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by embwbam 11y ago
I'll second this recommendation. Outdoors sports, especially rock climbing, are the perfect counterbalance to programming. Where programming is in your head, climbing is in your gut, your body, and in the current moment. Personally, I
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by embwbam 11y ago
Writers are paranoid . I played around with a self-publishing site last year ( http://webfiction.co ) and was surprised more than once by how worried writers were about getting ripped off, losing control of their work, etc. I thi
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A revenge Twitter account powered by a Haskell robot(github.com)
2 points by embwbam 11y ago|1 comments
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by embwbam 11y ago
It's vague, because it's a high level idea. I want to earn more than I can by time, therefore I have to get clients to start thinking about how much value they are getting and paying for that. Practically I've had success rec
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by embwbam 11y ago
I read somewhere that they can absorb DNA from foreign sources (other animals, etc) into their cells when they rehydrate, leading to an accelerated rate of evolution.
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by embwbam 11y ago
Regarding zenpusher: From my armchair, It seems like you should make the contrast higher for the fonts. I've been reading Thinking, Fast and Slow, and his research shows that text that is hard to read activates the conscious part of ou
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by embwbam 11y ago
Another way to get binaries is to install with stack. See here: http://seanhess.github.io/2015/08/04/practical-haskell-getti... . At our first Utah Haskell meetup we had around 30 people manage to get GHC and
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by embwbam 11y ago
I can't speak for the GP, but I lived there for a month with my wife and 3 kids. During that trip we spent extended time in Salzburg, Munich, and Vienna, and Vienna was my least favorite. It's hard to put my finger on why I liked
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by embwbam 11y ago
Typescript or Flow will catch many of these errors. Highly recommended!
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by embwbam 11y ago
I have a Nissan Leaf. It retails at $29k, before the tax incentive. They can be leased with no down payment for $250/mo. It's fun to drive, well-made, I absolutely love it. Teslas are expensive, but if you want an electric car the
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by embwbam 11y ago
I've heard it mentioned several times, but I don't really understand how to use it to deploy haskell code. Do you know of a tutorial link somewhere?
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by embwbam 11y ago
That sounds way nicer than my 30 minute deploy process. I develop on a mac and deploy to ubuntu. How would you recommend I build? Vagrant? (I almost finished getting the vagrant stuff working).
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by embwbam 11y ago
Just compared to dynamic languages. Cross compiling and such. I went with docker (see the repo) and it works. Deploys via docker push are a little slower than I'd like but nothing I can't improve later.
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by embwbam 11y ago
I've made 2-3 toy REST APIs, and now I'm working on a product using a Haskell backend that's bigger. https://github.com/seanhess/serials I love it. I mean I could have done the same thing in node. But th
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by embwbam 11y ago
It is pretty clearly inspired by Scotty, but I can't seem to find a motivation or comparison anywhere. Besides the new type safe routing, how does Spock improve on Scotty?
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by embwbam 12y ago
I quit coffee, working on eating lots of vegetables and limiting beer and sweets. Getting outside into the sunshine (literally) and getting my heart rate up makes a world of difference in how I feel. Pretty much every day, intense if I can.
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by embwbam 12y ago
I'm in urgent care right now getting bad road rash cleaned up and wish I was at home instead! Pricing is definitely higher. I'll walk out paying about $200 on a high deductible plan. So I probably wouldn't use this for that r
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by embwbam 12y ago
I've had this idea for a while and I'm not sure if it's possible from your video. I have a code window, and ideally it would be next to everything: a documentation brower, a test browser, and a terminal. There isn't enou
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by embwbam 12y ago
About $450 a month from my share of a spanish language bookstore, reader, and audiobook player app. It provides public domain books and Librevox recordings in a nice UI and all cleaned up. Users can buy books for 0.99 or 1.99 or buy the who
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by embwbam 12y ago
Last year, I tried something new. One of my friends, a Mathematician, and the smartest guy I know, was working at the library. I told him he should get into programming, and hired him as my "Apprentice". I was mentoring him direct
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by embwbam 12y ago
It's directly related to how familiar the syntax is. If a syntax is very foreign, it's difficult for your brain to read it, and it is uncomfortable. People don't like being uncomfortable :) The more syntax you learn, the less
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Swift – Why Annoying Is Good(seanhess.github.io)
38 points by embwbam 12y ago|47 comments
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by embwbam 12y ago
Yeah you're right of course. I worry though that to "do it right", to get rid of my pathological need to work that I have to go too far the other direction for a while. Not that I wouldn't do dishes and stuff like I do n
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by embwbam 12y ago
Is anyone else who has tried this married with kids? We have the savings, but even though my wife is on board in theory, we have 3 youngish kids. It feels like it would be hard not to feel guilty when my wife is caring for them and cleaning
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by embwbam 12y ago
Then don't. It's really pretty easy to get in to contract programming (making assumptions here). Especially if you default to long-term contracts. It's basically like a job but you get to pick how many hours you put in.
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by embwbam 12y ago
I have never heard of this, and I can't even begin to say how timely this is for me. I left my startup in late 2012. I was completely burned out. Founding a startup was so hard that I had to change my self-concept to an Important Perso
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by embwbam 12y ago
You can do it! Keep learning and switch jobs as soon as you can. You don't have to switch to your dream job right away, just trade up a little at a time. You'll learn even faster at the next one.
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by embwbam 12y ago
Wow. I just read the first link "In Praise of Idleness" and I have to say it completely turned my thoughts on work around. I had no idea how fundamentally the work culture has influenced me.
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by embwbam 12y ago
So I have a word of caution. As someone else in the thread mentioned, React is very intuitive for beginners. There's another framework I've used that was also intuitive for beginners: Backbone. The reason why Backbone is inferior
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by embwbam 12y ago
I just want to say I think you made the "right" choices along the way even if they maybe weren't the most savvy financially. I hope you profit from your app. It's hard to know what to do and stay motivated. Good luck!

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