bobfirestone

6 years agodiscuss

I really want COVID-19 to be over soon so I can go do some adult ski camps. There is a park skiing camp I can’t go to right now in Europe and a steep skiing clinic at Whistler in Canada. Cannot do either with current travel restrictions and not wanting to catch anything going to or from the resorts.

bobfirestone

7 years agodiscuss

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bobfirestone

7 years agodiscuss

Khan Academy has everything from basic addition to multivariable calculus and linear algebra. All free and online.

https://www.khanacademy.org/

bobfirestone

8 years agodiscuss

Otters https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/otters-are-not...

I highly recommend not learning this about otters

bobfirestone

8 years agodiscuss

I’m considering taking on some freelance programming work and am looking at using https://www.and.co for tracking hours and invoices. It’s free which is a plus. Playing around with it the software seems pretty easy to use.

bobfirestone

8 years agodiscuss

If you want to give a good demo don’t leave it to chance. Write a script and rehearse it. Keep practicing until you are comfortable and can do it in your sleep.

bobfirestone

8 years agodiscuss

The one thing I would add is the JavaScript standard library is deserving of some blame for the micro-library problem. Being bundled with the browser or server side in node doubling the size of the standard library to avoid situations like the left pad library being pulled from npm seems like a no brainer type of decision. ES2017 adds the padEnd and padStart functions is a step in the right direction. There is movement in the right direction but I would like to see the JS standard library at a minimum match the ruby standard library and eliminate a bunch of the micro dependencies that creep into libraries.

bobfirestone

8 years agodiscuss

Do you want 50% of a company with sales or 100% of a company with no sales.

How many times does the inferior product with better marketing win? The reality is a lot.

bobfirestone

9 years agodiscuss

One factor is programming is all random people. There is really no Beyoncé or Taylor Swift of programming that everyone in the world knows.

A random developer saying “hey checkout this npm package I wrote to do XYZ” is something that could directly be useful to people in their own projects or in the future.

bobfirestone

9 years agodiscuss

You kinda answered your own question: YouTube is the site for this & unless it’s really good (or spectacularly bad) no one cares about music from random people.

bobfirestone

9 years agodiscuss

No. There is no way that would ever be an acceptable work environment.

If a company seriously tried it productivity would go to zero. You have invented a system that aligns the developer interest with gaming the system not shipping quality code.

bobfirestone

9 years agodiscuss

I picked up a google nexus 5x for a development device.

A couple of people I know have nexus 7 tablets for doing their android work.

bobfirestone

9 years agodiscuss

Not a book but you should definitely watch Erlang the movie. It's on YouTube. Then watch erlang the movie 2, it's hilarious.

bobfirestone

9 years agodiscuss

If I find out a company I do business with is charging me more because of where I live I'm never giving them another penny.

bobfirestone

9 years agodiscuss

One of the big problems with financial data is there is no standard API to get data out of the financial institutions. Mint is a glorified site scraper. As a user you are giving mint your username and password to login and trust that they won't do anything malicious and that they will protect your data.

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