jacobroufa

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by jacobroufa 11y ago
tig
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by jacobroufa 11y ago
I'd have to recommend the Manifold trilogy by Stephen Baxter. I know it's not a book, but as a whole entity, it deserves to be looked at.
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by jacobroufa 11y ago
I just finished the Manifold series by Stephen Baxter. The series is a look at the (solution to, reason for, questions surrounding the) Fermi Paradox through three potential lenses. Best and most raw sci-fi I've ever read. The books le
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by jacobroufa 12y ago
This.
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by jacobroufa 12y ago
I'm currently working my way through Stephen Baxter's Manifold trilogy. His writing is incredibly insightful and psychedelic. I'd also suggest the Time Ships (only authorized Time Machine sequel) and anything from the Xeelee
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by jacobroufa 12y ago
The Time Ships, by Stephen Baxter The depth of his exploration of the human condition through the continuation of H.G. Wells' classic just floored me. My jaw was dropped practically from page one.
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by jacobroufa 12y ago
Have you tried Droid Sans Mono Slashed? I find that the slashed 0 helps readability quite a bit.
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by jacobroufa 12y ago
Another, similar thread here on HN today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8084866
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by jacobroufa 12y ago
If you know any journalists, I'm sure they'll have ideas -- They are (in my limited experience) intelligent and incredibly busy people, leaving them with little time to really dive in to every topic they see that interests them. A
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by jacobroufa 12y ago
Is there an equivalent program in Denmark or elsewhere in Europe?
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by jacobroufa 12y ago
Look for information you would want to see in your available media -- find a dataset and build it into a useful app to be filtered and queried in different ways. Map data points to physical locations. Correlate those things. At some point i
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by jacobroufa 13y ago
If the technology were there to have a workable version of Glass as a contact lens, I'd wear it all day every day. Augmentation of the senses is the next logical step, right?
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by jacobroufa 14y ago
I've been finding that just simply mocking up the sites/apps I'm building or even just pieces of their functionality has helped me refine what I feel is implementation of good user experience. The marker comes down to "Would I use that?", a
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by jacobroufa 14y ago
I'm very excited to try Angular. Your tutorial, however, is not compatible with the suggested server experience where Apache is not installed, as Node has updated to v0.8 and not only deprecated but removed the "sys" module in favor of the
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by jacobroufa 14y ago
I and a friend of mine launched http://www.brandonacademy.com We'll be releasing frequent UX and content updates over the course of the next couple months as we develop new features and add more tutorials. Please feel free to make suggest
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by jacobroufa 15y ago
Thanks for the feedback! Currently there are about 1000 songs in our database. We plan on adding more, and more instruments, soon.
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by jacobroufa 15y ago
Thanks for the feedback nik! I'm glad you like the idea. Personally, I can't wait to add more videos and more instruments so the appeal and potential audience of the site grows. I plan on adding a feedback form to the search page when there
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Teach yourself music. Learn your favorite songs.(brandonacademy.com)
10 points by jacobroufa 15y ago|4 comments
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by jacobroufa 15y ago
I think a proper response to this question would be in the form of another... What would happen if the US doesn't default? I was raised to think that my parents tried their damndest to leave this world a better place for their children. T
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by jacobroufa 15y ago
Though the rest of the features are relatively mild, I'm definitely a fan of the "hangout". I was just on a chat earlier with 4 friends - I'm in the pacific northwest, three of them were in the midwest in several cities and one was all the
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by jacobroufa 16y ago
Hope I can be helpful with this. I believe in active meditation, for lack of a better term. All of my activities I take in stride, paying attention to what I'm doing instead of just walking blindly through life. At least, that's the goal! I
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by jacobroufa 16y ago
This is great! One of the reasons 2010 has been so wonderful for me is because of the lack of fear I've had! It took awhile for me to get over all of this... half of 2008, all of 2009, and the beginning of 2010 were all wasted because I was
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by jacobroufa 16y ago
A big part of me got over my past failures and just moved on. For me this is big and has allowed me to successfully take on new clients and explore the larger world of a freelance web dev. I learned that it's not about the perceived failure
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by jacobroufa 16y ago
My condolences. My father plays a huge role in my life. He's got Parkinson's Disease and has had it for well over a decade now... it will eventually kill him. So I've had time to think about this. The truth is, when it comes time, I have no
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by jacobroufa 16y ago
Hit up @abraham. Good friend of mine. He's moving to the bay area and actively looking for a place now. Good luck!
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Domain Price Matrix(robinmonks.com)
2 points by jacobroufa 16y ago|0 comments
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by jacobroufa 16y ago
Javascript Read Javascript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford. After reading this, I can't help but agree that JS has always gotten a bad rep and been undervalued. It really can be an elegant language, and Crockford found the perfect way
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by jacobroufa 16y ago
Worked fine for me!
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by jacobroufa 16y ago
18 - Learn proper use of a version control system.
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by jacobroufa 16y ago
"I find it a much better strategy to talk about what problems a manager is facing and how my joining the team will help resolve those problems." This. I have a short list of 3-4 references and 3-4 gigs that I've done that I use with all my

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