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by justinlilly 13y ago
There's a great podcast called Hardcore History[2] which has some significance here. There's a podcast titled something similar to "Justifiable Insanity" that talks about the end of WW2. People got into the mental trap o
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by justinlilly 13y ago
Python packaging can be confusing, but this does a solid job of explaining the current state of things.
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How to calculate the Big-O of something(justin.abrah.ms)
6 points by justinlilly 13y ago|0 comments
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by justinlilly 13y ago
Not sure if others are interested, but I'm considering writing a book on CS topics with self-taught programmers in mind. If that's interesting to you, check out https://leanpub.com/computer-science-for-self-taught-
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by justinlilly 13y ago
I'll point out that I worked at Google for 2 years. I don't have a degree at all, much less in Computer Science.
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by justinlilly 13y ago
I've updated the wording so as not to make such strong claims. :) Thanks!
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by justinlilly 13y ago
Thanks for your comment. I must admit that my lack of mathematical background makes your clarification difficult to understand. I've not heard the term "order of a polynomial". If you wrote up a post and emailed me at justin@
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by justinlilly 13y ago
Thanks for the comment. I don't feel as though self-taught programmers have a bad name. I feel like they can lack some skills because the importance of them aren't lauded in their social circles. It wasn't until 5 years into
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Big-O notation explained by a self-taught programmer(justin.abrah.ms)
169 points by justinlilly 13y ago|78 comments
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by justinlilly 13y ago
Its not clear how I review others or how (or by whom) my code will be reviewed. Good 10 minute diversion though! :)
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by justinlilly 13y ago
Shameless plug, I've written a small piece of software which will send you daily aggregates of github activity via email. There are also weekly / monthly options as well. http://gitstreams.com/
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by justinlilly 13y ago
Excel will always be used BECAUSE its so free-form. http://readwrite.com/2013/06/11/excel-is-an-art-form-these-b...
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by justinlilly 13y ago
Typed fields sound neat!
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by justinlilly 13y ago
Apple predictions game, fwiw. http://apple.dyaso.com/
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Sprint.ly hires former GM of Pivotal Tracker(blog.sprint.ly)
1 points by justinlilly 13y ago|0 comments
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Announcing Sprint.ly paper edition(blog.sprint.ly)
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by justinlilly 14y ago
There's less luck with getting rich than you might expect, assuming "rich" means "don't need to work anymore". Check into the early retirement scene for examples. earlyretirementextreme.com or mrmoneymustache.com are great examples.
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by justinlilly 14y ago
I would imagine that this paged is cached in the logged-out view.
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by justinlilly 14y ago
The wisdom I've heard is that you can either lose people on the "what is this -> signup" phase or the "signup -> pay" phase. Your leads are better qualified if you lose them on the former. You get better gauge of the potential marke
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by justinlilly 14y ago
We're using it at http://sprint.ly/ . In general, I like it. I wish... - I could search w/ meaningful results - I could group by exception type. - I had a better method of seeing the different input data that caused the exception
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by justinlilly 14y ago
At Sprint.ly, we have a very similar commit syntax, but it allows refrencing multiple tickets at once. We also have a pre-commit hook which prompts you to enter a ticket that the commit pertains to. (Also other sweet integrations, including
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by justinlilly 14y ago
Sorry you feel this way, pswenson. Are you still experiencing the slowness on Sprint.ly? Please email me at justin@sprint.ly and I'm happy to help as I can.
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by justinlilly 14y ago
For you folks looking to learn guitar, you might also check out soundslice.com Example: http://www.soundslice.com/yt/zvCBSSwgtg4/
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by justinlilly 14y ago
Another great tool in this vein of "process, but not too much" is https://sprint.ly/
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by justinlilly 14y ago
I don't use speaker notes as a script to read. I use it to list additional bullet points. - history - story re: jason @ costco - importance of $foo would be cues to me that I need to hit on the history of this slide, tell an anec
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by justinlilly 14y ago
The first night, you do one pull request. The second night, you do one, two pull requests. The third night, you do one, two, three pull requests. ... 36 pull requests (plus the shamash each night. Maybe that's a patch to your dotfiles to ge
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by justinlilly 14y ago
With the plan mentioned, I'm able to use it for tethering.
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Cellphone plans for geeks(justinlilly.com)
3 points by justinlilly 14y ago|2 comments
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Gittip: New, Interesting, Important(justinlilly.com)
37 points by justinlilly 14y ago|18 comments
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by justinlilly 14y ago
I've not. It seems to "just work". This with the caveat that I have about 10 things that I actually want to use it for (so far), so I'm not doing a tons of writes. My current mappings are: m -> mail.google.com m1,m2 -> mail.google.c

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