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by elviejo 18y ago
I think all the Lightweight (agile) methods in sw development put emphasize in being able to prototype ideas easily. DB simply don't do that. In HN there are often questions on How to manage schema changes in the DB. I know there are tools
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by elviejo 18y ago
Qwerty is by default, but on any computer you can simply activate Dvorak from the control panel in your computer. The problem with Colemak is that you need to download and install software to use it. It isn't an standard yet. But yeah there
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by elviejo 18y ago
For "real science" on keyboards go to: http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/ From the site: "The carpalx project attempts to find the best keyboard layout to minimize typing effort for a given set of input documents. These documents may be Engli
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by elviejo 18y ago
If we were designing a keyboard from scratch: What shall we do? How about we find the most popular letters and put those under the strongest fingers. then we favor hand to hand switch, since that is faster. etc. etc. Seems to me t
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by elviejo 18y ago
ITESM Campus Zacatecas (Mexico)
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Ask HN: Do you guys use speed reading techniques?
16 points by elviejo 18y ago|44 comments
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by elviejo 18y ago
if you are using MySQL or Postgres Sphinx Search Engine http://www.sphinxsearch.com/ it searches the database where you stored your documents. It doesn't crawl your website. The quality of the search results is superior.
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by elviejo 18y ago
Yes please explain. I have some projects on how to make college education cheaper.
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by elviejo 18y ago
"A change of context is worth 60 IQ points" (Alan kay) So, I think that the first step towards requing the last third of the group will be to teach them LOGO… yes LOGO once people “get” for loops drawing squares and stars and circles etc. e
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by elviejo 18y ago
He probably means that we need banks to start lending again, to give car credits not a direct loan to GM. In the past year their sales are down ~40% for comparison Toyota's are down ~30%
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by elviejo 18y ago
You don't want your child programming in six years. You want her PLAYING... And she can PLAY with: Logo, Lego weDO, Lego MindStorms MIT Scratch, CMU Alice SmallTalk Etoys and OpenCorquet.. pretty entertaining, and educative... but most of
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by elviejo 18y ago
Check the book Test Driven Development by Example (Kent Beck) the second part of the book walks you on to How to build your own testing framework. Good read
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by elviejo 18y ago
1. I use the PEAR standard: Well defined, popular, and plenty of code written in it. 2. Use php_CodeSniffer to check if yout code coonforms to the standard. http://matrix.squiz.net/developer/tools/php_cs 3. Make CodeSniffer a pre-commi
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by elviejo 18y ago
Human organizations are inefficient. The more humans in there the more inefficient. The way to make organizations efficient is to have, technology (machines) a large part of the organization. Wether they are public or private is not as impo
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by elviejo 18y ago
Since the Fed is not property of the government, but rather an associtation of bankers Doesn't that mean that government is already out of Coin Manufacture?
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by elviejo 18y ago
This goes to prove that privatization of state services has anything to do with corruption. The potential for corrupt organizations exists in all human organizations: Public and Private. Even country of origin isn't a determining factor.
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by elviejo 18y ago
Are Engineers in India "unproductive" or is it hard to "ship stuff to buyers"? Doesn't seem like it to me. So how in the terms of this article can one explain that engineers in India are cheaper than in developed countries?
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by elviejo 18y ago
Yeap twitter doesn't make any profit. A model worthy of emulation indeed.
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by elviejo 18y ago
That is right. They had a commercial electric car in 1996 Now they expect to have the Volt save them which of course won't happen. Imagine the quality of electric cars they would be making today if they had kept the EV1 project going. But t
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by elviejo 18y ago
This is obvious. Do you know any startup that has the enough power to start with a heavy weight method? And if there was such a startup they would be extinct pretty fast.
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by elviejo 20y ago
"Ningun hombre fracasa mientras no deja de luchar" Ma. Eugenia Solari (No man is defeated as long as he is still fighting.)
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by elviejo 20y ago
Wow actually this is the idea I applied with to YC. thanks for the link It will help me improve my own product. I'll just need to refresh my japanise ;)