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tjbarbouron 30-Day Vanilla JavaScript Coding Challenge

Thanks wes! You're a great course creator & fun to follow!

tjbarbouron 30-Day Vanilla JavaScript Coding Challenge

haha! Fork it ;)

tjbarbouron 30-Day Vanilla JavaScript Coding Challenge

Having fun with this, day 1

http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/tjbarbour/J...

tjbarbouron Announcing TypeScript 2.1

" We spread ourselves thin, but this is the moment you’ve been awaiting – TypeScript 2.1 is here! "

tjbarbouron Guide to Remote Work

Thank you!

tjbarbouron Guide to Remote Work

Thanks, replied on there. Appreciate it!

tjbarbouron Guide to Remote Work

Thank you! will be in touch

tjbarbouron Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2016)

  Location: San Diego, CA / Tijuana, Mexico
  Remote: Yes (Remote only)
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: C#, ASP.net MVC, JavaScript, jQuery, LESS, CSS, Bootstrap, WCF, Entity Framework, Selenium, SQL Server
  Résumé/CV: https://db.tt/WDJDKIqM
  Email: tjbarbour@gmail.com

  I have over 10 years of professional experience with skills in UX & UI design, system design, project management, mentoring and other team lead skills.  The departement I'm working for deals in PKI and Security so I have good exposure to those domains as well.

  More info at www.tjbarbour.com

tjbarbouron Guide to Remote Work

Sure! hit me up tjbarbour on twitter or gmail Thanx!

tjbarbouron Guide to Remote Work

Hi! We're just getting started, so yeah you can follow

https://twitter.com/wayoffsite

tjbarbouron Guide to Remote Work

Hi Wade, Love how outspoken you guys are about Remote work! I'm actually starting a podcast to help others learn about Remote development by interviewing developers that work remotely and sharing their experiences. Would any developers at Zapier be interested in coming on?

Find me as tjbarbour on twitter or Gmail.

Thanks!

tjbarbouron Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_da_Cunha

The most remote inhabited island with a strange history with a few founding families, an exodus because of a volcano, an isolated economy/society and research into asthma as a genetic condition

tjbarbouron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016)

Seems like we're in a similar boat :)

10+ years c# experience trying to get a remote job. Limited open source b/c family and company policy. Also interviewed with Kaggle.

If you think misery loves company, contact <username>@gmail

Maybe we can trade tips.

tjbarbouron Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2016)

Hi, I applied for the c# role recently, I don't know if you would be cool with getting in touch to learn more about Ultimate. Thanx!

tjbarbouron Ask HN: Feedback on blogpost

Thanks for that, I'll remember to add that myself in the future.

tjbarbouron Day of the Tentacle Remastered

relevant: http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/22/11284908/everybody-loves-j...

> "Universally beloved character Jar Jar Binks makes surprise appearance in new video game"

https://twitter.com/TronKnotts/status/712317099092398080?ref...

tjbarbouron Uber Opening Robotics Research Facility in Pittsburgh to Build Self-Driving Cars

Its a race between UBER building/acquiring self-driving capabilities vs. Google spreading to all the markets.

Sadly, as much legislative power as Google may have, I think we may be in an age where its easier to create the technology of self-driving cars then to get through the political/regulatory red-tape that UBER has been fighting through for years. That's probably an exaggeration, but given the how many other companies are dabbling in the self-driving space now, it may be less innovative than a few years back. On the other hand, I don't thing political/regulatory barriers are any easier to get through.

At least we have two big players trying to solve a big problem, so hopefully we'll benefit in the end.

tjbarbouron Hands-On with Microsoft's New Holographic Goggles

I think this is all about how it's showcased.

Google Glass was to be used in personal interactions and that put a social barrier in the way of what was some cool technology. It seems that it was way too awkward to be 'glassing' in public no matter how useful or cool the technology was.

HoloLens is pitched to be used in the home and in the workplace, where you can comfortably immerse yourself in that experience without the social implications. This allows the technology to be judged on its own without mixing in the social implications.

I have high hopes for this, at least its a very different experience than what most others are doing (though its obviously taking cues from VR, augmented reality/Google glass etc.)

