elviejo

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   by elviejo 15y ago

   "Guns don't kill people... people kill people"?? "But I'm pretty sure the gun, helps"
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   by elviejo 15y ago

   Yeap and: open source != Free software != Gratis Software
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   by elviejo 15y ago

   Objectives in the negative have a bad effect on the brain according to NLP so "Don't ignore your dreams; don't work too much; say what you think; cultivate friendships; be happy." Can be better expressed as: " pursue your dreams, get approp
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   by elviejo 15y ago

   Again go to the source... design by contract is a way to embed and execute the contracts in the source code is a great way to increase code quality. Take a look at the Eiffel programming language is impressive what having contracts in the c
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   by elviejo 15y ago

   This talk is the best summary on the problems and challenges that website has when doing online billing.
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   Talk on Online Billing Challenges. (Recurly and Pivotal Labs)(pivotallabs.com)

   1 points by elviejo 15y ago|1 comments
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   by elviejo 15y ago

   Exactly used TV markets are huge in africa and asia. So cheap that if they break they just buy a new one. Like can be appreciated in this image: http://i01.i.aliimg.com/img/pb/524/456/106/106456524_529.jpg
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   by elviejo 15y ago

   Nice summary on the history of Raspberry Pi And loved the fact that they use scratch to demo it :-) Maybe this is closer to the OLPC original goal??
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   by elviejo 15y ago

   Completely agree as a friend of mine said: "I wouod rather have a law that shortens copyright terms to at least the death of the author. and that law has an exception just for Disney..." (ben litton)
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    by elviejo 15y ago

    Eiffel
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    by elviejo 15y ago

    Well the arms race can begin... more potent water pistol. Then nerf dart gun... then golf balls gun... then gotcha gun... (at this point gets dangerous)
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    by elviejo 15y ago

    Why is Jeff retiring? Couldn't he simply semi-retire? work only 2 days a week and the rest of the time with his family? I think he was exhausted... maybe this books is worth a look: The Big Enough Company: Creating a Business That Works f
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    by elviejo 15y ago

    [citation needed] I don't think midterms exist because of this reason. And even if they were the separation is too much to actually be valid as a Spaced Repetition tool.
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    by elviejo 15y ago

    Check out: http://www.virtusphere.com/ "We see the VirtuSphere as version 1 of the Holodeck and the ultimate portal to the matrix."
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    by elviejo 15y ago

    Also if your write a clear specification with several tasks and don't change the specification. And you ask developers what it will take they will "Pad their estimates a little". But the problem is that when they finish early they won't ac
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    by elviejo 15y ago

    I'm an emacs + dvorak user too. It all started when I saw three colleagues get surgery for Carpal Tunnel. And I started to develop similar pains in my hands and wrist, so after googling and reading a lot I decided to try dvorak. The change
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    by elviejo 15y ago

    Could some one apply speaking only english and spanish?
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    by elviejo 15y ago

    Then a coworking space could provide you with the separation between home/office that some of us need.
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    Ask HN: Friendly Introduction to State Machines?

    9 points by elviejo 15y ago|3 comments
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    by elviejo 15y ago

    I've had good experiences with Copilot. https://www.copilot.com/
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    by elviejo 15y ago

    Only the USA, Burma (Myanmar) and Liberia, still don't use it.
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    by elviejo 15y ago

    Completely agree with you. In "My Favourite Interview Question"[1] The author asks: How would you design a Monopoly game? He goes on to say that with 'basíc' OOP you can model the elements: dice, buildings. But What about the rules? One of
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    by elviejo 15y ago

    I've trained 10 develepers into using HG. And still seems to me that SVN is a lot easier to teach and comprehend. I don't know why this is... maybe the mental load of having a current directory + local repo + a remote repo. Makes it hard to
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    by elviejo 15y ago

    This is a reason why I'm interested in "Bring Your Own Computer" idea. I mean I still bring my laptop to work anyway. Normally my personal computer is more powerful than what I have at work anyway. And if the company would pay or give me s
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    by elviejo 15y ago

    "Everytime you judge a person in more than 5 criterias he will be able to do pretty well in one. ando losy in the others." "Tell me how you measure me and I'll tell you how I'll behave" (Eliyahu M. Goldratt)
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    by elviejo 15y ago

    If you want to write a Ruby App you just use Neo4j with their Rest API. You are right in all the other points though.
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    by elviejo 15y ago

    [citation needed] On this past month I went to a couple of conferences where they showed how they build their infraestructure and their software as a service. And seems that their commitment to software public is very real from the highest
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    by elviejo 15y ago

    Brazil has had a big-success with their free-software initiatives. Government departments are required to try to buy free-software solutions and try to find local companies that can provide support for those solutions. Besides any contract-
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    by elviejo 15y ago

    You aré looping for neo4j. It is beautiful.
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    by elviejo 15y ago

    I think what is normal is to let the company know first. And also give them a test they can reproduce with the bug and also a deadline in which you are going to make public the security bug you have done. The deadline is because many compan