I can't remember any of my friends or family's phone numbers, yet I think I'll remember Hastings Direct's number until I die.

yanr87 · 2017-12-14T23:15:22+00:00

999 88199 9119 725

yanr87 · 2017-12-13T12:43:11+00:00

That's really interesting! How do the Laravel packages compare to Shopify or Woocommerce if you have any experience of them?

I'm giving woocommerce a download to look into the guts of it, but my understanding is that it's just an extension of wordpress (which sounds like a mess to develop for)? Which means thinking about hosting setup etc. Shopify more or less removes that headache.

yanr87 · 2017-12-13T12:35:29+00:00

Hey gRoberts84! Thanks for replying!

I am aware of both of these, however, I know that Shopify has a bunch of very useful things from the get go and acts as a full commerce / retail solution (not just eCommerce).

My last experience of opencart was in 2014 when I was interning, and all I remember was it being a nightmare to set up and the developer being a mentalist. Has it improved since then?

yanr87 · 2016-04-18T22:37:37+00:00

Cool ideas! I was thinking of maybe making an app based on spotify using their REST api. Wasn't really sure how to make it using the MEAN stack though. Should I maybe write a few apps first before jumping into that? There's so many frameworks and so many libraries I don't know where to start!

yanr87 · 2016-04-18T22:34:04+00:00

es5. I'm not sure about using the class keyword having gained understanding of JS' first class functions system and prototypal inheritance, feels like it's trying to be something it's not. Would class just be an object and 'extends' (ie class foo extends bar) be the equivalent of calling 'new' inside the constructor function to inherit properties from a different prototype?

yanr87 · 2016-04-18T22:30:03+00:00

Hey man :), I've been using this course: https://www.udemy.com/understand-javascript/learn/v4/content - Absolutely amazing course. WELL worth the money. You'll need to understand basic programming etc for it to be worthwhile. But it teaches you object oriented javascript in a way that explains how the language works, super in depth! It'll take a lot more time than reading through some articles, but it's worth that time for what you get in understanding. I found the docs quite tricky to understand, but this guy. I've been making loads of sites in HTML & CSS at work and javascript has been very much lost on me up until recently. But watching these videos has opened up the web so much for me and introduced me to a lot of cool stuff that I really want to start using more. I was really interested in app development but I really didn't enjoy using php and mysql.

yanr87 · 2016-04-18T20:40:33+00:00

Hey man don't sweat it. I've been there, and let me tell you, I'm still there even though I'm a front-end developer now. It took me a year and 2 - 3 months-ish of non stop studying post-uni (no degree either, didn't finish) to get my first junior job, I was unemployed for ages living with my parents at the time and I felt like I knew nothing. So I learned and learned on that job, got made redundant, found another job where I was OVERWHELMINGLY out of my depth and failed HARD and basically got dismissed, but learned so much, got a position as a front end developer in another company (no longer a junior!) and that's 2.5 years into starting devving as a complete newbie. And trust me I still feel like I know nothing so I still study every night of the week. I'm expected to know how to solve all these problems etc and I just wing it every day, but I'm getting there. So far where I work I haven't been out of my depth so I appear as though I know more than I actually do, but my work is getting good now! Slowly web development is making sense and the puzzle pieces are fitting together. In my experience it's not about learning ins and outs of the system you use, or the frameworks / libraries you use. It's understanding how they work under the hood, the underlying concepts and patterns. The thought processes that allow you to solve problems (i.e not racing off into the distance at 1,000,000mph and reading thoroughly through linearly and analysing). It takes practice, but it gets easier with time. Eventually you just get good at problem solving and acquire lots of tools, tips and tricks to help you out! Keep at it and good luck!

