BSousa

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by BSousa 12y ago
Be very careful of using baby wipes on sensitive stuff. A lot of them can remove varnish from nails. I was very surprised when I saw this taking in account the intended usage of the wipes.
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by BSousa 12y ago
Yes! If you hang around HN or the trendy hipster blogosphere, then no. Seems those developers are the scum of the earth and shouldn't be allowed near a computer, but in the real world, those are the ones doing important development in
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by BSousa 12y ago
I don't know much about Manning, but from the article, first, he seems to have some kind of 'photographic memory' for gameplays. Not something you practise to be honest. But even if he watches 4 hours per day, if you add it t
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by BSousa 12y ago
Except most pro athletes train 3-4 hours a day, not 16. If I'm not mistaken (been a while since I read the book), Michael admitted he would get up early to practise, but before school, not before normal practise. When he turned pro, he
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by BSousa 12y ago
I was one of the backers, and while I got out of at the loop, wasn't there also an issue with Doublefine doing a strategy game (spacebars 9 or something) probably using Broken Age money? (not to mention they sold it on early access on
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by BSousa 12y ago
Can it be he just doesn't care about the work assigned to him so he just half-asses it? Not saying it is a good excuse, but I have seen good developers that are indeed good, when moved to projects they have no interest at all, become l
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by BSousa 12y ago
Not the answer you are looking for, but get on KGS even if you are a novice. There are many folks starting out as well, and you can always play more advanced players there and ask for teaching games. I don't have much time now to play,
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by BSousa 12y ago
You see this a lot in these kinds of discussions, but I can guarantee you will overlook a lot (most?) of excellent developers as many can't open source code (due to employment contract) or just don't really want to be coding 24&#x
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by BSousa 12y ago
I agree. I once was offered a job for director of engineering of a big financial firm in the UK based on a couple chats over the phone with the CEO and some tech guy (don't remember the title). With the CEO, I just chatted a bit in gen
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by BSousa 12y ago
There is also someone either at YC or some other accelerator/vc that recently wrote in their blog that as soon as you go to an interview with a suit he will automatically pass as he doesn't believe you can be a techie. Having a ha
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by BSousa 12y ago
Offtopic: First time I read this topic. I didn't read the pastebin, just the comment and was wondering how someone was a founder and not be included in the valuations/investment side of things, or at least informed. Then I read th
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by BSousa 12y ago
You are right, and I edited the post to specifically point to the firing part only)
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by BSousa 12y ago
Sorry, I meant in relation to being fired, not the harassment. My apologies for not making that more specific (I've edited the post)
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by BSousa 12y ago
I'm sorry, Hank got more than he deserved (edit: being fired not the harassement), but not Adria. She posted the tweet WITH the photo. She started this. She (if I remember correctly) was some PR/evangelist in the company. What s
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by BSousa 12y ago
I know you probably don't want to publish his email here, but since his website doesn't seem to work, it makes it hard to contact him without twitter (which a lot of non dev guys) don't have. May I ask, ballpark figure, how m
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by BSousa 12y ago
Not in the uk but interested in the job market there and I agree as I consider it my 'backup' in case things go south for me. The number of .net jobs vs anything else is just ridiculous. If you want to work in London and be secure
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by BSousa 12y ago
As others said, see a doctor, exercise, diet, etc. But what made my eyes pop was the amount of caffeine. 600-900mg is way too much and pretty sure it is affecting your sleep. First result from google [1] gives an upper limit of 400mg per da
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by BSousa 12y ago
To be fully honest, that is usually how I solve problems anyway :) I start with the problem, whatever it maybe, then I 'solve' it by whatever means necessary. This lets me iterate very very quickly over various solutions if needed
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by BSousa 12y ago
While I don't want to say if phone/whiteboard interviews are good or not, I can give you some pointers that worked great for me in the past. 1) Always, ALWAYS before writing a line of code say that you are trying to solve the prob
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by BSousa 12y ago
Can't say about India, but usually goes like -> US C-Corp or the likes which is owned by the shareholders. Then C-Corp owns 100% of the shares of the company of subsidiary (depending on jurisdiction there maybe legal limitations imp
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by BSousa 12y ago
But do you think you are the exception or the norm? I've looked into Zurich real-estate last year and 1000CHF wouldn't even come close to the prices I saw for a small 2br. The idea of the average adjustments is to get a general id
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by BSousa 12y ago
Have data for that startup CEO's? Because unless you are talking about a very narrow group of people, it hasn't been my experience at all (sure, if you ask 20-30 years old, they will say startup CEO, mostly because that is the onl
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by BSousa 12y ago
Like anyone can be a lawyers or a programmer. There are good and bad ones, and a good teacher will require a lot of skills and 'logical' aptitude as well as empathy. AFAIK, you can't take a 4 week bootcamp and teach high-scho
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by BSousa 12y ago
Have you tried looking for professional help? Aside from that, you are unemployed and living on welfare, why then are you not making your own game in your basement? There is still time, and while your conditions aren't perfect (whose a
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by BSousa 12y ago
I've worked with Unreal Engine 3 for a few years in various companies and in all of them we modified the source code to better suit our needs and never really had much of a problem merging new releases. As for Unity, I like what they h
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by BSousa 12y ago
Hi The worst of it all, I'm 32 (been working professionally since I was 16, and programming as a hobby since 11). I'm not supposed to be an old timer complaining about 'kids these days' but sure feels like it! I'm a
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by BSousa 12y ago
It does seem the invitations are for the profile section but you can still register normally. In any case, thanks!! Seems like an interesting way to create a profile. Wonder how 'valuable' this is compared to LinkedIn or a simple
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by BSousa 12y ago
I can't edit my other reply so just going to do a new one. One of the biggest eye openers I had as a developer and how I was being 'exploited' was when doing work for a consulting firm, the ceo of the company asked me to pick
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by BSousa 12y ago
I'm not complaining about my career by itself (I make good money), but it is still quite a few magnitudes lower than what I see my peers in business/finance making around here, and to top it off, seeing how their networks work is
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by BSousa 12y ago
if you have then, can you send one my way? ;)

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