brw12

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Ask HN: Are there "story-based" and "fact-based" people?
19 points by brw12 2y ago|32 comments
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by brw12 3y ago
A book I think is crucial is Creativity, Inc. (the Pixar book). The most important piece of its perspective, I think, is the idea that managers can screw things up in a bajillion ways, and that it takes consistent work and focus to create a
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by brw12 3y ago
I really liked this -- it's so true about my road to programming (pseudo-) expertise. Almost everything I've been paid to do, I first did on a hobby level, just messing around with my own projects and ideas.
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by brw12 3y ago
[I was an engineer at Scratch for 4 years] My suggestion is to try using the contact form again. Sorry that isn't more helpful.
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by brw12 3y ago
[I was an engineer at Scratch for 4 years] The "what do we do after Scratch" question is tricky! There's no super clear answer (and a big market opportunity!) It is important for people getting deeper into programming to lear
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by brw12 4y ago
What is "Three"?
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by brw12 4y ago
Pretty sweet. Eventually DOOM crashed but man what that fun. Bravo
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Productivity feature: in Chrome 88, you can name your windows(benjiwheeler.medium.com)
1 points by brw12 6y ago|0 comments
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by brw12 6y ago
Wow, I've never felt so seen by an essay.
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by brw12 6y ago
I'm a dedicated Evernote user. I add just about everything I generate or want to record to Evernote, in one big "notebook", and then I extensively use tagging to make sure everything is findable. I try to use every tag I migh
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Looking Glass Portrait, Kickstarter: Your first personal holographic display(kickstarter.com)
2 points by brw12 6y ago|0 comments
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by brw12 6y ago
I'm a huge skeptic of no-code among my friends and colleagues. But seeing how pretty much everyone else here is also expressing skepticism, let me play devil's advocate. I recognize that the utopian promise of no-code is nonsense.
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by brw12 6y ago
I largely disagree with this article, but it is informative and decently reasoned. I think the author is haphazard and inconsistent with where they apply their imagination: fantastically generously when it comes to the police who killed Geo
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Ask HN: What to do if coworkers aren't reviewing my code?
1 points by brw12 7y ago|3 comments
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by brw12 7y ago
From my own 4 years' experience, I echo what zenpaul said, and would add: * Understand who your client is, and stop and check in if they change. I once had a manager at a client company change mid-project, and the politics (and sense
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Why parents should worry about Facebook (it's not the lack of privacy)(medium.com)
1 points by brw12 8y ago|0 comments
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What to tell kids about Stephen Hawking(medium.com)
1 points by brw12 9y ago|0 comments
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by brw12 9y ago
Thanks, it's very helpful to hear about your experience! Out of interest, is your site up? It would be interesting to take a look. Glad to hear you had a decent experience doing virtual DOM yourself. Not super surprised to hear about t
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Ask HN: Where does JQuery hit a wall?
2 points by brw12 9y ago|2 comments
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by brw12 9y ago
From many people I have seen succeed and fail at being quants (in the high frequency trading realm, which is different in many ways than the derivatives analysis world), you don't really need any Financial background, besides being a t
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by brw12 9y ago
Honestly; Evernote. Or any tagged note taking system. Web development has a near infinity of branching Technologies, languages comic conventions, and domain specific languages. A lot of the work of web development is building up your own do
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by brw12 9y ago
I'm not ready to call BS on this, but I'm deeply skeptical of the general language they're using. They might have iteratively gotten particular recognition to do what they say, but I don't think they've gotten recog
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by brw12 9y ago
Strong disagree with Svip. Training doesn't make good drivers. Who is going to ensure the trainers are good? Who is going to test that the training is being effective? More restrictive licensing, with more consistent requirements, migh
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by brw12 9y ago
I highly recommend SEVENEVES. It's like NS doing "The Martian" but weirder.
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Ask HN: Any online courseware with these features?
2 points by brw12 9y ago|0 comments
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by brw12 9y ago
I'm constantly surprised by the poor contextual quality of speech recognition. I think the basic audio recognition does well, but when there is ambiguity, it seems like systems that are popularly considered high-performing degrade dras
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by brw12 9y ago
You're pointing to an important difference: between being uninformed but trying to get towards being informed, and being uninformed but fiercely protective of your certainty. What Would Feynman Do? In this case, I'm imagining he&#
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by brw12 9y ago
This is a landmark achievement in video games.
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by brw12 9y ago
Create a Medium publication! Or, a photocopied 'zine!
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by brw12 9y ago
This is the real world, people. Of course a company that needs its employees to be effective has to censor employees whose outspoken views make their teams less effective. The army kicks people out for all sorts of reasons. Coaches cut play

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