Hey everyone! My name is Aaron and I'm on the team that helped put together some of the digital tools that are making this day of action possible. If you find any issues please let us know here or here: https://github.com/fightforthefuture/battleforthenet
That's the biggest problem with pure FRP: people like to talk about it and make libraries for it, but non-trivial game implementations are rare. I am still not sure what is supposed to be a unit of re-usability (like components/systems in ECS) in FRP?
They do have some examples of the engine working in the "guide" pages [1], but I don't really know enough about the technology to be impressed. "It's just a black triangle."
I worked with Steve at a company before famo.us. He's an excellent leader and really does foster team cohesion unlike anything I've ever seen. Plus he's a natural teacher and likes to involve people in the creation of the "cult"/company culture/vision.
San Francisco, CA (South Park) - Junior and Senior developers
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The general stab of this article is great, but it's a little confusing:
The first few paragraphs bemoan people who are willing to suffer through the valleys to get to the peaks, while the middle of the article is all about how difficult it is to find rewarding experiences and how it usually takes a lot of hard work to see rewards manifest.
Despite his protestations, I think the author does have a sense of "time investment" and is probably often glad he "stuck with it."
In William Gibson's Pattern Recognition, the main character (Cayce Pollard) subscribed to this aesthetic. Her wardrobe consisted of primarily garments that could not be tied to a brand, trend or a period. This is partly a result of a upchuck reaction to fashion and is also a side-effect of her rare allergic reaction to bad branding.
I get it, but he might be pretty upset when he finds his children falling in love and fooling around with higher maths or literature. Or even, god forbid, some useless skill like programming. I mean, when was the last time anyone ever had to program anything?
Delight directed education is powerful, but failing to recognize that pi can be delightful or that Shakespeare can make children excited seems to not be the best first step.
Is this how business people look at the people who actually make things? It's pretty unsettling.
Also, it's pretty ignorant: Anyone who's been to a Google office or to Twitter's or Facebook's office can tell you that what someone wears or what their BMI is has nothing to do with what makes a company scale.
At Google where you have 24,000 -- a significant number of which are engineers, you have old engineers, young engineers, engineers who have beards, engineers who happen to not even be male -- even engineers who wear skinny jeans and live in the mission.
The engineers I know at Apple are really well put together and make excellent software.
I’m not a programmer, much less a hacker, but I thought it would be interesting to find out from people that are.
The barrier to entry is sufficiently low that you should at least try to become a hacker -- or even a programmer; you have the requisite curiosity and imagination.
There are many benefits to learning how things work and what's more; you can do it!
