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by jwecker 17y ago
meh. To be fare I'd like to see "Worst Case" boxes for everything else...
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by jwecker 17y ago
Some great stuff here in the comments for you, but don't get caught up in decision paralysis. The truth is no matter which you learn it will create a foundation for you to (if you're interested) pick up other languages and/or frameworks.
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by jwecker 17y ago
Many (most?) novel innovations seem obvious and self-evident after the fact. Even rocket science (of course make a pointed tube, fins for stability, and _just_ the right fuel- how else would you do it?)
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by jwecker 17y ago
Cool... except for the name. How about something pronounceable (you know, for kids). Logo in python syntax with missions- exactly what I'm going to need for my kids.
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by jwecker 17y ago
I, also, was expecting to see visualizations that were able to draw out information or truths that traditional forms wouldn't be able to do. To me that would be stunning. Instead I see data turned into art, in many cases (especially the s
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by jwecker 17y ago
Absolutely. More specifically, start your startup. Create a folder for your product and open a text editor. Immediately you'll be in the uncomfortable situation of not knowing exactly what to code first. Code a mockup page first. Don't
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by jwecker 17y ago
Good heavens. Reading the NYT comments I'm surprised at how many people take issue with the choice of words- "maker" and "manager," or assume that pg was somehow trying to degrade one or the other. Sometimes I wonder if there's a secret c
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by jwecker 17y ago
Whatever it would be, I have no doubt that I'd start looking for ways to automate it (for better or worse).
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by jwecker 17y ago
Introspection is very healthy and worthy, I agree. My response was meant to counteract a little of the alarmism. As for opinions getting mods, that's generally how it works- in a way every post is a poll and you get people agreeing with t
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by jwecker 17y ago
As they say in Samoa, fai fai le mu (: Relax. Sites evolve and change. Small towns get bigger. Eventually you become an old man who yells at neighborhood kids for walking on the lawn. Before you get to that stage, enjoy the fact that t
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by jwecker 17y ago
There is an argument in the whole masking argument that doesn't really have anything to do with security- it is that filling out a box and having the characters masked is a well known usability metaphor for users- implying the content shoul
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by jwecker 17y ago
The tool he's missing that I end up using constantly is Memoize - http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~billm/memoize.html - enormously simplified my make processes, and works very well with Fabric and the others.
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by jwecker 17y ago
The guy has never made a cent from anything but MLM and this series of books. The "rich dad" is not a real person, though he still markets it as autobiographical. Much of the specific business advice he gives is 1) provably dumb, 2) uneth
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by jwecker 17y ago
Just understand you'll be missing some very common python libraries. You could then get involved in porting them over though and get some serious geek cred. Or you may not need them anyway... EDIT: specifically some of the libs you mentio
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by jwecker 17y ago
more playfulness (:
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by jwecker 17y ago
"those living within each super-colony are tolerant of one another, even if they live tens or hundreds of kilometres apart." Good thing. I'd hate to see ants fighting when they're that far away from each other.
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Day in the life of a Roguelike Developer - overcoming burnout.(roguelikedeveloper.blogspot.com)
38 points by jwecker 17y ago|7 comments
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by jwecker 17y ago
having done it for a year and a half, I heartily agree with that summary. On monophasic sleep I'm able to recover from soreness & illness overnight thanks to the extra sleep buffered in. On polyphasic sleep I'm both more efficient and
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by jwecker 17y ago
lazy- yes. We were moving from Maui back to the mainland and between logistics and the kids and everything my sleep schedule got totally chaotic. Then when we were here on the mainland I wasn't in a position where I could have lots of lig
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by jwecker 17y ago
"Why We Nap" - Stampi - next to impossible to find. It coined the word polyphasic (and monophasic) sleep. It's exploratory, but pretty good science. It's basically a study of solo sail-boat racers- long distance. They have to get little
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by jwecker 17y ago
I did an uberman polyphasic schedule for a year and everyman for about 6 months. Stage N1 is likely an adjustment period where your body rhythms slow down and things get ready. Studies have shown that stage N2 and N3 (deep cycles) are ess
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by jwecker 17y ago
I tried. I tried really hard. I tried to gloss over the part about one of the panels hanging. I tried to not think about licensing terms or the hard cost. I stopped myself from wondering how responsive or open the dev team would be to u
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by jwecker 17y ago
should have seen that. thanks. It seems to work now- is it normal for the organisms to spell out "Free Us" in the little graphics window?
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by jwecker 17y ago
I ran PyPond_with_graphics.py and got a list of 1000 numbers spit out. Any hints on how to run it properly?
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by jwecker 17y ago
Yeah, the author should have named it "How Rupert Blew it" or something- I got to the end thinking the same thing - uh, he didn't even try to start answering how Myspace blew it. 5. Allowed itself to be branded as the Urinal of the Internet
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by jwecker 17y ago
domaindiscover.com has a very good track record (when we selected it 6+ years ago it was because it had the highest user ratings- I haven't looked lately but I can say they go way out of their way to let you easily renew domains despite CC
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by jwecker 17y ago
At the risk of sounding like I don't have a sense of humor- it's not really arbitrary (at least not until you dig way deeper). Celebrating at a time when the earth has completed a revolution allows people to remember exactly when to celebr
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by jwecker 17y ago
I think it may have been in this talk, but the solution when the customers actually demand the multiple choices is to do the best of both worlds- the "Greek Restaurant" - Have a menu filled with just about every dish imaginable, but then ha
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Pogue’s Productivity Secrets Revealed (nytimes.com)
29 points by jwecker 17y ago|9 comments
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by jwecker 18y ago
In 1.9 Ruby is also adding "Fibers" and built in Actor patterns (i.e., Erlang-like concurrency)- more exciting IMO. http://www.infoq.com/articles/actors-rubinius-interview

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