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Second the Jennifer Windom course. That's been the most useful course to my career.

People really should try reading articles before commenting.

What kind of application s would Rust be an appropriate for? What languages is it largely meant to replace/improve on.

Firefox does this.

They won't have all the pricing power because sports will be competing with each other for viewership.

This reminds of important lessons I've learned from the classic How to Win Friends and Influence People - never ever criticize people and you will get the best out of them. There a…

Why did you sign something like that???

I've gone back to terminal on osx. Better battery life and faster than iterm2. Only thing missing is split panes but real men use tmux

Dis you change bios to ahci instead of ide for the disk?

thank you!

Broke the default font, ugh! Anyone know how to get the old font back?

Honestly the best way to learn is to be lucky enough to work at a company that faces scalability issues. Second best is to try to speak with engineers who work on this kind of stuf…

Less tools, but stronger and sharper tools. I'm going back to the basics. No more jumping to a new language or framework for each new project. My goal for 2015 is to have better re…

Seconded. Text is king for all the reasons you mentioned. I have tried OneNote, Evernote, Google Keep. Nothing matches plain text (with light markdown). I have a text editor open a…

Get customers.

I'm 33 and started having back issues about 1 year ago. The root cause is sitting too much with bad posture. Now I force myself to get up and walk around every hour. I also do some…

I believe ESPN has NBA play by play data.

Ultimately, the only tests that matter are system tests (feature tests). These are the tests that ensure you're delivering the correct result to the customer. In practice I find un…

This sounds like my sister-in-law lol.

Build something that is doable but will push your current skills. Choose a project that appears slightly beyond your current capability. That is the only way to truly learn.

Refactoring by Martin Fowler. Extremely practical if you work with old and large code bases.

Toronto. Waterloo is an enormous talent pool and there is much start-up activity happening. Even better for networking if you can take courses or do some projects with Waterloo stu…

There are huge social and health benefits to enrolling children in sports. Replacing sports with computers is not a solution.

Love it! What a simple life. I tried to convince my wife to live on a boat but it was a no go with a new baby.