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by swanson 11y ago
I've love to see a condensed list that focuses on the top books for a given context. The best 2-3 books to read when you are interested in learning how to program, the best 2-3 books for a new developer in his/her first profession
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by swanson 12y ago
I built a tool that let you track your teams mood (with an anonymous daily email). Just looking at some old data, it's pretty good at revealing someone is likely to leave a team/company. Here's an example: http://i
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by swanson 12y ago
It's a game of skill much in the same way as poker. Experienced players will beat inexperienced players over the long-run. There are certain elements of randomness/luck (as with poker, sometimes you just get bad cards) - but DFS p
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by swanson 12y ago
It will be interesting to see how online poker dovetails with the big up-and-coming daily fantasy sports (DFS) industry. DFS is essentially online gambling on fantasy sports, but it has been classified as a "game of skill" and is
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by swanson 12y ago
Password manager.
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by swanson 12y ago
I think it depends on how you frame it. Personally, reviewing other people's code on exercism can be an invaluable chance to practice giving feedback on code. I've yet to find a better mechanism for practicing code reviews - and i
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by swanson 12y ago
* Giant Robots | http://giantrobots.fm/ | weekly technical podcast discussing development, design, and the business of great products | ★★★★ * Kalzumeus Podcast | http://www.kalzumeus.com/category/podca
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by swanson 12y ago
This seems completely unrelated to the article and doesn't really add anything to the conversation.
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by swanson 12y ago
Start watching James Shore's "Let's Play: TDD" videos [1]. Yes, it is in Java and about making a basic desktop app for finance tracking - but that doesn't matter. I'm cutting out paradox of choice and just tell
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by swanson 12y ago
This was a great discussion, but I think it is not appropriate for a beginner just getting into TDD. There were so many nuances in this series that I don't think it would be helpful as an introductory resource.
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by swanson 12y ago
So when are you going to start charging workshops for training their employees? Seems like it could be a profitable niche for safety training.
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by swanson 12y ago
This is actually pretty cool! Great way to find new podcasts and also hear more from an interview subject you find particularly interesting.
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by swanson 12y ago
https://bufferapp.com/ https://knowyourcompany.com/
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by swanson 12y ago
I'd be interested in adding this button once it gets offical support from DigitalOcean. I added the Heroku Button[1] to a self-hosted OS app I wrote[2] and it seems to be useful (over 100 "recent deploys" per Heroku). It woul
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by swanson 12y ago
Do you read Grantland? If not, check it out - they have great stuff at the intersection of nerds + sports on a regular basis.
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by swanson 12y ago
I used this tool 2-3 years ago (back when it was still hosted on Google Code!). It does what it says on the box (converts code from Java to Obj-C) - the problem is all about expectations. In a way, this being an "official" tool fr
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by swanson 12y ago
Like the idea, but I'm having trouble interpreting the output. I searched for "stringer" (the name of one of my open source projects) and I see "npmjs" "sourceforge" and "github" with a neutral s
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by swanson 12y ago
Watching games/film definitely will show you stuff that the boxscore doesn't. Another recent example was a game in which Percy Harvin had 3 TDs called back on penalties. His stats didn't look great, but anyone watching the ga
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by swanson 12y ago
There were exemptions for fantasy sports made under the Unlawful Internet Gaming Enforcement Act. Basically, it's legal to 'gamble' on fantasy sports given the following conditions: 1. The prizes offered are established ahead
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by swanson 12y ago
It's been interesting to see the migration of online poker players over to daily fantasy sports (DFS). It definitely feels like the early days of online poker - tons of new sites popping up, heavy TV advertising, lots of new money comi
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by swanson 12y ago
You can always just put the model id (or some other way to requery) in the Bundle and look it up again after the configuration change.
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by swanson 12y ago
"as well as individual investors like ... Calvin Broadus Jr. AKA Snoop Dog [sic] (also randomly)" Snoop Dogg is actually a pretty active reddit user: http://reddit.com/u/Here_Comes_The_King - especially in a
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by swanson 12y ago
"1st party" analytics on Android is a bit weird at the moment. Since Google Analytics for Mobile requires Google Play Services - you can't use it in for installations on Amazon Fire devices. Of course there are third party se
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by swanson 12y ago
Was Text to Speech removed? I know at least the last model with the full keyboard had it.
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by swanson 12y ago
I bought one model (4th gen I think) because it was much lighter and I noticed my wrist got a bit sore during long reading stretches. I bought the first model with the touchscreen because navigating the store on the device was annoying with
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by swanson 12y ago
I've owned every model of the Kindle (minus the comically large DX) - it's been fun to watch them iterate and refine this device. It really is a great product and the price point is always within my "insta-splurge" budge
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by swanson 12y ago
The 'he' refers in Notch in the above comment.
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by swanson 12y ago
Cool - if this is indeed faster than Jackson (and GSON), I would recommend writing a Retrofit converter ( https://github.com/square/retrofit/tree/master/retrofit-conv... ) so developers can just drop in ig
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Introducing NFL Elo Ratings(fivethirtyeight.com)
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by swanson 12y ago
I played around with the Bourbon + Neat + Bitters + Refills "stack" recently and I enjoyed it. Definitely not as "drop-in ready" as Bootstrap, but seemed like a good foundation to build on. http://bourbon.io&#

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