andkon

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by andkon 4y ago
I’m a philosophy grad who learned to code a couple years out of school. Philosophy gives you a set of meta cognitive skills that help everywhere. It teaches you how to think. It shows you what class of problems are soluble, and which are th
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by andkon 4y ago
As an engineering manager, I read and agree with this guy's critique. Coding is creative, uncertain, and vulnerable work, and if engineering managers are responsible for whatever leads to results (as he reads Drucker as saying, and w
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by andkon 4y ago
This was like five years ago that I had one, but as far as I remember, OP-1 isn't grid-based (though maybe some of the instruments are?). It's basically like a four track tape mixer. You can loop bar-by-bar, and then copy from bar
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by andkon 4y ago
From wikipedia: > A logic gate is an idealized or physical device implementing a Boolean function, a logical operation performed on one or more binary inputs that produces a single binary output. Depending on the context, the term may re
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by andkon 4y ago
One thing that can make it fun, speaking as a former kid who grew up playing fiddle, is to get to play with other kids and connect with other kids through music. Maybe that's tough with piano, but youth orchestra, band, fiddle circles,
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by andkon 5y ago
Oh man, you gotta charge more! This is insanely cheap. The average substack charges $5 a month, and you usually get an email a week at best.
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by andkon 5y ago
I think you're right that the services themselves break, but more often than not, the failure mode is that what page you're monitoring changes its structure, and then every refresh gives you data that is incommensurate with what c
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by andkon 5y ago
Contra the above dude, I don't think it's all that strange for Facebook employees to profit directly off of their access to these systems. See this article about how employees charge for verifications: https://mashable.
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by andkon 5y ago
I will give you one breadstick (real)
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by andkon 5y ago
Also it would be nice if this book could do all the deploying for me.
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by andkon 5y ago
You've never put a number of elements together in a div, and added a class and styles to that div rather than each individual element? You should try it out.
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by andkon 5y ago
I was just making a funny joke about how it was developed originally for cruise missiles. Though it turns out I was misremembering: it was made for guided missile destroyers. And it makes sense! What a great use case. https://en.
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by andkon 5y ago
Don’t forget to count all the cruise missiles, too!
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by andkon 5y ago
This is really helpful. I love the idea of reaching out on long-running and getting feedback directly - that seems a great qualitative way to get a sense of what's going on, and fits well with my own experience about how to talk to ear
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by andkon 5y ago
Wowwww this is lovely! Have you written anywhere about what you've done on the projects you've maintained along these lines? I think we'd all benefit from hearing more about what you can do in a project to make contributors m
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by andkon 5y ago
Y'know, bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder both are things that are hard to handle. The latter is usually connected to having had a childhood that was so chaotic and confusing that it was hard to tell good from bad. T
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by andkon 5y ago
Hmmm, what parts feel harder or not described above? In my experience it really is just about learning the scales and the chords, like the author mentions. Then you just have to let yourself make the connection. That can be really hard. But
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by andkon 5y ago
I was very grateful to see this disclaimer: > I've spent months working on this program
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by andkon 5y ago
Dumb question, but is there an equivalent concern for Vue? Or a reason why this kinda checking isn't necessary there?
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by andkon 5y ago
It's not just that he has to sort winners from the losers. It's that he has to be the first most important seeming VC in their minds. And he accomplishes that with these blog posts. That, and by using these posts to posit that peo
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by andkon 5y ago
Somehow I’d always end up doing this most right in the middle of finals.
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by andkon 5y ago
Learning to play an instrument is usually about learning many many tiny discrete skills that build on one another and can be combined in creative ways to express what's most important and vital at that moment. You can play an instrumen
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by andkon 5y ago
Hey, I’m in the midst of that - of going from full-time tech work after nearly a decade, to a career as an artist (in film and music, mainly). I wonder what you mean by “working in the arts.” The examples you offer are pretty diverse! Liter
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by andkon 5y ago
As an indigenous guy getting into film and trying to get indigenous stories made, I really love this. Hope it comes together. Is the licensing you do for content that's already been made? I guess I was curious how the "original&qu
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Dev Diaries: Speeding up Bottlebeagle by breaking it into happy little chunks(bottlebeagle.com)
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by andkon 5y ago
lolll I feel you. It's really hard to tell the difference between the Guy Raz kinda story you describe, and stories where someone really did find a better life for themselves where things really are better. They all just sound like hag
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by andkon 5y ago
Are you skeptical because it seems too good to be true that he might actually enjoy it? Honestly, i think I understand what he’s saying. I started doing some barback work - basically keeping the bar moving - after being in tech for a decade
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by andkon 5y ago
A lot of replies here, like in most conversations about burnout, are offering advice about what you can specifically do. A more important question, I think, is to ask why you build a life where you worked so much that you burned yourself ou
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by andkon 5y ago
One of their iOS devs who left has been incredibly vocal about how he no longer felt like this was somewhere he could work because of this policy and its effects, so I think you're plainly wrong (or insisting that there's no way w
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by andkon 7y ago
By default, say no! Say: oh wow, I'm motivated by this thing on HN. How exciting! Let me make a note about what I think is cool about this, take a while to reflect on whether it's worth kicking other things out of my life to do, t

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