enjalot

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by enjalot 15y ago
I don't think its possible to avoid technical debt if you are making something new on a deadline. Just like real companies, bootstrapping sounds like the ideal situation but it's not the reality for most people.
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by enjalot 15y ago
This is pretty awesome! Very smooth experience. Have you seen d3.js? It has a similar force layout component, I'm curious as to your motivation for writing your own (although it looks and works very nice!)
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I disagree, at least that pictures can't help with higher dimensional math. Well, regular pictures may not help so much but interaction really can. A lot of my understanding of higher level math depends on my programming ability to "touch"
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by enjalot 15y ago
We are (ab)using git in some fun ways. Our designers use branches we setup with git flow to develop and manage assets. We deploy from develop and master branches to dev and production servers. We also use the github api to allow the dynamic
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by enjalot 15y ago
It's obvious the author of the article hasn't learned anything from the digital revolution either, which is strange since they allude to it. 3D printers are in their infancy as others in this thread have stated, but they are starting with a
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by enjalot 15y ago
I feel like KA frees up some of the time constraints of traditional educators so that they can spend more time doing the motivation and the possible uses of a subject matter. I'm no teacher but if I was I'd much rather spend my time getting
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by enjalot 15y ago
I don't think you understood the parent's points... First, the main point was that programmers were evaluated by their peers and managers, i.e. the people who they work with, not bureaucrats. Second, judging a programmer solely (in an atomi
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by enjalot 15y ago
I read this question as an insult. How could they not know they are better at their job after 17 years of doing it? This is just my personal opinion but the true judge of a teacher's effectiveness is how much their students learned, and eve
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by enjalot 15y ago
My heart says create, my body says consume
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rare jongens die Nederlanders ;)
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by enjalot 15y ago
> They are trying to push certain technologies into certain directions under the cover of opensource This is kind of a ridiculous statement, I'm sorry. The very definition of opensource precludes any kind of cover. The critical piece of
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by enjalot 15y ago
This is kind of off topic but imho "everyone else" coopted hacker away from those of us who consider ourselves hackers. And for the record I don't consider semi-technical entrepreneur to be the definition of hacker I apply to myself. For me
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by enjalot 15y ago
I don't like 'Monopoly' because most people don't recognize that as a fundamental problem. In fact in the case of media, monopoly is assumed as necessary to provide you with what you want (hundred million dollar blockbuster films). The key
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by enjalot 15y ago
did you read the article? It's all about how a traditional market (cocaine) got disrupted by startups (meth labs). With the lovely side effects of proving the War on Drugs as useless as we thought it was.
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by enjalot 15y ago
Not only that, but you might not be able to see the interfaces of the future. A couple that come to mind: mind reading interfaces (ECG Headsets) camera based (like the kinect) fabric sensors Not to mention the leaps that machine learning
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by enjalot 15y ago
You only covered the "like them" aspect, what about the "fit a pattern that appeals to them" part? Chinese and Indians fall into "model minority" stereotypes, which have their own set of evils (you are X so you must be good at Y is it's own
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by enjalot 15y ago
Am I the only one that interpreted as a light-hearted sarcastic remark? In the same interview he admitted to being very sarcastic when supporting key features of g+ I'd like to hear the audio to check out his inflection and the full context
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by enjalot 15y ago
I've seen this attitude before, when something new comes out and people complain about having one more thing to learn. It's usually older people making that statement. I don't think you have to worry about the young developers, to them (us?
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by enjalot 15y ago
☁ unicode cloud http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2601/index.htm
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by enjalot 15y ago
regardless of whether he continues (it looks like and I hope he will) my point was rather that everyone should follow these blueprints. I know I'm inspired!
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by enjalot 15y ago
This is the future of education. He just laid the blueprints.
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by enjalot 15y ago
Or you want to see something happen but you only want to donate if everyone else does. They hack the tragedy of the commons, and it's been enough for me to support a couple projects.
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by enjalot 15y ago
Thank you! I came here to post this. I was really disappointed when an alternative wasn't presented after they declared algorithm quizzes useless. I'm all for code walk-throughs and explanations. You can't bullshit your problem solving proc
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by enjalot 15y ago
> I have a feeling that the marketing push is very much still to come. sign out of google services and go to google.com If everyone gets that little arrow, that's a pretty big marketing push...
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by enjalot 15y ago
Thanks for this. I've also consciously tried to improve my voice, especially in the context of story telling. I just got tired of people getting bored when I talked and I started looking at what I could do to improve the experience for othe
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by enjalot 15y ago
I also share this stoicism, and have a good friend who is the complete opposite. I like that this thread both supports people like us, but also reminds that it has a real effect on communication with others. I like how you put it, it's like
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by enjalot 15y ago
I'm with you. I'm very inspired by this scrubbing calculator because I think it is the perfect tool to introduce algebra. The abstract concept of a variable is not something that comes easy to everyone. This tool allows you to visualize the
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by enjalot 15y ago
That is fair too, China has more history than any other country, and only few cultures can claim to be as old. When asked about democracy most Chinese I have spoken to refer to their last hundreds years of history, which is filled with all
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by enjalot 15y ago
This seems counter-intuitive, I thought the competition for hiring in the valley was already too high. Isn't the benefit of being outside the valley cost of living and human capital?
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by enjalot 15y ago
It's an interesting question, and not an easy one to answer policy-wise I assume. My 2 cents are that opening up a country is more effective than isolating it. I've been to China several times, and there are a lot of people living good live

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