jayrobin

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by jayrobin 3y ago
Happened to me the other day. I got a weird feeling when they responded with a long message within seconds of me messaging (maybe it’s partially automated?), then when they wanted to pay upfront with Zelle and asked for my email I knew it w
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by jayrobin 3y ago
I miss my chunky Enter key! Also whenever I have to write a currency value in £ I'm always annoyed that I need to go to the Wikipedia entry for "Pound sign" and copy it from there. There's probably an easier way, but it
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Normal Fucking Things(normalfuckingthings.com)
3 points by jayrobin 5y ago|0 comments
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by jayrobin 5y ago
On the subject of moocs and books, which were some of your favorites? I'm an SWE with an out-of-date background in AI and I'd love to deep-dive into ML, but there are _so many_ mooc options nowadays without a great way to determin
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by jayrobin 6y ago
The general aim is to figure out how much money you need at different points in your life, for example: - how many years until you plan to retire? - how much do you need in retirement? How much do you expect to receive from social security&
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by jayrobin 9y ago
The original version was Taco Bell - Pizza Hut was dubbed over in international releases (the latter has a much greater international presence).
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by jayrobin 10y ago
I never understood the appeal of Dwarf Fortress until a good few hours into my first game I had just finished following a detailed tutorial and was starting to get a hang of the interface. I decided to start work on my first big constructio
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by jayrobin 10y ago
I'd also echo the suggestion to think hard about whether you really want to be a Project Manager or are you just following what you think is a traditional 'career path'. I became a Project Manager right out of college after c
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by jayrobin 11y ago
Setting the desktop background to a screenshot of the desktop, then hiding all the icons and the start bar.
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by jayrobin 11y ago
I've lost count of the number of times I've been approach by random people asking for feedback on their killer app idea whilst at http://www.workshopcafe.com/
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by jayrobin 12y ago
http://www.theodinproject.com/ helped me when I was first starting out: it organizes a huge amount of free online courses and learning materials into a syllabus to take you from complete beginner to junior web developer.
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by jayrobin 12y ago
I'm a Project Manager with eight years of experience, looking to transition back to a dev role. I have a CS bachelors and similar Masters, and have always been hacking away on side projects in my spare time. Location: San Francisco Rem
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Show HN: What Country a visual collection of stereotypes(what-country.com)
3 points by jayrobin 12y ago|0 comments
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by jayrobin 12y ago
I agree it looks more like Perlin noise due to the finer detail not seen in diamond square [1] and the lack of directional artifacts in midpoint displacement [2]. [1] http://www.gameprogrammer.com/fractal/heightmap.jpg
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by jayrobin 12y ago
I can't speak for the big guys, but I'm seeing more smaller Flash game devs make the transition from Flash to Haxe, mostly for the ease of porting to mobile/HTML5. I've been making Flash games on and off since about 2007
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by jayrobin 13y ago
I've been learning rails and recently began a personal project to build an app to automate the reinvestment of cex.io profits (i.e. bitcoins into bitcoin mining contracts - Gigahashes/sec). It's very minimalistic at the momen
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by jayrobin 13y ago
Interesting perspective. I often get annoyed at myself for remember very little from my school years that's not related to my current career or hobbies (e.g. history, geography, English lit) and almost feel that I should learn it all a
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by jayrobin 13y ago
I used to be a serious night owl: in university I commonly stayed up till 6-7am working thinking I was at my best. However, since getting into the real world and having a 9-5 I obviously couldn't keep this up, so recently I tried to sw
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by jayrobin 13y ago
I don't see how sitelocking would really work with HTML5 games, so I'd assume the revenue primarily came from sponsorships, i.e. a sponsor pays to place ads and links to their site in your game (usually preloaders, inter-stitials)
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by jayrobin 13y ago
My electronics skills are pretty much limited to upgrading my PC, so I was fully expecting to brick my iPhone in the process. Once you actually open it up though, everything slots in very nicely and obviously. The only tricky bit was keepin
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by jayrobin 13y ago
Actually, replacing components in an iPhone is relatively straightforward (if a bit fiddly). The home button on my iPhone 4 went completely (apparently a common issue): I bought a new one including tools for <$5 on Amazon and, following
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by jayrobin 13y ago
Masters of Doom is an absolutely brilliant book that rekindled my interest in game development. I'd heard of Carmack before reading it, but this news is so much more impactful knowing just how integral he was to making gaming what it i
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by jayrobin 13y ago
It just plugs straight into the HDMI port, so I don't see why not. Before the presentation started you'd need to set it up on the local wi-fi however.
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by jayrobin 13y ago
A bit of feedback: * Nice and simple design * I can't select the "Contains" or "Ends with" fields (this may be intentional) * I'm pretty sure it should be Boys' and Girls' rather than Boy's and G
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by jayrobin 13y ago
This excerpt[1] from "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman" comes to mind. Detailing a stage where Feynman lost his passion for physics and regained it by studying things purely for the satisfaction of his curiousity and the enj
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by jayrobin 13y ago
Thanks to that tutorial I made absolutely sure my starting point was aquifer-free, but I might try with one at some point just for the challenge. I use Phoebus' Graphics Pack on my 1024x600 netbook and it seems ok, but I'm pretty
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by jayrobin 13y ago
Tim Denee's two infographic/comics on his [1]Bronzemurder and [2]Oilfurnace fortresses were what finally convinced me to take the plunge. I knew basically nothing of the game, so found a random [3]step-by-step tutorial and actuall
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by jayrobin 13y ago
I respect the effort you've obviously put into developing this site, but in all honesty I can't see why I, as a user, would want to use your site in its current state over Rightmove or Zoopla. For me, the most important thing is k
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by jayrobin 13y ago
When I say a 'basic, one-page app' I just mean a controller serving static content (i.e. not even any models), which is the main topic of Hartl ch3. The point was really to try creating anything from scratch - starting with a ne
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by jayrobin 13y ago
I was in a sort of similar position a few months back and did the EDX.org Software as a Service course with the end goal of learning Rails. I was able to complete the set work and pass with a good grade, but Rails never really clicked for m

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