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by bryanwb 15y ago
I doubt that will happen but would love to see it
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by bryanwb 15y ago
Sounds like that new Silicon Valley they were building outside Moscow, or the one they built in Malaysia, or the high-tech cluster outside Kathmandu, . . . you get the point.
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by bryanwb 15y ago
to do well economically in the modern world, whether as an auto mechanic, computer engineer, reporter, nurse, etc. is: 1) solid writing skills, preferably in English 2) strong reading comprehension, preferably in English 3) Basic grasp of m
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by bryanwb 15y ago
I concur, I consistently read his posts while not being particularly interested in ruby.
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by bryanwb 16y ago
I am pretty skeptical of the Montessori approach. Take kids from wealthy, well-educated families and put them in small groups with educators that also happen to be very well-educated and very passionate and you will get great results whatev
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by bryanwb 16y ago
They do make 100k a year but typically after moving abroad. In my anecdotal experience, 90% of the "great" Nepali sw engineers emigrate. I do think you will see some move back and take high-paying contract work w/ them to Nepal. However, th
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by bryanwb 16y ago
I ran a startup in Kathmandu, Nepal for 4 years (www.olenepal.org) and this mirrors my experience there. The modus operandi of Nepali Schools is the "the teacher speaks and the kids repeat." this means that you can't judge applicants at all
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by bryanwb 16y ago
Most countries are far worse than the US in terms of immigration policy for skilled workers. However, the US should make it stupid simple for talented techies to get work visas.
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by bryanwb 16y ago
excepting its immigration policy for skilled persons
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by bryanwb 16y ago
I wish the US govt did more to reach out to startups. This may be over the top but if I was young techie in Europe this would be extremely appealing to me. Is this tied into their startup visa thing?
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by bryanwb 16y ago
very interesting. Then they have fewer excuses for not getting their updates out
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by bryanwb 16y ago
good to see RH being profitable. They put a lot back into the open-source technologies that are the foundation of their business, much more than many other modern tech companies, ahem facebook, amazon whose contributions are relatively sm
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by bryanwb 16y ago
I suspect that WP7 continues to have update issues because it is built on top of the Windows CE kernel. the MS-skeptic in me thinks that it probably a bad foundation for a high-performing device, but this view is not based on any actual kno
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by bryanwb 16y ago
Go does solve some painful problems for certain communities, esp. the linux desktop folks. Java hasn't caught on writing linux desktop apps, probably because of memory requirements and there are mixed feelings about Mono. Python is just too
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by bryanwb 16y ago
I am really curious how popular this will be. PowerShell is crap compared to bash or ksh. It is actually kind of embarrassing how bad powershell is. I would love to hear from someone who likes powershell and is proficient with bash.
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by bryanwb 16y ago
The events in Japan represent the end of nuclear energy as a viable long-term option.
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by bryanwb 16y ago
my wife works in public health, a field that seems to be 90% female. My wife's office is much more gender skewed than mine. If doctors didn't make so much $, I am convinced that women would make up the majority of doctors.
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by bryanwb 16y ago
this is how android will eat symbian's market share
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by bryanwb 16y ago
i went to a top-twenty liberal arts school in the US and frankly it wasn't worth the $. Further, top-tier private schools dumb you down when it comes to life skills because they coddle you. If I was this kid I would go to SUNY Binghamton A
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by bryanwb 16y ago
I also expect as such but would like to see some numbers rather than rely on my assumptions
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by bryanwb 16y ago
I would love to see how performant lift is (or isn't) when compared to rails and django
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by bryanwb 16y ago
At the GSoC 2009 Mentors conference, I was amazed that a majority of attendees were running OS X
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by bryanwb 16y ago
The guy deserves it. He created a tool that a lot of people find very useful. I don't use it myself but I recognize how valuable it is to others. I still haven't seen any significant revelations come out of wikileaks, so I think they were r
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by bryanwb 16y ago
can you comment on how well basecamp has worked for you and what kind of projects you have used it for?
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by bryanwb 16y ago
I agree that gantt charts aren't critical but I do think that planning is pretty darn important esp. when your staff is not entirely composed of well-organized self-starters
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Ask HN: What tool do you use for managing non-technical projects?
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by bryanwb 16y ago
I had lasik done 7 years ago in Israel. No problems here. One of the best things I have ever done. Been staring at screens those whole 7 years. As someone else wrote, don't be cheap w/ your eyes I paid $3500 USD and my dr. was a Johns Hopki
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by bryanwb 16y ago
wow, pretty damning report. initially it sounded like a cool platform to me. Nokia should just drop Meego and throw in with android while they are still profitable.
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by bryanwb 16y ago
I agree that vim scripting is crap but hjkl for navigation is just so addictive
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by bryanwb 16y ago
wow, i left vim for emacs 3 years ago solely because of org-mode. If this matures i might go back

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