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Some of my college’s websites (dining services, course catalog). With an API, my senior project would be so much easier. Unfortunately, I had to scape the information needed which isn’t ideal.

This year I read:

1. The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer - A steampunk graphic novel about Ada Lovelace and Charlie Babbage. Fun story with loads of research to back it up. Got even better when I got to go the UK and explore the places they worked at in their livetimes

2. The Hardware Hacker - A compilation of storis by bunnie focused on the hardware/maker(ish) ecosystem. Also discusses the Chinese manufacturing ecosystem and answers questions that most people have about it.

3. Technically Wrong - A book about how tech can sometimes leave lots of people behind for one reason or another and how we can fix them. A very quick read.

4. The Masters of Doom - The story of id Software, the company which spawned an entire genre with games like Doom and Wolfenstwein in its early days.

5. Blood, Sweat and Pixels - The book looks into how video games are made and the many challenges along the way. Focuses on ten games from solo all the way to AAA titles. Really good if you want to know why video games turn out the way they do. After reading this, you'll double take whenever you hear of a delayed game, cancelled project, E3 demos and buggy releases. It also has some uplifting moments.

6. My textbooks :).

Hopefully I can also read The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, Deep Work and CODE.

Thanks you.

What did they change about the STEM extension?

If you just wanted the information, you could stick with the book since it goes into greater depth about the learning method.

The one thing I really like about the course were the interviews where the interviewees (such as Cal Newport and the 1 year MIT degree guy) went into great depth on their focus methods.

I also liked the assignments since the scorers gave helpful feedback although I don't know what it's like now with the changes coursera has gone through since I took this class.

sp527 covered it pretty well, but it's a really good class. While you could just read the instructor's book, A Mind for Numbers, this does a good job with the motivational aspect.

It even comes with interviews from some successful scientists on the tips they use.

The guy hosting that course (Tom Frank) runs a really good blog, collegeinfogeek.com which despite being college focused has great motivational/discipline tips.

Great, so how do I tell my old pastor who made us watch hours worth of illuminati exposes In pop culture which relied on a lot of sharp shooting fallacies?

You didn't like the flaming input boxes?

Oh my...Just wow...

Also, I'm not sure if the Guestbook[0] is intentionally spent our it just ended up like that.

[0]-http://www.websitegoodies.com/guestbook.php?a=view&id=930308

I found it rich the millionaire said that given that his grandfather gave him $34k to buy as house(0).

(0):https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/16/millionaire-tells-millennial...

A tangent from the article itself, but isn't the parenting itself an experiment?

I estimated the cost really badly based on the go egress pricing.

Also, I was thinking that gsuite would be the cheapest option since it has "unlimited" storage.

I estimated using GCPs egress pricing since I was thinking if how much it would cost SoundCloud.

Still, it's quite impressive to be able to manage that much data.

That's like $80k worth of data transfer. Also, how can you afford to store all of that unless you have gsuite?

Edit: I was mixed up. I was thinking of what it would cost SoundCloud to transfer all that music. I guess storing it would be much cheaper...

I was so close to doing this when I was making my new blog, then I found out that the CSS element responsible for making the code block scollable isn't supported on mobile.

It isn't just the recipes. They got called out for ripping off other ideas on YouTube last year. I guess originality is hard.

One thing I wished this app had was a playground that teaches you how to interact with the iOS SDK. After all, you can use it in the blank playground, might as well show people how to use it.

Probably a PC term for "dick waving contest"

Isn't he trying to compete with SpaceX in some sense?

Yeah, in getting annoyed with all the (US centric) politics on my feed.

Similar thing is happening with Pocket. It's great at curating articles. It's just that at some point, it got hijacked by politics.

> Twitter began investing heavily in video, aiming to draw a more mainstream set of users and premium advertising deals

What's with this whole "pivot to video" trend among websites?

Why is it preferred to text which is probably easier to write, needs less network and is more accessible than a large number of videos (which don't have captions)?

It looks like it's a system similar to contact ID. I hope this helps slow down all the free booting.

It probably is and archive team just don't care...

Oh cool... If only this happened six months ago when I had my interview. Then again, attire was the smallest problem of the interview.

I remember reading Glassdoor to see what working for the company as a dev was like and most of them complained about how low the pay was compared to tech.

Maybe they should pay more for a wider talent pool?

> Also they're only allowed to use iPhones

Why is that? Seems a bit ironic...

Yeah, that's their reason https://backlothelp.netflix.com/hc/en-us/articles/229498668-...

That what I've been using. It works pretty well.

I hope this mean I can easily load scripts onto Pythonista. It's a real pain right now.

This one https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/why-do-...