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   by egonschiele 11y ago

   The first chapter is here: https://manning-content.s3.amazonaws.com/download/4/b78a5a1-... (not the final formatting)
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   by egonschiele 11y ago

   Donald Knuth is actually a great writer and teacher. Try Concrete Mathematics instead of TAOCP, it is a shorter and easier introduction: http://amzn.com/0201558025 . It is humorous and it includes notes from past students in
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   by egonschiele 11y ago

   Etsy / San Francisco / Full time I'm an engineer on San Francisco's localization team. We are hiring engineers for various teams in the San Francisco office. Check us out! Etsy is: - passionate about open source (github.
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   by egonschiele 11y ago

   Is this intentional? Things like this are frequently done using scripts, or well-meaning support folks that don't know any better. Let's get all the facts before throwing a fit.
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   by egonschiele 11y ago

   I love this idea. I don't need to cancel Comcast yet, but I will definitely use AirPaper when I do.
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   by egonschiele 11y ago

   HN needs a way to tag users, and a way to stop seeing comments by specific users.
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   by egonschiele 11y ago

   If anyone's curious on how it is possible to list all the rational numbers, it would go something like this: 0, 1, -1, 2, -2, 1/2, -1/2, 3, -3, 1/3, -1/3, 2/3, -2/3, 3/2, -3/2, 4 ... at each step
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   by egonschiele 11y ago

   Is there a link to the spreadsheet? I think open salaries are important, and that would be really interesting data.
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   by egonschiele 11y ago

   I appreciate this viewpoint, and maybe you have made charity a priority in your life. I know that if I don't set up some on-going donation, I'm just not going to do it. So I have a monthly donation set up for small, local organiza
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    by egonschiele 11y ago

    I've been using pocketsphinx with this neat Ruby gem[1]. It's really easy to use but has low accuracy (understands me correctly maybe half the time). I'm curious to see if Houndify does any better! [1] https://gith
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    by egonschiele 11y ago

    Etsy is hiring! We have a great, open work culture. We also open-source a ton: github.com/etsy More information: https://www.etsy.com/careers/locations/san-francisco/
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    by egonschiele 11y ago

    I've come to wish you an unhappy settlement Because you're evil And you lie And if you should die "Good riddance Time Warner" I'll cry
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    by egonschiele 11y ago

    Used it for 20 minutes and bookmarked so I can use it more. Great tool!
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    by egonschiele 11y ago

    This is why we all need to start talking about how much we make! Otherwise companies have hundreds of data points on average salaries, and engineers only have a handful. I talk about how much I make with people I am close to, and we get a b
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    by egonschiele 12y ago

    One of my projects is pretty technical. It takes a while for people to understand why it is useful. If it's something that interests you, I'd love some help! The project: https://github.com/egonSchiele/contrac
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    by egonschiele 12y ago

    Some people have these at work and seem to love them. I really love my Kinesis keyboard though...once you get used to it, it really is easier to type on. Plus you can map any key to any other key, which is great.
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    by egonschiele 12y ago

    contracts.ruby author here, feel free to ask me any questions.
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    by egonschiele 12y ago

    There's an in-between trend of "X as open-source software but we can host it for you as a service". It seems like a pretty promising way for open source projects to still make money. I think if an open source project can figu
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    by egonschiele 12y ago

    The image filter module is really neat, but for people reading it is limited to basic functionality like crop and resize. It supports PNG, GIF and JPEG, but PNGs are usually too large and GIFs are low quality, so you are stuck with JPEGs. N
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    by egonschiele 12y ago

    Here's my book: manning.com/bhargava/ It is one of their better selling MEAPs :) I have also put a lot of work into it. I don't think 2k is typical.
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    by egonschiele 12y ago

    Again, it depends on why you are writing the book. I have heard that you make $10k on avg if you use a publisher, vs $50k avg if you self-publish. If you are doing it for the money, self-publishing might be the way to go. I'm using a p
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    by egonschiele 12y ago

    I used to love reading tech books. Now I am writing a book of my own, and there are SO many incentives to churn out a low-quality book. As an author, you make very little: maybe 5% of the cover price. So money is not an incentive. You are e
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    by egonschiele 12y ago

    Very useful! I'd like to see "Ruby" in the topics list.
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    by egonschiele 12y ago

    I'm not sure why this is better than the cheapest macbook air?Similar battery life, similar processor. 4gb more memory, smaller hard drive. And the cheapest pixel is $100 more. What do I get for that $100? For me the downsides are: can
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    by egonschiele 12y ago

    Starting at $999.
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    by egonschiele 12y ago

    The whole point of a chromebook is that the storage is in the cloud. I was surprised they offered so much storage.
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    by egonschiele 12y ago

    Good question! I made the screencast to explain the use case: https://vimeo.com/85883356 My co-maintainer Alexey wrote a blog post explaining it too: http://waterlink.github.io/blog/2015/03/06
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    by egonschiele 12y ago

    There's no way to do static analysis on Ruby. There are projects that have succeeded in doing it on a subset of Ruby, but they are not very popular since they can't support the full language.
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    by egonschiele 12y ago

    Author here. Feel free to ask me any questions!
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    by egonschiele 12y ago

    I've had people do that too, but that's noticeably different because they pay attention to you. It's obvious when people are working because you can see them context switch back to you.