julsonl

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by julsonl 8y ago
True. A lot of my closest friendships came about from me just being in their repeated general proximity for a long-enough period of time.
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by julsonl 9y ago
This is the book I wish I had 5 years ago.
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by julsonl 10y ago
I'm not arguing against writing integration tests, they are as important if not more important, as you've said. Maybe I've only seen badly written ones, but my issue was against integration tests that check for example if thi
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by julsonl 10y ago
In my experience, it's usually not the existence of unit tests themselves that's causing an issue, but that most of them are badly written. One telltale sign is when writing the unit test becomes overly painful (like too much code
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by julsonl 10y ago
I'm doing the exact same thing! (quitting end of this month too). While I haven't decided to completely leave tech, I'm planning to do a couple of 3-month furniture intensive classes for my sabbatical this year. I'm also
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by julsonl 10y ago
I'd suggest finding a hands-on online course that gives you a tiny portfolio in the end. A lot of the fun with programming is seeing your work come alive and seeing all the projects you've completed. Assuming you haven't prog
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by julsonl 10y ago
Wow. You've described exactly what goes in my head during parties. I've been better at faking it / being able to emit short bursts of real gregariousness, but I've never been able to completely get rid of the anxiety.
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by julsonl 12y ago
Just Effin Do It?
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by julsonl 13y ago
Even so, the GWT creators ended up recognizing the value of presentation markup and introduced the UIBinder system (HTML markup + XML for custom widgets), which arguably made my life a whole lot easier when I was working on a moderate-sized
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by julsonl 13y ago
Having local storage is good for services like Spotify though, especially for those long road trips where the signal can be a bit spotty.
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by julsonl 13y ago
That looks narrow-minded for those particular employers though. The leadership might have made a lot of questionable decisions, but I don't think that should affect the quality of the engineers from that company.
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by julsonl 14y ago
For games, Chris Granger and his team have coded up a prototype game in Clojurescript using the Entity-Component-System architecture, which seems to be a good fit for functional languages. It might be worth checking out: http://www.chris-g
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by julsonl 14y ago
One thing I've learned from trying to learn drawing is that there's value in creating rough sketches in order to capture a certain form or gesture. It feels like coding small-scoped side projects is the coding equivalent of this.
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by julsonl 14y ago
Other than improving my programming skills and learning a bit more computer science theory in general: 1. Music. Learning to play the piano 2. Drawing and Painting 3. Cooking
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by julsonl 14y ago
It depends on the company. The company I work for right now had a software architect that worked 3 days a week only for a couple of months or so before going full-time (I think he was building a multi-monitor helicopter flight sim setup if
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by julsonl 14y ago
I'm not actually part of the hacker school batch (though I wish I were). I might try my hand applying for the next semester.
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by julsonl 14y ago
This sounds awesome! I've just started learning about Clojure and Clojurescript and have encountered a lot of David Nolen's work. It'll be amazing to be able to hack with and learn from him for those 3 months.
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by julsonl 14y ago
I tend to have thoughts that maybe I have a genetic disadvantage that prevents me from excelling from things that I care about (programming, computer science, drawing, etc.), but I would rather die with the illusion that I could succeed in
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by julsonl 14y ago
The issue I have with commenting is some people enforce it for the sake of having comments in place, which would most of the time describe the "what" and the "how" of the code, rather than the "why", which in my opinion, where most of the v
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by julsonl 14y ago
If you're getting into mobile phone development (likely Android), then you should start with Java. I think some people have managed to compile/run clojure to run on Android, but there are still some performance hurdles that will need to be
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by julsonl 14y ago
I never play public games and only play with a group of friends, so I can't comment on that aspect. With regards to class distribution, I have a good mix of friends playing various classes (I think I only know one rolling DH).
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by julsonl 14y ago
I accidentally deleted my post, but what I was trying to say previously (in which the parent replied to), was that higher difficulties require thinking, like dodging an Arcane sentry, or moving away from molten/plague pools. Adding to that,
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by julsonl 14y ago
That's where I think most people are wrong about inferno though. That difficulty rewards proper communication and group play. Sure, soloing everything requires a crap-ton of godly loot, but damage and defenses can be compensated by a proper
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by julsonl 14y ago
I think it still is, especially if you have friends to play it with. With all the vitriol with regards to Inferno being a grind-fest in order to progress, I do think it is a more of a thinking game compared to Diablo 2, with classes being a
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by julsonl 14y ago
I feel that this article is suitable to HN, not for its actual content, but for the intelligent discussions that eventually spring out of it.
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by julsonl 15y ago
Robots. Program their navigation and computer vision capabilities. Develop a base station with some fancy augmented reality overlays.
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by julsonl 15y ago
Another thing to look into would be Vagrant ( http://vagrantup.com/ ). You can have all your ruby/rails specific dependencies in a Virtualbox VM and not worry about setting it up in your host OS. It also has the added benefit of easily tear
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by julsonl 15y ago
I've always wanted to get into the DIY drones crowd, but can't find enough motivation to actually start cranking up stuff. Back in college, I took microcontroller classes and programmed them in assembly, but missed the chance to build a coo
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Whistle Blower Threatened with 35 Years in Prison, Warns of Developing Tyranny(therealnews.com)
4 points by julsonl 15y ago|2 comments
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by julsonl 15y ago
I don't know if it's a cultural thing, but a lot of women I know from back home (third-world country, like drusenko mentioned) are excellent negotiators. They have the have patience, charm and downright persistence to squeeze every single p

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