shauns

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Is Precognition Real?(boingboing.net)
2 points by shauns 4y ago|0 comments
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The electronic ocean model (1960)(collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk)
40 points by shauns 4y ago|4 comments
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by shauns 5y ago
You are right that you can only await in an async function, but you can call an async function anywhere and get back a Promise. await-ing that promise is often what you want to do but there are other ways to do work once the promise has res
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by shauns 6y ago
I think people miss the wait part of await and hence forget they can separate the creation and consumption of a promise. Should have been called waitFor!
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by shauns 6y ago
That is a perfect analogy!
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by shauns 6y ago
Growth Mindset might be a bit of a wooly term but that tends to be what I look for. I want people who continually get better. There are lots of resources on specific things you can discuss for this. For me, I think simply asking "what
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by shauns 6y ago
Thanks for sharing - and that article is really interesting. Being "good at hiring" -- and hence having better people -- is such an advantage for an organisation, it always surprises me that too often we fall back on seemingly def
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by shauns 6y ago
Thank you. Sleeping on it, and writing this post, has definitely bought things back into perspective: we can all have off days. It had been a while since I'd had this sort of negative experience, and what I would say is it's re-re
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Interview Nightmares
16 points by shauns 6y ago|18 comments
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by shauns 6y ago
This was really interesting — can anyone offer a recommendation for a book on the history of these types of schemes? I imagine there’s all sorts of entertaining stories.
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by shauns 9y ago
Practically, de Bono’s six thinking hats exercise is really useful. You might naturally dwell on black hat thinking - the exercise forces you to look at ideas in a different way. https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article&
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Eventlet vs. Asyncio(medium.com)
1 points by shauns 12y ago|0 comments