jeresig

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by jeresig 13y ago
There are a number of technologies that I'm interested in right now (machine learning, "NoSQL" databases, graph databases, computer vision analysis, Node.js, amongst others) so I will just casually read about these things as
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by jeresig 13y ago
Haha ehhh I think you're reading into this a bit too much. It is possible to love more than one thing - I love helping educate people and doing it at a scale that Khan Academy can provide. I also love building reusable JavaScript libra
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by jeresig 13y ago
Yeah, that's always the hardest part. Messing around on HN/Reddit/Twitter/etc. and/or watching TV - it's so easy to not even realize that you're procrastinating. I find that when I realize what I'm do
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by jeresig 13y ago
I think you might be conflating things a bit. The guilt about a lack of productivity already exists (daily work, or not). Doing daily work helps to mitigate it to a large degree. Naturally if I get sick I'll be comfortable enough to &q
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by jeresig 13y ago
I'd agree with you if my primary desire were to improve my ability as a programmer. Unfortunately, at least at this time, it's not. My major concern is getting meaningful work done. I spend far too much time thinking and reading a
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by jeresig 13y ago
Perhaps surprisingly I feel like this process has allowed me to come to these conclusions even more quickly. If I spend five days in a row working on the same thing it's a giant red alarm in my mind. "Is this the most important th
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by jeresig 13y ago
I agree, definitely. I tried to emphasize how important it is to make this a lifestyle change (equivalent to dieting or exercise) rather than just a "check the box" tactic. I've absolutely broken streaks in the past (especial
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by jeresig 13y ago
Personally I like to do my side coding project in the evenings. I find that if I do it in the morning it's too "all consuming" (I'll end up working on it to the exclusion of my main work.) For me morning/early after
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by jeresig 13y ago
An important change that I made, compared with these techniques, is that I require myself to write meaningful code. It's certainly much harder to do that but as a result I find myself developing good time management skills. Knowing tha
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by jeresig 13y ago
This release is absolutely phenomenal. As liuliu mentioned in the release notes most of the pre-existing implementations are either not-that-good, closed source, or their datasets are closed. This is, seemingly, the first good open source
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by jeresig 13y ago
That's correct. We already have an excellent implementation of what we're testing so there's no need to use what the interviewee made (this is simply an interviewing tool).
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by jeresig 13y ago
Sure we go! At least 3 people on our dev team are remote, myself included.
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by jeresig 13y ago
Agreed. (I hope that wasn't in response to the blog post, which was in strong agreement with you.)
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by jeresig 13y ago
You should probably read the blog post. "And to clarify, some people seem to be getting caught up in the terminology – I see many people using ‘Github’ as a placeholder for ‘any OSS activity’, I hope no one is being that literal."
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by jeresig 13y ago
Absolutely! Poking around I found one module that could do it - I'm sure there are more (and better ones, too): https://github.com/wellawaretech/node-zipstream In the example there you would .pipe() out to an HTTP
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Node.js Stream Playground(ejohn.org)
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by jeresig 13y ago
The original Learnable Programming article is a response to the work that we did in building the Khan Academy Computer Science platform - which is exactly that. An educational real-time environment for writing and manipulating code: https:
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by jeresig 13y ago
There was a discussion about this recently saying that it was highly unlikely. All the source was in Git and every git commit references the previous commit, making it highly challenging to modify an old commit without also modifying the co
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by jeresig 13y ago
Naturally - but there are extremes and it's still the very beginning. There are definitely people earning very little (arguably EVERYONE is earning very little - even the top people are receiving just over minimum wage in the U.S.). Up
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by jeresig 13y ago
I'm really happy that you've signed up! Amusingly I'm in a very similar boat to you. I'm fairly certain that almost all the money that I'm receiving on Gittip is due to my work on jQuery - which I haven't activ
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by jeresig 13y ago
That's true - although that should be an incentive to write and release good Open Source code! Even if a single person gives you $0.25/week (the minimum amount) you'll get $13/year. We're attempting to give most dev
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by jeresig 13y ago
Depends on the developer, but in the case of jashkenas we're trying to give him $15.50/week, which is $806 per year - certainly nothing to sneeze at! That's almost a new Macbook Air! Or, if he's so inclined, a large year
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by jeresig 13y ago
Huh - it does have an RSS feed though, it's just the one provided by Wordpress: http://blog.jquery.com/feed/ If you put http://blog.jquery.com/ into your feedreader it should be able to just automatically detect the feed (it's embedded
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by jeresig 13y ago
Agreed. I chatted with Chad Whitacre (the creator of Gittip) recently and was impressed with how "all-in" he is on this. He's receiving 100% of his funding through Gittip, taking in no outside contributions and even doing no outside consult
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by jeresig 13y ago
I've been watching Gittip and have been very impressed with how they're attempting to run an open company: http://blog.gittip.com/post/26350459746/the-first-open-compa... It's fun to read through their bug tracker and read discussions wit
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by jeresig 13y ago
I've gotten this reward from Google devs twice now. First time it was tricky to find some things on the Google store: But I managed to get myself a nice medium-weight Google jacket and a Google cutting board (!). The second time was even tr
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by jeresig 14y ago
I don't work on jQuery any more but I (and I know many others on the jQuery team) all build web sites as part of their day jobs (and, thus, need to continuing supporting IE 8). It's going to be a very long time before support for the 1.x br
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by jeresig 14y ago
Very cool, sounds interesting! I'll touch base!
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by jeresig 14y ago
I absolutely agree - for those that are in the realm it's a great time to be involved. I'd also argue that the intersection of art + tech is still, very much, a hyper-niche in the larger tech world (which is largely what this article is por
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by jeresig 14y ago
Thank you! I agree that art + tech can serve as good complements to each other. They definitely exercise both sides of your brain, which I appreciate!

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