jxm262

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   by jxm262 10y ago

   Thanks. You're reply gave me a boost of inspiration. I'm working now to learn more of the Math and modeling side of things, but I know it's going to be a _long_ hard road. Thanks for the link, that site seems to have some
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   by jxm262 10y ago

   I'm partway through the ML class on Coursera and have only recently rekindled my interest in Math. However, my background is in Accounting (undergrad and did a full years as an accountant), and Software Engineering (masters in SE and
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   by jxm262 10y ago

   Edit to my own thread - I actually did go back to college for a Master's in Software Engineering. It was neither quick nor easy for me, but in the end I did get a degree and have had a pretty successful career for some years now. How
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   by jxm262 10y ago

   Can I ask how you got started in the field? I actually began my career in Accounting (my undergrad is in it), and still find the world of finance pretty interesting. Somewhere along the line I ended up in Engineering and have been a Softw
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   by jxm262 10y ago

   This is what got me started too. One of the best prerequisite reads imo
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   by jxm262 10y ago

   Me too :( I wonder how many people have. A quick search on GitHub shows all kinds of cl scrapers.
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   by jxm262 10y ago

   Thanks for sharing that link, as I've never seen this Manifesto before. This puts into words so much better than the explanations I give people for why I prefer remote. It's interesting to see some of these on the list - -wri
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   by jxm262 10y ago

   ^ Came in to say this. I use Stripe for inspiration on their API, docs, and even the general UI/UX to get a feel for something simple yet elegant.
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   by jxm262 10y ago

   As someone recently new to Geo visualization (and data viz in general), I have to say this project looks awesome! Kudos for all the hard work put into this
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    by jxm262 10y ago

    Cool app! my SO was asking me for something very simple to use, will ask her to give this a try. Is it required to be linked to an actual broker, or can you get limited messages from some other public data feed? For example, get alerts on
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    by jxm262 10y ago

    I don't normally chime in on stuff like this but you're right it does look alot like Noisli ( http://www.noisli.com/ ) I remember when that appeared on HN a while back as well. Nothing wrong with cloning something
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    by jxm262 10y ago

    Just bought that book after having it been recommended about a dozen times. Although I can't comment of the contents of the book (haven't read it yet), I want to point out how incredibly popular it apparently is.
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    by jxm262 10y ago

    This is seriously awesome!! I was just chatting with a co-worker today on PhantomCSS and how I felt visual diffing could possibly be replaced with diffing the actual dom tree. Does anyone know of an open source project working on this? I
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    by jxm262 10y ago

    That sounds awesome! It's good you mentioned saving for more than 1 years expenses. I'm close to that number but wanted to keep pushing to save for perhaps, 2 years or more. Yeah, send me a message sometime, would love to hear
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    by jxm262 10y ago

    I'm curious what you're working on for the "entrepreneurial lifestyle". I"m actually thinking of going a similar route to saving up a good few years worth of expenses, and then going solo. I'm trying to decid
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    by jxm262 10y ago

    I really like this comment. Things like "scanning excel and emailing based on some criteria" are exactly what led me to programming as a career. I started off small, moved into larger projects, made a career out of it. Sometime
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    by jxm262 11y ago

    I have repo's on github, bitbucket, and gitlab :)
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    by jxm262 11y ago

    I also had that same impression. I mentioned these thoughts in another thread here on HN (regarding SpaceX) and one of the engineers chimed in saying they have many positions across different areas. I still think it would be cool to join s
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    by jxm262 11y ago

    This is seriously one of the best comments I've read on HN in a long time. I've always had this same inclination, just never had the time to try it myself. If your current environment doesn't allow you to hire inexperienced&
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    by jxm262 11y ago

    Thanks alot arebop :) And yeah, short term rental at first sounds like a good idea.
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    by jxm262 11y ago

    Wow , I wasn't aware of rent control in SF, but a quick google search shows there's a big debate. Any suggestions on where to best look for apartments? From my brief visit (1 week trip) I really liked pretty much all over the do
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    by jxm262 11y ago

    Of all the comments I see stating how happy they were to _leave_ San Francisco. I'm wondering if there's anyone in the opposite - happy _moving to_ San Francisco. I live in Mid-Ohio (Columbus), and have been contemplating a move
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    by jxm262 11y ago

    This is friggin awesome! Thanks for posting. Gives me inspiration to take some more Math courses on Coursera.
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    by jxm262 11y ago

    I've always recommended Mozilla's Developer Network (MDN) - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/ It has alot of good resources and a wealth of information. As a seasoned web developer, this is still one of m
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    by jxm262 11y ago

    I'd also like to see a list. Is there something that gives a comprehensive list of resources?
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    by jxm262 11y ago

    Bookmarked this post and thanks for asking! My plan, which may/may-not work out - Start consulting, work like crazy to get _high quality_ clients, find common needs among them, build products from these common needs. I'm hoping
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    by jxm262 11y ago

    I'm fully using es6 for most of projects now. Started about 2 months ago and will make all new projects I have with it. Import/export, destructuring, templates, string interpolation.. it just cuts down on alot of the cruft (imo)
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    by jxm262 11y ago

    I'm genuinely curious how,why assembly failed. I really liked that project, it had alot of good people and potential imho.
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    by jxm262 11y ago

    I did the same thing on a trello board. Had some friends collaborate and add some potential projects too. Perhaps we could make a site which allows groups to form around these and contribute? Could tie it into trello, github, etc. If anyo
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    by jxm262 11y ago

    It's not the boilerplate that get's me. It's just easier to reason about the state using Redux (imho). The idea of 1 single global state which mutates and pushes down (instead of managing observables all over), makes it eas