May 2012
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If you hadn’t gleaned from my last somewhat cryptic post I’m currently learning to program. I’m both nervous and excited about this prospect… I’m nervous because what I’m trying to do is hard, but I have resided myself to this fact. Learning new things is hard, changing is hard, life is hard… I figure if I can get through this initial stage of angst of the...
a chip off the old bloc: Terminology To Get... →
amarabloc:
Ruby’s Building Blocs - Data, Expressions, and Flow Control
• Variable: A placeholder that can hold an object—from numbers, to text, to arrays, to objects of your own creation.
• Operator: Something that’s used in an expression to manipulate objects such as + (plus), - (minus), *…
class Programming
attr_accessor :rewarding, :valuable, :fun, :exciting
end
class Thomas < Programming
attr_accessor :frustrated, :anxious, :confused, :difficult, :consuming
def patient
puts “Beware the fury of a patient man.”
end
end
thomas = Thomas.new
thomas.patient
Shervin: Success Amnesia... →
shervster:
Practice success and failure amnesia. Forget that you succeeded. Forgive and forget that you failed. Learn from both and move on fast. Failure can be a patient teacher- it’s often a learnable event. Success can lead to signal and pattern blindness. The greatest achievers I have met are grounded…
April 2012
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Blake Masters: Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup -... →
blakemasters:
Here is my notes essay for Class 3 of CS183: Startup. Errors, omissions, and/or poor phrasing are my own. Credit for good substance and wording is Peter’s entirely. Please note that I actually missed this class (I was on my honeymoon!). Thanks to @erikpavia and @danrthompson for sending me…
WatchWhat more can I say…
March 2012
4 posts
“Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You...”
– Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore (via singlemaltscotch)
The masters of information have forgotten about poetry, where words may have a meaning quite different from what the lexicon says, where the metaphoric spark is always one jump ahead of the decoding function, where another, unforeseen reading is always possible.
– J.M. Coetzee, Diary of a Bad Year
““A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and...”
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February 2012
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January 2012
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“Silicon Valley builds its bridges on abundance. Abundant bits of information...”
– Here. (via nickcrocker)
December 2011
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November 2011
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October 2011
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September 2011
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“It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinions; it is easy in...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via nickcrocker)
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“This notion that intellectual rigor and kindness do not make good bedfellows is...”
– On the philosophy and neuropsychology of kindness, which is often falsely framed as a binary opposite to intellect (via curiositycounts)
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postdubstep:
Jacques Greene - Allez Allez Mix...
Learned 1: Game Mechanics (September 21, 2011)
Game Mechanics
I’ve started exploring different types of game mechanics for a new iPhone app project I’ve begun working on - I’ll elaborate more as the project starts to develop. This is what I’ve found so far.
Game Mechanics for Interaction Design: Interview with Amy Jo Kim | bokardo
SCVNGR’s Secret Game Mechanics Playdeck | TechCrunch
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DTDigital / Tumblr: Vision = seeing + thinking →
dtdigital:
Roy Spence, a Texan advertising executive, refused to work with Enron even as the rest of the world beat a path to its door. How did he see what others missed? He thought a lifetime of seeing through the eyes of the powerless gave him different perspectives. “My sister had cystic fibrosis and I…
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