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by Ologn 13y ago
What he talks about is about learning languages. He says he has gone through seven languages in the past 5-10 years. School lays a deep foundation for programming. I went back to school to get a CS Bachelors. I took a mathematics course th
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by Ologn 13y ago
I agree with what you said about Ubuntu NIH syndrome. If their alternatives were better, or at least equivalent, it would not be so bad. But these NIH projects typically only have Canonical (and some Ubuntu) people working on them. Go to L
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by Ologn 13y ago
> "You hate testing!" I started working as a Unix sysadmin in 1996, and while I have always written programs, and have been doing so more heavily lately, I never wrote a program with someone else before. All of my programming
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by Ologn 13y ago
From what I have read, and from what I know of my limited experience, most of the money on IAP games are made from "whales". Most people will download and just play the free levels. Others will spend a little. Some people spend
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by Ologn 13y ago
I think the Lean methodology has some good ideas, and I often follow it myself. Someone once compared it to aspects of scientific methodology, and I agree and think it is something to think about. You do not have ideas, you have hypotheses
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by Ologn 13y ago
The thing I remember about Unicos was that it was fanatical about job prioritization, which processes had permissions to use processor cpu time etc. You had to jump through hoops to get things running, even for commands that would run for
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by Ologn 13y ago
"perhaps doing and eating what we want (to the extent we’re making choices) is more valuable than lower mortality and morbidity" It seems more systemic to me. I go to my supermarket and decide to eschew snacks like candy or potat
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by Ologn 13y ago
Regarding the commercial BASIC project mentioned in this letter - Gates facilitated non-student Allen coming onto the Harvard campus, to use a computer they did not have permission to use for their commercial project. The computer they wer
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by Ologn 13y ago
I agree. The article is titled "How Language Seems To Shape One's View Of The World" whereas the scientific consensus for the past half century has been the opposite, and very little evidence has come to light over the past
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by Ologn 13y ago
The best question I have is "Describe the power on of a RHEL x86 system in as much detail as possible from beginning to end, each step of what happens". It is open ended but can tell you a lot. You can get very fine grained, down
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by Ologn 13y ago
Back in 1998 I was making $70k and had everything I needed. I was bumped to $80k in 1999 and now had more than I could spend. The extra $10k did not alter my spending habits any, other than I did not have to space out buying big ticket it
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by Ologn 13y ago
Most of us spend our time writing code once in order to automate tasks forever, the whole point of which is to increase "laziness". As many have said, laziness for the programmer is a virtue. As far as lifestyle businesses, the t
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by Ologn 13y ago
> Meh. Everything is moving online. Quote - "Almost everything is moving on-line." Year - 1999 Author - Jay Conrad Levinson Book name - Mastering Guerrilla Marketing: 100 Profit-producing Insights You Can Take to the Bank Page
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by Ologn 13y ago
Yes. Of course even the US dollar was backed by gold until 42 years ago. As you said, I can pay taxes with dollars. I can go to the NYC 24 hour USPS post office right now and buy commodities with a dollar. The government could privatize
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by Ologn 13y ago
I guess the Vela Incident didn't make the cut...
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When I first started looking at Android development, Eclipse's plugin system was so buggy it put me off Android development for a year or so. Eclipse has gotten a little better than how it used to be. I initially used it when doing An
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by Ologn 13y ago
Let me tell you about a billion dollar company. The company is called Loudeye. It had a huge IPO party in Seattle with bands, a James Bond theme etc., gifts for each guest. The IPO price was $16, it soared the first day to $40. The mark
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by Ologn 13y ago
One unfortunate thing about Bornstein leaving is he seemed to be the only one working on fixing the 65536 method limit bug/feature for Dalvik executables.
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The bug was reported in February 2010 to the Debian bug tracker, where it was forever ignored, although the fix was trivial (replace the vol_id comment with blkid). In May 2010 Ubuntu downstream is syncing with Debian ( https://
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by Ologn 13y ago
I use Ubuntu on my desktop and have sent a number of patches to them and their upstreams when I encountered problems. One thing about Ubuntu is that, if you put Android to one side (Android basically uses the Linux kernel, but does not use
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by Ologn 13y ago
> If you want to run a profitable business from early on, Build Android App. AFAIK, the only way to develop iOS is to buy a Mac, which would put me out however much money. Then I have to pay a yearly fee to get on the App Store. Then I
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by Ologn 13y ago
"So what" is that the article says it is new when it is not new.
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I use Linode and Rackspace for VPS's and Dreamhost and Bluehost for web sites. Dreamhost has gone downhill over the years in a variety of ways. Customer support, server response etc. Bluehost I use very lightly but it has been fine. R
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by Ologn 13y ago
You're right that there is nothing new about almost all of these ideas. John Dewey covered a lot of this in his 1902 book "The Child and the Curriculum".
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I have been taking CS classes over the past few years. Java and C++ are the mainstay languages, but we have had some Python and assembly well. Then a little bit of some other languages like Common Lisp and Prolog.
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> This is why you never invest more than you are willing to lose. Absolutely. It can also skew the decision-making process. People investing more than they can afford to lose are not going to be giving helpful advice or making the righ
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Usually over 1.5 million impressions a month.
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It depends on the app, the needs and desires of the development team etc. I do not focus on game apps, but when I did a few the ad click through rate was very low for them. So if I was doing games, I might look for a different revenue mode
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Between $1450 and $1650 a month from ads on Android apps. One app does about $1100 a month, another does $325 and the rest collectively maybe $150.
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Wikipedia's open nature helps it. Several years ago I did a "wiki patrol" for new edits. There is an IRC channel and programs and facilities for this. Most of the cleanup I did was of well-meaning people who did not unders

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