zjmichen

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by zjmichen 13y ago
I think learning to focus and tune certain things out is a skill like any other, that anyone can learn to a degree. Admittedly I haven't made much progress here either, but I think that with practice it becomes easier. That said, I wholehe
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Show HN: Flashbulb, my online photo management app (beta)(flashbulb.herokuapp.com)
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by zjmichen 13y ago
If Canonical doesn't turn evil too. Some of their actions give me pause. Oh but man I want Ubuntu phone to be good.
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by zjmichen 13y ago
Well, ok. I suppose anecdotal samples are not the best evidence for either side. I'd like to imagine that most artists are relatively well-adjusted. Anyway, that's the kind of world I'd like to live in. Everyone can (and should) be an ar
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by zjmichen 13y ago
Windows 1.0 came out in 1985, only one year after the Apple Macintosh. PARC invented the idea of the WIMP GUI, not Apple. I think it's a little silly to say that the idea would have died within PARC.
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by zjmichen 13y ago
I don't agree with the idea of the "mad artist," an elite diamond-in-the-rough character who cloisters himself away on manic episodes of hyper-creativity, becomes an alcoholic, and emerges with a genius piece of Art. Art is a slog. Artists
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by zjmichen 13y ago
I think the difference is that the technologies Steve was so instrumental in creating were already being developed without him. The GUI and personal computer were pretty much already there, he just got to it earliest. Without him these th
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by zjmichen 13y ago
I think one important reason for a debate like this is that the leaders we choose as role models defines the direction we move as a culture. It's a moral question we're debating (or that we should be debating) - is it better to emulate Ste
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by zjmichen 13y ago
Yeah, close to deploy is different. What does a CI tool do in this case? I'm somewhat unfamiliar with the concept.
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by zjmichen 13y ago
Pretty similar to my workflow, but why do you destroy the box after every session? `vagrant up` on my laptop takes a few minutes at least to build and provision a vagrant machine. Usually I just use `vagrant suspend`. Seconds vs minutes.
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Ask HN: How should you actually do objects in Javascript?
4 points by zjmichen 13y ago|2 comments
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Show HN: Fridge Words, a first javascript project(nm.unca.edu)
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