bjoe_lewis

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by bjoe_lewis 8y ago
I have to agree with you. The shiny stuff syndrome is spreading like cancer in the front-end world. The only way to set this right is: when you create something, don’t sell it as a one size fit for all solution. State the tradeoffs as loud
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India, Inc(medium.com)
1 points by bjoe_lewis 12y ago|0 comments
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by bjoe_lewis 12y ago
+1. Learning C is not about learning a language. It's more about how to think like a computer.
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Mobile Now Accounts for 50.3% of All Ecommerce Traffic(shopify.in)
2 points by bjoe_lewis 12y ago|0 comments
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by bjoe_lewis 12y ago
Different generation. Couldn't afford a computer until 2008. Got a celeron clocked at 1.2 Ghz with a 128mb physical memory and 20Gb HDD running a win98. This was when everybody in the neighbourhood was playing Assasin's Creed in t
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by bjoe_lewis 12y ago
Anything - simple or complex, can be explained. If you are not able to explain something to a child, then you probably don't know about it well enough.
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by bjoe_lewis 12y ago
I tend to like typeform more, for anything form-like. ( http://www.typeform.com/ )
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Should I Quit, or Wait to Get Fired?(linkedin.com)
2 points by bjoe_lewis 12y ago|0 comments
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by bjoe_lewis 12y ago
For more information about the grammer/schema for document operations, which is actually what is transmitted in the /save call of gdocs, [1] http://wave-protocol.googlecode.com/hg/spec/federation/wav
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by bjoe_lewis 12y ago
I've been working on http://vanitypro.herokuapp.com The easiest way to announce new stuff and updates to users/customers of webapps. Something like what Intercom does, but simpler, better and easier. P.S: What's l
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Zoho Subscriptions(zoho.com)
1 points by bjoe_lewis 12y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Is TDD part of your startup's code culture?
1 points by bjoe_lewis 13y ago|0 comments
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Angular's $watch, $digest and $apply explained(angular-tips.com)
5 points by bjoe_lewis 13y ago|1 comments
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Datasets for Machine Learning(academictorrents.com)
2 points by bjoe_lewis 13y ago|0 comments
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by bjoe_lewis 13y ago
That was a nice read. How exactly did your "felonious history" affect your career? Just curious, do the world of startups and hackers, actually bias on things like this?
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by bjoe_lewis 13y ago
"Avoid HN" can you elaborate?
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by bjoe_lewis 13y ago
I was looking for something exactly as this. Say, you want to building a quick-quick app for quick.com, supposedly native. This might actually work.
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by bjoe_lewis 13y ago
If only Paul let me vote twice.
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'fuck's in Linux(github.com)
3 points by bjoe_lewis 13y ago|1 comments
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by bjoe_lewis 13y ago
> Working at a small firm is very low prestige, unlike here. You want to have a big name you can tell to your prospective father-in-law. There are of course big, reputable outsourcing firms there, but they tend to either be hiring mills
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by bjoe_lewis 13y ago
Thanks, for pointing out. Updated with a more sane bullet.
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by bjoe_lewis 13y ago
Meanwhile in India, + A guy who thinks programming is about taking a course and passing a certification exam, gets hired in iGate as a software engineer along with a bunch of other mechanical engineers + An OS class staff thinks real world
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by bjoe_lewis 13y ago
well, honestly and with a guilty tone I write a lot of code, work on projects and do stuff, close to good at github. But, when put to test on my ability with time limits and sneak peeks, I do tend to forget why I'm writing that loop f
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The Tools That I Use For Design(medium.com)
3 points by bjoe_lewis 13y ago|1 comments
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by bjoe_lewis 13y ago
A very simple and useful project. Infact, I built a custom blogging system using gists for my own blog, a couple of months ago! http://joelewis.herokuapp.com
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Ask HN: Programmers - from Good to Great. How do you make it?
11 points by bjoe_lewis 13y ago|7 comments
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by bjoe_lewis 13y ago
+1. span12 and span6 makes much more sense as a class name, than a col-lg-3 or a col-sm-6. If they are stealing from the foundation, and if differentiating large and small grid was the cause for changing identifiers, then I'm against
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by bjoe_lewis 13y ago
29/39 is damn good, it seems. What's yours!
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by bjoe_lewis 13y ago
Freshly passed out hacker, pythonista, and Django-ist. Everything fits except, that I'm based out of Chennai. Sorry.
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by bjoe_lewis 13y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote or Local, India and ready to shift if necessary. I'm a hacker, freshly out of college, but my love with software and programming is pretty dated like 4 years. I love to build software for smartphones, Android currently

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