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Making Halo 3 Audio [video](youtube.com)
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Sorry about that. I had been using some default styles that came with the Hugo theme I'm using, but I absolutely see what you mean. Updated text throughout the site to have better contrast. Hope that helps!
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Don't touch my clipboard(alexanderell.is)
718 points by otras 7y ago|312 comments
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Kind of like any book or course like that, I found that the magic wasn't in watching the lectures or reading the book but in deliberately applying some of the strategies to my own learning process. It was easy to watch and think "
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> Having 350 more engineers on the market is only a good thing. Salaries in Boston have gotten to the point where an engineer with no experience just out of a middling CS education can demand $120-150k and often get it. Where does that l
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I took one class (computer architecture & assembly language) through Oregon State University's online CS program as a soft-requirement for some in-person classes I'm currently taking. They have the full post-bacc program ( htt
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As vikram360 pointed out, they're on the schedule page ( https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/schedule.html ). Since this is the class going on right now (Spring 2020), only a couple that have already happened have been
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I haven't taken any paid online courses that fit within your budget, but there are plenty of high quality free courses. Depending on your experience, I'd recommend the following: - Coursera Learning How To Learn: https:/&#x2
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I highly, highly recommend the Coursera course Learning How To Learn ( https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn ). It's a tremendous resource for improving your ability to learn.
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Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat are one such example. They’ve been pair programming since before Google. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/the-friendship...
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> Google allows competitors to purchase ads on Basecamp’s trademark, and then blocks consumers from reaching its site , Co-Founder David Heinemeier Hansson told Reuters in an interview. Emphasis added. What does "blocks" means
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> "13.3” ACeP display is suitable for various applications, e.g. Artwork, Signage, Retail, etc…" These various applications sound like static images without fast refresh requirements. I wonder what the refresh rate is like on t
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I subscribed to oppsdaily for roughly two years. Thank you for running it! While my stars never aligned to work on any of them, it was great to see real problems that were out there.
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I would hesitate to label yourself with those ambiguous terms, especially if it's in any negative light. It's like trying to differentiate between "software engineer", "developer", "programmer", etc.
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What are your goals? If your goal is to build something to have a product/service/business, build what you know. That will let you build and iterate quicker. Startups don't fail only because they were built on <framework A
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Do you mean the High-Tech Employee Antitrust Litigation? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust...
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I’ve found success with the following: - Proper desk height for standing and sitting to ensure arms are at 90* angle. - Extended height monitor arms to ensure screens are up at eye level. This has been great for my posture. - Split keyboard
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The Power of Shower Thoughts(alexanderell.is)
351 points by otras 7y ago|78 comments
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I host a simple Hugo blog on GitHub pages. The only cost for me is the domain name. Highly recommend Hugo, since it makes everything outside of writing easy. The downside is that discoverability is lower, but my goal for it is writing for m
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These two different ways your brain works on ideas, focused and diffused, were my biggest takeaways from Barbara Oakley's Learning How To Learn class. I've found that actively going between them, say by studying hard for 90 minu
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I thought of this scene of his in particular, when he’s exchanging gunfire with his neighbor: ”If this son of a bitch wants to bitch about his cows over here and shoot at me, well... it's our country. It's not theirs. It's n
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https://alexanderell.is I write on a simple static Hugo blog running on GitHub pages. I found that anything else makes tinkering too easy, which distracts me from the goal of writing. Writing often is hard enough, and I definite
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What gets me worse is dynamically changing the page title to catch your eye. Ex. something like: let documentTitle = document.title; let documentTitleWithNotification = "(1) " + documentTitle; let timeDelay = 1000; funct
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Dark pattern for autoplaying videos: clickjacking pause(alexanderell.is)
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Clickbait Snail Mail: How companies try to get me to open the mail they send(alexanderell.is)
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I used to work in a coworking space that TellusLabs also worked in, and I was going to mention them in this thread until I saw just now that Indigo acquired them last year. Very cool!
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To look at the metagame of learning, I highly, highly recommend the Coursera course Learning How To Learn by Barbara Oakley: https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn . If you're more into books, she a
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This reminds me of one of the worst things about interviews I’ve had (with big companies and small): typing code into a shared Google doc for phone screens. There’s nothing like doing so that will make you appreciate auto-indent, auto-closi
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I think you should do it to learn and try something new (publishing a Chrome extension). I’m sure you could also write an interesting blog post about how you chose and implemented the spaced repetition. Worst case scenario no one download i
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I did this with Anki when preparing for my last round of interviews. After completing a question (working through on a whiteboard while imitating a coding interview session), I would make a card for it. General pattern and general algorithm

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