mattlondon

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by mattlondon 11y ago
> The other thing that helps me in interviews is to just talk through everything I am thinking. ... If you just stand there silently decoding a problem in your head, the interviewer can't help you and has no idea how you'd appr
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by mattlondon 11y ago
Summers can be very hot and dry (not guaranteed!) - 30-35c is not unheard of - with crisp blue skies, 15-16 hours of sunlight etc. There are a lot parks and green spaces in London so its easy to find space - there is a LOT of green/co
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by mattlondon 11y ago
I visit SF and Silicon Valley fairly regularly from London (where I live so potentially biased). I am always, always, always shocked by the homelessness (and the mental state of those poor souls) in SF. People call London a dirty, unfriend
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by mattlondon 11y ago
+1 to Cinnamon being great. I've found Ubuntu's Unity to be really non-intuitive and awkward to use ... even after several years of using it I've never got used to it and generally found it frustrating to use. Cinnamon is an
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by mattlondon 11y ago
It was a while ago now, but I remember copying the code out to a controlled isolated environment on my local machine, picking the first line and making sure it reproduced. After that it was a matter of just going through the usual steps of
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by mattlondon 11y ago
I had something similar happen in the wild to me. I work for a "major search engine" that does a lot of advertising & marketing stuff. To get the most out of it, we need customers to implement some javascript on their ecommer
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by mattlondon 12y ago
The trouble is, most ad serving systems already work out the context/theme of pages and target ads appropriately but even then its not perfect. E.g. you are an airline and you want to advertise your flights. You might want to have you
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by mattlondon 12y ago
http://standardjavascript.info Great when I just cant remember the syntax for non-jQuery things in pure javascript!
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by mattlondon 12y ago
Not introverted, more like Aspergers or obsessive-complsive I would think. This description covers some aspects of introversion, but most of it was not typical introversion. You can be a messy, uninterested, boring and unintelligent slob
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by mattlondon 12y ago
Also confused me a lot too. Is this basically just putting a list of things you have bought into a checklist in Keep via some API I am not aware of?
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by mattlondon 12y ago
This. Everyone remembers being told at school from a very early age to "cross out" things you dont want any more (such as writing the wrong word/spelling, getting the sum wrong etc). At least in western cultures anyway, this
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by mattlondon 12y ago
Some of the most relaxing & satisfying things I have ever done with a computer was spending hours updating OSM from fresh satellite images. It was giddying to discover that Bermuda had great satellite images, but zero mapping and then a
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by mattlondon 12y ago
I wrote http://standardjavaScript.info some time ago to counter this JavaScript is not jQuery thing. I don't think angular.js will change anything (after all everyone is now talking about polymer.js). Knowing that modern b
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by mattlondon 12y ago
I had the same issue after about 5 or 6 years. I took a bit of a side-step into something entirely different (online ads) where I basically had minimal chance to code, apart from the odd ad hoc tool or script. Now the only code I could do w
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by mattlondon 12y ago
So this is my first attempt at an Android game. I'd love your feed back. I studied some of the BF Skinner works (of Skinner Box fame) as well as Angry Birds and a few other "casual" games to understand what makes them compell
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Show HN: Insane Race – my first android game(play.google.com)
2 points by mattlondon 12y ago|1 comments
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by mattlondon 12y ago
So this is my first attempt at an Android game. I'd love your feed back. I studied some of the BF Skinner works (of Skinner Box fame) as well as Angry Birds and a few other "casual" games to understand what makes them compel
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Show HN: Insane Race – my first android game(play.google.com)
3 points by mattlondon 12y ago|1 comments
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by mattlondon 12y ago
Elite (well, Frontier) changed my life, and for the better. I've met Vint Cerf a few times now, but I think I'd be more star-struck meeting Braben.
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by mattlondon 13y ago
I started thinking seriously about side projects as a side project! So far it involves actually planning stuff (using Trello), working on things for one maybe two hours at a time max (lunch breaks etc) and actually shipping. So far one bas
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by mattlondon 13y ago
+1 to this - try something else to try that you've not already tried, e.g. if you've only ever done C or Java before, why not branch out and try HTML+Javascript? Just tinkering around with other stuff can be a fun & educationa