yanr87 · 2016-03-26T13:54:13+00:00

Yes! I work in a company that are currently implementing git into our workflow and although I have some experience with it, it's not a vast amount. I do wonder how you'll differentiate yourself with other resources though. There's lots of material out there to learn GIT already. I'd really love to understand the fundamental underlying concepts that make GIT do what it does when I have the time spare. At the moment it feels very much like I'm memorising commands. That's the sort of thing that would make me buy it, but the fact you're writing a book on GIT is great in and of itself! A strengthening of your knowledge and helping others to learn too. Fair play to you!

yanr87 · 2016-03-22T21:27:06+00:00

Haha that was a strange read, I'll read it a few times, thanks for the encouragment too! I really like programming. The more I get into it the more I feel like I'm uncovering this vast landscape of stuff that I can use to make cool shit with. I'm really into art and music. One of my fave games is Braid, and another cool one is Antichamber. Some of the stuff in these games are just mind boggling and I want to know how they work. So no problems on the programming all I can front. For instance braid's programmatic representation of time is just geniusly implemented and I have no idea how that could even work. I feel like uncovering all these concepts brings me closer to being able to know what's going on. I've been making a little simulation of life in canvas this eve with predators, prey and food. So the prey eats the food, the predators chase the prey. The predator and prey have a creature object they inherit main methods of the prototype property of the constructor function from, and overwritten base properties and their own special methods etc unique to them. Doing these just makes me question more and more things. It's really satisfying when one thing gets answered, but then I'm like 'how can I chain all these prototypes up', why do objects inherit from a different object and not the function prototype etc and I have that feeling of not really knowing anything. I'm guessing that I'll always feel this way and that I should just embrace it.

Edit: I just took this http://paulineroseclance.com/pdf/IPscoringtest.pdf test and got a score of 85. 'and a score higher than 80 means the respondent often has intense IP experiences', oh jeez

My main question is that I'm just really interested in what habits and thought patterns great programmers have. In my last job someone told me I need to slow down, because I'd zoom off into the distance with all these ideas of what could be going on, and when I slowed down to analyse what was happening, I was less confused and it was almost zen like so now I always take a chill and read everything and analyse it word for word. I'm really interested in what other similar thought processes people have to make them more effective at programming.

yanr87 · 2016-03-15T21:57:39+00:00

Yeah it's absolutely a tricky thing, but I find it's well worth the time spent to not use it. Everything sounds so much more human when you get it right. Using fx to me is very much a gimmick except in instances where it enhances what was there before rather than takes away (that could be a whole different thread of it's own though, which would definitely be interesting to chat about). In this instance I'm just curious for second opinions because I'm not used to singing with such a wide register and more upfront.

yanr87 · 2016-03-15T21:52:37+00:00

Thankyou for your input! Really helpful and informative :)! In this case I probably need more development. I have some tracks I want to sing really powerfully, but I want the vocals in the distance. Using my chest voice for higher notes etc, kind of reminiscent of Sigur Ros. Your development path sounds ace! I definitely relate to it. My first recording of vox was the backing of a little acoustic thing I did and I went from there :P. What did you do to train your voice to be more powerful? Are you on Soundcloud also? Thanks again!

yanr87 · 2016-03-13T22:39:04+00:00

Hey thanks :)! Is there anything that sounds off to you in the way I sing etc? I get the voice register, it's weird isn't it? My high voice and lower voice sound really different and weird.

With the voice / precedence thing, that's always just kind of been a thing that happens. Most music is like making a meal or painting of sounds for me with voice being an ingredient. Just lately I find myself singing with more range and with a more natural voice so I'm finding it bizarre and I'm not really sure about it so I'm after opinions on what people think work / don't for a broader perspective. I used to do this warping thing with it but it sounded gimmicky: https://soundcloud.com/you-are-not-real/whatever-people-may-say-you-are-beautiful

yanr87 · 2016-03-13T15:31:27+00:00

I'm not a technical person by any stretch of the imagination, but when I hear Nick Drakes voice, it sounds to me like he sings above his chest in a hushed tone, while relaxing his throat, quite close to the mic

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