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by otras 5y ago
> The house involves visiting multiple times, inspections, lawyers, etc. because the amount of money is so high. Ironically, because the market is so hot for houses these days in the Boston area (and many others, I’m sure), there are man
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I prefer my biographies in chronological order, thank you very much(alexanderell.is)
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My lizard brain is no match for infinite scroll(alexanderell.is)
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by otras 5y ago
I find that this quote from the SICP video lectures sums it up well for me: And that is that computer science, in some sense, isn't real. You see, when an engineer is designing a physical system, that's made out of real parts. Th
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I miss easily seeing how my coworkers use tools(alexanderell.is)
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by otras 5y ago
In addition to the ones already mentioned in this thread, I’d also recommend The Cuckoo's Egg by Cliff Stoll and The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch.
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by otras 5y ago
To add to your point, the Hidden Technical Debt in Machine Learning Systems paper: https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2015/file/86df7dcfd896f...
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by otras 5y ago
Highly recommend these sessions of Andrew Gerrand and Brad Fitzpatrick working on Go projects: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yG-UaBJXZ80 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1rZ-JorHJEY
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by otras 5y ago
For an interesting cross section of technology and important moment(s) in history, I'd recommend A Mind at Play about Claude Shannon and his work: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32919530-a-mind-at-play
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by otras 5y ago
One thing I've been doing for technical books and papers recently is focusing on coming back to material regularly, especially if it's something I don't see frequently. I've used Anki in the past for this, but I actually
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by otras 5y ago
I've been playing around with Morse code and the Web Audio API recently ( https://alexanderell.is/posts/writing-morse-code-games ), particularly in ways to make it more fun and interactive to play and practice. I&#x
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Show HN: Morse Codle – Wordle with Morse Code(alexanderell.is)
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by otras 5y ago
> My friend told me that bootcamps are a waste of my time and money, and that he believes that anyone can break into SWE with just a few weeks of trying. I entered the field from a non-CS background and now work at Google (opinions my o
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Morse Codle(alexanderell.is)
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Writing Morse Code Games in JavaScript Using the Web Audio API(alexanderell.is)
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by otras 5y ago
Spike Jonze’s stories about directing that music video are a great listen: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C8Yz9OLXu8Q . I never knew Christopher Walken had a dance background!
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by otras 5y ago
Also highly recommend the sibling game Grid Garden for working with CSS grid layout: https://cssgridgarden.com/
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by otras 5y ago
Control on desktop should trigger the “Try again” for both games, although there’s no similar shortcut for mobile. Great suggestion about the clearing! I think it would be helpful to listen while you look at your input to verify, too. Edit:
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by otras 5y ago
Ah if this is happening when you try to replay it before it finished, it may be due to timing issues with how the “try again” is implemented. My bet is that it sometimes doesn’t correctly stop the first playthrough before starting the repla
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by otras 5y ago
Glad to hear it - I may have snuck in a source code change since you last listened after one of the other commenters suggested the Farnsworth method! Thanks again for the suggestions.
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by otras 5y ago
Great call on varying the spacing between letters. I added that as an additional option and it's a much better experience for both listening and inputting. Thanks!
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by otras 5y ago
That's a great perspective. I'm so unaccustomed to parsing it that even the "Fast" setting felt lightning fast to me! I went ahead and added a new "Faster" speed. It may be running into the limits of how precis
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by otras 5y ago
Thanks for the feedback about the timing and the other resources! I'm very much not an expert in Morse code (as I'm sure you can tell). I tried to follow the ratios here ( https://morsecode.world/international/
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Little games to play with Morse Code in the browser(alexanderell.is)
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Depending on the browser’s favicon parsing, you can do some odd things with it by adding a new <icon> element. I was looking at this the other day and was able to get a basic example of blinking it together (the “What about the favico
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Decommissioned Atlas F missile silo complex for sale(zillow.com)
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Writing a toy traceroute from scratch(alexanderell.is)
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For a fun experiment, try Google finance with the Japanese language tag ( https://www.google.com/finance/?hl=ja ). Even knowing about the switched colors, it still fools my eyes. Goes to show how deeply ingrained the usu
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by otras 5y ago
I started getting into reading more CS papers when I was doing an MS while working a programming day job, and I found some combination of the following worked pretty well for me: - Getting used to skimming and doing multiple passes th
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(1) New Message: Playing with your attention in JavaScript(alexanderell.is)
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