landongn

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by landongn 6y ago
phone addiction is not the problem, application addiction and products built around addictive loops are the problem.
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by landongn 6y ago
no, indeed
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Learn technique, not just libraries(medium.com)
2 points by landongn 9y ago|0 comments
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Interviewing for a job in tech(medium.com)
2 points by landongn 9y ago|0 comments
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What Hunter Thompson Could Teach You God Damn Animals About Being a Professional(medium.com)
1 points by landongn 9y ago|0 comments
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by landongn 10y ago
I can identify with this sentiment completely and fully, as someone with close to 15 years in this industry can be. It's all just the same as Mary in accounting making spreadsheets, or your boss making powerpoint decks. The fact that o
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by landongn 10y ago
PS4 has been doing this for years through PlayStation Now and Gaikai tech. Remote play works phenomenally well, as does PS Now. You should go pick up a trial of the PC app (psnow.com) and try it out for yourself.
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by landongn 11y ago
it feels a little silly to say this out loud, but I'm convinced that what Steven Wittens is doing on the web is some of the most advanced and incredible stuff I've seen since the original chrome experiments came out. Every time I
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by landongn 12y ago
"Just fix the bug, learn whatever you can from it so hopefully you won't do it again" The baggage associated with bugs is so prevalent that we can't talk about them without a real sense of shame. "Hopefully you won
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by landongn 12y ago
The real issue is communication, not necessarily budget, as the reason software projects I've been exposed to fail. A project manager can only get you so far, especially if the team dynamic is rotten or even sub-par. Management is neve
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by landongn 12y ago
Credit where credit is due, that was lifted nearly wholesale from codinghorror. Wonder how you do liner notes with Medium. I'm a terrible writer, so the rest of the items I've stolen or otherwise isn't to stand on the shoul
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by landongn 12y ago
Absolutely true. Shantytowns are a common parallel to big balls of mud, and I think that would hold true for anything that gets constructed.
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Things I've learned about writing software after 12 years(medium.com)
298 points by landongn 12y ago|118 comments
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by landongn 12y ago
Welcome! It's something I was working on for a while.
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12 Years Later – What I've learned about software engineering(medium.com)
7 points by landongn 12y ago|2 comments
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by landongn 12y ago
I would absolutely love a resource like this.
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Things I wish someone had told me when I was learning Ember.js(landongn.com)
2 points by landongn 12y ago|0 comments
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by landongn 12y ago
Ember, Ember, Ember. Oh, how I love thee. There are a few types of javascript styles that I've found are pretty common. - Event Based (jQuery-esq) - Class Based with router (backbone, marionette, et al) - Declarative with routing (Emb
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by landongn 13y ago
Looks like the vast majority of this is built as a wordpress plugin. You may run into scaling issues due to the massive amounts of overhead within the wp_loop for this to be something sustainable long term. Looking through the rendered sou
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by landongn 13y ago
The mental picture of these people, huddled on a bumpy bus, in the middle of the night, being the only regular thing they can look forward to is incredibly saddening. I wish there was something I could personally do.
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by landongn 13y ago
Seems straightforward: - certain combinations of words within phrases score all over the place - hand those to mechanical turk for human classification - understand where the results differ from the model - patch the model where necessary w
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Google Drive automation through template tags(landongn.com)
1 points by landongn 13y ago|0 comments
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by landongn 13y ago
is the "developers" dig really necessary? MongoDB is fine-- at least until you start seeing significant scale, and even then, it's going to run into the same issues as everything else would if you hit it too hard, too often.
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"Ding"(thock.net)
1 points by landongn 14y ago|0 comments