DTrejo

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by DTrejo 16y ago
A few I forgot / gleaned from http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2240226 : - if any organizers are competing, don't allow their teams to them enter - don't let sponsors bother coders (a few brief interviews and a pitch at the beginning is
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by DTrejo 16y ago
Hey man, thanks for the feedback. We did a bad job, next time I hope we'll do better. Some of the things we'll focus on: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2241031
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by DTrejo 16y ago
Just semi-hosted a hackathon recently. Key elements: - good desks / places to sit and code - reliable internet - free dinner, midnight and/or 3am food - healthy food in addition to junky food - some like energy drinks
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by DTrejo 16y ago
My thoughts: - work on making your copy less verbose - let me get to the good stuff right away - what will make people want to actually take action?
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by DTrejo 16y ago
I am reading The Way We're Working Isn't Working , also by Schwartz, and I would highly recommend it (though you've already read one book by him, so it might be overkill).
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by DTrejo 16y ago
That's good to hear, especially since I have a number of my personal repos in my dropbox.
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by DTrejo 16y ago
You'll probably end up corrupting the shared bare repo. This approach is only suitable for a small team (two in my case) where people can just shout over their cubicle walls: "Hey! Nobody push! I'm pushing now!". – Ates Goral Sep 13 '10 a
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by DTrejo 16y ago
Link to download the book: http://www.sendspace.com/file/a75r7u
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by DTrejo 16y ago
[...] at least Enron and WorldCom crooks went to jail. Good point — modern crooks got bonuses and their companies were saved from bankruptcy.
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by DTrejo 16y ago
At my school, almost all CS students do internships during the summer. By sophomore year almost everyone has an internship with a tech company lined up for the summer. My school may be is an outlier, however.
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by DTrejo 16y ago
Readability bookmarklet, for those who haven't heard of it before: https://www.readability.com/bookmarklets/ Actually that's not it, I don't think. WTF arc90 got rid of the old readability bookmark; I don't want to sign up for anything.
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by DTrejo 16y ago
Anyone have a link to a demo?
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New England College Hackathon(nech2011.com)
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by DTrejo 16y ago
CSS is aspect-oriented! [1] http://plpatterns.com/post/482063133/every-time-you-use-css-...
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by DTrejo 16y ago
I wish I had not used the WAF build system, it works - it’s okay, but it introduces more WTFs than necessary. I can perhaps dig out from under WAF at some point but it would be a monumental undertaking. — Ryan Dahl, in reference to Node.j
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by DTrejo 16y ago
Rapt, the winner for most fun, was posted on HN the other day: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2106102 (make sure to bring a friend, since the game is two player.)
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by DTrejo 16y ago
You should write a book and call it 4 Hour Work-Month
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by DTrejo 16y ago
Full size image without the checkout process: http://jmarbach.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Hacker-News-M... (2.9MB) Edit: jmarbach, thanks for making this! Also, apologies for the hits to your server.
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by DTrejo 16y ago
Ouch. There is value in being able to handle extremely harsh criticism. There is also value in being able to say things nicely, with the knowledge that your words will be more easily heard by the person on the other end, and put to use rath
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by DTrejo 16y ago
They hotlink to that cloud image, oh noes.
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by DTrejo 16y ago
Links and elaborate?
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by DTrejo 16y ago
Hey Chris, I was just trying to share a few things I'd learned. I know I haven't done as much scraping as others (like yourself and richcollins). Glad I've helped get some discussion going :)
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by DTrejo 16y ago
Dirty sheep can look yellowish no? And bronze is Yellowish.
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by DTrejo 16y ago
:) glad you found my post helpful, where I mention it http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2129839
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by DTrejo 16y ago
And here's a truly awesome tutorial for enlive (swannodette is a regular here as well): http://github.com/swannodette/enlive-tutorial
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Scraping made easy with jQuery and SelectorGadget (and Node.js!)(blog.dtrejo.com)
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by DTrejo 16y ago
Joakal, you may not meet many people in your area, but definitely check out #startups on freenode ( http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=startups ).
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by DTrejo 16y ago
It's good you're active on HN, and in NYC, otherwise he might not have heard about you guys ;)
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by DTrejo 16y ago
Another way to look at this: If you come to the Thai market with knowledge of technologies that allow you to execute better and faster than the locals, you might have an advantage.
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by DTrejo 16y ago
If you're near the Boston area in February, definitely check out the New England College Hackathon! (A similar coding-oriented event) http://nech2011.eventbrite.com/ College students will be coding, and developer volunteers will be servin

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