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by eswat 11y ago
I know of at least a few new startups started by old guard that used to work at IBM and Blackberry. Many stuck with Java because they were already familiar with it and adopting something new would have slowed them down. You can argue that t
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by eswat 11y ago
If you keep requirement changes to a minimum during the project then that should help get you maintainable code from your freelancer, assuming they are competent enough to provide it. I’m always eager to offer this to clients and I sleep be
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by eswat 11y ago
See whom of your friends have a career on the fringes of what you do or know about. Grab them some coffee and ask what pain points they have about their job or the inefficiencies they see in their workplace. If you show enough enthusiasm an
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by eswat 11y ago
Tangent: Started getting interested in Go after watching this Korean thriller that’s slightly-relevant (The Divine Move) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3419894/
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by eswat 11y ago
I’ve been using Mint for several years. But there actually was a point two years ago where I got concerned about them having all my credentials. I deleted my account and changed all my passwords. Fast-forward a few months later and I’m usin
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Marathon Scrapbook, story behind Bungie and Marathon series [pdf](marathon.bungie.org)
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Half-Life 3 Will Never Release, Here's Why(youtube.com)
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by eswat 11y ago
They have access to the games we played but that doesn’t mean they actually will. Many of these have “not aged well” and it’s really hard for the newer generation to look past the graphics, sound and gameplay and have fun with them compared
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by eswat 11y ago
This was my case as well when I tried to work from the Philippines for a few weeks. I even stayed at a Hyatt and purchased room wifi, which did not work at all and would not be refunded by the hotel. Don’t get my started on the broadband st
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by eswat 11y ago
Not sure how profitable it is, but Dimensions costs $1 per year and I’ve been using it for a while https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dimensions/oajdmmi...
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CV Dazzle: Camouflage from Face Detection(cvdazzle.com)
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by eswat 11y ago
I’m also a freelance web design/development and got easily distracted by all this stuff. I just started adding the problematic websites to my hostfile and completely blocked them that way, even out of work hours. After a while I realiz
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by eswat 11y ago
If you’re just learning I think you’re better off without using a full framework like Bootstrap or Foundation. This is the time where you should be doing more of the leg work to understand how the different properties work, how the cascade
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by eswat 11y ago
Good luck! I wonder if similar actions would be considered in Canada if C-51 passes the Supreme Court.
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by eswat 12y ago
SEEKING WORK - Ottawa, Canada / Remote I’m a UI designer and developer for the web. I want to offer potential clients a new service: improving their CSS architecture. Why? Because I’ve seen too many startups plough slowly through impro
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by eswat 12y ago
While freelancing I’ve seen team members being oblivious to how much work would be involved in actually making an area of their product good and not realizing how badly techdebt can compound in the weeks and months ahead when not solved ear
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The Frameworks for Mystics (Devine Lu Linvega Talk)(voicerepublic.com)
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by eswat 12y ago
Masters of Doom by David Kushner. It’s about the history of id Software and its founders. The audiobook is narrated by Wil Wheaton and he does a killer job at it.
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by eswat 12y ago
I talk to the driver…
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by eswat 12y ago
I’ve never thought about this but I agree to an extent. Keeping things around for your children to hack on would very useful for their development. Books and kitchen equipment could also be very important. I think those that wanted to adopt
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by eswat 12y ago
Instead of going through all these aggregators and digests, I just follow the links and news that my tribes - whether IRL, IRC or Slack – share. They act as my curators and since we all have similar interests I trust that most things they p
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by eswat 12y ago
We haven’t seen anything blow up yet other than Slack itself. While it sucks that the user table was compromised, I think the actual affect on businesses is more benign than they’d like to believe (ie: sensitive chatlogs that could be used
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by eswat 12y ago
It’s a personal website, not a landing page (and hosted on a platform that encourages experimenting). I’d argue that in this case not everything needs to be optimized for the new user’s sake.
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by eswat 12y ago
Depends of the definition of meaningless tasks. What you cut in money you make up for in wealth. You have more discretionary time to do what you want: work on side projects, doing things you can’t otherwise do outside of work hours on a wee
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by eswat 12y ago
Daniel Norris of the Toronto Bluejays has a similar mindset: http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/12420393/top-blue... “On the morning in 2011 when his $2 million signing bonus finally cl
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by eswat 12y ago
Most of my throw-away projects are entirely frontend, so I just clone my static-site generator* – just a grunt tool that’s more flexible than Jekyll for my needs – and push the results to a new GitHub repo to be served by Pages. All repos a
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by eswat 12y ago
I’m not finished yet, but I’m writing a trading bot for Steam so I don’t need to manually confirm trades if the offers are exactly what I’m looking for.
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by eswat 12y ago
That pricing is for Individual accounts, not Organizations. $25 for 10 private repos is accurate for the latter.
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by eswat 12y ago
It’s worth noting that Counter-Strike has been around far longer than most games in eSports. But a few tweaks made in Global Offensive, such as more reliance on managing money/economy, made it as compelling to watch as games like LoL o
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Ask HN: Free or Cheap NYC Co-Work Spaces for This Week?
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