JustAGeek

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by JustAGeek 16y ago
It really doesn't matter. What matters is having great coders, great ideas for your app and executing them effectively and efficiently which is possible with both PHP and Python. You can write horrible code with both languages, it might be
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by JustAGeek 16y ago
I actually found this quite accessible, I was expecting something very complicated or theoretical but it's a good visualization and explanation about the internals of Git.
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Ask HN: What lib/tool do you use for translation of your app?
5 points by JustAGeek 16y ago|2 comments
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by JustAGeek 16y ago
This is actually my own test of whether or not I've really grokked something: If I can't explain it to someone such that she understands it as well, I haven't really understood that something.
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by JustAGeek 16y ago
Like others said, current research suggests that being good or even expert in something is the result of the right kind of practice and lots of it. Here are two good books about it: The Talent Code: http://thetalentcode.com/book/ Pragmati
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by JustAGeek 16y ago
That's how I understood it, too.
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by JustAGeek 16y ago
Exactly! Just keep it free but offer the possibility to donate for everybody not ordering the print version.
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by JustAGeek 16y ago
Yes, I'd do that as I don't care about a printed version and kinda feel like cheating when downloading the free pdf. It's a great idea, very well pulled off!
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by JustAGeek 16y ago
Ok, thanks! Turns out it's still available at Amazon.de, just ordered it along with "Clause and Effect".
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by JustAGeek 16y ago
When you say "newer edition", are you referring to the edition from 1994 or is there an even more recent one?
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by JustAGeek 16y ago
I partly agree. However, the problem is that the default of FB is to share everything to everybody and the average user isn't aware of that - if they knew, I don't think they'd be that comfortable with it.
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The Psychology of (Video)Games: Why We Do What We Do When Playing With Friends(psychologyofgames.com)
1 points by JustAGeek 16y ago|0 comments
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by JustAGeek 16y ago
Has anyone found the video for Randy Komisar's talk? I can't find it on justin tv. Isn't it available or am I just too blind? Here's the link to Steve Blank's talk: http://www.justin.tv/startuplessonslearned/b/262670582
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by JustAGeek 16y ago
I love Peter Norvig's posts on stuff like this and I'm looking forward to checking out the code he wrote to do this analysis.
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by JustAGeek 17y ago
Have you heard of neo4j? http://neo4j.org/ It's a graph database. I haven't used it but only attended a presentation by one of its developers, yet it seems to make a lot of sense. :)
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by JustAGeek 17y ago
I went to a software dev conference in London last week and stayed for some more days to do some sightseeing. Of course I also went to the changing of the guards at Buckingham Palace and when the band started to play I couldn't believe my e
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Buckingham Palace Guard's band going geek(youtube.com)
2 points by JustAGeek 17y ago|1 comments
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by JustAGeek 17y ago
Audiobooks are of course an option. However, I've found that, for me, listening to something isn't the same as reading something. When I read something, it sticks much better than when I listen. It's actually the same when I read something
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by JustAGeek 17y ago
The best way to read more books is to get a job where you have to commute. And by that I mean commute by train. That's giving me almost 2 hours per day for pretty uninterrupted reading. Not that I read 100 books per year but it seems that i
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by JustAGeek 17y ago
I used to use mytop but since 2 years or so, I use innotop now, which is just like mytop but with more features geared towards InnoDB tables: http://innotop.sourceforge.net/ It also works pretty much the same as mytop for MyIsam tables, I
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by JustAGeek 17y ago
Maybe I'm not seeing the obvious but how do you get a list with past purchases? Er, I do know you can log into your account and check your past purchases very easily but that isn't very convenient if you want to post that list on your blog
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by JustAGeek 17y ago
Ok, I'm German, so I guess I'm qualified to put this into perspective. ;) First off, this sounds far more than a health paradise than it is in reality. If you go to a regular doctor, you definitely have to sit in a waiting room - unless you
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by JustAGeek 17y ago
Actually, I do agree that this number is kinda arbitrary and it of course depends on the field you want to become master in. But that doesn't matter, the important point is that you perform deliberate practice. If you look at any expert/mas
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by JustAGeek 17y ago
The author got the 10,000 hours-rule slightly wrong. :) It's not as simple as merely doing something for 10,000 hours and then you magically become an expert. The 10,000 hours-rules refers to the act of performing 10,000 hours of "deliberat
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by JustAGeek 17y ago
Am I the only one considering it a bit dodgy that the headline of this submission sounds like this was eg a blog post describing how to add SMS but instead you get to a commercial site? I mean, I'd have nothing against this if the submitter
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by JustAGeek 17y ago
I agree. And oddly enough, 37Signals does, too, even they don't seem to know it. :P Go to http://highrisehq.com/ , scroll down a bit until you see the second large green button, there you can see the text: "Thousands of small businesses a
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by JustAGeek 17y ago
Hm, I didn't know the MarkDown-Syntax and I must say that it really is totally unintuitive to have put 2 spaces at the end of a line to get a linebreak. That's just not what one would think having to do. Ok, so there is the preview but I mu
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by JustAGeek 17y ago
Huh? I think you've misunderstood me, I'm the same opinion as you. However, my point is that "fixing" a tomcat is much less of a trouble for the cat then spaying for a female cat, so instead of getting a female cat you should get a tomcat.
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by JustAGeek 17y ago
Cat, agreed. However, if you leave it alone a lot and if it can't be let out, then you need two cats so there's always somebody to play with and the cat doesn't get bored causing it to develop odd behavior. As for the sex of the cat, I'd su
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by JustAGeek 17y ago
Oh, so it is one of those games, I'm glad I didn't click the button...

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