jamespollack

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by jamespollack 7y ago
SEEKING WORK Location: SF Remote: Sure I've built apps for Smart TVs, web, mobile, AR/VR, and installations. I also do e-commerce (Shopify apps). Skills: Prototyping, UX, Javascript, Technical Architecture for Websites & Apps
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by jamespollack 7y ago
Can everyone posting please post about their interview process: How many: - technical phone screens - video interviews - projects (esp. length and duration, paid/unpaid, etc) - portfolio / code reviews on past projects - onsite in
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by jamespollack 8y ago
i love redux - surface area for bugs is reduced so much compared to the past. thanks!
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by jamespollack 8y ago
Author too busy hating to actually explore tools that would do exactly what they want.
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by jamespollack 8y ago
So... people who hate learning should use SSR? Once you've used grunt, using gulp is not a big logical jump. Then to webpack. Whatever, they're just build scripts! Roll your own shell scripts if you want! A day to learn them,
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by jamespollack 8y ago
...? "Most of the world is fine with whale oil lamps, who needs electricity" Try a really good interactive article from the New York Times. You'll have a much more impactful experience than if you read a blurb about the sam
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by jamespollack 8y ago
I think that "I'm a backend person" says it all -- most of the people in this thread are probably not JS natives or front-end natives. All of the complaints about JS fatigue, or not knowing how to use client-side routing are
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by jamespollack 8y ago
> That doesn't seem like a valid issue. If a bug in a single page could take the application down then the same could be said for the API powering the front-end. What? The previous poster said coupling frontend / server tightl
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by jamespollack 8y ago
have you not used a client-side router in like 5 years? you just plug one in and BAM browserHistory, etc.
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by jamespollack 8y ago
threads --> web workers sockets --> web sockets processes --> communicating btw microservices memory usage --> app and performance profiling it sounds like you're comparing a junior (high school-level?) FE to a senior BE. i
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by jamespollack 8y ago
i find the fact that you created a HN account just to troll us with your little puzzle to be 'counterproductive'. you're not the NSA, you're a PHP dev house. respect people's time and maybe you'll get the app
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Build a two-handed bow and arrow with physics in webVR using A-Frame(github.com)
1 points by jamespollack 10y ago|0 comments
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by jamespollack 10y ago
MFA Digital Arts and New Media. This is an interactive perspective. Right now the crossover between the arts and virtual reality is incredible. You need to be able to: dress a set, light it, do sound design, puppetry (avatars/rigging
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by jamespollack 10y ago
Yes, definitely! I'd love to remove the manual metadata step for the photos. I looked at writing the exif XMP data but had trouble sorting it out -- your code looks great, thanks for the lead!
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360 Video and Photo Capture in 4K for Three.js(github.com)
62 points by jamespollack 10y ago|6 comments
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by jamespollack 10y ago
ha cool, very similar! perhaps the same one: ) how interesting , its cool to see how other people make different choices considering the same starting material. I like route search box!
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Real-Time Vehicle Visualizations in JavaScript with D3.js(prettymuni.com)
11 points by jamespollack 10y ago|2 comments
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by jamespollack 12y ago
after reading ABOP, i did a lot of searching on L systems and found this amazing three.js library -- http://grow3.zyxxy.de/
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by jamespollack 13y ago
Define value (specifically in relation to art, or music, or both). Define how something is 'devalued' (specifically to art, or music, or both)). Define who has 'devalued' the 'whole industry'. Define why hip
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by jamespollack 13y ago
this is one of the worst, most backward-looking, anti-innovative views of art today that i've ever encountered. i'm sure they'll make money on it, but i can't wait until the first rip of this 'unlistenable' al
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by jamespollack 13y ago
this is really nice. well done
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by jamespollack 13y ago
SEEKING WORK - San Francisco or remote http://linkedin.com/in/jamespollack Full-stack Javascript Engineer
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by jamespollack 13y ago
well you could do NLP on the reviews and sort it using some lexical grammar. if you're into sorting and all that. mort importantly the ybb reviews are basically useless from a reality perspective due to the way the data is collected (g
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by jamespollack 13y ago
this is the most useful service i've personally come across in months -- thanks!!
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by jamespollack 13y ago
the twitter feed on the ripoff homepage is priceless right now :)
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by jamespollack 13y ago
HLS (http adaptive streaming) is non-existant in Chrome, except for on the Google TV. So I end up having to develop in Safari, which is painful. Especially when I'm making apps for the Google TV (and other SmartTV Platforms). ::le sigh::
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Scope Context Coloring Plugin for Sublime(github.com)
2 points by jamespollack 13y ago|0 comments
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by jamespollack 14y ago
what's behind not being able to search while a song is playing or paused? is that expected behavior?
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by jamespollack 14y ago
it's pretty neat -- with some nice styling and sort options, there's a lot of potential. but it's a great base. maybe i'll send you a pull request sometime -- edit to say running this on ec2 server with a shared dropbox as the music folde
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by jamespollack 14y ago
took a while to get everything up and running -- works nicely now though. it'd be nice during setup if you used the non-minified includes for all the scripts, with the minified paths commented out (or vice versa!) i was trying to change the

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