Hacker News: tomkinson

New comment by tomkinson in "How to Learn JavaScript"

tomkinson — Sun, 28 Jun 2020 05:17:35 +0000

For the most advanced (well explained) Javascript and all the way to Typescript and beyond, get a FrontEnd Masters subscription for a few months. Top notch teachers in all manner of content and Kyle Simpson will lay it out well in his many videos (among other great teachers like Will Sentance). The SessionStack.com and Logrocket.com blogs cover some important concepts with modern ECMAscript standards. Surma and Jake at Google are great and have a lot of YouTube resources to bite into. Maybe start with 'What the heck is the event loop anyway?' by Philip Roberts and then Jake Archibald's: 'In The Loop' to get a foundational understanding of what is happening. Javascript.info also a great text resource. You don't know Javascript also should be on your list. Honestly there are so many resources these days including specific YouTube creators but really it's more about your learning style and what works best for you.

New comment by tomkinson in "Uber open-sources tool to automatically clean up stale code"

tomkinson — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 05:26:19 +0000

@burtonator yes curious what you have or maybe it's a better fit under Piranha?

New comment by tomkinson in "What Left-Handedness Reveals About How the Brain Works (2014)"

tomkinson — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 10:20:11 +0000

I did the test. I was 4-4-2 so basically mixed handed, but really more so I don't care about top hand on a spoon, knife or broom, so really more like 4 left, 1 right, 5 don't care. So as mixed handed as it get cause I throw a mean right handed spiral too. And boy do I relate way more with left handers, all because I prefer highly to write with my left even though if I need to my right will do.

New comment by tomkinson in "Ask HN: What was your experience using a graph database?"

tomkinson — Mon, 31 Dec 2018 18:56:09 +0000

Highly recommend you look at JanusGraph. Gremlin query language is quite easy, it's open source and the underlying graph DB for most cloud providers. I've extensively looked at the others. Janus Graph was our choice.

New comment by tomkinson in "Show HN: Mapping 11M points with Tile38 – Mapbox/Geonames"

tomkinson — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 04:31:49 +0000

Can't wait to read this. Well done

New comment by tomkinson in "MLab is being acquired by MongoDB"

tomkinson — Wed, 10 Oct 2018 15:52:22 +0000

While sometimes a longer timeframe to migrate is better (often, most times), there are edge cases where you want to migrate immediately after an announcement like this. For us, we'd like to get this done by next week. The sooner the better to avoid any schedule disruption thereafter.

New comment by tomkinson in "Tinder founders sue parent companies Match and IAC for at least $2B"

tomkinson — Wed, 15 Aug 2018 02:47:30 +0000

believe a lawyer looked at them.

New comment by tomkinson in "AssemblyAI: speech-to-text API"

tomkinson — Tue, 14 Aug 2018 03:37:50 +0000

Love that you charge by the second. Need to run some math, but we're excited to at least give this a go sometime this week. Congrats on launch.

New comment by tomkinson in "A list of startups funded in 2017"

tomkinson — Mon, 13 Aug 2018 16:29:27 +0000

It still says protected file and won't open

New comment by tomkinson in "Show HN: Pts.js – A library for visualization and creative coding"

tomkinson — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 17:35:46 +0000

Very nice job on this. Will use for a noise points visualizer. Well done.

New comment by tomkinson in "Show HN: Extension to highlight and tag users on Hacker News"

tomkinson — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 17:28:20 +0000

Love it. Thanks. Even better if tag is visible btw.

New comment by tomkinson in "AWS icon quiz"

tomkinson — Mon, 06 Aug 2018 15:41:30 +0000

Looking at those icons makes me physically uncomfortable haha

New comment by tomkinson in "OpenAI plays DOTA against former professionals in an hour"

tomkinson — Sun, 05 Aug 2018 21:56:54 +0000

Where and when will the match against Vancouver Dota World Championship team be played later this month, anyone know? Can public watch in Vancouver without a Dota pass?

New comment by tomkinson in "Ask HN: What are some niche communities you enjoy?"

tomkinson — Sun, 05 Aug 2018 21:51:25 +0000

Guilty of also falling for this insanely rad community. I don't have the time nor constitution to participate, but watching an occasional breakdown of glitch detection, shortcuts, hacks and other such time savers, is a lesson in outside the box thinking. Speedrunners capitalize on pixels and milliseconds and there's something I love about that level of attention (in occasional doses).

New comment by tomkinson in "Decentralising the web: Why is it so hard to achieve?"

tomkinson — Sun, 05 Aug 2018 21:38:29 +0000

This is correct and covers most current attempts at implemention.

The public cannot be confused if you want new technologies to become mainstream. Selling the value of decentralization, something few ordinary people truly care enough to make behavioral or even proactive choices towards adopting, is the wrong strategy currently. That someday will change but it could be a while. The public needs other value propositions like the promise of benefit with little to no effort or mindshare to adopt.

This is similar to why mobile payments faltered (and to some extent still does) in the North American market. Too many players sending out different complex messaging. No unified voice.

Eventually we will eliminate the performance penalties, but mass adoption or demand for a decentralized web will require a complex multi pronged approach that includes education and extensive value adds which are easily understood.

New comment by tomkinson in "The Shipping Forecast"

tomkinson — Thu, 26 Jul 2018 15:18:22 +0000

Loved this show and have listened to this forecast for years.

New comment by tomkinson in "DDG: Google uses bizarre tactics to dominate rivals and confuse their customers"

tomkinson — Sat, 21 Jul 2018 18:38:07 +0000

The name is awful. Absolutely it has inhibited larger adoption without question.

New comment by tomkinson in "Eliciting the Patient’s Agenda: Analysis of Recorded Clinical Encounters [pdf]"

tomkinson — Sat, 21 Jul 2018 15:09:48 +0000

Perfect. 5 seems a bit much (5 problems that is), but 3-4 minutes or problems seems like a moderate guideline in today's world. Great measure.

New comment by tomkinson in "New Bedford, Massachusetts: The city that once lit the world"

tomkinson — Sat, 21 Jul 2018 15:07:48 +0000

Actually I wrote an article for Nantucket news expressedly with this exact premise, only about Nantucket, a decade ago. Love to go back and compare numbers.

New comment by tomkinson in "Onboarding is more important than hiring"

tomkinson — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 10:43:05 +0000

Controversial, but the piece, and truth is, there's definitely some merit to this position. The difficulty is in creating onboarding experiences that also account for the uniqueness of humans. Creating a replicatable process for introducing new hires to a company based on who they are, not on procedural flow steps unified for company benifit. That's the real work to be done.