jlees

13 ms·

61.
by jlees 11y ago
I think you'll find startups to be more flexible on this, with the downside that they are often still figuring out their own processes. At Nylas we ask a range of questions from high to low level but all related to the kinds of problem
62.
by jlees 11y ago
Someone once gave me a great piece of advice - read a book that you might not "normally" read, especially an autobiography. Doing so can give you a glimpse into a wholly different way of thinking about the world than you might be
63.
by jlees 11y ago
This is good advice. I got my first programming job at 16 working for a local web agency as a summer internship. I actually responded to an ad - I was lucky in that they were looking for someone like me. If they aren't, I think there i
64.
by jlees 11y ago
I did exactly the same using LEDs and an Ikea lamp housing, with a Pi running Python to poll different APIs. It wasn't too difficult to get something simple running, but yes, hard to justify significant time!
65.
by jlees 11y ago
I'd definitely agree on not starting with scikit-learn, but using Python isn't so bad. Implement a few things manually -- decision trees and Naive Bayes really aren't that hard to do, and neither's clustering. I quite li
66.
by jlees 11y ago
Yes, one of the more depressing things I did recently was level up a new character in WoD after having not played since pre-Cataclysm, basically. Going back and soloing instances that I remember grinding for months and months, encounters I
67.
by jlees 11y ago
When you're at university you get used to learning a lot, quickly, under pressure. Learning is fun! Sadly, many jobs have that initial rush of learning and then - once you know what you're doing - it stops. That's hard when y
68.
by jlees 12y ago
One thing that took me a while to understand as a player - accepting doesn't always mean ignoring conflict. If you offer me something, I accept that your version of reality is true; I don't have to agree with specific parts of it.
69.
by jlees 12y ago
As someone who's putting a class together right now from a mix of existing and custom content, I definitely think this is needed, though I don't think the site does a great job of explaining quite what it is. I noodled around with
70.
by jlees 12y ago
It depends how far you want to take the definition of what you do away from 'traditional' PM. At a ~10 person company chances are there are a lot of things that need doing around interfacing with users/customers, identifying
71.
by jlees 12y ago
I haven't personally, but I've seen examples of Twine being used for non-fiction branching explorations. Sadly, don't have any to hand. http://twinery.org/
72.
by jlees 12y ago
Some Inform code would make excellent poetry, however.
73.
by jlees 12y ago
Well, they did say "no, we need more time, please don't disclose this" on the iOS auth bug. The author's response was to wait 90 days and then disclose it without waiting for the go-ahead. Is this SOP in security circles
74.
by jlees 12y ago
An interesting read; there's something really nice about the way older games do things (like this saved state encoding, or anti-cheat by referring to certain pages in the manual. In this age of cloud save (and I say this having worked
75.
by jlees 12y ago
There's also Scripting Layer for Android: https://github.com/damonkohler/sl4a
76.
by jlees 12y ago
Seems like room for a text->Messenger gateway, or other ways of integrating SMS into a business's existing customer feedback channels. (Which probably exists in various forms of hacked-together-API-mashups already, since it's h
77.
by jlees 12y ago
I've been doing improv for 10+ years and had never realised this, but it may well be a large part of the reason why I don't get nervous in interviews. Thanks for helping me make the connection! Plus, as one other commenter points
78.
by jlees 12y ago
Well, we've built the ingester/REST part and we're working on the frontend :) Our sync engine is open source: https://github.com/inboxapp/inbox
79.
by jlees 12y ago
This is very true, but it does bring up a point about scaling. Bus services aren't as terrible in other cities, though there are always some deficiencies.
80.
by jlees 12y ago
Reminds me of the Nairobi matatus, too: https://medium.com/@transitapp/hello-nairobi-cc27bb5a73b7
81.
by jlees 12y ago
Would love to hear more about the NLP approaches you've been using, and how well they've generalized to other folks. Though that may be giving away too much of the secret sauce, of course.
82.
by jlees 12y ago
I subscribe to a bit of both -- the Broken Comb approach. Being a little of everything but never getting deep into anything is just as dangerous as being a one-trick pony. http://spin.atomicobject.com/2013/06/27&#x
83.
by jlees 12y ago
Yes! I had several of those books, the Fantasy Games one being my favourite. I frequently credit them with getting me into programming/CS. Though I don't think I ever quite understood the "Machine Code for Beginners" one
84.
Steven Pinker's Mind Games(nytimes.com)
2 points by jlees 12y ago|0 comments
85.
by jlees 12y ago
Totally agree. Helping novice programmers through that time of "Oh my god, I know nothing, I will never be good at this" as their world is expanding is crucial. I think having a support system can make a big difference here -- and
86.
by jlees 12y ago
Alan has also been a great supporter of Women Techmakers, both in terms of internal support and physically going to all the events; I've seen him more at women-in-tech events since leaving Google than I ever did while working there!
87.
by jlees 12y ago
We're prepping something special for existing members of the developer program, details will follow shortly :) Unfortunately the timing didn't align perfectly with the TC article, but we definitely haven't forgotten you.
88.
by jlees 12y ago
In my experience dealing with bootcamp grads, the transition from bootcamp to full-time offer can be a really tough one, and it sounds like your experience roughly mirrors those I've seen. A combination of persistence, improving your o
89.
by jlees 12y ago
Yeah, you basically end up treating them that way, but with a low-level amount of annoyance since they should be more available during standard hours. Depending on the person and the role, it can be ok to deal with though -- I'm not to
90.
by jlees 12y ago
When I look at the docs and blog posts about Flux, and React, my brain goes.. What did you do to get your head around it, if the docs are not so accessible? Just build stuff until it the pieces start to fall into place?

More ›