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by dorfuss 10y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "practical way", but for starters I'd recommend Harvard professor N. Gregory Mankiw's "Principles of Microeconomics" which is a standard university textbook translated to man
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by dorfuss 10y ago
My experience is that all/most of the programming books are based on trivial examples and solving dull problems, which is perfectly fine when you know nothing and you are just starting the programming adventure, but when you are gettin
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by dorfuss 10y ago
Yes. Big Four. The new manager, who was not even employed at the time, had a coffee with me, told me he's assembling a new team. I did not meet with anyone from the recruiting staff, not even my future boss, I just brought my paperwork
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by dorfuss 10y ago
It reminds me of an old joke from the Windows95 era: How many Microsoft engineers you need to change a light bulb? None. Microsoft simply announces darkness the new standard. * - (please don't take it seriously)
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by dorfuss 10y ago
Integration if you don't know the system you have to integrate with. Establish some sort of a protocol (simple example: passing xml data), ask what this other system needs as input. The rest of integration I'd outsource.
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by dorfuss 10y ago
winamp. sublime text. anki. libre office. audacity. quicktime. eclipse. komodo. english dictionary (part of mac os). TextEdit. codeblocks. virtualbox. join.me, vcl broken software I hate: all web browsers, thunderbird, gimp, microCommander,
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by dorfuss 10y ago
Reminds me of a book and Coursera course called "From NAND to Tetris" by Noam Nissan and Shimon Shocken. You can learn how to build a computer from basic logic gates, the web site below provides a hardware simulator in JAVA and pr
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by dorfuss 10y ago
I'm not sure what do you mean by "automatically". Of course different EU countries have different rates, but some countries also have internally many different rates, and that depends on what is your product or who is your cl
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by dorfuss 10y ago
I agree with Meric - it's mostly about fighting the inner Deamons. At first one deamon feeds you with doubt: "oh, you are such a pathetic piece of shit, you're a bad programmer, bad worker, you don't know enough", a
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by dorfuss 10y ago
I also think that the whole question starts with the wrong supposition. Java does not have a huge amount of open source programs, is less "cool" than JS or Python, but it has probably immensly huge "invisible code" that
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by dorfuss 10y ago
and Larry Wall
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by dorfuss 10y ago
I'm not sure Germany is a good example. I am now living in west Germany, people simply prefer using cash. Unlike in Sweden, where I also lived, where they want to get rid of it soon. Many services are simply not available without a cre
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by dorfuss 10y ago
Bisqwit, of course, but gosh, there is so much great talent around. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y71lli8MS8s
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by dorfuss 10y ago
With Masters in CS your future is rather secure. You can apply for a permanent visa in Australia, Canada or anywhere else in the world and get a good salary. Don't worry that much, you are young (I assume) and you have a bright future
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by dorfuss 10y ago
I absolutely hate it, especially that I use an 8 years old computer and these videos are just eating my meager resources. Then the comes the commercials that you cannot stop, and sometimes I have my speakers turned on and it just a great di
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by dorfuss 10y ago
visualgo.net is excellent, thank you for mentioning it.
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by dorfuss 10y ago
Off topic - googling facebook.com drives me nuts. A couple of days ago I went to an administration worker at a university and asked her to help me with getting the vpn to connect to the net via university wi-fi. She told me to google the vp
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by dorfuss 10y ago
Genuine question - could you please elaborate a bit on that? I sort of know what you mean, but I'm just an amateur. So the problem with large scale is creating algorithms that distribute and balance the workload on the servers, databas
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by dorfuss 10y ago
A general remark: A year ago, working at one of the The Big Four companies, I was taught one important lesson: "Great disruption" - in short: business has to be prepared that within a year or two there will be 10 new global compet
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by dorfuss 11y ago
My personal experiences with IBM representatives in Eastern Europe were rather negative (IBM was a strategic partner of my company), concerning IBM BPM and Cloud hosting. Their people were not trying to be nice or helpful. You had to really
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by dorfuss 11y ago
Genuine question - when would you need to know the int size? When do you think knowing how negative numbers are represented in binary would help a web developer? Seriously curious. Edit: sure it's good to know, but that's another
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by dorfuss 11y ago
Look at more traditional businesses like restaurants. If there is a restaurant in the area, you might think - oh dear, no place for me here. But no, on the contrary, businesses thrive because of the environment around them. This existing re
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by dorfuss 11y ago
Markering, social engineering. Hot or not, learn from it! Everyone in the marketing business should learn how it's done from such premieres (other examples are Bond, Hobbit, Harry Potter). I think those strategies would not work with a
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by dorfuss 11y ago
Depends how old you are and if you had any previous experiences with programming. I tried this with Java and it was difficul to go through the sometimes idiotic jokes, dialogues and pictures. If you are 13, they are cool. I was 29 and they
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by dorfuss 11y ago
The feeling you are describing I have when I happen to visit FB - which I don't do very often, and I try to use it only one way - to send or share. Never to read the "what's new". It makes me feel depressed. It has becom
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by dorfuss 11y ago
Hm, I've been waiting for the official release for quite some time now and I am surprised that this news was virtually missed by HN comunity. Is PHP7 so not-sexy and not worthwhile looking at?
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by dorfuss 11y ago
So true. Actually anybody has a potential "interest from VCs", because that's what VCs do - they are interested, they look around, sniff, check, look at ideas. So anyone could say that they have the VCs interest in their stuf
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by dorfuss 11y ago
The problem with your advice is that when you don't know how to code, you don't understand how big the task is. You have a great idea, you try, it's too complicated, after 1 year (and even that requires a lot of determination
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by dorfuss 11y ago
This is actually not Keynes, it was originally Lenin who predicted that in the future people will live like we do on retirement, because machines would do everything for us. You have to always measure the productiveness agains the goods you
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by dorfuss 11y ago
The idea is great and I admire your lovingkindness. There are some aspects I would mention, though, that you should take under consideration. (I graduated in Cultural Anthropology and did work with asylum seekers from Chechnya). I assume yo

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