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How far behind a plane is its noise?(alexanderell.is)
108 points by otras 4y ago|70 comments
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by otras 4y ago
+1 for Flexbox Froggy, and I’d also recommend the sibling game for css grid, https://cssgridgarden.com/
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I only care about the helpful notifications, not the promotional ones(alexanderell.is)
462 points by otras 4y ago|355 comments
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by otras 4y ago
I gave this a bit of thought earlier this year ( https://alexanderell.is/posts/visualizing-code/ ) and, with the help of HN commenters, collected a small list of ways people are working to help with code visualizat
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Playing with a 3D representation of RGB color space(alexanderell.is)
2 points by otras 4y ago|0 comments
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by otras 4y ago
I wouldn't call it overlooked since it made the front page here, but I've been playing around with basic ways to get around internet restrictions, starting with a simple chat interface for supporting Wikipedia over WhatsApp messag
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by otras 4y ago
Completely agree. Reminds me of a longer-term https://1940s.nyc/ : Between 1939 and 1941, the Works Progress Administration collaborated with the New York City Tax Department to collect photographs of most buildings in the
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by otras 4y ago
Ah sorry I meant mobile web, where I had checked since I usually use desktop web. Thanks for calling that out!
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by otras 4y ago
One of the neatest yet subtlest features in my experience is going back through time to see the streetview for a given position over time. It’s especially interesting in Boston’s Seaport or other areas that have seen a lot of development in
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Tunneling Wikipedia through WhatsApp to (maybe?) get around WiFi restrictions(alexanderell.is)
369 points by otras 4y ago|132 comments
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The Aerodynamics of a Falling Maple Seed [pdf](fzt.haw-hamburg.de)
1 points by otras 4y ago|0 comments
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by otras 4y ago
Oh yes of course, I must have missed copying that over. Thanks!
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by otras 4y ago
You’re totally right: there’s no guarantee that the candidate list continues to shrink, and there’s no guarantee that it won’t get stuck. For this problem, we are able to leverage the fact that it ends after 15 rounds, so the problem is les
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by otras 4y ago
Oh good catch, I even crossed out the right ones in the above code block. Edited to be (2, 2), which is a better example (since (1, 3) was already cleared out). Thanks!
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by otras 4y ago
Horrific is a new one! Thanks for posting your solution :)
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by otras 4y ago
That's a good point! The `15` check relies on 1) knowing it will stop after 15 rounds as written in the problem (though I explore that later) and 2) assuming that there must be a single answer after 15 rounds (which I also explore late
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“I don't know the numbers”: a math puzzle(alexanderell.is)
176 points by otras 4y ago|111 comments
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by otras 4y ago
That's an interesting take, but I think learned helplessness is tangential to this uncomfortableness. I think of learned helplessness as an inability to progress or work towards a goal because of the over-reliance on those training whe
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by otras 4y ago
That's an interesting point - this uncertainty seems to really show up when pulling from creativity to create something new. I'm reminded of the Gene Fowler quote: " Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of pa
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Getting Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable(alexanderell.is)
127 points by otras 4y ago|32 comments
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Opinionated Variable Names(alexanderell.is)
1 points by otras 4y ago|1 comments
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by otras 4y ago
Einstein aside, the jury is still out on a few Martians: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martians_(scientists)
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by otras 4y ago
Just in case you (or others) haven’t seen it, I’d recommend dang’s comment from around a year ago about the Dropbox comment in question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27068148
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by otras 4y ago
This is a funny intersection between the corporate and the counter-culture, much like skateboarding's own history. I'm a little hesitant about this early line: > And like any traditional business, these skateboarding companies
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What is a minute, really? Easy ways to change how fast time passes(alexanderell.is)
3 points by otras 5y ago|0 comments
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The tech interview prep industry(alexanderell.is)
149 points by otras 5y ago|190 comments
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by otras 5y ago
Interesting to see this page branding itself like a SaaS startup with the long form descriptions on each page and the features section of the home page: “Fully Secure”, “Easy to Use”, “Stunning UI”, etc - is there some sort of SEO ad or inc
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Keeping a Debugging Lab Notebook(alexanderell.is)
2 points by otras 5y ago|0 comments
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Detecting pitch with the Web Audio API and autocorrelation(alexanderell.is)
52 points by otras 5y ago|9 comments
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by otras 5y ago
> I did try getting into such companies when I was fresh out of school but flunked the interviews. Have you tried preparing and interviewing since? The process is less opaque these days, though the algorithm interview game is still preva

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