February 2012
11 posts
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What the Proc? (The Art of Being Confused)
A proc is a block of code that is passed into other blocks of code. But it’s different from a block because a block isn’t an object.
It took me 3 days to understand that. It might take me another 3 weeks to understand how to use it. And that’s saying nothing about using it well.
I’ve been confused many times in academia. It’s possible that my standards for...
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“A startup is never competing with other products. It’s competing with nobody...”
– Michael Staton, Founder and former CEO of Inigral (via roginc)
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“We live in democracies, but we work in dictatorships.”
– Shereef Bishay
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“One of the Steve Jobs themes that really struck me is the difference between...”
– Roy Bahat (@roybahat)
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Friday morning bootcamp blues (in Ruby)
#Disclaimer: this is not TDD code.
##REFACTORED##
class Student
def initialize(num)
@energy_level = num
end
def will_do_yoga?
tired? ? “Please do Yoga at home today” : “Go to Yoga”
end
def tired?
@energy_level < 2
end
end
######ORIGINAL######
class Mehul
def initialize(num)
...
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The Ledged Learning Environment
I come here and I meet these guys. I look up and it’s dark outside and I realize I’m energized not drained. …I’ve been, like, giving hi fives, fist pumps. I never hi five anyone. - Doug
A couple years ago, when I started teaching (at Hogwarts), I was dissatisfied as a student. I knew that something about institutional learning was significantly off. If it wasn’t...
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“Most career advice is either an attempt to live vicariously through you or an...”
– Roy Bahat @roybahat
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“The things that make you academically great at being a computer scientist are...”
– Roy Bahat (@roybahat)
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“It is human nature to collaborate.”
– Alex Chaffee, Pivotal Labs
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Artisans and Laborers
There are those who draw the plans and those who lay the bricks. Those who solve problems, and those who write code.
Shereef made it clear to us on the first day of Dev Bootcamp that we would be be of the former brood. That we weren’t here to slap at a keyboard. That in 8 weeks we were to become architects; of software, of solutions, of castles if we wanted.
We would not be laborers to...
