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Trusting Others and Technology Choices(hundredminutehack.blogspot.com)
2 points by pcote 9y ago|0 comments
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Fun with Python and Monkey Patching(hundredminutehack.blogspot.com)
4 points by pcote 9y ago|0 comments
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Drag and Drop Files with HTML5 and Flask(hundredminutehack.blogspot.com)
3 points by pcote 10y ago|0 comments
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When Side Projects Become Brownfields(hundredminutehack.blogspot.com)
1 points by pcote 10y ago|0 comments
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by pcote 10y ago
For me, the right fit is Python and Javascript. However, my problems and your problems are not the same. Java EE might be the best choice for what you are tackling for all I know. Also, you'll likely find that the year being 2017 is
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by pcote 10y ago
For me, Anki reviews are a morning ritual. I do whatever it scheduled for the day. Then, I take time to review weaknesses. Then I move onto doing my actual projects. A combination of project experience and curiosity inform me as to what
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by pcote 10y ago
The first thing that pops into my brain is how memory allocation works on a computer. In that context, indirection works really well. My program makes a general request for memory resources. The vm handles talking to the operating system
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JQuery Ideas That Help Me Memorize Really Big Numbers(hundredminutehack.blogspot.com)
2 points by pcote 10y ago|0 comments
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by pcote 10y ago
Morally, I agree with you. DRM is an exercise in futility. But you aren't really comparing apples to apples here. I radio ripped my share of music too when I was a kid. It was a pain. I had no little control and often no warning abo
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Making an HTML5 Paint Program for Fun and Fun(hundredminutehack.blogspot.com)
2 points by pcote 10y ago|0 comments
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by pcote 10y ago
Functional, yes. I can't think of too many cases where JQuery has every prevented me from mutating anything.
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by pcote 10y ago
That's not exactly the way I think of it. I try to be pragmatic about my tech choices, even if I might be wrong at times. To pick on your NoSQL example. There was one project where I had a large set of records which were all JSON in
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by pcote 10y ago
Nope. jQuery came first. For me, it was a matter of spending a few years in Java shops. Most of the work was so server-side focused that I ended up forgetting a lot of my Javascript. After leaving my last job, I decided I needed to updat
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by pcote 10y ago
I almost went down the event delegation route. The only thing that stopped me was having stumbled upon a tactic that happened to work where I just attached individualized event handlers one at a time. I appreciate the input and will make
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Stepping Backwards from AngularJS to JQuery – An Experiment(hundredminutehack.blogspot.com)
36 points by pcote 10y ago|67 comments
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Python and JavaScript Jam Session – A Web Interface for Apt-Cache(hundredminutehack.blogspot.com)
1 points by pcote 10y ago|0 comments
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Making Things Within the Quadrants of Want(hundredminutehack.blogspot.com)
1 points by pcote 10y ago|0 comments
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Flashmark – What It Is and Why I Made It(hundredminutehack.blogspot.com)
1 points by pcote 10y ago|0 comments
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by pcote 10y ago
>> Seems that SV and Stanford could do a lot more to fix the issues closer at hand in the Bay Area (homelessness, unaffordable living, rising inequality) and the US in general before solving all the worlds problems. Lead by example so
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Using Python to Play with Binary Files(hundredminutehack.blogspot.com)
1 points by pcote 10y ago|0 comments
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Speedy Deployments and the Meaning of Devops(hundredminutehack.blogspot.com)
2 points by pcote 10y ago|1 comments
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by pcote 10y ago
>> The true roots of liberal arts (which used to include everything from astronomy to mathematics to botany) lie in creating a well-rounded, educated, sophisticated person. That's fine so long as you actually want to become the p
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by pcote 10y ago
> The fact that I didn’t really know where it would end up meant that I was perhaps more open to outside suggestions and influence than I would have been if I had a very good idea of what I wanted to accomplish. Not sure if I'm proj
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by pcote 10y ago
That is a problem. When I first joined Linkedin, one of the first questions I asked openly was about the difference between "pass by value" vs. "pass by reference". There were some good people in those forums. Over tim
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Keep Your Database Permissions Small(hundredminutehack.blogspot.com)
1 points by pcote 11y ago|0 comments
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by pcote 11y ago
Attempt to translate..... "If you're over 25, chances are your peers don't play Minecraft. I'm over 25. Therefore, I'll play Minecraft when more players are established working age adults." Good luck with tha
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by pcote 11y ago
The move of reduce to functools makes sense. But it's also inconsistent. map and filter should also be in the functools package tools right alongside partial and reduce. But instead, they're in __builtins__ because .... they&#x
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The Fumblina Full Stack Philosophy(hundredminutehack.blogspot.com)
1 points by pcote 11y ago|0 comments
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by pcote 11y ago
Environment context switches can have cognitive load too. Going from Win 8 to Cygwin is like that. So is Win 8 to a Linux VM. That's probably one of the biggest reliefs of the Linux switch as the host OS. To work with a vagrant box
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by pcote 11y ago
I know what you mean. Sometimes, though, nonconformity can be done for practical reasons. It's not always about being different for the sake of challenging the status quo. My landlady ran into a problem with her Windows 8 machine. T

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