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by RNeff 7y ago
TLDR: Stay where you are. Cost of Living is extremely high. Look at walkscore.com to see apartment prices. Traffic sucks. LinkedIn has a feature to compute commute times. Select a Facebook job, at the bottoms is the feature. You enter the a
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by RNeff 7y ago
DRM (Digital Restriction Management) is evil. Cory Doctorow has written lots about it. A company can steal back all of the e-media you have purchased. No software patents. No business process patents. Copyright should be limited to 25 years
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by RNeff 7y ago
Start with the book: Designing Interactions, compiled and edited by Bill Moggridge, 2007. ACM has a special interest group, SIGCHI, on Computer Human Interaction. They have online resources, local chapters, an annual conference https:&#x
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by RNeff 7y ago
You can legally modify the program. You have access to the source code and documentation, so if you have experience or hire someone or ask a contributor, you can fix a bug or an annoying feature. An experienced programmer can modify or opti
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by RNeff 7y ago
The language choice is based on what project you want to accomplish and the platform you chose. An Android app (there are a billion smartphones) you would pick one of the IDEs and use Java/Kotlin. A project on the Raspberry Pi would be
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by RNeff 7y ago
FORTRAN was short for FORmula TRANslator. Its design goal was programmers would write normal math statements. This was copied by many other languages. Then languages started using the math symbols for other things. C++ allows programmers to
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by RNeff 7y ago
You setup your startup in a state that does not allow non-compete agreements.
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by RNeff 8y ago
A Guide to FORTRAN Programming by Daniel McCracken
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by RNeff 8y ago
It is never too late to have a happy childhood.
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by RNeff 8y ago
Current software is unreliable and crashes a lot. Operating system goes 'blue screen of death', ATMs go down, store cash registers go down, airline computer systems go down. Facebook was offline yesterday. Malware, viruses,hackers
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by RNeff 8y ago
I was developing Java code to run on windows, but disliked the different IDEs. I learned Unix / vi / bash in the late 1980's; vi is in my fingertips. I use cygwin https://www.cygwin.com/ which gives me the un
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by RNeff 8y ago
In one multi company contract situation, we spent more than six months arguing about which object-oriented database to use. Always arguments about C versus C++ versus Java. Many technical decisions are based on strong opinions, and not any
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by RNeff 8y ago
The Amazon HQ2 search was a huge con game. They did not award NYC a second HQ of 50,000 jobs, the prize, but only a large satellite of 25,000 jobs. This is called bait and switch. An unanswered question is "where would 25,000 new famil
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by RNeff 8y ago
Going back to the dark ages of assembly language, they implemented text macros to ease the programming burden. This worked at a text character level, with passed parameter strings merged into defined text strings. This worked well most of t
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by RNeff 8y ago
Ask yourself questions about the advances in technology. What would you do with a terabyte of flash memory in your phone? NVIDIA makes some incredible chips that currently cost about a thousand dollars; what would you use them for if they c
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by RNeff 8y ago
Wow, three different ways to blast and kill things. How silly. San Mateo is not a San Francisco location. Wow, six people stand in a circle, what fun. How much does it cost? The Muybridge photographic experiments were at Leland Stanford&#x2
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by RNeff 8y ago
In Fred Brook's book, The Mythical Man Month, there is a chapter on "Adding People to a Late Project Makes it Later". The reason given is the new people have to be brought up to speed (trained) on the project by people alread
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by RNeff 8y ago
Microsoft ventures has renamed itself as m12. Their website is m12.vc Their portfolio companies are at: https://m12.vc/companies/ For Venture Capital information, look at crunchbase.com
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by RNeff 8y ago
YC runs a free, online Startup School each year. All of the videos are available at https://www.startupschool.org/ Watch them, and see if you learn anything. The actual onsite program has an acceptance rate in single digit
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by RNeff 8y ago
There are a number of textbooks on Database Implementation.I used one from 1999. You should probably read "Seven Databases in Seven Weeks" to learn about the different kinds of DBs. Basically, a DB is just some very large data str
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by RNeff 8y ago
Focusing on a target delivery date instead of software quality. "We ship sh*t on schedule!". Watch out when managers' bonuses are based on hitting a ship date and not based on first year sales.
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by RNeff 8y ago
There are keyboards designed for foreign languages including Russian, Arabic, Japanese, Hebrew, etc. that have keys for the required characters. There are also custom key tops you can buy, stickers for the top and front of keys, flexible pl
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by RNeff 8y ago
They are never, ever wrong. Never. They shoot the messenger. Any bad news is the fault of the person reporting the news. Result is no one tells him of any problems. Manager: "Will the software ship on time?", Programmer: "Yes
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by RNeff 8y ago
Assertions, pre and post conditions,invariants, strong typing, lots of self checking features, design by contract. Features to make it easier to write correct programs.
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by RNeff 8y ago
There are two in Palo Alto. The Palo Alto Art Center is on Embarcadero at Newell. It has a pottery studio, a gallery and other studios. Cubberley, on Middlefield is an ex-High School with studio space for rent. I would not move to Silicon V
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by RNeff 8y ago
Try: https://www.edx.org/xseries/gtx-introduction-to-computing-in... The courses are free, the money is for certificates of completion. There are a bunch of videos on YouTube.
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by RNeff 8y ago
Many public institutions use the .us TLD. The Sonoma Public Library in the northern county of Sonoma in California is sonoma.lib.ca.us
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by RNeff 8y ago
Silicon Valley and SF are where the talent lives, where the VC's live, where the big ideas are implemented. You need some founders, remember Steve (Jobs) and Steve (Woz). Watch https://www.startupschool.org/ , it is fre
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by RNeff 8y ago
Integer divide by zero does NOT raise an exception. From the Spec: We considered raising exceptions on integer divide by zero, with these exceptions causing a trap in most execution environments. However, this would be the only arithmeti
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by RNeff 8y ago
Assembly language is mostly mnemonics for the individual instructions available in the hardware of a microprocessor. So you need to pick a microprocessor family, study the hardware (registers, different memories), and what each instruction

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