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by elviejo 16y ago
This is a big dilemma for me. Because shouldn't making the code the right way be faster? ... This is something that gave me grief for a long time until I realized that I was thinking about running a marathon not a sprint.
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by elviejo 16y ago
Agreed Spaced repetition is way to go for what he wants to accomplish. I like the way Anki manages cards. But prefer the Mnemosyne's spacing algorithm.
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by elviejo 16y ago
This is simply an expression of "Deliberate Practice" http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/08/20/how-talente... """A while ago, we wrote a New York Times Magazine column about talent — what it is, how it’s acquired, etc. The gist of
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by elviejo 16y ago
I thought DabbleDB would change the world too :-D It is not going to happen for several reasons. One of them is that the company just got acquired by twitter. http://blog.dabbledb.com/2010/06/140character-dabbling.html I hope they release
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by elviejo 16y ago
I wish it was a joke too.
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by elviejo 17y ago
Only in USA learning a foreign language would be considered a waste.
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by elviejo 17y ago
Here is the video of the Google Tech Talk about Org-mode http://orgmode.org/talks/index.html
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by elviejo 17y ago
There is nothing in open source that makes it a "try before you buy". In theory a company can sell a product, this product being open source. So with it I should also get the freedom to use it, share it, or modify it. Plus there is the ope
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by elviejo 17y ago
I can't believe no one has mentioned: Jon Tan His taste is exquisite his websites are beautiful and functional. http://jontangerine.com/
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by elviejo 17y ago
Feliz Cumpleaños
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by elviejo 17y ago
I'm I the only one that thinks this article is the stick part of the Hockey stick? In other posts ( http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000017.html ) Joel has said that: "Good Software Takes Ten Years. Get Used To it." And then m
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by elviejo 17y ago
Plus they make Copilot a tool to give Tech support based on VNC.
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by elviejo 17y ago
An effective way to deal with corruption is to make it clear that you don't participate in it. It only takes for you to fail once and then everybody will know that you are ready to de "business" with them. Whereas if you make a name for you
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by elviejo 17y ago
The one that gives you the biggest return on invest per time of the constraint. ie. Sales price Raw Materials Margin Product A 1000 us 200 usd 800 Product B 2000 us 200 usd 1800 so
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by elviejo 17y ago
You choose the option that gives you the biggest return on invest per time of the constraint. In this case your development time probably is the constraint. ie. Sales price Raw Materials Margin Product A 1000 us 200
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by elviejo 17y ago
"modeling software interfaces after real-world objects is often a very bad idea." really? What do you think of the desktop of your computer, compared to your physical desk? or the fact that the windows of your programs can be stack on top o
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by elviejo 17y ago
I've switched to dvorak a year ago. I highly recommend it my wrist pain has disappear. And my typing speed is higher. (51 - 60 wpm in typeracer.com) Although I wasn't a good typist to begin with. Although the research on this field has stop
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by elviejo 17y ago
My favorite is Flickr API http://www.flickr.com/services/api/ Provides a lot of functionality. Basically anything you can do on the website you can do through the API. The names of the calls are intuitive. Provides different formats. And
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by elviejo 17y ago
Noup They still use Wasabe. He mentions it often on his podcast. And I don't think it is such a bad idea. It is simply a translator from one languate to another. Like GWT (Google Web Toolkit) They program in Java however the result is 'tran
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by elviejo 17y ago
Yeap imagine in 3 years you make 6 of those six-months projects/experiments. That would give you an edge when you decide to start. or maybe your third or fourth project / experiment is quite interesting and you decide to have two or 3 six m
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by elviejo 17y ago
SQLite has said that: "it is a replacement for text file, not Oracle" That seems like a very humble goal, and yet they strive for that level of quality. The reason why it is done with quality is because the developers really wanted to.
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by elviejo 18y ago
In his recent letter Bill Gates has this graph that shows the correlatin between better health and less children for a family. http://www.gatesfoundation.org/annual-letter/Pages/2009-prev... (chart 3) Bill G. explained that in the beginin
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by elviejo 18y ago
fog bugs is free for startups. they also have a hosted version. Definitively worth checking, IMO
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by elviejo 18y ago
really? I'm willing to bet that any file that would be "big" for emacs, would melt eclipse, word or any other text editor, except maybe for vim.
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by elviejo 18y ago
So he is a millionaire, but lost his wife that according to himself was fundamental on his success. That is pyrrhic victory to me.
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by elviejo 18y ago
Often to build more complex systems is a matter of changing the game entirely. Alan Kay talks about how the Arch allow craftsmen to write cathedrals with 3 times more volume than the great pyramid and only 1/10 of the mass. (ie they used le
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by elviejo 18y ago
Not entirely true, even Brooks on "The Mythical Man Month" suggests to Plan to throw one away . So the suggestion isn't "the path to madness". The way to avoid the Second System Effect is simply to make a commitment not to develop new fe
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by elviejo 18y ago
Good question The simple answer is that I've been studying Theory of Constraints. And TOC provides the tools to identify cause and effect relationships that in the end lead to to the root problem. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_Proc
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by elviejo 18y ago
I have the same doubts as you. My current plan is: 1 Find an industry with a ROOT problem that hasn't been solved. 2 Solve the problem. 3 Implement the solution in software form. 4 Sell the Solution, packaged in sw. 5 Profit. I'm still tryi
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by elviejo 18y ago
Agree on all accounts except on: "I wouldn't call the article 'unreasonable' for valuing science over fallible human reason. " Because I don't think this article values science. If it did, then it would simply state: "Here we have 2 keyboar

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