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by tedyoung 7y ago
All that animation makes me dizzy.
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by tedyoung 7y ago
UI: recommend moving the search box closer to the list itself. Right now doing a search isn't obvious that it changed anything. Recommend using positive labels instead of negative ones, e.g., replace "Not fully compatible" wi
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by tedyoung 7y ago
These aren't (all) DSLR, many are mirrorless (would be good to label which are which). I know that seems pedantic, but mirrorless cameras are better able to run unlimited video out, vs. DSLRs that may timeout after a while.
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by tedyoung 7y ago
When you do have your 1:1 synchronous time (probably remote, especially these days), make sure you're organized. I work with some of my mentees to put together a standard agenda for each "meeting". Sometimes that'll be a
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by tedyoung 7y ago
I've been talking (and tweeting) a lot about exactly this topic: Teach Testing First. There is _no_ reason this can't be done, and, in fact, it's how I'm teaching a number of folks how to test and code in Java.
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by tedyoung 7y ago
CodeMentor.io has these services and there's also https://mentorcruise.com , which isn't quite on-call, though. There are other code mentoring services around, too.
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by tedyoung 7y ago
As a Java trainer/coach, I find books to be a great resource for learning, and are woefully underused (under-read?). However, depending on what you’re learning, feedback of whether you’re on the right track is important. MOOCs are also
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by tedyoung 7y ago
Looks nice, but not quite responsive enough to lay out properly on an iPad.
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by tedyoung 7y ago
Constructor validation is great, but it’s hard to tell from this example whether Book is meant to be a domain object (POJO) or a transfer object (JavaBean). It _looks_ like a transfer object (since CRUD was mentioned), but it’s unclear. Eit
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by tedyoung 7y ago
Pretty nifty. One problem: clicking on the "Marcdown" name/link in the upper-right reloads the page, _losing_ all content.
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by tedyoung 7y ago
I've given presentations on "Human Learning" (specifically titled so as not to be confused with ML!) that might have some interesting tidbits. Recordings of two of the presentations are here: https://ted.dev/l
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by tedyoung 8y ago
TwilioQuest is a fun intro: https://www.twilio.com/quest
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by tedyoung 8y ago
Yes, also known as the "Curse of Expertise" or the "Curse of Knowledge", is a big part of it, but being aware of it is just the start. Understanding how to break down the skill into the pieces that the learner can absorb
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by tedyoung 8y ago
But also like learning any skill correctly, one needs knowledge. Feedback during the practice helps a lot to make sure what's being practiced is correct. Teaching, instructional design, curriculum development, etc., these are knowledge
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by tedyoung 8y ago
Most tutorial writers are not aware of how to create educational materials. They don't think deeply about the learning objectives (what the reader should be able to do or understand at the end), don't understand how to provide con
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by tedyoung 8y ago
I hadn't heard of this before, and looks really nice. I'd want integrations with apps I already have such content in, mainly Pocket, GoodReader (iPad), and Zotero. I'd need a way to read on my iPad, though, as that's whe
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by tedyoung 8y ago
With my iPad Air 2, I notice the slowness, and a new one with faster processor will definitely make a difference. With my iPhone 6s, everything I need runs more than fast enough, and with a replaced battery, runs long enough on a charge whe
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by tedyoung 8y ago
From my understanding, proxying is the ability to work with lower-resolution video -- so it's faster to edit -- but still be frame-accurate to the original, so the output matches what you've been editing.
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by tedyoung 8y ago
Mostly no, though I am doing some loss-harvesting: selling stocks to take a loss and buying highly-correlated equivalent stocks or ETFs, so that I don't lose out on gains (because timing when to buy back is a bad idea). e.g., selling I
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by tedyoung 8y ago
This is hard. Especially for folks (like you and me) who have wide and varied interests, and are able to learn from a wide variety of sources. The overwhelming amount of information now available makes this much harder than it was 35+ years
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by tedyoung 8y ago
Can you define "significant membership fees"? I pay less than USD$300 a year for IEEE Computer Society membership in which ~$100 is for the full digital library (and similar for the ACM), so I don't consider that "signif
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by tedyoung 8y ago
As a screen for the hub, that might be fine, but my experience with Android-based tablets is awful and I'll happily pay $200 more for an iPad that will work very well for years rather than an inexpensive one that's hard to do just
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by tedyoung 8y ago
This is really nice! It'll come in very handy for my next training class -- students are always asking why they shouldn't use floating point for money and I always explain it, but having a tool where they can play around with it i
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by tedyoung 8y ago
Yes, a Google Scholar search provided some experimental results: * "The impact of color combinations on the legibility of text presented on LCDs" ("Dark text generally leads to greater legibility when contrast ratio is greate
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by tedyoung 8y ago
How do you define "good" and "quality"? This is the difficulty in measuring skill or productivity in this kind of work. Is it the number of uncaught bugs that have been released? How well what you produced matches with w
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by tedyoung 8y ago
This is a post from 2012, so also discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11327669 (and at least 6 or 7 other times).
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by tedyoung 8y ago
Did anyone else read this as the robots are grasping the art of "griping"? As if we need them to learn how to complain. :)
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by tedyoung 8y ago
From the first paragraph in the readme: > "Oblivious to its holding services, Ganjex is a passive container facilitating the management of the containing elements' alterations and lifecycle at runtime. Ganjex is a platform laye
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Educating Novices in the Skills of Programming (2007) [pdf](cs.au.dk)
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by tedyoung 8y ago
Maybe subscriptions will start going down, but Adobe's most recent quarterly earnings report [ https://wwwimages2.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/investor-re... ] says: >Creative revenue in the first

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