jrheard

What's a good way to learn more about the history and function and current status of unions? Are there any good books/resources that aren't particularly biased toward one side or the other?

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It's _so_ good! It's the best technical writing I've read in memory. It's outstanding.

soar helped me a lot. the whole thing with the "strengthening exercise" is pretty hokey and just totally ignorable IMO, but the 5-4-3-2-1 exercise single-handedly solved my problems with turbulence. i do it whenever the plane shakes and it damn near puts me to sleep every time; and over time i find that i don't need to do it as often, because i've gradually become calm by default in turbulence. which is great!

it's totally a night-and-day difference, i used to be terrified of planes and now they're just a mild irritant.

> Decisiveness > Past: We spend too much time building consensus > Starting now: Everyone else stops debating and gets on board once the decision is made

Pretty sure I know the answer to this, but: can I remove the code from my profile after it's been verified?

I'm volunteering in a local high school, helping out with a few CS classes. My main focus is an introductory Python class. I've put together a few projects for the students in that class:

http://blog.jrheard.com/watercolorbot

http://blog.jrheard.com/python/passwords

http://jrheard.com/blog-staging/python/caesar.html

I'm excited to see how the rest of this school year goes - by the end of it, I'll have a suite of projects that beginners to Python might find very useful!

I worked there as a software engineer for six years, first in SF, then remotely in Oregon. I loved it. The people are brilliant and friendly, the codebase and tooling are top-notch. If you're a programmer, it's a great place to work.

This one's beautiful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxX6ZWeK18Q

Is there an easy way of characterizing the difference between the two groups - eg brain focuses on A, deepmind focuses on B?

I'm one of cr0sh's classmates. I don't have any background in ML/AI/etc, so I've had to supplement the Udacity course materials with a lot of external resources (just finished watching the Stanford CS231n course, which was very helpful), but overall the course been really interesting+fun so far. It's really nice to be exposed to new kinds of tech I've never heard of / used before. Refreshing change from webdev.

If you're strapped for cash and don't want to pay the $800/term, you could definitely learn these things on your own using free online resources. If you don't mind the price, though, I've found this course worth the time+money+effort so far. [they're not paying me to say this :)]

FWIW, the coworking space I like best in my city has 24/7 access for members. This seems to be pretty unusual, though.

I spent my last two years at Yelp working from home in Portland, OR, where I'd moved by myself. I started to go completely insane toward the end of my first winter. Being in the same room all day and having nothing ever change around me was much, much worse for my mental health than I had expected - prior to this, I'd never even thought about the concept of my own mental health, but this experience really brought it to the fore.

I tried a couple of coworking spaces, found one that I liked, and have been going there regularly since - my employer paid for my membership at the time, but I quit my job a year ago and it's still worth it to me to have a space where I can go every day to get out of the house and be _around_ humans, even if I don't socialize with them as much as I could.

I've always identified as an introvert, and used to fantasize about the idea of e.g. working in the top room of a lighthouse for a month - assuming you had a good Internet connection, you could get so much coding done there! - but it seems that being around people is much more important than I'd given it credit for, particularly in the winter when it's pitch black outside at 4pm and you're already kind of depressed by default.