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by espinchi 13y ago
I have LinkedIn email filtered out, but I still check it once every two weeks or so. Usually, I just respond with a relatively generic "Not available at the moment but thanks", and often add the recruiter as a contact. You never k
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by espinchi 13y ago
It's gonna be difficult to draw conclusions out of this. For instance, your currently location matters a lot. Ever since I moved to NYC (from Geneva, Switzerland) I get contacted by recruiters way more often.
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by espinchi 13y ago
The article linked from this HN discussion (in the main page at the moment) answers your question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7161901 . After reading that, I totally get why you'd call these games "honest
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by espinchi 13y ago
Just checked, and it has permission to read your contacts. That's nasty!
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by espinchi 13y ago
For Android phones, there are caller ID applications (built-in in Google KitKat, or third-party apps like Contactive or Truecaller) that recognize telemarketers and scam callers with reasonable accuracy. Sure, this has its fair share of pri
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Social jet-jag: Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by espinchi 13y ago|0 comments
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by espinchi 13y ago
Why not buy a house as an investment? Even if you're not a professional investor, you can consider having a fraction of your savings on risky investments, such as stocks and real estate. I'm not saying it's easy, not saying i
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by espinchi 13y ago
I agree that many of the numbers in the video are not very realistic. For a $120000 house like yours, I expected a monthly rent of about half. Your area seems like a great place to own a property, so it looks to me that buying is definitely
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Meta: another competitor in the wearable computer space(youtube.com)
1 points by espinchi 13y ago|0 comments
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by espinchi 13y ago
About this type of clauses, I've heard that "well, they are standard and are almost always ignored, as long as you don't cross the line (e.g. code for your side-projects in your day-job office)". I know this depends on t
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by espinchi 13y ago
Take into account, though, that accelerating electrons into near light speeds is not too difficult anyway. They are thousands of times lighter than protons, for instance, which is what the LHC works with most of the time.
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by espinchi 13y ago
Sure these robots won't bleed, but those human beings that get the bullets will. And, for quite a few years, I don't think it's about robots vs robots.
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by espinchi 13y ago
I'm helping build Photofeed, a platform that stores and organizes your private photos from your different devices in the cloud. Photographers with the problem described in the article are within the target audience, even if we didn&#x2
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by espinchi 13y ago
One of the benefits I see in unit testing is the fact that it makes you write testable code. Only that is already a huge argument for incorporating testing in the development process.
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by espinchi 13y ago
What strategy do you think these services could follow in order to keep users engaged while making money? I can't come up with a good answer to this myself.
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by espinchi 13y ago
My first reaction to the article title: "Yes, probably, but I prefer it stays this way"
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Bounding the speed of ‘spooky action at a distance’(arxiv.org)
47 points by espinchi 14y ago|52 comments
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by espinchi 14y ago
Well the users of our Spell Checker app for Android did notice. Sure, we know it's entirely our fault for using a non-public API.
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by espinchi 14y ago
Totally off-topic. Thanks, and congrats, for RescueTime. Just got the e-mail "RescueTime alert for All Distracting Time", so gotta get back to work!
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by espinchi 14y ago
The word "nuclear" appears 9 times in the text. This is scary.
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by espinchi 14y ago
Sometimes documentation is just a way to (try to) make up for poor code. I usually pretend I can't document my code while developing. I'll sure add some anyway. This doesn't apply to public APIs. There, you of course need to be more explici
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by espinchi 14y ago
Great advice. And quite a cool story! It's interesting to note that Derek mentions about doing this (sort-of) front-line work yourself, but then outsource it when it grows so much that it would take too much of your time that you put on you
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by espinchi 14y ago
My first thought was "good joke". But I think you're actually serious! I think the key difference between this web app and just a timer is precisely the message. Some people find it funny that it uses some profanity. I were the author, I'd
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by espinchi 14y ago
It's a great time to be a software developer. However, this can't last forever. For those of you that have also experienced the low times in this industry. What do you recommend in order to be ready for a potential big change? By a big chan
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by espinchi 14y ago
Well the median is 95k in NY [1], which seems reasonable. Probably the average is higher due to these outliers, though. [1] According to the spreadsheet that simonsarris shared in another comment: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U-opUT
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by espinchi 14y ago
I must admit I've even considered outsourcing some small design/prototyping tasks to contractors. (I'm talking in the context of my day job at a big organization.) Not with the objective of wasting my time at work instead, but to be able to
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by espinchi 14y ago
Congrats. It looks great. Some feedback here after doing the first demo. I expected that every lesson would contain a practical example. In the demo, it's good to know that you have 9 outs, but the real objective is knowing that you shouldn
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by espinchi 14y ago
One argument for going web is recruitment: the pool of active developers that know Java, Swing and Spring is shrinking. Also, the size of the developer community in the Java/Swing world versus that in web technologies is not even comparable
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by espinchi 14y ago
I tend to think everyone is writing web Python or Ruby servers backed with some NoSQL database, that expose a RESTful interface to a fancy HTML5 client that leverages some cool JS framework. At my workplace, we have this debate going on abo
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by espinchi 14y ago
Last week there was a very nice “Ask HN” on Hacker News where the person asking had stated that he had decided to move on to a new job and to do that had to quit his job Could anyone post the link to that Ask HN post the OP mentions? I

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