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by drb311 10y ago
I've been listening to a lot of Rumpole on Radio Four Extra. Let me know how I can help.
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by drb311 10y ago
The best bit is the anecdote about LCARS in Star Trek: The Next Generation. It was all due to a budget shortfall: "Star Trek also may have helped create the entire image-under-glass paradigm that governs our digital world. The interfac
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by drb311 10y ago
Idlewords has a better talk on a similar theme, using planes as an example: http://idlewords.com/talks/web_design_first_100_years.htm Engineers alive in the fast rise period assume this fast improvement goes on for ev
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by drb311 10y ago
The best part is the WH Auden quote, which provokes more thought in 10 words than the rest of the essay put together: "Poets love their handwriting, it’s like smelling your own farts." Don't I love to read my own Hacker News
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by drb311 10y ago
Here I am in Birmingham, England. A city determined to blow up our wonderful brutalist buildings and replace it with ornamented crap. Brutalism means letting a functional concrete building look concrete and functional -- revealing its funct
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by drb311 11y ago
Sorry I haven't got round to doing this yet.
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by drb311 11y ago
"I also tried to get people to endorse me for procrastination" I will.
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by drb311 11y ago
"for all those who don't feel that they belong" < and the curious irony of Bowie's popularity: that's everyone.
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by drb311 11y ago
Yes! I got a Google Cardboard headset for Xmas and give my in laws a try. They don't usually get tech or show any interest in new gadgets. But every one of them was bowled over by Cardboard VR and grasped it immediately.
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by drb311 11y ago
I'm surprised. Most jobs advertised want competence in a range of things, not superstar status at one very specific thing. Perhaps the difficulty is marketing the range of skills you have in a way that other employers will value?
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by drb311 11y ago
So you see increasing split between web sites (mainly content) and web apps (mainly functionality)...? Web sites get replaced with point and click page creators, in or outside of a platform walled garden. Web apps have React-based front e
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by drb311 11y ago
It's the right suggestion. Question is why does Bezos need to suggest it? Just because it's obvious to us doesn't mean its filtered through to the tech departments of older, non-tech organizations.
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by drb311 11y ago
Looks like I'm too late to edit. Sorry about that.
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by drb311 11y ago
Fair point. No deceit intended. I'll edit OP when at a computer. (Can't find edit option on phone.)
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by drb311 11y ago
I'm managing editor at Packt. I want to understand what skills developers will need over the next few years, so that we can help them skill up today. We want to empower all developers to do amazing things and help build the future. The
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by drb311 11y ago
Thank you. Very exciting to see IoT, Big Data, Cloud and ML working together to comprehensively know, predict, and act on our every move. Reminds me of the Guide MkII. We'll never quite know who it's working for.
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by drb311 11y ago
Thank you. Agree we've not yet seen mobile do its thing on the business side. Slack platform looks like a step towards new paradigm for business software, first of many I guess? Do you see AI and ML as core skills for developers in the
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by drb311 11y ago
Thank you! I liked point 2. I guess that means you see a future with a lot more medium-scale start ups getting founded and funded? I'll look forward to that. :) Kickstarter already taking us that way, so it makes sense. What do you thi
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Ask HN: What does the future hold for developers?
28 points by drb311 11y ago|32 comments
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All Packt ebooks and videos $5 over Xmas period(packtpub.com)
3 points by drb311 11y ago|0 comments
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by drb311 11y ago
"the product didn't seem like compelling standalone option but that would have done well as part of a larger solution" The new approach as a Slack bot addresses that issue precisely. Lots of useful things aren't a compel
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by drb311 11y ago
Thank you for the real substance and redressing the balance! I'm glad to give people reason to reexamine Ballmer. I didn't expect more than a few people to read the story. I hope He wouldn't be pissed if he read it.
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by drb311 11y ago
Perfect summary of what I hoped to achieve. Thanks for reading. And defending!
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by drb311 11y ago
Teaching your 9th grader to prioritize and make his/her own decisions might be the most useful thing you can do.
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by drb311 11y ago
Putting off an unimportant task to work on an important one isn't procrastinating. It's prioritizing. The best bit of this essay is the last 5 paragraphs, how to work on big things: 1. Break it down into fun small goals and experi
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How to be like Steve Ballmer(medium.com)
763 points by drb311 11y ago|188 comments
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by drb311 11y ago
That one's a proper improvement.
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That Wired Facebook Messenger article: 30 second summary(medium.com)
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Where will the software long tail go?(medium.com)
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by drb311 11y ago
Windows was the successor to DOS, built on DOS. Maybe this is like that?!

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