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Show HN: New take on my resume.(dougkoellmer.com)
2 points by dougk16 13y ago|6 comments
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by dougk16 13y ago
I love your effort here, and have been meaning to ask...are you working on some means to parse old-school TXT tabs from other tab sites into your format? I always thought that would be a really interesting problem to solve, especially tryin
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by dougk16 13y ago
Did the same thing with homework in one math class, but my teacher would start at random positions in the classroom...overall, didn't work out to a very high grade for me :)
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by dougk16 13y ago
As I think the article points out somewhere, loneliness and being alone are different things...you can feel lonely in a crowded room, and all that. You have people to interact with when loneliness starts creeping in...so good! It just sound
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by dougk16 13y ago
I always use a credit card, just for the fraud protection...no idea how, but my CC has been used fraudulently 3 times over the years, and each time, with a quick phone call, the charge is gone, basically no questions asked (they assume frau
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by dougk16 13y ago
There is no genius, just various levels of domain expertise. We call geniuses those who concentrate most of their time and passion into one niche, and that niche has to be one that's popularly thought of as requiring smarts to fill. I
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by dougk16 13y ago
I'm there baby! I'll be practicing my bubble sort skills all night!
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by dougk16 13y ago
Thanks...yea in the process of getting my personal site together, and should probably put up something a little less off-putting in the mean time.
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by dougk16 13y ago
Thanks for the heads up, and the feedback! I didn't mean this as a resume exactly...more like a portfolio that would be linked to from my cover letter and/or resume. It depends on who I assumed this would hit first...if it were th
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Show HN: Having fun with my portfolio.(dougkoellmer.com)
13 points by dougk16 13y ago|12 comments
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by dougk16 13y ago
Haven't looked too much at the API, but right off the bat I would suggest a more compelling suite of demos, with collision, stacking, etc...I may just be missing the links. You're definitely targeting a gaping niche IMO though (sa
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by dougk16 13y ago
In order to observe something you have to bounce photons off of it, which changes its behavior...little over-simplified, but I believe that's the gist.
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It was Adobe Alchemy, now http://adobe-flash.github.io/crossbridge/ but doesn't look very alive. I remember I used it to compile Box2D and Bullet...took some finagling, but was doable in a few days. They managed t
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by dougk16 13y ago
Just to clarify, they killed flash for mobile browsers. Adobe AIR for mobile, which packages the Flash runtime and user application together as a native app, is still alive and wellish. http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air.h
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by dougk16 13y ago
The new logo's not bad, but having to explain why a logo is cool is kind of like explaining why a joke is funny...just doesn't work.
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by dougk16 13y ago
I never read anything I disagreed with in PP, and it's worth going through, but as you allude to it did reflect its times. There was an undertone throughout that programmers exist to server the capricious whims of their suit-wearing ov
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by dougk16 13y ago
I haven't tried Dapper, thanks for the recommendation. Just ordered a pack. My espresso machine's getting back from repair tomorrow after several months on the DL...can't wait. OK, I get your angle. If you do ever get into so
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by dougk16 13y ago
I don't like Starbucks' beans but for two exceptions: their "reserve" single-origin line ( http://www.starbucks.com/coffee/reserve ), and their espresso roast. I'm actually surprised I haven&#x27
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by dougk16 13y ago
Hmm, I was intrigued by this service until I read the following on the main page: "Just Say no to Dark Roasts. Roasting cheap beans to a dark smoky stage masks the bad flavors in the beans...Anything else would be sacrilegious!" Y
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by dougk16 13y ago
I actually didn't mean to implicate stress, although it is of course also a factor for some people. But even in non-stressful situations, frequent breaks from cognitive load are simply a necessity for me. I think it's because my b
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by dougk16 13y ago
With unlimited time, you have the opportunity to take little breaks here and there, even if it just means doodling for a few minutes, and this is a huge advantage if you leverage it well. I run into this daily with my work life now as well.
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by dougk16 13y ago
Curious as to when you last tried out GAE. I've had a wonderful experience so far over the last 2 years. My instances never take longer than a few seconds to start up... in fact it's sometimes spooky how fast they do. "...wit
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"but certainly I don't feel I have 100x in buying power" Sometimes the economics do conveniently work out this way, which is why some people might get confused. For example I lived in Poland for a few years, and at the time a
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by dougk16 13y ago
Great to hear! Maybe it was mentioned and I missed it, but what language(s) will it be implemented in? And is there a way I can be notified when it's released?
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"They can also reallocate elements into the stack frame rather than heap when they detect specific allocation usage." I've always been interested in whether this is done in various managed languages. Since I never know the an
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The sidewalks in my area can't accommodate pedestrians and bikers at the same time, but I still use sidewalks while biking, and just hop off onto the road when I need to pass a pedestrian. Can't say it has been a problem for me. I
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by dougk16 13y ago
I always use the sidewalk when biking (legal in my area), but, besides the law, I can see some arguments against it. For one, many sidewalks are in bad repair, so if you have a bike designed for the flat surface of a road, a bumpy sidewalk
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by dougk16 13y ago
Unless, perhaps, both particular species of ape and pig routinely had sex for pleasure ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_sexual_behaviour suggests it's possible), and just happened to cross paths. In this case
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Ditto for official Polish documents I've dealt with. You often have to pay a hefty sum for a certified translation, and there are almost always some very funny errors to enjoy.
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Glad to know I'm not alone. I live in a "wimbledon lawn" neighborhood in the NE US. Along with that comes vast caravans of clanking landscaping vehicles, a near constant drone of lawnmowers, leaf blowers, weed whackers, etc.,

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