Ideas are cheap. Make a prototype, sketch a CLI session, draw a wireframe. Discuss around concrete examples, not hand-waving abstractions. Don't say you did something, provide a URL that proves it.
Nothing is real until it's being used by a real user. This doesn't mean you make a prototype in the morning and blog about it in the evening. It means you find one person you believe your product will help and try to get them to use it.
| import matplotlib,numpy | |
| import pylab | |
| # A random colormap for matplotlib | |
| cmap = matplotlib.colors.ListedColormap ( numpy.random.rand ( 256,3)) | |
| pylab.imshow ( Z, cmap = cmap) | |
| pylab.show() |
04/26/2103. From a lecture by Professor John Ousterhout at Stanford, class CS142.
This is my most touchy-feely thought for the weekend. Here’s the basic idea: It’s really hard to build relationships that last for a long time. If you haven’t discovered this, you will discover this sooner or later. And it's hard both for personal relationships and for business relationships. And to me, it's pretty amazing that two people can stay married for 25 years without killing each other.
[Laughter]
> But honestly, most professional relationships don't last anywhere near that long. The best bands always seem to break up after 2 or 3 years. And business partnerships fall apart, and there's all these problems in these relationships that just don't last. So, why is that? Well, in my view, it’s relationships don't fail because there some single catastrophic event to destroy them, although often there is a single catastrophic event around the the end of the relation
| # LICENSE: public domain | |
| def calculate_initial_compass_bearing(pointA, pointB): | |
| """ | |
| Calculates the bearing between two points. | |
| The formulae used is the following: | |
| θ = atan2(sin(Δlong).cos(lat2), | |
| cos(lat1).sin(lat2) − sin(lat1).cos(lat2).cos(Δlong)) |
Who's your customer? The department or the citizen. What’s your product? The negotiated-design process or the actual outcome itself. These things are interrelated, but ensure the entire team is aligned and in agreement on what it is you’re doing and what the outcome is you want. What do you want to say you built at the end-of-year summit? The earlier you can figure this out, the better your year will go. Project uncertainty is the mind-killer.
Don't negotiate with yourselves. My team would have achieved so much more if we had come to an agreement internally on how to proceed in our city design negotiations, and let CfA staff tell us if we were unreasonable. Instead, we watered down what we wanted, caved on major issues, and negotiated individually with our city partners rather than as a team.
Invest your time in one thing for the entire year. Your understanding of the civic problem-space may change and evolve, but creating a commitment (individually, as a team, and in your city-
| $stack, $draws = [], {} | |
| def method_missing *args | |
| return if args[0][/^to_/] | |
| $stack << args.map { |a| a or $stack.pop } | |
| $draws[$stack.pop(2)[0][0]] = args[1] if args[0] == :< | |
| end | |
| class Array | |
| def +@ |
| # Klein Tools TI250 image tool by Scott Smitelli. Public domain. | |
| # Requires at least Python 3.6 (developed and tested on 3.9) | |
| # See https://www.scottsmitelli.com/articles/klein-tools-ti250-hidden-worlds | |
| import argparse | |
| import numpy as np | |
| import re | |
| import struct | |
| from PIL import Image, ImageDraw |
| package main | |
| import ( | |
| "fmt" | |
| "github.com/lukeroth/gdal" | |
| "github.com/paulmach/orb" | |
| "github.com/paulmach/orb/project" | |
| ) |
| <!-- This code is public domain, share and enjoy. --> | |
| <html> | |
| <style type="text/css" media="screen"> | |
| #table { | |
| position: absolute; | |
| top: 30px; | |
| bottom: 0; | |
| left: 10px; | |
| right: 10px; | |
| } |