thinnerlizzy

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by thinnerlizzy 3y ago
Any comments from folks who actually kinda like Drupal? I can cop to it almost driving me to tears until I got over the quite considerable learning curve, and once past that I could most any CRUD app with minimal, if any, new code. Once I g
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by thinnerlizzy 3y ago
Drupal basically is a headless CMS plus a CMS front end if you expose the web service module.
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by thinnerlizzy 5y ago
My work experiences during these years were about following strict orders and getting reamed at / yelled it for deviating, trying to improve things, etc.
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by thinnerlizzy 5y ago
I worked for several people like this in high school. In fact all of the people I worked for in high school were like this. One example being having to clean hot outdoor bathrooms in mid July heat with a mean case of mono and a temperature
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by thinnerlizzy 5y ago
Self taught, but at some point over the last several years the hiring criteria changed and I couldn’t get hired for a programming job without software engineering concepts such as binary search trees.
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by thinnerlizzy 5y ago
I liked iTunes back in the Steve Jobs days when, if album art wasn’t available, in its place it would display the album info on the diagonal against a white background, as if it were an old bootleg with stamped info on a white record sleeve
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by thinnerlizzy 6y ago
Anecdotal of course but I left and don’t plan to return. I also don’t know anyone who still lives there that doesn’t want to leave. That was mostly true pre-pandemic however.
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by thinnerlizzy 6y ago
I have this problem myself. I've gotten around it in the past by taking roles where the visibility is already baked into it, but I've never really solved the root problem. Now I'm a mostly anonymous, invisible contractor at a
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by thinnerlizzy 6y ago
A 1960 Fisher X-1000 stereo amplifier that pumps out about 50 wpc, high for a tube amplifier. I found it on the street about 10 years ago, restored it, made a new brass faceplate, and it sounds just amazing.
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by thinnerlizzy 7y ago
I too have noticed the cadence, and it occurred to me that non-native English speakers probably benefit from his deliberate cadences. I find it to be a well designed podcast.
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by thinnerlizzy 7y ago
I had a rejection from Facebook a few months ago and I got no feedback like that. The feedback I got was that I did extremely well throughout the interview process and demonstrated that I was qualified for that type of position. It was just
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by thinnerlizzy 7y ago
Several months ago my AirBnB (2FA enabled) account was compromised. The scammer booked me for a property - the listing populated with blatant stock photos, no ratings - that was stated to be somewhere in England, but the pin on the map was
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by thinnerlizzy 7y ago
I've been using Lipton for this purpose and don't like all the packaging either. What do you use to contain the dust while you brew overnight? I make mine in a pitcher that lasts a few days.
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by thinnerlizzy 7y ago
Not in my part of Brooklyn. Don’t even think about getting a package shipped to your home address in my zip code.
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by thinnerlizzy 7y ago
Thank you! I appreciate it. I do it as much for the love of bringing things to life as the money.
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by thinnerlizzy 7y ago
I created ShutterDeck[1], a system for controlling multi-camera arrays. I designed and built the hardware and the iPhone app, which serves as a remote control for the device. I do basically no advertising or I'd probably sell more. The
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by thinnerlizzy 8y ago
I just had a Google technical phone interview. I won't divulge the question but it was related to a design pattern that JavaScript developers use every day in frameworks like Vue/React, yet probably never had to program from scrat
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by thinnerlizzy 8y ago
I second many of the tips here but also if you just want to make things happen while you’re learning, look at modules on Adafruit and Sparkfun. Like software libraries, they abstract away the complexity, and like software libraries you wire
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by thinnerlizzy 8y ago
I’m going off memory too, but I think that besides the name and profile photo of your friends (and email address?) this API didn’t return much else. And I also think I remember that the amount of your data that would turn up in a friend lis
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by thinnerlizzy 9y ago
Perhaps "plant-based" is the term they were looking for.
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by thinnerlizzy 9y ago
I worked there for a time and can tell you that many of the creatives I worked with assumed that if Watson won Jeopardy, then it could do literally anything (indeed talking to you like a human), so a lot of the creative concepts were pretty
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by thinnerlizzy 9y ago
I don't recall the New York Times reporting a 90% chance of victory on election day. I recall her chances according to the Times decreasing several percentage points (down to the high 70s IIRC) during the last few days leading up to th
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by thinnerlizzy 9y ago
I had him for a few classes at ITP. He was probably the best teacher I've ever had.
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by thinnerlizzy 9y ago
There's this 4.3" display: http://www.waveshare.com/4.3inch-e-paper.htm I have one, seems well built, it's just been sitting in a box until I come up with a good use for it.
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by thinnerlizzy 9y ago
Golf umbrellas suck. Smaller umbrellas are no more a nuisance than than circumventing slow walking tourists on the street.
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by thinnerlizzy 10y ago
I don't know yet, but after leaving my last job about 4 months ago, I'm thinking about getting out. My last job was great fun, but led me straight to Nowheresville, as the skills I was using are not in great demand. ~2 years of do
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by thinnerlizzy 10y ago
How do you sell your photos, if you don't mind?
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by thinnerlizzy 10y ago
I believe the @breakingnews Twitter account existed well before the app. I imagine NBC News committed to the brand based on its Twitter following before it evolved into an app. I don't see why editorial responsibilites couldn't be
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by thinnerlizzy 10y ago
Having been pretty close to many mobile apps that came out of NBC in the early boom days, I can confirm that this was the case for many/most of the apps I ever touched. Most of them were pretty bad, just RSS driven web pages in a nativ
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by thinnerlizzy 10y ago
Yep, I have a Masters degree in interaction design with a healthy curriculum in true UX, and I'm a far better interaction designer than programmer. Part of why I got into it was because you have the capacity to have a major impact on h

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