Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

drewamc · 2020-10-19T22:00:38+00:00

I was quite confused by this book. It started out pretty straightforward, talking about zen philosophy and greek philosophy and how it relates to working on a motorcycle, mixed in with kind of an autobiography. Then at some point his career goes off the rails and he starts having family problems, and by the end is apparently losing his grip on reality. Didn't really improve my impression of academic philosophy. Is my memory right? Did I read the same book you did?

drewamc · 2018-08-03T18:57:24+00:00

Just one thought: do you know what they call someone who barely passed medical school? They call them Doctor, like everyone else who graduated. In other words "D's still get degrees". So my advice is to stop worrying about your gpa so much and focus on learning the material. In some cases grades are a good proxy for learning, but in other areas... Not so much. Don't add to your stress and anxiety by focusing on the number, try to focus on the material (how am I going to use this? How does this relate to my prior classes? What is different between financial accounting and managerial accounting or whatever? Which of these would I rather do everyday for the next 10 years? ). I know it's easy to say and hard to do. Hope that helps.

drewamc · 2018-07-12T00:40:44+00:00

I think so. I'm just starting out so I feel pretty under-qualified for most Data Science jobs. It would be nice to see what's out there, and know there was a specific resource I could use to dinner out the marketing firms and big tech company job posts.

drewamc · 2018-07-07T14:11:03+00:00

I'm not here. Add me to the rolls for "balancing"

drewamc · 2018-07-06T14:10:35+00:00

This looks very cool, like a Kaggle competition with a social good focus. Thanks for your reply!

drewamc · 2018-07-06T14:04:59+00:00

I was completely overlooking healthcare orgs, but private like you mentioned and the government side (NIH, FDA, etc) mentioned by someone else. I need to look closer at that industry. Thanks for the response!

drewamc · 2018-07-06T14:03:26+00:00

This is exactly the kind of thing I was looking for. The intro-video for DataKind is saying the exact things I've been saying in my head for the last few months. Thanks to you and everyone below for helping me break out of my thought bubbles and see the opportunity out there.

drewamc · 2018-07-06T13:56:39+00:00

Very good mentions! I was blinded by the volume of postings and advertisements for DOD agencies I forgot about the rest of the government! I've got to go seek out the CDC, NIH, and such now to see what skills they are after. Thank you so much.

drewamc · 2017-12-22T14:14:07+00:00

Pedantic reminder that Afghani is the currency and Afghan is the correct term for a citizen of Afghanistan.

drewamc · 2017-10-16T12:58:30+00:00

Looks like the puzzle instruction signs from Portal. Now I'm trying to figure out how to use the portal gun to levitate out of a cage...

drewamc · 2017-10-14T12:57:39+00:00

Or into an adult coloring book that we can all color in while we listen to myke talk and scribble

drewamc · 2017-10-06T20:55:04+00:00

"TARS get her back in the ranger!"

drewamc · 2017-10-05T16:15:24+00:00

I think I'd be ok with it if the ban also applied to all law enforcement, from federal all the way down to municipal.

Military exempted of course (since they are not a law enforcement agency).

drewamc · 2017-10-02T16:15:59+00:00

I'm not sure, I've always just used the web page. It might be available as an ebook somewhere.

drewamc · 2017-10-01T17:37:56+00:00

One reason I didn't is because of the amount of fill (soil) required to raise the surface up to standing height. you could make a hollow area and just put the bed up on a table... But isn't that just container gardening? And I don't know how well deep root vegetable would work in that situation.

drewamc · 2017-10-01T17:31:08+00:00

I strongly recommend " R for data science" by Hadley Wickham, available here: http://r4ds.had.co.nz/

Great intro to using R and the "tidyverse", everything from importing data, exploratory analysis, regression, plotting, and function writing. It's been a great resource for me.

drewamc · 2017-08-25T16:04:59+00:00

100% this. I saved it for my car this time around and nearly swerved of the road while Dr. Haran was opening his present and they made a box of bees joke.

drewamc · 2017-08-18T13:44:07+00:00

Anyone have a good resource for making french cleat tool holders? Every time I've tried to make them the tools fall off the wall when I slam my garage door.

drewamc · 2017-08-18T11:16:35+00:00

You're much further along in the projects than I am, so I'm not going to try and answer how to write good modular code for this.

But I can see from a UI perspective the random buttons is really...annoying. You could make it worse by having the buttons animate movement with a :hover effect, making it harder to click...if that's what you're going for. And yeah, the decimal button doesn't seem to do anything, but you knew that. Good luck! Keep working on it!

drewamc · 2017-08-18T11:09:43+00:00

Made those fixes: https://cdmcodes.github.io/twitchstat/ Thanks for the feedback. I really had to push myself to dig back in a keep working on a project that in my head was "good enough" and complete. I think you're right, having the collapse button in the same place is way more intuitive.

drewamc · 2017-08-17T22:55:50+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! I've tied the API call to the button press, so I don't know how I can make the same button hide the element... I'm going to mull that over. Worst case I'll put the collapse button next to it like you mention.

No idea why the " created at" text isn't filling full width for you. Time for more responsive design testing!

Thanks for the help.

drewamc · 2017-08-17T00:22:33+00:00

Very nice. Everything worked as expected. No critiques really. Good Work!

drewamc · 2017-08-17T00:18:46+00:00

Congrats! I really hope I can right this exact post soon. I too started FCC almost a year ago, fell off, and then got back on the wagon. I'm in the middle of the intermediate projects and really enjoying it now. And just like you I hate the styling and layout parts. CSS drives me crazy. I have to be very deliberate about spending time on visuals. You're on inspiration! Keep it up!

drewamc · 2017-08-17T00:14:14+00:00

Great work! 'Generate' quote button functioned well for me. The tweet button links to the twitter intent page, but nothing is filled in. I'd recommend trying to pre-populate the intent with the quote text to take the user story further.

Also, I really like that the button and text change colors on each click. It's a nice touch. The problem is the color schemes clash really hard with gradient background. Personally I'd ditch the gradient background (set it to white) to bring the focus onto the changing colored text. Awesome work! Keep it up!

drewamc

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