paulwithap

I think git became dominant because there's no MercurialHub

I use Medium sporadically, and I think it's a good platform to use if you don't already have an audience, since it's easy to repost to larger publications and gain distribution.

Once you gain an audience, or if you already have one, then using an open source platform is the way to go.

WordPress is probably the best choice, since the ecosystem is just so much larger than anything else out there. I would really suggest finding a managed service over deploying it on an ec2 instance or something. Security is a constant battle on WordPress sites, and it's just better to have someone else deal with that.

If you don't care about distribution or growing an audience and are just blogging for fun, then something like Hugo might be a good choice.

If it helps, I’ve used Redux in a couple production apps and loved it. Boilerplate can be a bit tedious at times, but in exchange you get a lot of sanity and clarity in your code.

There has certainly been a lot of anti-vaping money backing ballot measures like the recent one in SF. I’ve been meaning to look into who is actually funding this. The tobacco companies seem to be on board with the trend and many are manufacturing their own devices. What’s bad for Juul would likely be bad for them too.

One thing to keep in mind is that you’re inhaling significantly less vapor per hit with a Juul, than a “mod”.

This is spot on. It's just like any other marketing tactic - it works well until everyone else starts doing it.

As for the pricing of posts, the lowballing is getting more and more dramatic, because there are many more "influencers" now. The only brands really shelling out are large corporations with large budgets looking for something very specific. Smaller brands can just reach out to a bunch of influencers offering only product in exchange for a post, and someone will say yes.

I can say from experience that an Instagrammer with 100k followers is unlikely to get anything near $2700 to post a photo. This was probably true several years ago, but these days the number is closer to $1000.

Personally, I prefer poodle.

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I've taken the MIT and Stanford CS intro courses, and neither of them delved into 90% of these.

When you have to use design principles to argue against the fact that many people think the "poorly designed" poster looks better, your principles have failed you, and maybe it's time to reconsider them.

So do people with numbers listed in the phonebook.

I'm speaking from the perspective of someone who has actually suffered from severe, crippling depression, and in my experience, the greatest danger is feeding into this fantasy world the depressed mind conjures. My post is acknowledging this "real danger".

I also never claimed there was "one simple hack". As someone who deals with depression on a daily basis, I offered what I think are a few of the most important tactics for keeping it at bay.

I speak from experience, so please don't write off my comment as "ignorant".

Blaming your lack of fitting in on being black, and buying into this bullshit your head is telling you is your real problem.

I've felt the exact same way you describe in this post, but instead of "black", insert "short", "ugly", or any number of excuses I can come up with for why I don't fit in, and people don't like me, and it's not fair, and it's everyone else's fault. Bullshit. People aren't friendly to you because as a severely depressed person, you're probably a real bummer to be around. You probably look awkward, uncomfortable, and generally unapproachable.

You need to stop blaming society for your isolation and start working on shifting your shitty perspective. Some things that have helped me immensely are exercise and mindfulness meditation. Talking about your feelings helps too - as long as the people listening aren't just going to co-sign and feed into the depressive, self-pitying garbage that you're spitting out.

P.S. Feel free to contact me if you want to change.

Does this come as a surprise to anyone?

I had a similar experience in Palo Alto. Once I realized I was not in the right car, I just got out at the first red light.

The entire point of AA is not to focus on the singular behavior of problem drinking, but instead to produce a complete psychic change. The central theme of the "Big Book" is that simply removing the alcohol from an alcoholic is not enough. The alcoholic must instead completely change their way of living and interacting with others. The program is designed to address the root cause of many specific issues the founders saw to be common among alcoholics.

Furthermore, it is highly encouraged to seek outside help (psychiatrists, therapists, etc.) if needed.

Thank you both for your responses! I speak from vivid memories of frustration with that course. I didn't notice the bridge section you had put there.

I do really admire and appreciate what you're doing. I'm a self-taught web dev, and the most overwhelming part was just figuring out what to learn next. I'm glad someone is trying to solve that problem for others!

Cool idea, but as someone who as actually taken the courses in this list, the order is all out of whack. There is no way someone completely new to programming could jump into Udacity's CS253 and have any idea what is going on. Even from CS101, there is a significant gap that you have to make up for on your own.

Weird. I've come back to our Jade templates months later, thankful I decided to use to Jade. My only beef with it at the time was the lack of documentation, but that seems to have improved since.

You're right. Apples and oranges are basically the same thing. That book holds about the same scientific weight as 50 Shades of Grey. If you don't think there are inherent psychological differences between men and women, then you're just delusional.

So, you're saying that aside from genitalia, men and women are exactly the same and, in a vacuum, the distribution of genders in any given profession should be perfectly equal? You really believe that?

I absolutely agree with you. Obviously, no one should ever feel like they aren't welcome in a field because of their gender. I just don't see the point of making giant, obsessive efforts to push a group of people into a field and then patting ourselves on the back when our plan works, and we don't feel so guilty anymore.

Yeah, those are reputable sources.

What is up with the obsession to get women coding? Why does it matter? You don't see anything like this in female-dominated professions.

As a few other people have said, the only possible way you're going to have a popular dating app is by having a lot of fake users in the beginning.

When Tinder first launched, at least 90% of the profiles I came across were, after a little investigation, very obviously fake. I became suspicious after being "matched" with every single attractive girl I "liked" after having just created a profile. These "girls" had the mysterious ability to travel vast distances in extraordinarily small amounts of time. One second, a girl's location would be 7 miles away, the next, she was 1407 miles away - incredible. If they responded at all to a message, they were vague, short answers that had nothing to do with what I was saying. I also received 10s of the exact same messages from different girls. They weren't trying to get me to click links or buy things. Their sole purpose seemed to be to create the illusion that Tinder was full of gorgeous women who wanted me. After a while of using the app, the fake profiles dropped off, and I seemed to encounter more real people. I thought initially, that this was because they had gotten enough users to show me real people, but I've now noticed that any time I use the app in a new area, I'm flooded with fake profiles and fake messages all over again.

In short, create fake users.

There are childish assholes everywhere, and this guy seems to take a few Rubygems with names like "ass" (how sexist!) and claim that this is indicative of a general attitude of he-man woman-hating in the programming community. The entire thing is absolutely ridiculous.

Foul language!???!? SOMEONE WRITE A BLOG POST TO PROTECT THE HELPLESS WOMEN!

So we've learned not to hire Uber to do graphing.

Sounds like the Canadians are launching a subtle campaign of cyber warfare against us. It's the only explanation.