nickstefan12

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by nickstefan12 12y ago
non trivial front end stuff does involve systems modeling in the sense mentioned in the article. Just saying ;)
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by nickstefan12 12y ago
> There are a number of tools that already help us do this - from Matlab to Quartz Composer - but Excel is unquestionably the king. Through Excel we can model any system that we can represent as numbers on a grid, which it turns out, is
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by nickstefan12 12y ago
It seems like they never really gave react a real chance. although react is just a view render, to really get its red line performance requires going all in. I think it would have been worth it. a unidirectional data flow is worth the pain.
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by nickstefan12 12y ago
BART never has seats. So I waste about 2 hours a day standing and doing nothing of value :(. Very jealous you get to program then.
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by nickstefan12 12y ago
This article has some nice points about what the girls are learning (team work, discipline etc), but it's not nearly "breaking down barriers" as it seems. I coached swimming for 8 years: Girls are 10x easier to coach than boy
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Boa Constrictor Swims Up San Diego Toilet(cnn.com)
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by nickstefan12 12y ago
I can remember back in 2010, in sf, when taxis would haggle you for wanting to use a credit card, even when they all were labeled with visa window stickers and had machines! They would put cardboard signs in the back that said "cash on
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by nickstefan12 12y ago
The meter said 100, but after I tried to manually enter a tip other than 20, is when I found out about it "actually being 150". He claimed that he had turned the meter off at one point and was actually doing me a favor he wouldn&#
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by nickstefan12 12y ago
I just ran into this last night: I took a cab home from the airport. One: he had no gps and took a wrong freeway change getting home. Two he barely spoke English. Three I basically had to navigate him back on track and painfully turn by tur
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Instagram.css make all your pictures better(github.com)
2 points by nickstefan12 12y ago|1 comments
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“no network” sqlite geocoder(github.com)
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by nickstefan12 12y ago
Eugenics was in more than just Germany in the 1930s. Amazing how widespread eugenics ideas were (so widespread they came out in this high brow Brit's 'utopian' future).
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Express.js, under the hood, in simple examples(nickstefan.net)
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by nickstefan12 12y ago
I would argue that the problem is signaling. Where and what you studied in school are signals employers use to rank you against your peers. IE going to Harvard signals that you are the elk that got into Harvard. No one really cares what you
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by nickstefan12 12y ago
Beautiful.