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by zachrose 15y ago
> Designers are treated like royalty at Apple, where the entire product conforms to their vision. This the polar opposite of the way it works at other companies. Instead of the design being beholden to the manufacturing, finance or manu
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by zachrose 15y ago
+1. I've watched people reinvent the asset pipeline on top of the asset pipeline.
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All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace(topdocumentaryfilms.com)
6 points by zachrose 15y ago|0 comments
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by zachrose 15y ago
He had me at: > If you do nothing, the end result is better.
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by zachrose 15y ago
The article and comments here suggest it's because homework and math are hard and non-Engineering students don't work as hard. My hunch is that students drop majors because the initial appeal doesn't match up with the actual path. Numbers w
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by zachrose 15y ago
I do.
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by zachrose 15y ago
$8 stand up desk: eight 8" cinder block cubes at about a dollar each. Stack two high under each desk leg. Throw a piece of lumber between the top front cubes for a footrest. At the very least it's the cheapest way to decide if you like a st
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by zachrose 15y ago
SOPA is throwing the baby out with the bath water. (And you never throw the baby out with the bath water!)
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by zachrose 15y ago
What's with the ads in the middle?
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by zachrose 15y ago
>> We already have a system to make sure laws remain appropriate: it is called an elected legislature. The legislature does no such thing. Theoretically, representatives do their job by pandering to constituent majorities. http://e
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by zachrose 15y ago
When you know ahead of time that the types don't need to be coerced: http://jsperf.com/triple-equals-vs-twice-equals/4 There's even a negligible performance improvement, at least for me (iPad WebKit Safari).
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by zachrose 15y ago
I would like a wider range of options. If the work was exciting enough, I'd work for food and board.
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Review of Nokia Lumia 800 on TheNextWeb(thenextweb.com)
1 points by zachrose 15y ago|0 comments
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by zachrose 15y ago
Don't miss the backstory: "And it soon becomes apparent that this issue goes a lot broader. Their course is designed to churn out mini-art directors, mini-account people, mini-planners for a world that increasingly just wants creative gener
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by zachrose 15y ago
The joke at our startup was if we moved to the east side we'd have to switch over to a .NET stack.
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by zachrose 15y ago
In absolute terms, no. But likewise, lack of a high school diploma doesn't prevent you from becoming a music star.
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by zachrose 15y ago
Can anyone explain in more detail how this relates to Arc and Lisp?
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by zachrose 15y ago
Chicago is like layover country though, right?
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by zachrose 15y ago
Paraphrasing Kevin Kelly, there are more stone hammers being made today than at any time in human history.
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by zachrose 15y ago
When I was learning to program, more than half the people learning with me were women. Outside that environment, so much of programming is actually arrogant dudes standing around and telling other dudes they're doing it wrong. It seems pate
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by zachrose 15y ago
Have something exciting and technically trivial that you want to build. Draw it. Build it. My first "programming" projects were a Processing app that fills your screen with randomly colored dots that increase in size, a website that will se
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by zachrose 15y ago
I started programming with Arduino and Processing in my last year of college, then found out I could get paid to write awful PHP, decided I didn't like doing that, learned Ruby, and now write MVC JavaScript for a living. I've been out of co
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by zachrose 15y ago
staticmatic deploy amazon_s3 FTW
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by zachrose 15y ago
How does Rubygems modify the behavior of the Ruby interpreter?
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by zachrose 15y ago
False dichotomy.
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by zachrose 15y ago
I think there's something there, but what you're getting at might be scope? The less the details matter, the easier it is to scale and abstract the business by hiring sub-managers and not worrying about implementation details.
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by zachrose 15y ago
Wow. Email me? zachrose@gmail.com
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by zachrose 15y ago
See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Klein_Blue
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by zachrose 15y ago
Spoiler: At no point in the story does the author download Xcode.
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by zachrose 15y ago
It's the only way to roll.

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