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by alpeb 12y ago
"As of April 2014, PaidCodeReview is no longer operational"
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by alpeb 12y ago
The Rob Van Behren slide is priceless: dude started building an async server and at the end realised he wrote the foundation for a threading package. I once asked myself the same question and did a little micro benchmark https://
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by alpeb 12y ago
Colombia, Remote, Contract or Part Time Stack: Scala/Java Play, AngularJS, Chrome apps/extensions, JavaFX Resume: http://macondoventures.com , http://www.linkedin.com/in/alpeb Contact: alejandro@m
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by alpeb 12y ago
Agreed. Echoing primitivesuave's warning, I would give the partnership a test drive first with a small project.
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by alpeb 13y ago
>Sorry about the delay. Took me a while to wipe the vomit from keyboard Not nice.
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by alpeb 13y ago
Seems like Uruguay exports a lot of IT services kinda like India does. Any Uruguayan here that would like to comment about this firsthand?
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by alpeb 13y ago
This reminded me of this pic, trying to sql-inject a license plate system: http://landofthefreeish.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/sql-i...
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by alpeb 13y ago
Not surprisingly since they kinda pooh-pooh on managers in the book: "We believe that these staples of work life - meetings and managers - are actually the greatest causes of work not getting done at the office". More context will
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by alpeb 13y ago
That's some great piece of advise.
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by alpeb 13y ago
Indeed, Peñalosa was an extraordinary mayor ans his transportation system improved the standard of living. But as the article hints at the end, the follow up has been terrible (e.g. one mayor indicted) and the city has gotten out of hands.
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by alpeb 13y ago
Bogotanian here. This is one of the most unlivable cities there is. As soon as you step out the door you're aggravated in a thousands ways through your day. Bogotá and Colombia usually score high in the "happiness" rankings b
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by alpeb 13y ago
What's up with HN today? Lots of reddit-style garbage in the front page.
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by alpeb 13y ago
I swear by StackEdit one, which is an online editor for markdown supporting LaTex math expressions: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stackedit/iiooodel...
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by alpeb 13y ago
I read it here http://www.semana.com/mundo/articulo/no-papel-higienico-porq... which supposedly is a reputed Colombian magazine, but trying to find the exact part in the video I couldn't find it. So maybe it was just a gross misleading mi
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by alpeb 13y ago
Yet people continue voting for the same government. This is exactly why I think democracy cannot possible work in poor countries, sadly.
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by alpeb 13y ago
I feel for you. It doesn't stop to amaze me how people still defend those countries economical models, just to spite the "evil empire" in the north it seems, because they don't make any sense. The video you post is indisputable. Also, Venez
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by alpeb 13y ago
What's the [1] for?
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by alpeb 14y ago
A good solution nowadays is to ban everything that is not work-related and have people just use their cellphones with their own data plans for that.
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by alpeb 14y ago
No, per the "spotify technology" article linked to in the discussion-.
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by alpeb 14y ago
As for opening an account, you could take a trip to Miami and open it by yourself. No need to be a resident. Then make withdrawals in Colombia from an ATM (up to 780k COP at once) at a not too bad exchange rate.
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by alpeb 14y ago
Also a happy scalawag myself. Let's pull an outsourcing scam where I do all your work for 50k while you keep the rest and spend your day watching cat videos.
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by alpeb 14y ago
Java bashing is the cool thing to do. And just to add more wood into the fire I'm gonna drop a quote from Larry Ellison himself that I think is spot on. He said something like the only industry more driven by fashion than fashion itself is
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by alpeb 14y ago
The latest JavaFX release, which is the new way of building java desktop apps, encourages you to bundle the java runtime in your app, which gives you a lot of benefits including avoiding the problem discussed here. It's a wonderful platform
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by alpeb 14y ago
Drawing conclusions of a company's performance given a stock price change is a classical mistake. The share price change only says if the announced figures were in accordance to the market's expectations and has nothing to do with the leve
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by alpeb 14y ago
Lance says he wasn't caught because the drugs were already out of his system during the races. So was the doping just for training? I'm not clear on that part.
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by alpeb 14y ago
An article like this on the homepage is probably the result of someone gaming the system. This is when a down voting arrow would come in handy.
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by alpeb 14y ago
The problem is over the longer term. Competitors will have to exit the market, creating a monopolistic situation with all the problems that entails.
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by alpeb 14y ago
The editorial raises some valid concerns, namely how unfair competition can destroy an industry. Not surprised at Linus' again calling people stupid, and his cortege blindingly cheering him up.
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by alpeb 14y ago
An OS that will soon be used by hundreds of millions of people, with a depleted app store. Seems to me like a huge opportunity for devs, as opposed to following the herd into the overcrowded iOS and android stores.
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by alpeb 14y ago
Canonical once again surprises with how little they understand their customers.

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