Nicky Thompson
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I have done this - been the first person down the front at a gig where everyone was standing back nodding their heads and stroking their chins, but the music was too good not to dance! And by the end of the first song everyone was dancing with me :-)
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Economic and social developments are predictable in general - as others have said, we can predict that inflation will change, but not the amount or direction.
I wonder what everyone thinks of this: I would call the free NHS in the UK and the welfare system an example of how social systems deal with uncertainty. The government can make a general prediction...
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One example I can think of in my recent experience was choosing which apartment to rent. I and my partner looked at lots on the internet and chose some to look at.
We know some concrete things about the apartments like their cost, and their location and nearby bus routes, so how easy it will be to get to work or to friend's houses. But we don't know...
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Hello, I'm Nicky and I'm a technical manager interested in improving my decision-making skills.
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Scientific: Left-handed people are more driven to succeed as the world has not been designed for them and so from a very young age they have to work harder. This translates into success in their field.
Psuedo-scientific: Left-handed people are more suited to politics.
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P4&5 are logically valid - I believe that commercial fishing does damage to fish populations, but these premises miss the argument & my challenge would be: that there are fish farms and sustainable fishing methods.
2. Are the premises true?
Yes. Inhumane slaughter methods are used and I agree with Justin that this is wrong. I also agree that commercial... -
I used the step about evaluating arguments to ask these questions about the argument in standard form:
1. Do the premises provide enough logical support for the conclusion?
Not entirely.The argument P1 is an appeal to authority and without doing any more research I don't know this person or if their book is any good, or the book was scientifically...
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This is my version of Justin's argument in standard form:
P1 I’m the author of the book Living a Better Life (appeal to authority)
P2 Animals from factory farming spend their entire lives in miserable conditions/Animals from factory farming are treated cruelly (descriptive, normative, moral)
P3 It's not ok to eat eggs as the hens are still treated cruelly... -
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One thing we do where I work that I really like is: have a clear set of hiring competencies for the role, as well as the job description, that we publish and send to candidates when they apply. This helps candidates frame their experience for us and their answers to questions in ways that make it easier for the interviewers to understand.
It also keeps...
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I think people management skills are important because at work my manager and colleagues are a huge influence on my motivation and interest in doing a good job, which seems to agree with what the business leaders and HR professionals in the article say. I'd like to build on those skills and try to encourage/influence others in the same positive way.
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Nicky Thompson replied to Sue Lock
I think people management skills can definitely be learned, if the person wants to learn them! I think that like with any skill, we get good at what we practice doing, and it helps if we are surrounded by high-quality examples and reinforce our learning with doing. Some people may find it easier because of a natural strength, but I believe anyone can learn the...
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Hello, I've been line managing software engineers for a couple of years now, and the most interesting & rewarding part to me is working with people to figure out what they want from their careers, helping them set personal & professional development goals and seeing them work towards & achieve them. I'm regularly amazed & impressed by the ideas people come up...
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I love the idea of a "resilience muscle" - muscles being something that you can work out and make stronger.
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@Maryalice Hogg-O'Rourke Absolutely much harder to build accessibility in after the fact! I am a web developer and I find this link really informative to share with colleagues: https://the-pastry-box-project.net/anne-gibson/2014-july-31 - accessibility isn't just for other obvious cases like people using screenreaders, it makes the web better for everyone.
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I'm a web developer with a keen interest in web accessibility so I'm considering making a campaign to get all creative people to see that accessible websites can be beautiful too. Might be difficult as I am not a designer but I'm going to give it a go :-)
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Nicky Thompson replied to Alexander Davies
Yeah, I imagined that the "riches" is the extra 30% of sales money that Skittles made, which were brought on by the extra shares and likes from the campaign.
But I have a very literal brain, so maybe someone with more imagination would disagree.
I'd love to know where that figure of "5 Likes = 1 sale" comes from. Is that really true!?
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I think everyone who is saying the monster plot is used so often because it is so relatable and universal is right. I think this is true because we are all hardwired to be scared of monsters since childhood - who among us doesn't get scared of their own house in the dark after watching a horror film or walking down a lonely alleyway. Films that tap into this...
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Nicky Thompson replied to Nina Kramer
I had heard this before and was glad someone else mentioned it! I think it's interesting too that those two plots could be considered to be the same story from different characters points of view - the stranger coming to town is on their own journey :)
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The sun rises over a spring field with a child walking through it amongst bunnies and frolicking lambs. As the sun nears the top of the sky it scorches the crops and the lambs grow into sheep. The child grows into a blonde woman as she walks. The leaves start falling from the trees as the sun descends behind haystacks made of yellow pencils. Snow falls to...
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Nicky Thompson replied to Wazir Rohiman
Cool! Thankyou :)
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Nicky Thompson replied to Fin Church
Cool. It's really pretty :)
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Another one! https://www.flickr.com/photos/nicky_j/20240813178 I just changed the colours using HSB so I could get only colours between pink and blue. I've no idea what all the cos and maths bit is doing so I left that bit alone :)
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I changed the colours a bit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nicky_j/19804317134. This is fun!
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Nicky Thompson replied to Ella ...
Pierre, that's really helpful thankyou! I found this image helpful when I am trying to get only a set of colours - this shows you where all the colours lie on the scale. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/HueScale.svg/2000px-HueScale.svg.png
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Nicky Thompson replied to Wazir Rohiman
That's amazing! How did you do the big circles?! It's like a Slinky or something from Spirograph :)
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Nicky Thompson replied to Fin Church
That's lovely! How did you get the shapes?
