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Re: Episode 022: Keeping the hustle

Jeff Smick — Mon, 01 Jun 2015 16:17:56 -0000

Great show guys.

BTW, Bob, there's a term for the process you described when you have to do a thing before doing the thing before doing the thing so you can do the thing: yak shaving. http://projects.csail.mit.e...

Jimmy, talking about your Dad telling you to anticipate his moves brought up a lot of my Dad doing the same to me. A rough way to learn a lesson, but it's paid off.

Re: Introducing the new BrainPick podcast

Jeff Smick — Thu, 07 May 2015 11:58:45 -0000

Awesome! I've been listening to the audio version of this recently. Really looking forward to hearing the deeper interviews.

Re: I quit. Thank you.

Jeff Smick — Fri, 01 May 2015 18:32:10 -0000

Congratulations Bob. Huge huge step. Having recently done something similar (I left a solid, well paying job for a less solid, less well paying job, but something I needed to do) I know the fear and anxiety that comes along. That gets amplified knowing there's a family to support. It's a huge decision with a lot of really big unknowns. My philosophy has always been to do what you love and the money will follow.

You put out a high quality product that you obviously love working on. Your enthusiasm is infectious and inspiring. Can't wait to see how things progress for you.

Re: Making It #013: Be Curious

Jeff Smick — Thu, 02 Apr 2015 11:19:39 -0000

A little late to this one. Bob, you had said you were curious about how people learn when they're not building something that's more tangible. I'm a system's programmer and tend to work down at a level where the only way you can tell you've done something is by the way a line moves on a graph. And I learn just like you. I need a target to work toward. A fair number of people I've encountered in my field learn the theory first then try to apply it to some problem they have. It sounds like the woodworking community is pretty similar. Maybe the difference between "I want to build this thing so I need to learn this tool/technique" and "I want to learn this tool/technique and might use it to build a thing."

Thanks for the great discussions. It's been really heartening and inspiring watching the videos and listening to the discussions you're all putting out.

Re: Intridea Blog: New Twitter Button Gem from Intridea

Jeff Smick — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:08:00 -0000

Just used this to add the tweet button to MotorMouths: http://motormouths.com/car/...
Thanks!

Re: Extending ltrace to make your Ruby/Python/Perl/PHP apps faster

Jeff Smick — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:51:10 -0000

Thanks for this Joe. I didn't know what ltrace was, let alone that you can now use it with libraries.

Re: 6 Line EventMachine Bugfix = 2x faster GC, +1300% requests/sec

Jeff Smick — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:35:36 -0000

Very cool! Great writeup.

Re: Hello, I'm Rachel.

Jeff Smick — Sat, 17 May 2008 21:19:02 -0000

This is an excellent picture on many levels. Where did the original of this come from?