superplussed

I'm assuming it's that the web is a vertical medium not a horizontal one.

Siddhartha by Herman Hesse had a big impact on me when I was a teenager. The message I took from it is to not depend on teachers, mentors, or answers-from-above, and instead forge your own path in this world.

If the pilot doesn't know he has extra passengers, and those extra passengers add weight to the aircraft, and the aircraft is not fueled to handle the extra weight, that's a problem.

Honestly, I'm not sure if I can thank you enough for posting this. This channel is ah-maz-ing.

Of course distribution channels matter. If the labels own part of the distribution they don't mind if the distributors give a smaller cut back to the label and artist than another channel. They are able to keep that ownership of their distribution percentage away from the artist, it's the whole reason Spotify was originally so guilt-inducing to people concerned about artist's being treated fairly.

Don't the music labels own a big percentage of Spotify? Hasn't that been the whole argument that the labels are unfairly taking money out of the hands of the artists by owning a piece of the distribution? It seems to be that they have a vested interested in working with Spotify to ensure its long term health.

I have a similar skill set combining graphic design and programming, but I find those niche jobs of prototyping to be in very short demand, where are you seeing the opposite?

The lack of opportunity to flex my creative muscles actually drives me to create my own startups because it's the only type of project where I feel I can utilize all of my strengths instead of being pigeonholed into a developer role.

Amazing. It seems like it'd be really useful to be able to zoom in and out as well.

Nope, wasn't trying to bait any flames, just making the point that virtually everyone has to deal with some sort of -ism, even straight white males will find it eventually with ageism.

And let's be real regarding ageism, you only get about 10 years of not being "too old", and then for the rest of your career it's going to be an issue whether big or small. Part of being a professional is navigating all of the BS you will get if you are not under 35, white, straight, and male.

This all reads true to me, what is arguable here?

I think you could easily retitle this as "Men are fucked", or probably closer to the point: "Boys are fucked". It's a male dominated, youth-oriented industry, and all of the sexism and harassment that a woman will encounter is an outgrowth of that.

This isn't to excuse the behaviour, but merely to ask if there are any examples of young-male oriented industries that have better behaviour?

I always thought that the mitigating factor here would be that you don't have to take big loping leaps, you can also accomplish a fairly earth-like gait, just with fewer steps.

I could also see another way of using it that is similar to the teleport mechanic where you clear an area, make a big jump, and when you land you clear that next area before taking another jump. But it would be an interesting thing, almost like a angry birds pulling the slingshot back thing, where the accuracy of the jump is also put to the test.

Please consider moon physics! I haven't heard anyone talk about this but I've thought this was the answer to locomotion in VR. It strikes a balance between realistic movement and not being too tiring, and moon jumping would be hella fun, especially in a FPS.

I agree, programming is easier to learn than so many other things because of the short feedback loop, the available resources, and the willingness of those who are experienced to talk about what they've learned.

Obviously things are going to be tough as a 50s junior developer, but it sounds like you are up for the challenge. And hey, we all have to do something with the time we are here. It might as well be something you enjoy, challenges be damned.

SEEKING WORK - remote / Berlin

I'm a front-leaning, full-stack developer that is living in Berlin. I am American, and I have some conversational ability in German.

I have experience with every aspect of creating an application, from mockups and UX design, to graphic design, to the full-stack implementation, to deployment.

I've successfully built and sold a past start-up of mine, and have a great deal of insight with product development. Because of this, I'm probably of most value the earlier a project is in its life cycle.

Backend stack: Ruby on Rails, with DBs/data stores such as MySQL, Postgres, Mongo, Redis, Elastic Search.

Frontend stack: I have experience with other frameworks, but at this point I strongly prefer to work with ES6 and React.js. I use current tooling (even with Rails projects) such as babbel and webpack. I am well-versed in current best practices, can build responsive mobile-friendly websites, and code pixel perfect CSS and HTML5.

I'm also a very capable graphic designer, which can be seen from viewing past and present work on my portfolio.

Portfolio: http://eatingthe.com

Github: https://github.com/superplussed

Email: jeremy@superplussed.com

I don't see an 'R' in there?

I'm surprised that Meteor itself wouldn't have jumped in to at least acquihire the team, so that face is saved all around. Losing one of the most prominent fixtures in the Meteor ecosystem doesn't seem to bode well for Meteor's long term prospects. And I say that as someone that has been a fan of the project, and in the past was a heavy user.

Can you link a couple? This seems hard to believe.

I don't think it is ruining the experience because it's easy to not allow them, my question is: how is it that so many people are clicking allow that businesses see it worth the annoyance to add this to their site. That's what baffles me.

My vote goes to Michel Weststrate for his amazing work with MobX [1]. I was really unhappy with all of the client-side data management options (Flux, redux, et al) until this came along. Many thanks Michel for making my day to day frontend life much more enjoyable!

[1] https://mobxjs.github.io/mobx/index.html

Good advice Jakob, thanks. Yeah my app is essentially a video language learning application, think very broadly of it as Youtube crossed with Duolingo. So it definitely isn't the kind of app that requires a traditional sales team. It's going to be all about influencers and language learning forums in the early days and building from there.

Your last paragraph is full of great advice. An African-focused job board would solve a need that you are experiencing and would look great on your resume.

I'm in a similar position. We should create a group for the subset of solo founders who are inclined toward product and not sales. It is a tough position to be in for sure (though I imagine the inverse has its own problems).

It's interesting how overly animated he is given that the student is not a child, but you can tell that she is pulled in by all of that energy. But if you look at other videos you'll see that most teachers are a little more contained (and maybe sane-seeming): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Swc0RTrxjpw

The one thing, I saw that in their teacher training they aim for a 70/30 ratio of student to teacher speech and I haven't found any videos where that was the case. Though maybe it is only for more advanced students.

Overall a really nice platform though!

Also, isn't a fancy looking timer worth posting to see if people find it interesting?

Of course that was my point.

Weren't the defendants in a position of greater leverage once he was elected president? From what I'd read, it would have been the first time a sitting president was forced to defend himself in a criminal trial. So if you've endured this legal battle for so long, why settle for a relatively small amount just when your leverage has started to climb?

As a student of the German language, it'd be interesting to know the errors in the sentences.