evanlh

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by evanlh 3y ago
Yes, totally agree with this-- I perhaps should have emphasized that my point is to code the shortest path thru the hardest problem . If somehow you just code around the hard part & keep deferring that til later you haven't lear
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by evanlh 3y ago
Hi! Yes I couldn't find a better source, here's excerpting from the book-- "We once undertook a complex client-server database marketing project. Part of its requirement was the ability to specify and execute temporal queries
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by evanlh 3y ago
Yeah 100%. I'm not suggesting land technical debt, it's more about the approach to solving the problem in the early stages while you're still seeking a solution-- don't get bogged down by perfectly conforming to a bunch
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Code the shortest path first(evanlh.com)
134 points by evanlh 3y ago|112 comments
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Never Prescribe Understanding: Pre-WWDC AR/Dynamicland Thoughts(evanlh.com)
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Teleporting Thru Information Space(evanlh.com)
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by evanlh 5y ago
Great feedback re the risks of physical metaphors! I'd agree a bad one does more harm than good. Lakoff points out that our linguistic conceptions typically compose-- so you can talk about both IDEAS as BUILDINGS and as CONTAINERS beca
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by evanlh 5y ago
Will check them out, thanks for the recommendations!
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Metaphors we learn to program by(evanlh.com)
39 points by evanlh 5y ago|13 comments
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A short-list of short, grokkable, & influential CS papers(evanlh.com)
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Overcoming boredom in a Software Engineering career(evanlh.com)
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The operating system: should there be one? (2013) [pdf](citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)
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by evanlh 15y ago
I haven't done anything with Erlang in a while but perhaps these will help: ErlyWeb, a web server/framework: http://code.google.com/p/erlyweb/ ejabberd, a chat server: http://www.ejabberd.im/ MochiWeb, a library for building lightweight
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by evanlh 15y ago
None of these are explicitly startup-friendly, but they're all good for doing work at: http://newyork.timeout.com/restaurants-bars/restaurants/6328...
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by evanlh 16y ago
You're saying there's too many? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My-P4LssMsI It seemed appropriate.
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by evanlh 16y ago
Could you link to some? I was thinking about this just the other day, how I'd like to have someone to work through exercises like CodeKata with. Either mentoring or even just peer accountability would be really interesting. Thanks!
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by evanlh 16y ago
American, been following Brazil since I studied there in college. I am cautiously optimistic about Brazil's prospects, I believe a lot hinges on how quickly they're able to reduce their inequality and fix education. Bolsa familia is an inno