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by kixxauth 4y ago
Any new media has this problem. I know we think of digital media as being old and well understood at this point, but that's far from the truth. Media moves too quickly for most people to understand it. By the time you understand it, it
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by kixxauth 4y ago
Yeah, good point. If productivity equates to value creation then hackers are more productive. If productivity equates to what software management can measure, then developers are more productive. I’m making a pithy statement about the diffe
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by kixxauth 4y ago
Why do we need predictable deliveries? Let’s boil this down to first principles. Nothing about building software, especially innovative software is predictable.
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by kixxauth 4y ago
I think the point of the OP is missed here. Productive teams don’t need any of this garbage; least of all a religious war about methodologies. Productive teams are primarily hackers solving larger problems. This stuff gets in the way, causi
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by kixxauth 4y ago
Good question. That made me think about it. Why did it start to change for me in 2014? Posted my initial thoughts above
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by kixxauth 4y ago
Yeah, I was in the 30 -35 range in 2014. I think age had something to do with it. But I think 2014 was when it started to become apparent that the idealist global mixing and digital revolution it was tied to, something I had pinned my optim
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by kixxauth 4y ago
I've considered myself an optimist for most of my life. But, starting in about 2014 I started to find myself being more of a pessimist more of the time. It got to the point in 2020 where I found myself pessimistic about pretty much eve
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by kixxauth 4y ago
My advice is to not focus. At least not yet. I'm in the 40-45 year old range and assuming you are much younger. Apologies if we are closer in age, since this advice will carry less value. I have often been envious of people who were mo
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by kixxauth 4y ago
I watched this a few years ago, and it reminded me that sometimes we try to solve problems that someone else tried to solve before us. Maybe they solved it better, maybe not. But, there is a lot to learn. Refreshing my brain and watching it
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The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened yet (Video Alan Kay 1997)(youtube.com)
3 points by kixxauth 4y ago|1 comments
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by kixxauth 4y ago
Sooooo agree. Let's layer an abstraction on top of an abstraction to abstract the abstraction.
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by kixxauth 4y ago
So true. Before you can break the rules you need to understand the rules. Godard understood the rules and knew exactly how to break them. He used film to express ideas which could not have been expressed on any other medium.
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by kixxauth 4y ago
I was not exposed to Godard until my freshman year in film school. And, as soon as I saw it, I was blown away. The way he could play with conventions to make a point with the film medium which could not be expressed in any other way; it was
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by kixxauth 4y ago
Yeah, correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the vast majority of hacks are along the social hacking vector. If we believe this is generally true, then the best ROI of our security resources is in training personnel to withstand the at
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by kixxauth 10y ago
There is probably a lot more we can do, and no matter what, the problem is still way more complex than I'm making it. But, I think we can make a big dent in the problem by starting, investing in, and growing tech startups outside Silic
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Technologists Created Trumpism and We Can Fix It(medium.com)
5 points by kixxauth 10y ago|3 comments
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Loosely coupling services and components in Node.js systems(github.com)
11 points by kixxauth 11y ago|0 comments
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Does Process Trump Product (Nick Saban's "process" for Alabama footbal)(sportsillustrated.cnn.com)
1 points by kixxauth 13y ago|0 comments
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by kixxauth 13y ago
Nice. The speed is really impressive, at least for the queries I tried. There are still a lot of queries with no results, and you might want to think of something clever to put there in those cases to keep the user turned onto your brand. W
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by kixxauth 13y ago
Yeah, I think the short lesson here is that you really have to build something to learn to code, otherwise it's just not engaging. Not until you've built that first thing. Then it's like crack.
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by kixxauth 13y ago
Thanks for the feedback, I really appreciate it. Honestly, I had no idea this idea would strike a nerve like it has. Now I have more motivation than ever to incorporate feedback and make this a valuable thing for us all to have.
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by kixxauth 13y ago
I really love MDN, and in some ways I feel guilty for doing this. I've been a MDN contributor. But the MDN information architecture/navigation is terrible, the crowd sourced content is inconsistent, the pages load very slowly. Whe
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by kixxauth 13y ago
Thanks so much for the feedback :) I about 70% developer and 30% designer, so I'm actually looking for a designer to hire and help me out with this effort. Know anyone?
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by kixxauth 13y ago
I wow, that's a great idea. Thanks!
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by kixxauth 13y ago
Yeah, I thought W3Schools was an endorsed site of the W3C for a long time -- like years.
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by kixxauth 13y ago
Thanks so much :) That's great feedback. And yeah, I totally agree. The site navigation for Mozilla Developer Network is really terrible. And the open wiki -- crowd sourced -- style of content editing means there is no consistency. I l
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Why I'm Planning to Kill W3Schools(htmlandcsstutorial.com)
172 points by kixxauth 13y ago|156 comments
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by kixxauth 14y ago
The decision to raise money from investors is becoming an increasingly complex one. There's angels, funds doing seed rounds, funds doing series A and B, crowdfunding, Kickstarter, bootstrapping and then raising money to scale, et al. Or sim
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by kixxauth 16y ago
Anything that decouples styling and formatting from the actual document is great. Mainstream users moving away from the MS Word way of doing things will make the web much more usable. Tools like these that bridge the gap are refreshing to s
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by kixxauth 16y ago
Building a product right out of the gate, having fun doing it, and reaping the rewards for it, both monetary and plain 'ol satisfation, is something we really missed. I do regret that. We're going to do it though. In our case we had the ide

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