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by jjacobson 12y ago
I wanted to leverage the parallax scrolling background with Reveal and make it fun. And as soon as I plugged in the projector the entire classroom erupted with shouts of "Mario!!!!"
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by jjacobson 12y ago
I should write up my notes from talking to them. I explained that programming was like speaking a language computers understood and used Spanish and English as examples. I defined code as the words computers understand. I defined a program
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I just spoke to 80 first graders about programming for career day.(jimmyjacobson.github.io)
8 points by jjacobson 12y ago|5 comments
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by jjacobson 12y ago
My brother learned Cantonese fluently as a LDS Missionary. He then enlisted in the army after 9/11 and was given a battery of aptitude tests. I'm assuming this was one of them because he ended up at DLI learning Arabic and speaki
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by jjacobson 12y ago
Does this work with international numbers?
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Color Analysis of Netflix Cover Images(wired.com)
2 points by jjacobson 13y ago|0 comments
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Responsive Design inside an IFrame(codepen.io)
1 points by jjacobson 13y ago|0 comments
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Betabrand defaces own website in recruiting stunt(fastcompany.com)
1 points by jjacobson 13y ago|0 comments
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by jjacobson 13y ago
This is the kind of stuff they teach you in college with a CS degree.
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by jjacobson 13y ago
Hey Randall! I've heard of Vidpresso! Congrats on the hustle. Team Wediges is super excited for you.
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by jjacobson 13y ago
So glad Twitter is continuing the tradition of useless interview questions.
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by jjacobson 13y ago
There is a distinction between the Startup Battlefield (companies that are launching) and the Hackathon (apps and hacks made in a constrained time period). His criticism seems to be leveled at the Battlefield judging.
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RFID Mirrors, Green Screen Tees and Shoes that Meow(blog.wedgies.com)
1 points by jjacobson 13y ago|0 comments
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Poll: What is your favorite way to share code snippets?(wedgies.com)
1 points by jjacobson 13y ago|0 comments
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by jjacobson 13y ago
"Avoid risks that might kill your startup." I think partnerships are one of the big, overlooked killers of startups.
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by jjacobson 13y ago
Back Up
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Trader Joes is Down(traderjoes.com)
1 points by jjacobson 13y ago|3 comments
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Google Chrome was trying to warn us all along about PRISM(twitter.com)
4 points by jjacobson 13y ago|0 comments
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[Poll] Cofounder or Co-founder(tech.co)
1 points by jjacobson 13y ago|0 comments
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by jjacobson 13y ago
It just barely dawned on me today that I might be pissing a lot of people off. I've never considered the HOV lane to be a passing lane.
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What is the better way to eat a burrito?(wedgies.com)
1 points by jjacobson 13y ago|0 comments
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by jjacobson 13y ago
I love this story from two friends at Zappos. This is the good kind of fear. What motivates you?
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The shark that makes you swim faster(timmyho.me)
1 points by jjacobson 13y ago|1 comments
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Sublime Text Scroll Past Bottom(twitter.com)
2 points by jjacobson 13y ago|0 comments
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by jjacobson 13y ago
I'm not even sure if Will.I.Am knows what a hackathon is, but this is awesome.
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Will.i.am on National Civic Day of Hacking(youtube.com)
1 points by jjacobson 13y ago|1 comments
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How an App Made Me a Better Person(medium.com)
1 points by jjacobson 13y ago|1 comments
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by jjacobson 13y ago
Oh man, a book on Mason! That takes me back to some good old Perl days.
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by jjacobson 13y ago
On a long enough timeline, anomalies can happen anywhere.
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by jjacobson 13y ago
I heard about this via the Circa iOS app and then found this Youtube video while CNN was still just showing a map of the area the explosion happened in. The future of news isn't TV.

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