tedkalaw

War of Art. Solid book; picked it up after seeing this passage on HN hehe

historically, LEO have been fairly aggressive on the road to Burning Man...i think i've had a "close call" the past several years.

for example, last year when i was driving from Reno to Black Rock City, i went through a well-known zone on tribal land where the speed limit goes 55->45->35->25 and then back up. it was about 1am and pitch black...so i was particularly freaked out by the unmarked, unlit police SUV aggressively tailgating me. it followed me for about a mile and then turned around when i didn't budge.

BIA is a new character, though. there's chatter that they had a DUI checkpoint setup on Monday (the event starts this upcoming sunday). the tactics are roughly the same but the infractions seem more minor than in the past. local police were pretty happy to collect speeding tickets.

was at a startup where the split was 72.5/10/10 (eng)/7.5 (me) when we got into an incubator; investors tried to convince the ceo that we should do an even split iirc, but he felt the business was built up enough that the equity split was fair. we were all dumb kids (oldest was 21), and didn't know what we were doing. when the 16 hour days with no pay were too much for me, the lack of equity made it very easy for me to walk away.

i would never do a split like that again, and would not recommend it. i still can't watch Silicon Valley because it reminds me of those times haha.

when i was working at fb, i specifically got a s7 as a work phone to use with gear vr to dogfood and i found the phone-insertion experience to be rather annoying. it was so annoying, in fact, that i would just leave my s7 in the gear vr and continued to use my personal phone, an iphone, for everything. the only reason i took it out was to charge it when it died after an hour of use.

i used to be deeply skeptical of the idea of these standalone vr units, but it's good to see oculus exploring it.

why didn't you buy last week? the price is never too high to buy, and never too low to sell.

if you really believe it will go up, why not buy when you think the chart looks good and move your stops up as it increases? your position sizing algorithm and exit strategy should allow you to capture some of that profit and protect yourself from a large correction

at UIUC, there's a project in the systems class (CS241) that is exactly this. there's a leaderboard with projects and how it compares to the system malloc for a variety of metrics

this is definitely one of the best projects i ever did in school and a great coming of age project. worst case, there's always an implementation at the back of K&R ;)

sometime in the future, Apple will begin releasing swift-only APIs. it's unclear that one should "drop everything", but swift usage will only increase in the future. in addition, as a company, it will become difficult to hire new people if you don't try to move to swift at some point.

ymmv, of course. i'm new to iOS land and i write objective-c exclusively during my day job. that being said, the difficulty in iOS development (in my experience) is not in the language, but the APIs, abstractions, and patterns - and they are the same regardless of whether you're using swift or objective-c