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The End of Paper: review of the reMarkable 2 tablet(jessmart.in)
2 points by jessmartin 5y ago|1 comments
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by jessmartin 5y ago
Oh, I absolutely _don't_ want PDF reflow! The PDFs I read are formatted a specific way for a reason. 2-column, latex-generated academic papers, etc. Reflow is one of the worst things to happen to digital publishing, IMO. I get it that
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by jessmartin 5y ago
Same here. I had literally dozens of moleskines that I've been writing in for nearly 15 years. I'm a huge fan of paper, but was looking for a solution that allowed me to digitize my note-taking without giving up the ergonomics of
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by jessmartin 5y ago
I read PDFs (and highlight and annotate) on my RM2 daily. It's a _fantastic_ PDF reader, IMO. It's the ability to annotate that's killer for me. I mark things up extensively, writing notes in the margins, starring items, unde
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by jessmartin 5y ago
That's interesting, because I read PDFs (and annotate) every single day. Pinch-to-zoom works great, and it's the best PDF reader I've experienced. Can't recommend highly enough.
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by jessmartin 6y ago
This is an unbelievably large release, all at once. And for an existing product and codebase that's been around as long as Trello, this kind of bundled release is quite the feat! Good luck, Trello team!
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Andy.works: No More Boring Apps(andy.works)
2 points by jessmartin 6y ago|0 comments
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by jessmartin 6y ago
I'm curious to hear more about what distinguishes learning to program in a "purpose-first programming" approach. This sounds really similar to constructionist learning ideas that Seymour Papert espoused. Remember Logo? That&#
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by jessmartin 6y ago
This was very helpful, Cameron, thanks!
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by jessmartin 6y ago
That's definitely the way our students see it. May be hard for many who have secure tech careers to empathize with how difficult it is to break into a new industry and what a leg up this experience gives them.
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by jessmartin 6y ago
Thanks for the feedback! A couple of thoughts: - We actually want someone evaluated as a potential hire, not an intern. We expect our Fellows to be ready for real work, and the Fellows experience is the measure of whether they are or not. -
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by jessmartin 6y ago
We're also bought in on the apprenticeship model. This program represents an attempt to make the learning journey more apprenticeship-focused. Our incentives are totally aligned with the student. If we don't do a good job of prepa
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by jessmartin 6y ago
Sure! This page does a good job of explaining the ISA: https://lambdaschool.com/isa
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by jessmartin 6y ago
Try it and see ;-)
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by jessmartin 6y ago
That's encouraging to hear that the Netherlands has an allowance for unpaid work when the goal is the learning experience. It's really clear to us at Lambda that the best way to _learn_ to do a thing is to do the _real_ thing, but
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by jessmartin 6y ago
That page is targeted at the value proposition for the company, not the student. There are legit benefits to the company, in addition to the major benefits to the student.
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by jessmartin 6y ago
Wasn't trying to dodge the question! I'm not sure, but email me and I'll check with legal: jess.martin@lambdaschool.com
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by jessmartin 6y ago
Lambda School gets paid nothing by the host company and students, as always, don't pay us until they get a job making over $50,000.
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by jessmartin 6y ago
One quick point: Fellows is first and foremost designed for our students. We started by looking at our Labs program, which was 8 weeks long, and thinking about how we could make it better. Labs is a simulation, and a good one!, but will alw
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by jessmartin 6y ago
> How do you discourage companies from intentionally using these fellows to do "grunt" work? Great question! A couple of ways: - First off, we talk to them. We qualify every company through a conversation with the mentor, looki
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by jessmartin 6y ago
I completely agree. I can't wait to see what they will build! Right now, software is still incredibly undervalued for what is possible long-term. We also need to make software _easier to make and maintain_, but "programming litera
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by jessmartin 6y ago
Hey, folks. One of the creators of the Lambda Fellows program here. We were trying to crack several problems with Fellows: - The current hiring process in our industry is broken. Interviews represent a point-in-time measurement of someone&#
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by jessmartin 6y ago
It sounds like you want Discord.
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by jessmartin 6y ago
Since you guys are digging into the MediaSync work, you should look into Croquet ( https://www.croquet.io ). It's a novel synchronization framework for ensuring connected clients stay perfectly in sync and that it scales up a
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by jessmartin 6y ago
"But he didn’t set out to become a _torchbearer_ for a historic agricultural practice; in fact, he never intended to become a blueberry farmer in the first place." Good one.
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by jessmartin 6y ago
This is echoed by Wendell Berry's The Unsettling of America, published in 1977: "The disease of the modern character is specialization. Looked at from the standpoint of the social system, the aim of specialization may seem desirab
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by jessmartin 7y ago
Hi. jessmartin here. I've been using this framework for over a decade to think about the different levels of work and it's been very helpful. Curious to hear critiques or responses to this approach.
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Seven levels of work: from task to multi-enterprise(twitter.com)
2 points by jessmartin 7y ago|1 comments
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by jessmartin 7y ago
I have an enduring fantasy of building an app that would bridge the physical notebook with the digital world in an entirely seamless manner, giving up neither the affordances of analog nor the data-driven features of digital. I’ve taken sev
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by jessmartin 7y ago
To answer your original question, I keep notes in an unlined black Moleskine “work journal” about: - talks, lectures, sermons I’m listening to - meetings I’m attending - ideas that I have - outlines of a talk or an article I am about to giv

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