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The Value Of Higher Education – Interpreted Dance
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The Value Of Higher Education. Mar 13, 2012. Is appearing at an increasing rate. There has never been a better time to be an autodidact in computer science. A chorus of voices prescribe or proclaim the end. To be replaced by vocational training or self-driven education. Most of these people are highly educated. Peter Thiel. Jamison Dance enjoys kittens, making computers smarter and the magic of children's laughter. He tweets at @jergason. And GitHubs as jergason. He also podcasts on JavaScript Jabber.
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Learning, Goals and Metacognition – Interpreted Dance
http://jamison.dance/01-01-2015/learning-goals-and-metacognition
Learning, Goals and Metacognition. Jan 01, 2015. Learning how to learn. Im making my list of goals for the next year, as one does. I wont write my goals here because I dont like preemptively bragging about things Ill do this year, but lots of them involve learning or developing new skills. Our brains are weird and gorgeous. This is untrue. Your brain is way cooler than a computer. It is more like planting a new plant in a forest than storing something on a hard drive. The more actively you wo...Like the ...
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RobotsConf 2013 Recap – Interpreted Dance
http://jamison.dance/12-10-2013/robotsconf-recap
Dec 10, 2013. RobotsConf was amazing. Here are some highlights. Take 200 web developers, dozens of robotics and electronics experts, copious amounts of supplies and two days of open hack time. Mix in a blender, serve in a glass with a little palm tree garnish thingy, and you have RobotsConf. Here are some of my personal highlights. How is printer formed. Print them up in minutes and you can prototype incredibly rapidly. Thanks to @suziam. And many others who helped noobs like me print things. Mdash; Robo...
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Turning Off GPU Acceleration In Google Chrome – Interpreted Dance
http://jamison.dance/post/22387219496/turning-off-gpu-acceleration-in-google-chrome
Turning Off GPU Acceleration In Google Chrome. May 04, 2012. I am currently working on a strange device that has a frankenstein mutated version of WebKit. The browser doesn’t support hardware acceleration, so I was looking for a way to turn it off in Google Chrome for debugging purposes. I ran into this. Excellent site that lists all of the command-line arguments that Chromium takes, and a few of them apply to turning off the GPU:. Blacklist the GPU for accelerated compositing. Blacklist the GPU for WebGL.
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Testing CofeeScript with Mocha – Interpreted Dance
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Testing CofeeScript with Mocha. May 01, 2012. Is a JavaScript testing library that is great. It used to just run CoffeeScript out of the box, but recently they factored support out, probably to support all kinds of languages that compile down to JavaScript in the future. The result is,. To get mocha to run test written in CoffeeScript, run the following:. Mocha test/foo.coffee - compliers coffee:coffee-script. Notes to my future self who keeps forgetting this. And GitHubs as jergason. Oct 28, 2016.
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Worse Is Better: The Innovator's Dilemma In Programming Languages – Interpreted Dance
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Worse Is Better: The Innovator's Dilemma In Programming Languages. Mar 22, 2012. Disruptive innovation is a pattern in discovered in business, but it also plays out in programming languages. Richard Gabriel explores a similar idea in his famous Worse is Better. This cycle is playing out again with JavaScript. The language was designed in a week. Jamison Dance enjoys kittens, making computers smarter and the magic of children's laughter. He tweets at @jergason. And GitHubs as jergason. Oct 28, 2016.
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The Clojure Threading Macro – Interpreted Dance
http://jamison.dance/10-06-2014/the-clojure-threading-macro
Mean and also why doesn't it use threads" mean and also why doesn't it use threads". The Clojure Threading Macro. Oct 06, 2014. What on earth does - mean and also why doesn't it use threads. Clojure is a language for turning parentheses into Java NullPointerExceptions. PLOT TWIST: that was a joke and since you laughed we are now friends. I am the funny friend. Clojure is actually lisp that runs on the JVM. You invoke functions by putting the function name and then the arguments after, like-a-so:. Aug 07,...
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Browser Code Sharing Is Terribad – Interpreted Dance
http://jamison.dance/06-21-2012/browser-code-sharing-is-terribad
Browser Code Sharing Is Terribad. Jun 21, 2012. Sharing code for the browser is terribad. Has the best package management and code sharing I have ever used. npm. Is amazing. Coming from Ruby, which needs RubyGems, Bundler,. RVM (all of which are great, dont get me wrong) to sanely manage dependencies across multiple projects, npm gets everything right. What you make easy affects what people do. Sure, sharing browser code is. No Browser Code Sharing. Bad Browser Code Sharing. Okay, try to imagine a bad wa...
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Convert a Vim Window to HTML – Interpreted Dance
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Convert a Vim Window to HTML. Apr 11, 2012. More blogging as remembering stuff. If you want to convert a Vim buffer to HTML, syntax highlighting and color theme and all, use this command:. It opens a new buffer full of HTML that will look pretty much like your Vim window when opened in a browser. Warning, this will include line numbers and other weird things, so you might have to tweak Vim if you want to make copy-paste friendly code. And GitHubs as jergason. He also podcasts on JavaScript Jabber.
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badoop: a simple todo list in bash – Interpreted Dance
http://jamison.dance/08-10-2012/todo-lists-in-bash
Badoop: a simple todo list in bash. Aug 10, 2012. Chumps. Real programmers use bash to track their todos. Todo apps. People must have lots to do, because there are as many todo apps as hairs in my neckbeard (many). Well my neckbeard is about to get another hair, because I have created yet another todo app. Introducing . . . Badoop (bash-do . . . p? It sounded cool, dont look at me like that) is a simple bash script for managing a todo list. Put it in your. And use it like so:. Followed by anything but a.
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