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by elviejo 16y ago
for RSI you can try switching to Dvorak keyboard. It really helped me.
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by elviejo 16y ago
I love to learn using the Socratic method. One of my favorite books is: "The Little Schemer" which is great and twists my mind in ways that I didn't think where possible. Anyway do you know of other books, on any topic, that use the socrati
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by elviejo 16y ago
I think Jabber has had a reasonable success in a very closed space. First there was ICQ, Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, AOL, etc. And now it seems that you can talk to anybody in any network. And jabber provided a way to create your own networ
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by elviejo 16y ago
mtrack a clone of trac done in php With support for multiple projects. Mercurial and Subversion http://mtrack.wezfurlong.org/
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by elviejo 16y ago
Maybe comes from the fact that child mortality has reduced dramatically. But the habit in this countries of having more than 5 children hasn't changed yet? Probably it takes a generation for families to adapt to the fact that you don't long
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by elviejo 16y ago
This contracts refer to the concept of "Design by Contract." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_by_contract The poster child of design by contract is the Eiffel Programming language. http://www.eiffel.com/developers/design_by_contract.h
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by elviejo 16y ago
"Show me Heroku for Seaside... now we're talking!" I want to see that too.
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by elviejo 16y ago
I've wanted to keep a journal for several years. But I just didn't stick to the habit. But now http://ohlife.com has changed that. The fact that they send you an email daily And in the same email they also put a random memory from your pa
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by elviejo 16y ago
That sentence sounds precisely like "bubble-talk" to me. When expectations matter a lot more than actual revenue is when we start to be in trouble. I don't know if twitter is making money or not yet. Youtube is barely providing profits for
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by elviejo 16y ago
Of course you can also hack your own: http://www.diybookscanner.org/
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by elviejo 16y ago
As a matter of fact they loosened the rules, as direct result of the efforts of John Mcintosh to be able to run Scratch on the Ipad. However his efforts although were enough to change apple policy, they weren't successful enough to get Scra
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by elviejo 16y ago
I wast thinking that interface such as Scratch [1] for kids or BYOB[2] for adultus would be so fun on the ipad. Scratch is an MIT project based on squeak that allows kids to program by dragging blocks in the screen. And BYOB is an extension
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by elviejo 16y ago
For foreigners I'd like to mention that hiring Mexicans and Canadians is pretty easy with the TN visa. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TN_status
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by elviejo 16y ago
Seaside - a WebFramework based on smalltalk and continuations that make developing complex WebApps extremely easy. Seaside led me to learn: Smalltalk - What a powerful language. This is what OOP should look like. Object Oriented Databases -
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by elviejo 16y ago
There is even a conference for languages like this: Workshop on Self-sustaining Systems (S3) http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/swa/s3/ The Workshop on Self-sustaining Systems (S3) is a forum for discussion of topics relating to computer syste
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by elviejo 16y ago
I think this is just a "dark ages" kind of thing. The reason why the internet works is because it is a distributed system. As Alan Kay would call it "the only true object oriented system in operation" I hope people will realize that you c
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by elviejo 16y ago
This article is foolish. From a previos thread on HN: NASA Helped the design the escape capsule. (Government) Chliean Navy built it and so on... (Government) lots of things had to happen for this rescue to be successful so claiming that an
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by elviejo 16y ago
Logo as a kid looking at that turtle draw was freaking incredibly it is the closest I've seen to magic ever since. Now it means Smalltalk and Seaside. The one that has made the most money is PHP
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by elviejo 16y ago
Have you read about the Briggs-Myers personality tests? I found them quite interesting. I'm an introvert like you... being with people normally sucks my energy and I need times of solitude to recover. That is how I am... However I enjoy re
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by elviejo 16y ago
I agee with you in many respects: a) I don't want employees because managing employees is hard and is hard to motivate them.... so what do I do? I want partners in my company that share my motivation that work with me to make good money and
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by elviejo 16y ago
I feel your pain writing SQL Queries is bug prone exercise. And trying to optimize a SQL query shows that it is a leaky abstraction. Things that I think are a better option are: 1. Object Oriented Databases (OODB) A database that behaves li
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by elviejo 16y ago
Pictures? Flickr? Youtube... this seems something to be seen...
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by elviejo 16y ago
I think this is a majoy app that needed to be done since many years ago. I'll venture to say that 80% of php apps could fit this category. Did you look at dabbledb ? they were in the right direction before being acquired by twitter. Look at
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by elviejo 16y ago
I see something that sucks, a process, education, something that could be better, faster cheaper through the use of computers and I want to improve it. I can't help it I want to improve it, being part of the "solution" not the "problem". "M
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by elviejo 16y ago
Orignal source: Java Programmers are the Erotic Furries of Programming http://lukewelling.com/2006/08/03/java-programmers-are-the-e...
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by elviejo 16y ago
Indeed this is a lovely route. Maybe I don't want to be in the cutting edge. But I want to be a great teacher. Someone that disseminates knowledge in a way that makes sense for the students. Someone that is influential en students lives a
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by elviejo 16y ago
Anki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anki and Mnemosyne http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnemosyne_(software) I like both... and spaced repetition will change the way you learn forever
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by elviejo 16y ago
Another Logo fan here. I still haven't found any other environment that makes me wonder about the power of computers as Logo did. I was 7 to 10 years.
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by elviejo 16y ago
The path to enlightment is a lonely one
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by elviejo 16y ago
Mexico

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