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by apsurd 15y ago
toss some contact information in your profile. I'd like to email you.
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by apsurd 15y ago
Don't write a cv/resume. This advice applies to any person that is effectively "unknown" in the tech scene - that's 99% of us. A cv is useless for conveying who you are and what value you bring relative to all the other thousands of peopl
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Show HN: Tag and discover GitHub projects.
10 points by apsurd 15y ago|3 comments
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by apsurd 15y ago
Twidi, I have one more question. Are you caching all the github api data on your end or do you hit the api directly and assume you are good for the limit?
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by apsurd 15y ago
twidi , no problem, no one knows about http://narly.us because I have been building it in a vacuum =/ Perhaps we can help one another? Through narly is in ruby and repos.io is in python. In any case would be great to collaborate. My code
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by apsurd 15y ago
Shameless plug: http://narly.us repos.io is cool because it offers a lot more like notes and followers. narly.us just has the ability to tag repos but its backed by redis and Backbone.js so it's quite fast and (hopefully) intuitive. I too
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by apsurd 15y ago
I've always assumed when people said "if you can code" they meant, well . From what I've heard/experienced the thinking is there is an overwhelming percentage of software developers who are mediocre. So all that I take your meme to mean is
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by apsurd 15y ago
Most people including myself care most about _what_ it is we are building and why. Working on meaningful and/or technically or socially interesting problems will go a long way for most here I think. I personally despise freelance work. Yet
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by apsurd 15y ago
Interesting that you say a lot of people want hand-holding - I agree. But don't you think in an industry like software development, you need to be able to self-educate. Software just moves too fast. So a person that needs hand-holding is
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by apsurd 15y ago
Honestly, I try to vote up as many "SHOW HN" projects as possible but when I saw it was a Groupon for ___ I immediately lost interest. That's not to say it isn't well executed or anything. I'm just trying to answer your question. I'd wage
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by apsurd 15y ago
back?
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by apsurd 15y ago
The comments on the post seemed to hint that it was more of a semantic question rather than a math question. I didn't want to ruin it for myself so I didn't read all the comments. However your answer seems to make the most beautifully simpl
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Choose an answer to this question at random, what's the chance you're correct?(plus.google.com)
24 points by apsurd 15y ago|7 comments
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by apsurd 15y ago
People dislike PHP because it's very easy to pick up bad habits and create poor code in PHP. Adopting proper OO and MVC patterns from a well-made PHP framework will help OP become a much better programmer as apposed to a guy that can google
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by apsurd 15y ago
What level would you say you are as a programmer? Are you a complete beginner? Have you done any previous projects? I'll see if I can recommend some stuff based on what level you are. As some general advice I'd say to read the yii documenta
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by apsurd 15y ago
Just read a little of the above link. Personally I think http://progit.org/ does a better job of a conceptual walk-through while at the same time giving you exactly what you need to get started tracking your projects. It also explains the
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by apsurd 15y ago
No person can know what is best for another person. I mean really know; sure you can say we have some responsibility to the youth to nudge them in a good direction. But my point is you can't really _know_. I have a problem that you are esse
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by apsurd 15y ago
I really like Boulder as a city. What I tell everyone is that its a perfect mix of big-city happenings with a small town feel. The people there are exceptionally nice and the weekly farmer's market is the best I've ever been to. It's a grea
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by apsurd 15y ago
This definitely does not come off well. Especially given the general sentiment (around HN at least) that these guys were over-funded. Chalk one up to the bootstrapping mantra of being cash strapped to force you to push/pivot/iterate/hussle
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I Just moved to Chicago - Are you interested in meeting up?
4 points by apsurd 15y ago|2 comments
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by apsurd 15y ago
quality is terrible.
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by apsurd 15y ago
I've never heard of Graphite. Is this it? http://graphite.wikidot.com/start If so, can anyone care to explain how it would be used to "graph application exceptions" as per this post? thanks!
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by apsurd 15y ago
Seattle Public Library in Downtown (really great, has 10 floors) Pike Place Chowder @ Pike Place Market - seafood bisque Bauhaus Books and Coffee ("a very Seattle coffee shop") http://www.yelp.com/biz/bauhaus-books-and-coffee-seattle lil'
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by apsurd 15y ago
ment -> meant
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by apsurd 15y ago
thanks for this! You are right I had no idea this existed. Just goes to show I really should read the source over depending on datamapper.org/docs/ too much.
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by apsurd 15y ago
we use Datamapper at work and have an increasing need to write custom sql queries. A common problem we face is that we now have non-standardized data coming out of the model. In other words does this method return a datamapper object or is
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by apsurd 15y ago
what about taxes?
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by apsurd 15y ago
I think your video explains it better than the text you have here. This is a very useful thing imo. I don't know if you intend to monetize this but I hope you consider that this would be great for high school and college students to learn a
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by apsurd 15y ago
you must have never had a hard-drive that crashed, or a laptop that got stolen, or had to share a 2gig project with a friend. 2 things people pay for: - Convenience - Peace of Mind I don't pay for dropbox but I'd just like to say
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by apsurd 15y ago
as a semi-tangent; your scenario exactly describes why I'm buying kindle books, and I don't even own an actual kindle. I am remote programmer which needless to say puts me in different coffee shops throughout the city. I ride the bus multip

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