I agree for this to get 'really big' the form factor has to be a lot more portable, but this is a great stop-gap.

tjbarbouron Firefox Developer Edition

Thank you, as someone who develops almost exclusively offline, this was crucial ;)

tjbarbouron The tourist map of laptops

FYI: a spec error Toshiba Satellite S55T-B5260 15.6-Inch Stated Resolution: 3840 x 2160 Actual Resolution: 1366 x 768 I thought I found an amazing laptop for a second there...(sad trombone) The toshiba website states it can be upgraded to 1920x1080[1] There's 2 other Toshiba Satellites that also may be off...

Otherwise, I really like this, I've always wanted to build a laptop search tool / website. Feature Request: I would love a flag to say weather the ram/hdd is upgradable. Also, maximum ram would be helpful (aside from installed ram)

[1]http://www.toshiba.com/us/computers/laptops/satellite/S50/S5...

tjbarbouron The Islands of Refreshment and the history of micronations

Went down this rabbit hole (specifically Tristan da Cunha) and found a great little documentary about how the island led to genetic research on asthma.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKRvtk-GI0g (part 1 of 2)

Very interesting.

tjbarbouron Tech companies thriving in San Diego–Tijuana border zone

Haha, though it's easy for people to remember "TJ in TJ" ;)

Savings wise, if you have SENTRI and work near the border, the economics may work out (things like childcare and healthcare may help as well). But I think that the time wasted is just far to great otherwise. Between waking up super early and spending anywhere from 3-6 hours commuting a day, it seems to be a hard sell. That picture looking down the freeway[1], I drive that every day, but usually its still night out =)

Rent is the biggest difference, food and other items less so. I pay less than 1/4th of my San Diego home's mortgage for renting a slightly larger place in Tijuana (which is also close to the beach)

[1]http://america.aljazeera.com/content/ajam/articles/2014/8/1/...

tjbarbouron Tech companies thriving in San Diego–Tijuana border zone

I'm in the "interesting" situation of living in Tijuana* and commuting M-F to my job as a software engineer in "Sorrento Valley" in central San Diego. The article is pretty interesting, and I think that the huge difference in cost of living along with some of the lifestyle / cultural benefits of Tijuana could be attractive to engineers and create an interesting community. I can attest that the border traffic is pretty horrific, though it can be lessened greatly if you get Global Entry/SENTRI. It would be cool to see more tech activity in San Diego.

*To add to the coincidences here, my name is T.J. ;)

tjbarbouron Bring Reading Rainbow Back

Glad to see them working to promote reading! Though I wonder...

Why didn't they start with the web to begin with? You can use a web-based solution on a tablet (given a decent design), but you can't use a tablet-based solution on the web. Now they're trying to fight that 'limitation.'

I understand the 'novelty' and the sheer boom of tablets at the time and the better physical mapping from tablet experience to reading a book, but technologically there's doesn't seem to be much of a reason for them going with an iPad app first. Possibly offline support (valid) or performance (shouldn't be a problem...). There's probably a much more practical answer such as: their technical team had experience in app development OR maybe Burton just really liked his iPad and that's where the movement started.

On another note, I loved the show growing up and like they're trying to continue it. I'm a bit conflicted about the subscription part of the service. I want it to be sustainable, but wish there was a larger free offering. Maybe latest content is free, archived content requires a subscription (ala Hulu)? At least they'll offer it for free to needy schools that's nice.

tjbarbouron Through the Warp Zone: Hacking Super Mario Brothers to unlock new worlds

For anyone dying to know what world 9 is like, found this on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcDfPXsgqQ0

Looks like someone game genie'd it back in 2008

tjbarbouron Carousel – Gallery from Dropbox for photos and videos

Its actually up, they need to remove their js blockade https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dropbox.ca...

tjbarbouron Cmd.fm

haha! could've fooled me, thanks for clearing that up.

tjbarbouron Cmd.fm

For some reason, can't see how to comment, am I missing something?

tjbarbouron Town Car Version Control

It's good to see FogCreek being practical and adding in Git support, based on how strong they were pushing for Mercurial before (Joel even had an online training[0]) I wouldn't have guessed they would ever switch to Git, but as Joel said "Religious war: averted." I wish more software would mitigate these debates with solutions like this, but its often not that easy.

This seems like a cool solution, I don't know if any of the other big providers are doing synchronized repos, do other similar solutions exist?

[0]http://hginit.com/

tjbarbouron Start testing your app with Casper.js

Can you expand? I'll be evaluating casper.js soon and would like to hear the 'pitfalls' Thanx!