn React: https://nanohop.com/react-daily-emails/ The idea is to get a small dose of React every day. I'm also always looking for what else t
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by chrisa 9y ago
We didn't do a video because we felt we were too early (we probably should have done one anyway). We're making a platform for "bite-sized learning", starting with daily email courses. We don't have the platform rea
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by chrisa 9y ago
We won first place at an IoT hackathon with a "Smart Locker" project. You could unlock the locker (via bluetooth) with your phone to check out a piece of equipment, and the app would show you who had which piece of equipment chec
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by chrisa 9y ago
If you drink soda or other sugary drinks, stop that first (or switch to diet). Then, the only thing that has really worked for me: pick either lunch or dinner, and take 1/2 of the meal (before you start eating), and box it up for tomor
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by chrisa 9y ago
Thanks! I think we're on to something with the bite sized learning - so I'm excited to see where it goes.

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