christinecha
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Comment · 9 years ago
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Comment · 10 years ago
It works for any measurement! That choice is left completely up to the user. Instead of wrapping it in an event handler, you might instead set a variable for 'start time', run animations on requestAnimationFrame, and pass in the current time.
Comment · 10 years ago
The folks who disagree seem to be aligning with the reasoning that it's easier to raise capital and be closer to investors in SF.
But raising money != starting a company. Sure, it's important at some point, but this is the growing problem with the industry as a whole, no? People show up with just a pitch deck and want a million bucks.
Most responsible (and technically-capable) founders are trying to save as much money as possible and get on the investing boat as late as possible.
Comment · 10 years ago
I really want to know how the conversation went with the folks in the control group.
"Hey, we're doing a study where we give money to a bunch of people... Not you, though."
Ha!
Comment · 10 years ago
I definitely agree that mind wandering is where a lot of creativity happens and that it shouldn't be dismissed as just extraneous activity.
However, I think in this case, the author is talking more about this kind of mental baggage that people accumulate while scrolling through Facebook feeds and the like. We're essentially - whether we like it or not - memorizing crazy amounts of unnecessary information, and thus throttling creativity because we're still processing where Kathy went on vacation and what she ate there.
Comment · 10 years ago
Updating now!
Comment · 11 years ago
As a not super experienced dev, can someone explain the advantages over Bootstrap? (I'm mainly a designer so I'm a sucker for beautifully maintained documentation...)
Comment · 11 years ago
This process he is describing seems incredibly different from our everyday work, but it's really the same core of learning anything.
Usually, you start with a top-level entrance (records for musicians, games for programmers, translations for language learners). Then, step by step, you go backwards in time.
That album was composed of songs. These songs are composed of harmonies and melodies. Harmonies are composed of chords and voicings. ... on and on until you're dissecting the very sound waves themselves.
This beautiful curiosity that exists in every deep learning experience is what sets apart the hobbyists from the geniuses.
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