JoshMilo

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by JoshMilo 11y ago
After spending eight years in the military (where everyone's salary is public, even Generals) I was kind of shocked when I got out and everyone was so secretive about how much money they made. When I got my first office job a few frien
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Microsoft announces a new education app(blogs.office.com)
2 points by JoshMilo 11y ago|0 comments
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by JoshMilo 11y ago
Sure thing. Breathing exercises: http://freedivingexplained.blogspot.com/2008/03/freediving-t... The "go to" forum for me: https://www.deeperblue.com/
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by JoshMilo 11y ago
It was the training for freediving, although I grew up next to the ocean and have been swimming the majority of my life so I'm sure that plays a part. What the article doesn't mention is most people can increase their lung capacit
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by JoshMilo 11y ago
I was an avid free diver before I joined the Army (to be a diver no less) and during a medical examination they did x-rays of my chest. The doctor came back surprised and told me my lungs were 25% larger than normal. Even now I take one bre
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by JoshMilo 12y ago
It's legal here in WA and we haven't had a problem with it being "unsafe". These articles kind of remind me about articles on coffee/wine. One day they're bad for the heart, the next day they boost heart health
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by JoshMilo 12y ago
ah! Awesome, thanks
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by JoshMilo 12y ago
Honest question, would studying immediate mode rendering systems improve my understanding of React's system of doing things? If so, do you have a resource I could use?
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by JoshMilo 12y ago
I know CodeFellows just opened up some in person courses in Portland: https://www.codefellows.org/calendar There's also Thinkful which is online but assigns you a mentor to help you through the material. They also offe
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by JoshMilo 12y ago
I also wondered that when I went through, later I got clarification that it was for those reasons, and to remove the individual, so that we can follow commands faster and with less hesitation.
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by JoshMilo 12y ago
You must have forgotten that Niels Bohr was an olympic athlete as well as a nobel prize winner in physics.
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Io.js says not to worry about fragmentation(medium.com)
2 points by JoshMilo 12y ago|0 comments
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by JoshMilo 12y ago
I wish I had that kind of class growing up. Even a basic life skills class would be helpful. It would be much better than all those "teachers aide" classes I took in high school.
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by JoshMilo 12y ago
I love that book. I read it all the time, especially on those weeks when I feel burnt out. It pairs well with one of his other books called The Warrior Ethos.
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by JoshMilo 12y ago
This. While I have won (and placed) in hackathons, I never took them as this super competitive challenge, I didn't expect to win. The teams I've been on always went home and got some rest. To me hackathons are a fun way to explore
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by JoshMilo 12y ago
This is good news; I'm still waiting for the DartVM to get integrated into Chrome.
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32% of top NPM packages are front-end(blog.npmjs.org)
4 points by JoshMilo 12y ago|0 comments
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CSStyle – Automatic specificity and nesting etc.(csstyle.io)
5 points by JoshMilo 12y ago|0 comments
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by JoshMilo 12y ago
this might help, it provides benchmarks for most of the popular frameworks: http://www.techempower.com/blog/2014/05/01/framework-benchma... If you're going to hire someone to do it, asking them what
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GitHub Investigation Results Follow up(github.com)
3 points by JoshMilo 12y ago|0 comments
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by JoshMilo 13y ago
It's a bit strange to me too. I use this as a reference and it helps. http://yuilibrary.com/yui/docs/cssgrids/cssgrids-units-examp...
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by JoshMilo 13y ago
It's based on SMACSS, that's why they did it like that. It is a bit verbose though. I forked it so that I could make it a little cleaner. http://smacss.com/
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Ask HN: Name for our startup at Startup Weekend
2 points by JoshMilo 13y ago|4 comments
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by JoshMilo 13y ago
Here's some that I have found useful: Hack Your Education by Dale Stephens - http://goo.gl/O27Z8 Lean Startup - http://goo.gl/YVGuU Startup Communities by Brad Feld - http://goo.gl/CaGTA Rework by Jason Fried and DHH - http://goo.gl/
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by JoshMilo 13y ago
While there are plenty of online resources for self learning, what will give you an edge is to find a mentor that can provide feedback for your questions, steer you away from bad practices, and give you a roadmap/advice. You can start with
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If only some of these startup founders could hear themselves(tinylin.es)
1 points by JoshMilo 13y ago|0 comments
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Scorched - a lightweight framework for Ruby 2.0(scorchedrb.com)
9 points by JoshMilo 13y ago|1 comments
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by JoshMilo 14y ago
I was one of the beta users and it's great to see this keep improving. I'm glad Nate upgraded the prices for editing. That's the feature that attracts me the most.
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by JoshMilo 14y ago
Stay thirsty my friend.
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by JoshMilo 14y ago
I don't know how much longer we can romanticize this notion of more hours= better. While a certain amount of sacrifice is required, if you're working 70, 80, 100 hours a week you might just be inefficient. Sometimes longer hours will be req

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