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Life Lessons From Reddit
http://jonlim.ca/2014/10/life-lessons-reddit
Life Lessons From Reddit. When I surf through Reddit, I occasionally find threads that are just worthwhile to save, because they make me laugh, because they’re interesting, or because they cause me to think. Tonight, I found one of those threads that really made me think, and you can find it here: What is something someone said that forever changed your way of thinking? And I’ll leave it up to you to decide how it makes you feel, but I just wanted to share a few of my favourites. And then do it anyway!
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Google Spreadsheets: COUNT with Multiple Values in Cells
http://jonlim.ca/2014/04/google-spreadsheets-count-multiple-values-cells
Google Spreadsheets: COUNT with Multiple Values in Cells. It’s been more than two years since I wrote a post on using Google Spreadsheets. To use COUNT and FILTER in tandem to count values with multiple conditions. Circling back, it does very well at allowing you to count when you need to validate multiple conditions. However, it falls apart the minute that your data is either messy or comes grouped with other data inside of a cell. Here’s an example where my original post would have trouble with:. I kno...
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JonLim.ca - Page 2
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Developer, gamer, amateur chef, professional food destroyer. Page 2 of 4. Older Posts →. Choosing Electron for Desktop Software Development. Back when I started my job, I was given the task of building our desktop software, with the only requirement (aside from the actual functionality) was ». The Switch to Ghost (from WordPress). Ghost is fun. If you don't know, Ghost is a great, minimalistic blogging platform that's super fast, built on really modern web development technologies, and uses ». Page 2 of 4.
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So You Want to be a Programmer
http://jonlim.ca/2015/07/so-you-want-to-be-a-programmer
So You Want to be a Programmer. The pamphlet people assume they receive when becoming a programmer. In my quest to become a programmer (coming from the world of marketing and product management), I am sometimes asked by my fellow newbies what it takes to get to a point where you’re ready to take on a programming role. Not that I’m the expert, but I’ve given it some thought around what really helps build good fundamentals for any language, framework, or role you step into, and I thought I would share!
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Shoving Music Into a Cloud: My Life with Spotify
http://jonlim.ca/2015/02/shoving-music-cloud-life-with-spotify
Shoving Music Into a Cloud: My Life with Spotify. I constantly have some sort of music playing. In the background, in the foreground, in another room, it doesn’t matter, I want something playing at all times. Considering my Last.FM account passed 80,000 scrobbles recently. I’d say I have some pretty high demands of my music. In September of 2014, I decided to fully ditch my offline music library. What would life be like when relying completely on online music streaming services? Spotify has a feature for...
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The Potential of Fitness Bands (as of early 2015)
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The Potential of Fitness Bands (as of early 2015). A few weeks ago, I was given the opportunity to write a product review on the Staples TechHub. On the Fitbit Flex and the Jawbone UP24, comparing the two side-by-side. They’re lovely products, and the sheer act of having a physically visible device on my wrist kept me thinking about my current activity levels and whether I was doing enough to get to my 10,000 daily steps goal. And would be a great start on covering more ground in terms of fitness, if I w...
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Scraping Steam for Data using Python + BeautifulSoup
http://jonlim.ca/2014/03/scraping-steam-data-using-python-beautifulsoup
Scraping Steam for Data using Python BeautifulSoup. As promised in yesterday’s blog post. About analyzing public Steam numbers, here are the juicy technical details behind scraping a website using Python, and a Python library called BeautifulSoup. I chose to use Python because I’ve been using it for a little under two years to do number crunching, as well as building a few automation scripts for work. It’s very lightweight, very easy to read, and quite a mature language. And uses the following:. To open ...
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Destiny: A Lengthy Review
http://jonlim.ca/2014/09/destiny-lengthy-review
Destiny: A Lengthy Review. It has been exactly one week since the much-hyped Destiny was released into the world, and I wanted to really give it a fair shake before writing anything about it. At this point, I’m a level 17 Exo Warlock, currently on the starting point of Mars, have had my fair share of time in the Crucible, and I’ve participated in a handful of Strikes on the Earth and Moon. Destiny, as a shooter at its core, is near perfect. It’s a shooter with RPG elements, including level progression, b...
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An Analysis of Activity on Steam
http://jonlim.ca/2014/03/analysis-activity-steam
An Analysis of Activity on Steam. I have wanted to flex my analysis muscles for quite some time and thought I’d get some practice on publicly available data: the Steam and Game Stats page. For the unaware: Steam. NOTE: If you’re interested in the technical details behind the scraping, I will provide that in a separate post in the near future. Some Fun Facts About Steam Activity. On average, 19.95% of concurrent players on Steam are playing games. On average, 1/5th of the Steam concurrent user base is act...
