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by bewe42 11y ago
That may be true for the technical side of things. However, don't forget your earning power (including willingness/energy to put up with dread work) and possibility to build your professional network. Building savings takes time,
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by bewe42 11y ago
Combine this method with trying to solve a problem with your own ideas before even opening a book. This works especially well in some areas of programming, for example algorithms. After having done this, I can compare my own ideas with the
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by bewe42 11y ago
I'm in the process of writing a book also. I'm wondering if an author has no saying in this. Can a publisher just decide: I give your book away for free? What does this mean for publishing in general? 10 years is not much time for
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by bewe42 11y ago
Matter of minutes might never be possible or even desirable. But I do think learning can be done much more efficiently with the right tools. Working on that on my side projects ;) It comes down to good old note taking and expressing what yo
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by bewe42 11y ago
baseball analogy?
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by bewe42 11y ago
This is so awesome. Makes and ruins my day. I'm wondering what that means for authors and writing technical books in general though. Have authors a say in this?
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by bewe42 11y ago
I meant "find something when we need it" and remember it to be the same. I'm not trying to create a photographic memory. Short term memory is limited, and it requires repetition for something to sink into long-term memory. Ho
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by bewe42 11y ago
another vote for bitbucket
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by bewe42 11y ago
absolutely agree, in fact, for me I need to look beyond his constant anger to not lose the value of his ideas. I also read "Bed of Procrustes" which I couldn't finish.
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by bewe42 11y ago
I decided to dedicate my free /side-project time to my own biggest itch: how can we improve the way we learn and remember? In particular, I think the way we teach & learn software development could be greatly improved. As a first s
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by bewe42 11y ago
I have worked on Windows, Linux, Mac. Nowadays Mac-only: - least amount of hassle, 95% it works - very good piece of hardware - great number of OS-X only tools expensive, but it's the tool of my craft so I'm willing to pay for it
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by bewe42 11y ago
Don't forget brainpickings' best-of: https://www.brainpickings.org/tag/best-of/
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by bewe42 11y ago
Start with this: http://winterbe.com/posts/2014/03/16/java-8-tutorial/
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by bewe42 11y ago
I'd like to second this. I had only slight interest in Biology but got completely hooked into the course because the teacher makes things so plausible and exciting. I wish one could do bioinformatics remotely, I'd seriously change
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by bewe42 11y ago
SEEKING WORK - Preferably remote (travelling on-site within Europe 1-2x per month perfectly fine) or Madrid http://goo.gl/1cuZz0 Software engineer (CS master) with 10+ years experience building business backend systems for
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by bewe42 11y ago
My side project is http://codingbrain.com . I want to make learning & coding more efficient. It's desktop app that integrates with existing markdown editor and browser and serves as a central hub that records what you do
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by bewe42 11y ago
Fixed, sorry for that
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by bewe42 11y ago
Clickable: http://www.codingbrain.com P.S: Mac only at this time. As it was developed in JavaFX porting to other OSes not that difficult so expect this to happen soon. I'd very much appreciate any input or impression you ha
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Show HN: CodingBrain – acquire skills faster
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by bewe42 11y ago
http://codingbrain.com - a knowledge management app aimed at software devs and technical bloggers. It's a local search engine, web scraper, note taking, markdown editor, bookmarking, history app. I've been pondering a
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by bewe42 11y ago
I'm taking notes for more than 10 years and have a rather big collection. I have tried many apps but after losing data due to proprietary formats I won't use anything else then plain text anymore. Nowadays I write everything down
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Show HN: Markdown optimised local search engine with tagging(github.com)
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by bewe42 11y ago
walking home if possible. Some time ago I figured that I need around 45 minutes to completely disconnect and refresh from an intense day of work.
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by bewe42 11y ago
Guess depends on the language, I'm doing Java backend dev since almost 15 years and loving it. I'm developing front-end but only for my own side projects
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by bewe42 11y ago
That looks extremely similar to http://www.notebooksapp.com . Is that the same app sold differently? I use notebooks app and am happy with it, always wanted a simple interface to my text/markdown files. But Quiver seems to h
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by bewe42 11y ago
My experience was not that bad but I would do things differently next time. What I realized was that I do enjoy traveling and living in new cultures but I hate being a tourist. I loathed staying in hostels and having to meet new people cons
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by bewe42 11y ago
Are you a starter but not a finisher? Are you sure you really want to build a business? Or do you just like the idea of having a business, but not the grinding work? You say you like to read and think a lot - this could be signs that havi
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by bewe42 11y ago
The first book I can remember was "Basic Computer Games" http://www.atariarchives.org/basicgames/ . Esp. the star trek games brings back so many nice memories
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by bewe42 11y ago
Enterprise Java and the whole convoluted stack around it
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by bewe42 12y ago
What an accurate quote, thanks for posting.

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