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How to Worry Less About Being a Bad Programmer(stilldrinking.org)
164 points by shioyama 10y ago|31 comments
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A 6502 lisp compiler, sprite animation and the NES/Famicom(pawfal.org)
114 points by shioyama 10y ago|13 comments
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by shioyama 10y ago
"a family with two children (my 3rd child arrived after I started)" I'd wager a bet that he has a stay-at-home partner or maybe family filling in for the time he's spending on his PhD to help take care of the kids. Three
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Qutebrowser – a keyboard-focused, vim-like browser(igg.me)
8 points by shioyama 11y ago|1 comments
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by shioyama 11y ago
> Then again, I'm also astounded that "tabs" aren't just a window manager feature (i.e. being able to group arbitrary windows into a single tabbed window, and noting when windows in a tab group spawn a new window and
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by shioyama 11y ago
There are other developer-friendly options that handle offline payment methods in Japan (bank transfer, konbini, payeasy), e.g. Komoju: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27368278/payment-gateway...
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Building an International Team in Japan(medium.com)
2 points by shioyama 13y ago|0 comments
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Marunage - a dark side of omakase(concurrently-chaotic.blogspot.jp)
1 points by shioyama 13y ago|0 comments
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by shioyama 13y ago
Ah, oops. I read the post too quickly, now I see the problem.
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by shioyama 13y ago
Happy to see that ruby (2.0 at least) passes all the tests except the "baffle" one. Edit: sadly, it doesn't.
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Software, the moving target(dejimata.com)
2 points by shioyama 13y ago|0 comments
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by shioyama 13y ago
I've been using names from the Mr. Men series of books, so e.g. tickle, grumpy, topsyturvy, daydream. Easy to remember because the characters are each so unique and different, and gives each machine its own personality: "Oh crap,
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RubyKaigi: Making a Japanese Conference Accessible to the World(patshaughnessy.net)
9 points by shioyama 13y ago|0 comments
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Transport, Accessibility, and Open Data(andrewsalzberg.wordpress.com)
1 points by shioyama 14y ago|0 comments
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by shioyama 14y ago
Another one I discovered recently: http://xbreaker.github.com/plusstrap/
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Every online community needs a site like this(trainspo.com)
1 points by shioyama 14y ago|0 comments
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by shioyama 14y ago
I didn't say any good writers, I said Shakespeare. There are many routes to becoming a good writer.
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by shioyama 14y ago
20 years ago, if you had told people that the world's most widely-read source of general knowledge would go out of print and be replaced by a website editable by anyone, anywhere, people would have said you were crazy. But that did happen.
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by shioyama 14y ago
> Learning the techniques of design without the basics is like trying to be a writer by learning all the functions of MS Word but not having read Shakespeare. You can be a perfectly good writer without having read a word of Shakespeare.
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by shioyama 14y ago
I stand corrected. I think though that Compass is the most common way people do this.
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by shioyama 14y ago
That's a feature of Compass, not Sass. http://compass-style.org/
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Don’t Start With a Prototype for Your MVP(tokyodev.com)
2 points by shioyama 15y ago|0 comments
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by shioyama 15y ago
I left a PhD program a few years back (technically graduated, but I don't think of it that way). A year or so before I did, I remember very clearly being out to drinks with my professor and fellow students, and mentioning that I had no inte
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How to Care for Introverts(approache.com)
9 points by shioyama 15y ago|1 comments
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by shioyama 15y ago
> What's the aggregate result of testing for fizzbuzz? If you pass you go to the next stage, if not, you're out? The point of fizzbuzz is that it is so simple that if you are capable of any programming at all, you cannot not pass it. My
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by shioyama 15y ago
> Hiring someone who cannot program for a programmer role seems to have many potential drawbacks, have you considered them? My problem is with the focus on testing, I didn't mean to imply that programmers don't need to have basic progra
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by shioyama 15y ago
> I don't think anyone would consider it a failing of the interview process if they were looking for an accountant and their hiring process weeded out the people who couldn't actually do accounting. Not to knock the accountants, but I t
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by shioyama 15y ago
> If you come to us through a personal reference, we skip the test. If we come to you, because we've learned about you, we skip the test. Sure, and how about add to that: if we can (reliably) evaluate your skills based on work you've do
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by shioyama 15y ago
Thanks for the context. > But yes, if the candidate fails Fizzbuzz then it's probably pointless to continue the interview. I didn't really mean to imply that basic programming skills are not a prerequisite for a programming job, which I
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by shioyama 15y ago
In hindsight I think I ended up emphasizing the wrong thing in the quote above. Of course being able to handle "for" and "if" is going to be a prerequisite to any programming job, I'm not disputing that. Maybe FizzBuzz is a good test for th

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