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by Ologn 14y ago
When programmers discuss Python on the web, this comes up again and again. I agree with you - it is a minus for me in terms of using Python. There are "solutions", there are people who say you get used to it, there are people who say it d
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by Ologn 14y ago
Client: mostly native Android currently, may put in a web interface eventually Server: Debian Linux, Apache, MySQL, mix of PHP and HTML. Some HTML and XML periodically generated by Perl scripts Hosting: Linode and Rackspace. Still have as
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by Ologn 14y ago
I was choosing VPS providers recently. I used http://www.serverbear.com for the benchmarks. Then I looked on the web for anecdotal information on how good and reliable the VPSs were. I chose Linode. Then I needed another VPS. It was f
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by Ologn 14y ago
"The Evernote office is all open seating. My desk is the messiest. We don't have any desk phones, but lots of conference rooms if you want to talk to someone." Is a lack of desk phones unique to Evernote, or is this becoming more common in
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by Ologn 14y ago
One thing they mention in the video discussion of this article ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ue1pcNP6FQ ), which is not in the article, is that many investors are not able to get their money into the top tier VC funds. Yet these same
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U.S. venture capital needs a reboot(breakingviews.com)
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by Ologn 14y ago
It is not an either/or choice. You can take one class a semester at night or on weekends if you do not want to go to school full time. At minimum, do a level 2 course on algorithms and data structures. CS is not like pre-med - what you le
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by Ologn 14y ago
I have interviewed people at several companies, but at one company I went through hundreds of resumes, probably over 100 phone screens, and dozens of interviews. I noticed some patterns. One was that every technical question after the third
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by Ologn 14y ago
Regarding getting featured, this is another thing one can aim for. The Android team has written about how to be in the running for getting featured, as have others. For example - Android introduces new features with new OS releases. In Gi
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by Ologn 14y ago
I agree with peak Sudoku. I search for Sudoku on Google Play and get 1000 responses. That is a search limit, who knows how many Sudokus there are. Someone starting out with Android might want to go for something a little more niche that
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by Ologn 14y ago
How do you envision people finding your apps? Do you think a large number of people are starting up Google Play and searching for the word matryoshka? Or searching for words like nono or amazonia? I have two apps for kids on Google Play.
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by Ologn 14y ago
They have to outgun Samsung on WP as well. On some metrics I have seen Nokia behind not only HTC, but Samsung for WP. Often when I go into an AT&T or other carrier store, way in the back away from the iPhones and Samsung Galaxy S3s wi
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by Ologn 14y ago
Yes. The decision to use RAID5 instead of RAIDs 1, 10 or 0+1 shows a decision to cut costs. With mirroring, the mirror drives would take over when a disk failed. Also, only one hot spare is in the set. Another cost saving. Yet another de
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by Ologn 14y ago
Ubuntu on my desktop. I can also boot to Debian on my desktop, and have a number of VM images for various distros. Android ICS on my tablet. Bluehost, Dreamhost and EC2 are my servers. Dreamhost uses Debian and Ubuntu. On EC2, I've spu
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by Ologn 14y ago
"HTML is fast to develop relative to native apps" I know how to write HTML as well as Android XML or Dalvik (Java) code. I do not see where pounding out HTML code is faster than say pounding out Android XML code. The only thing fast about
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by Ologn 14y ago
The designer of IBM's Harvard Mark I said, "Don't worry about people trying to steal your ideas, if they're original, you will have to ram them down people's throats". I have had some minor success in Android apps ($30 a day), but I do not
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by Ologn 14y ago
Except it is not bad science. Gluten and Gliadian are opiates that are found in Triticum (wheat). These opiates have a psychological effect on the brain. A certain segment of the population has a severe reaction to these chemicals, and c
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by Ologn 14y ago
For an article like this, I do not think it is being pedantic to note that to "print a list of all the files with a txt extension in the current directory except for ignore_me.txt" you do not accomplish that by using the command "ls *.txt |
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by Ologn 14y ago
I had the same experience as you and OP, doing an RoR implementation from the operations end was a tangled mess of gems with various mangled dependencies onto one another, with those dependencies being to certain badly documented or undocum
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by Ologn 14y ago
Yes, the Register headline does not match the content Headline: "Half of all app store revenue goes to just 25 developers" In article: "total revenue generated from paid app downloads and in-app purchases in the US" Looking at my Google Pla
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by Ologn 14y ago
Yes, we are looking for English to French translators. It is true that it is generic to say market rate, but our rates depend on the language - some are more expensive per word on average than others. Our projects have different and shiftin
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by Ologn 14y ago
Seeking freelancer. New York City, USA. Remote work OK. Need translators from English into other languages. Preferably your native, home language is that language. We have enough Spanish translators, but anything else we are looking. W
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by Ologn 14y ago
With regards to mobile ad networks, I've always found this link handy for Android: http://www.appbrain.com/stats/libraries/ad Particularly the percent of installs part as opposed to the percent of apps part. Right now on that metric the t
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by Ologn 14y ago
During hiring, I have looked through dozens, if not hundreds of resumes over the years, mostly for Unix systems administrator positions. You can tell a lot about what someone knows just by how they put together their resume, over and above
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by Ologn 14y ago
FTW ( http://www.ftw.co ) is an alternative which is in the same space. I did some work for them on the Android side of things.