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You CAN finish up your studies, and you CAN get a job! To help put your 20 application in perspective, the last time I was job hunting I was trying to send out batches of 30-40 applications at a time! I would round up many positions I could
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This is honestly where I thought this was going when I saw the title. It would be cool for a font to be invested in the language it's used to describe to the point where it supports features of that language. I use Fira Code for JS, HT
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I have been asked to do unethical-but-not-illegal things in the past, and in response I (unwittingly) delivered something ethical under the guise of being the requested item. Still dubious ethics, but just between me and the client, not any
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10y ago
You could develop a subscription based service and distribute a client for it, this model would let you collect money from users on your website and allow open source and free mobile apps. Netflix, Evernote, Skype, Spotify all make money an
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Yellow sapphire is non traditional and very beautiful. If I had opted for something other than a diamond, I would have chosen something that was very different but still beautiful. My boo desperately wants an opal ring, but unfortunately op
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10y ago
For me, any creative profession is draining. Creativity takes something out of you, picture it like a well you draw water from. If there is no source filling that well up again, eventually the well will dry up and you will hit rock bottom.
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After reading about Moissanite I went out and got a nice custom diamond ring. I've seen it in person and sometimes you CAN tell, because of the 'fire' its way more rainbowy than diamond, diamonds are 'whiter' lookin
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10y ago
Well if you are writing your own HTML and JS instruments, chances are you do want to hear sounds generated by the web audio API. Are the users of Safari and Mobile Safari so different that on the desktop its totally fine (as in any browser)
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Do you have a mouse or a touchscreen? You can already do this pretty succesfully: http://staticresource.com/theremin.html (Note: android, and computer users can use this righht away, but iOS users will need to add this page
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Which is shortest, you can recover the original dataset from any of the following: - heads, heads, heads, tails, tails, heads - hhhtth - h3t2h - 3b1
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I come from a graphic design education, so I entered web development from the design side and am working my way through frontend, hoping someday to have full stack skills. You can get distracted learning the ever-changing frameworks, patter
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Wow, I was surprised at how much the 'Moon Alphabet' diagram reminded me of the Graffiti handwriting recognition alphabet from PalmOS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffiti_(Palm_OS) I wonder if this is conv
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> That way you could start with something quick and dirty for a prototype and then gradually lock it down through progressive iterations. Like tightening the bolts. This is a really interesting idea. I could also envision a utility wizar
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Hey thanks for taking the time to write this out. I'm new to programming and learning JavaScript, and what you said about exposing the AST and writing new syntaxes for the same language is really intriguing. I try to learn about the hi
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While I don't know if this site offers advice, when I need a quick summary that explains the license the first place I check is https://tldrlegal.com
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I have a couple motivations that drive me to invest in open-source: - I grew up in a family without a lot of money, by using open-source software growing up I got to learn a lot of different aspects of digital production, sofware developmen
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Hey @zbraniecki, thanks for the work you're doing. I use type=number cautiously for self-built tools for my own use, but so far have avoided it in production code. Thanks to your effort maybe someday I'll be able to use this '
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If you told me this was student work I would believe you, but its still not top-marks kind of student work. Its like they have never seen a logo before at all and instead are making a moodboard about what they hope the future of the interne
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Can you elaborate more? Im a frontend guy and sometimes I write JS plugins for the browser (that run after page load, and apply based on how things render on the page, or bawed on user interaction with the page) and non-frontend folks tell
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If you were to dissociate with Thiel over his political views it would lead to LESS diversity at Y Combinator!
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Are you talking about https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/ or a desktop or mobile app? I think tweetdeck.twitter.com is my preferred Twitter UI because it allows me to keep on top of keyword searches as well. Staying on top of cu
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Yes, Netflix is slowly turning from a library of old content into a network of new content. As a subscriber, I'm 100% okay with this and so glad I have the service. I'm not going anywhere else! Will we continue talking about (and
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WebOS as well!
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m =^_^= m
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Looks good! I've done a similar thing hand-coding super tiny HTML+CSS pages for my resume. I have one responsive version online for viewing at http://tomhodgins.com/resume.html and another that I use for printing or ge
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Did somebody say min-font-size and max-font-size? I've got a demo of the lock-style implementation they are talking about in the article here: http://codepen.io/tomhodgins/pen/QEVbwR And another, JavaScript-p
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> I mean, if even native speakers get into troubles so easily what should I, as a non-native speaker, expect? To be honest, I don't think the issue they have with him is one of words, I think it's one of ideas. If people like t
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Oh man, I'm sorry you had to go through that, and I am impressed and so happy to hear that this is (and always has been) something you care about so deeply. Don't let bad experiences turn you off from sharing in the future. I'
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Wouldn't that person just use a markov chain to generate the article instead of wasting their time writing every point out by hand ;)
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Try freelance, or contract work. You can be employed for yourself and making money right away without having to build a product or a business first. That's still running your own business and being an entrepreneur! Switching from salar
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