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by swanson 15y ago
That's a good point about textbooks. Do you find that if a book includes Exercises at the end of each chapter that you actually do them? That's been a big challenge for me - so many great books have 'Action' sections but I rarely find mysel
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by swanson 15y ago
I definitely agree on the physical whiteboard + cards. Having used a large Kanban board and then changing to a project using the full suite of Jira tools, I am dying to get back to the board. WIP limits and ordered backlogs are missing. The
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by swanson 15y ago
Can anyone comment on the page turn speed of the non-touch Kindle4 vs the Kindle3? I picked up a Kindle Touch thinking that the refresh speed would be better than the 3rd gen model, but, like Marco, I didn't really find it to be the case.
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by swanson 15y ago
You are correct, it was referenced in Tipping Point (as well as Freakonomics and others). The wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory has a lot more information about the study and its findings.
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Overcoming Momentum(swanson.github.com)
25 points by swanson 15y ago|2 comments
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by swanson 15y ago
I think the Pull Request for article submission is a really awesome idea. Sounds like a neat idea, you should start it up.
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by swanson 15y ago
Kindle3 has landscape, Kindle Touch does not.
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by swanson 15y ago
I've yet to find a technical book with lots of snippets that I can read on the Kindle - so it may be a losing battle
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by swanson 15y ago
I'm waiting to receive it on my Kindle through the Send to Kindle button - I'll report back if and when I get it. Edit: Okay got it - was really easy to setup with the Readability button. Flipping though the book - the pictures at the start
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by swanson 15y ago
What about a form that lets someone submit a comment and it appeared as a Pull Request in your repository? Once you merge in the change, Github will rebuild your blog and it will appear. That would be kind of cool. Or you could just have a
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by swanson 15y ago
I started down this path before they even added Ace to the site. My idea was a little bit different: I would drop in a single file to my Jekyll repo that adds a "Create a new post" page on my blog. There is a text field with a live markdown
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by swanson 15y ago
For a first time event, all of the projects seem to be really high quality. Kicking myself for not making the drive up...
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by swanson 15y ago
The source code for the app is using the github-markdown[0] gem to render - so it seems strange that it isn't working. [0]: https://github.com/github/markup Edit: Ah, heres the problem: https://github.com/github/markup/issues/47 - the g
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by swanson 15y ago
This technique is also useful for iterating over a list and conditionally removing items. If you don't slice it you are changing the list as your iterate over it and you get unexpected results (like skipping items). Or you could just use li
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by swanson 15y ago
Are there any commitments that you can put on pause? Maybe you can't just drop the project, but if you aren't going to have time to work on it for a month, then officially delay it for a month so it's at least off your mind.
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by swanson 15y ago
Ah - that sucks, sorry about that. I pushed a small change, hopefully that makes it slightly better.
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by swanson 15y ago
That is an awesome idea. And if no one wants to "buy" then probably no one cared about it in the first place so I shouldn't feel bad about letting it die. I'll have to try it out - I've got a good project in mind that this approach might wo
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by swanson 15y ago
I like the idea of prioritizing, but I find that even small projects that I abandon have a disproportionately large negative effect on my emotions/confidence/drive. It reminds me of what someone once told me about the stock market - getting
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by swanson 15y ago
Wow, thanks for that link - that's a really good post.
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I'm a serial over committer(swanson.github.com)
90 points by swanson 15y ago|46 comments
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by swanson 15y ago
Ha, that reminds me of a program I was writing in MATLAB. I used `i` for a loop index in one part of the script and then later when doing some complex number calculations (`2 + 3i`)...it was one of those so-stupid-you-have-to-laugh moments
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by swanson 15y ago
Who is to say whether it is correct or not? Even if you disagree with the point, I don't see anything that makes it "certainly [not correct]".
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by swanson 15y ago
All the things you are listed are about Getting Better... Your conversations shouldn't be reciting self-help books to each other. Sharing stuff you think is awesome and kicking around projects are both great examples of bettering each other
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by swanson 15y ago
Maybe these will seem obvious, but maybe one of them will stick: - Go to meetups, get there early for the networking/pizza stuff that happens before the main talk, stay after and see if people go out for drinks - If you have a few people yo
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by swanson 15y ago
Thanks for the link, I'll check it out.
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by swanson 15y ago
I'd ignore all the complaints here about the Bottom Line message. People will bash you for making an "absolute truth", take it or leave statement - but people will also bash you for trying to appeal to everyone with an obvious generalizatio
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Get Better(swanson.github.com)
4 points by swanson 15y ago|0 comments
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by swanson 15y ago
Yikes - that's even worse...
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by swanson 15y ago
I was aware that stuff was probably being edited and I think Melanie and Jason Baptiste got an unfair shake. If I am reading this blog post correctly: the production crew spliced together two unrelated bits of audio ("LinkedIn for fashion")
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by swanson 15y ago
#1 reminds me of a reverse Selenium test :)

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