mdkess

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by mdkess 6y ago
I've been working on FluentCard.com - trying to build a better flashcard app for learning to read and write Chinese. The MVP is more or less done, and I'm honestly not sure what to do next or where to take it. I've been using
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by mdkess 13y ago
If you're a developer - take a look at the keyboard first. They replaced the F keys with capacitive buttons (ie. touch sensitive buttons as opposed to physical buttons) and the capslock key was split into a home/end key instead. S
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Garrett Hardin - The Tragedy of the Commons [1968](garretthardinsociety.org)
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by mdkess 13y ago
For me, anyway, the answer is tracking time. If I want to do something, say, work on a project, I set a timer for 30 minutes and start working on the project. My rule for myself is that for 30 minutes, I have to work on the project, even if
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by mdkess 13y ago
Throttle is different, it's a rate limiter, whereas debounce just measures delays between calls. With throttle, the server request would be made every 200ms rather than 200ms after the user stops typing. From a user experience though,
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by mdkess 13y ago
Underscore has a nifty function, _.debounce, which given a function f, returns a version of the function that behaves as the one in your interview question. http://underscorejs.org/#debounce Even if not using libraries, it
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by mdkess 13y ago
That would only be true if you had to pay the tax and nobody else did. Assuming the result of the tax is less liquidity, higher volatility and bigger spreads, it could cost you quite a bit more.
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by mdkess 13y ago
No problem, thanks for the blog post! I'd highly recommend taking the course - even with a traditional math/cs undergraduate degree from a good school, it was one of the best courses I've ever taken, both in terms of executio
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by mdkess 13y ago
I don't think that I really understood closures until I took Dan Grossman's Coursera course "Programming Languages." In it, we implemented in Racket a simple programming language which included closures, which is the poi
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by mdkess 13y ago
Within the team, I think that is entirely appropriate. People thrive on, and should be given responsibility. Individuals should be rewarded or disciplined appropriately. That is part of the manager's job. Outside of the team, ultimatel
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by mdkess 13y ago
"Compliments should always go to the team. Credit should be handed out freely and generously. Success belongs to the team but failures belong to you." This is a distinguishing trait of every great manager that I've worked wit
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What is Enlightenment?(columbia.edu)
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by mdkess 13y ago
I do something similar - discovered before I heard about the pomodoro technique. What I do is: 1. Pick a task, and explicitly state my goal. You could write it down, but the point is just to have a better than high level idea of what you&#x
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by mdkess 13y ago
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not (60-40 that you aren't - that's not to belittle you, I think you raised points worth discussing either way) - so in the case that you aren't, a response: You keep cars o
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by mdkess 13y ago
You've changed the question from "is the invention non-obvious, in the sense that current law requires to grand a patent?" to "do you agree with current patent laws and the value of patents?"
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by mdkess 13y ago
It's a result of low interest rates and mortgages being the only way that most people can leverage themselves.
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by mdkess 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_value_of_money Imagine we enter an agreement - you'll lend me $100 for a year, and I'll pay you $10 after a year. The banks will pay you $5 to borrow your $100, so you think
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by mdkess 13y ago
Man, don't let people discourage you. I guess the thing that you should realize though is that this isn't a degree in computer programming, or IT - it's a more or less a mathematics degree. As the saying goes, "Computer
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by mdkess 13y ago
The idea with a basic income is that it's taxed back from the wealthier. There's no way without knowing income distribution and tax rates, but I would imagine that someone making $150k pre basic income is not seeing any change in
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by mdkess 13y ago
I think they're saying that the username has to match [a-zA-Z0-9_\.@/-]{6,} - note the "or" there.
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by mdkess 13y ago
I'm certainly no Angular expert, so take my advice with a healthy amount of skepticism, but I think that it would be one element. The idea being that if I want to swap that stuff out for a new and improved quantity picker, I just chang
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by mdkess 13y ago
That's pretty harsh. How does one support Safari if they don't have a Mac?
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by mdkess 13y ago
Nice writeup, I especially appreciate the focus on testing. End product looks really slick. You might want to add a screenshot and a link to the blog post in the GitHub repo that you posted. One thing that I think could be improved is the l
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by mdkess 13y ago
Imagine hiring a manager who expected their reports to be in at 9am sharp, when the current company culture is to work whatever hours people want. Or someone who very strongly preferred a more methodological approach to development to a &qu
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by mdkess 13y ago
My intent was to be terse, not rude, and to give actionable feedback - not hidden in language and subtext. And anyway, language is supposed to have edge! I didn't want to say "this is sort of kind of less than optimal." I wan
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by mdkess 13y ago
This is not a very good visualization. It makes it impossible to compare values in any meaningful sense - either in a relative growth, or the size of the budget as a whole. The animation serves no purpose, other than to make the user wait a
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by mdkess 13y ago
I have to say, I much prefer people referring to it as Golang, otherwise it is impossible to search for.
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by mdkess 13y ago
I really like that this is collaborative and anonymous. I could see as the company grows, bands and bonuses being set by popular vote. At the same time however, you have to pay market rates. If a good employee has an offer for 20% more than
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by mdkess 13y ago
I don't think on the right side it matches either. From J if I move down I always hit between N and M. Actually, at least on my keyboard, I think that the right side is worse - I find myself in a position where my thumb is on the space
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by mdkess 13y ago
Why are we continuing to use staggered layouts on keyboards? It is clearly inefficient, and not difficult to switch to a matrix (ie. grid based) layout, since all of the keys are close to where they were before. Second question - in this da

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