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   by felipe 19y ago

   Another solution is to use a TrueCrypt hidden volume: http://www.truecrypt.org/hiddenvolume.php
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   by felipe 19y ago

   I've been using TrueCrypt and I'm very happy with it. It's probably less secure than the PGP's solution, but my main concern is not really hackers, but some thief stealing my notebook and getting access to my scanned documents, Quicken file
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   Interesting article about Slashdot and CmdrTaco(spectrum.ieee.org)

   4 points by felipe 19y ago|0 comments
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   by felipe 19y ago

   I used to get frustrated too, until I switched to Flex!
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   by felipe 19y ago

   Three days ago I received an email from Amazon alerting me that "one or more of your instances are running on hosts degraded due to hardware failure.", and giving me a week to migrate to another instance. I have a script that creates daily
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   by felipe 19y ago

   The problem is that David is not Linus nor PG, so that sounds awfully arrogant coming from him. The other problem is that David's ideas are not really "his ideas". He simply recycled XP and Agile concepts from the 90s. I for one prefer to r
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   by felipe 19y ago

   I believe the key problem is that (most) students who enroll to a CS program expect to become engineers, but the CS curriculum is supposed to form scientists, not engineers. The key distinction is that in a SW Eng program the emphasis is on
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   by felipe 19y ago

   The CMU SE program in Silicon Valley is exactly like that: http://west.cmu.edu/prospective_students I am an alum from this program, and it was the best learning experience I ever had in my life (seriously).
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   by felipe 19y ago

   I for one agree with the author's point. I live in SV, working on a seed-funded start-up, and yes, it is a lot of personal sacrifice and risk. And, yes, a lot of founders risked their own money, careers and family relationships building the
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    by felipe 19y ago

    I totally agree with you, chaostheory. IQ completely ignores social skills (aka Emotional Intelligence), which is extremely important. I brought up IQ simply because the previous commenter mentioned it.
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    by felipe 19y ago

    1) "Best" is subjective. What you consider best for your kid most probably will not fulfill the needs of all kids. 2) IQ has absolutely nothing to do with being rich or poor.
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    by felipe 19y ago

    Most educational software is towards students, but I think there is a huge need to empower educators, so they can create their own tech solutions for students. Another area is parent involvement. Unfortunately the 20/20 show did not touch t
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    by felipe 19y ago

    The charter schools (mentioned at the last part of the show) are the equivalent of start-ups, while the big public school districts are like the big corporations. I think a mixed environment of (competing) charter and public schools is the
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    by felipe 19y ago

    Personally I don't see any problems with that, and in fact great hackers tend to have strong political point of views. To mention a few: Stallman (Free Software), Kapor (civil liberties advocate), and esr (libertarian, second amendment advo
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    by felipe 19y ago

    I think Netflix is built in Java (at least part of it), because: 1) When you log in, you will get redirected to a .jsp page 2) Netcraft identifies Netflix server as Apache Coyote, which is the Tomcat connector (Tomcat is Apache's Java-based
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    by felipe 19y ago

    "Its only in failures that you would lose data." Failures, and also explicit shutdowns (ex: "shutdown -h now")
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    by felipe 19y ago

    I don't know if it will be the next big language, but I strongly believe there is a space for JS on the server side (actually ECMAScript). Why should web developers deal with two sets of languages? (JS on the client and whatever else on the
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    Great interview with Craig Newmark (Charlie Rose - PBS)(charlierose.com)

    7 points by felipe 19y ago|1 comments
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    by felipe 19y ago

    IEEE Magazines: http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/journmag/index.html "Software" and "Computer" are more in-depth and oriented towards latest advancements and practices. "Internet Computing" and "IT Professional" are more practical.
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    by felipe 19y ago

    I've been hearing a lot of criticism against GoF lately, and I think now I understand why: IMHO I believe that since the past decade or so we moved up one step above the "complexity chain". Nowadays we hugely rely on frameworks to develop c
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    by felipe 19y ago

    While Costco does treat its employees a little bit better, people normally ignore the fact that Wal-Mart benefits a huge amount of low-income families who shop there. Costco in the other hand targets the upper-middle-class. Poor families do
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    by felipe 19y ago

    That was exactly what we tried a year ago (mobile-based ridesharing). It did not work for us because: 1) Hard to get traction due to the classic chicken-and-egg problem: Ride sharers do not sign-up due to the lack of riders, and riders do n
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    by felipe 19y ago

    Jboss Seam introduced a very interesting concept to deal with sessions called "conversations": http://www.jboss.com/products/seam Like sessions, conversation objects live across page requests, but die after a given action or event. A Conv
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    by felipe 19y ago

    Another huge side advantage of automated tests is that it becomes a live documentation of how to use your code (unit tests as "sample code")
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    by felipe 19y ago

    Research has shown [1] that unit testing actually cuts development time by 20%-30%, because in the long run you will spend less time debugging code or fixing code broken by other changes. [1] - I don't have time to look-up the specific link
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    by felipe 19y ago

    His suggestions are somewhat similar to Joel's "Smart and Gets Things Done" rule: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000073.html In fact, I believe his new book that came out very recently is all about recruiting.
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    by felipe 19y ago

    Here is a good link: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=735309 I guess the bottomline is that you can start and invest in a company, but not work for it. Have you already applied for a Green Card? While you wait, maybe you co
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    by felipe 19y ago

    I highly recommend JBoss Seam: http://www.jboss.com/products/seam It is quite stable and mature (granted it's around for only a year or so). I've already used it in 3 different projects and IMHO this is the best web framework for Java. Th
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    by felipe 19y ago

    http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/charting/ (it is affordable, but not free)
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    by felipe 19y ago

    Excellent point about tech products for emerging markets. This is absolutely true. I just want to point out that people normally think that "emerging markets" are the same as "developing nations", when in reality it means "underserved marke