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Hello! I'm a web developer from London, UK and I'm looking forward to making some cool art with this course.
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I visit Spain often so would love to hear more about the Spanish crisis. Sounds very interesting.
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Nicky Thompson replied to Cate Cody
This sounds very interesting! I'd love to hear how this comes about! I'd love to cut down on my waste and send less to landfill and less to recycling too.
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I want to do a report for my colleagues on a conference I recently went to, to share the things I learned there with my team.
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Same as everyone really, I want to be more confident when presenting ideas to others, or even just speaking to a large group of people.
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Nicky Thompson replied to Ted Tchir
I haven't tried Eclipse yet - I wanted to use Sublime Text as it is what I am familiar with and I noticed there was a package for it, but haven't got round to it yet!
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Cor. Wish I had a bionic exoskeleton.
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Nicky Thompson replied to Matthew Shorter
I'm desperately trying to catch up before the end of the course!
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Nicky Thompson replied to Matthew Shorter
I think so (if I understand your question correclty) - the opening line of the movingCircle() function:
void movingCircle(float x, float y, float size, float angle)
is the definition of movingCircle() - showing what types of values it is expecting - and the values it is then fed are from the last line of the draw() function, when movingCircle is called...
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So much fun for a summer Sunday afternoon! https://www.flickr.com/photos/nicky_j/14479183274/in/pool-2615752@N24/ and http://www.openprocessing.org/sketch/152416
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/nicky_j/14293074340/in/pool-2615752@N24/ - I used the HSB mode to pick some nice colours and saw that there is a fourth value for colorMode, so I changed the transparency too.
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Nicky Thompson replied to Phil Wilson
Phil! Hello! Thank you for posting that link, it is the best explanation of HSB and RGB and how to make colours you actually like that I have ever seen. I'm using it now and it's SO much easier to make something pretty. HSB all the way!
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Nicky Thompson replied to [Learner left FutureLearn]
Awesome thanks!
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Nicky Thompson replied to Anke Eickholt
Yeah, that is gorgeous! One of my aims in this course is to make something I'm proud enough of to print out and put on my wall. This would totally hit that goal!
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Nicky Thompson replied to Ricardo Ordorica
Wow! How did you get the shapes and colours?! They are super cool.
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This is so exciting! https://www.flickr.com/photos/nicky_j/14354470205/in/pool-2615752@N24
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Nicky Thompson replied to [Learner left FutureLearn]
Hello Jon, does the GPL licence mean I am allowed to put the code we are given, and my changes to the programs, into Github and use them from there? (I'm getting very nervous just saving over each time and it would be great to have a proper history of my work over the time of the course).
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Nicky Thompson replied to shahriar akbari
That's amazing! How did you get the shapes and colours?
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Nicky Thompson replied to Maria Haneskog
There appear to be plenty on this course, so maybe that's something we can help change by publishing our work :-)
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Nicky Thompson replied to Mark Dammer
How did you do that?! Looks amazing.
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Nicky Thompson replied to Nicky Thompson
Oh awesome thankyou!
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Did you press 'Ctrl' key AND '/' key together? (The '-' is not included in the keys you are supposed to press, I think).
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Nicky Thompson replied to David Nutting
I was just thinking the exact same thing! Any recommendations for a cheap graphic tablet or something else I could use to help me make something a little better looking?
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Nicky Thompson replied to Liudvikas Dapšys
That is beautiful.
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Wow! How did you get the different shapes? That looks really cool.
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Nicky Thompson replied to Robert Kelso
Ooh! Love the colours :D
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I'm sure everyone's seen this already, and it's not really generative, but I've been browsing through http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/ to get ideas on how to make things look good, in preparation for this course.
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Hello! I'm a front end developer from London, I can program ok but I'm looking to develop my design and creative skills.
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Great video!
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Hello everyone! It's so cool to read everyone's introductions and see how many varied backgrounds we are all from.
I'm from London in the UK and my favourite games are puzzles like Plants Vs Zombies and Angry Birds.
I'm a web developer by day but I've never programmed Java before or made any games.
And wow, so many others who got started in Basic on...
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Nicky Thompson replied to David Shearing
Oh cool, what was the online course for Python? I am sort of looking for an iOS game development course to do next, but haven't really found one yet. Better finish this one first eh!
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Nicky Thompson replied to Taras Frolov
I had this and I noticed in the video the test emulator chosen said API 17, and all of mine were coming up API 18, even though the 4.3/4.2 numbers matched - someone else mentioned in the comments that you can download the 17 SDK from within Eclipse, the instructions are here: http://developer.android.com/tools/help/sdk-manager.html
In my case 18 was already...
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Nicky Thompson replied to Steven Smith
It was a fine balance between too fast and long video yes but I think you got it just right. I did make quite good use of my pause button when I needed to catch up but that's what it's for!
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Nicky Thompson replied to [Learner left FutureLearn]
I wish I'd thought of that! I think in this case it probably would have been fine - we were only uncommenting out those two blocks, and those files would have been imported along with the downloaded framework (I think, I did it the long way round so not sure!) - so we still would have been changing the relevant files ourselves and learning & understanding that...
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Nicky Thompson replied to Craig Kent
I absolutely agree - trust that the product will be durable is so important.
So many even highly regarded brands' products fall apart so quickly these days that a product lasting is a great indicator of my loyalty to that brand.
