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by gedrap 9y ago
Yes! I was looking for something similar to create a basic database in order to really understand the underlying concepts, but couldn't really find anything.
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by gedrap 9y ago
I considered this, but the options are very limited where I live (Lithuania). We have a few high quality local roasters, but even they have only one blend of decaf (and dozens of normal coffee).
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by gedrap 9y ago
I am a coffee drinker but I don't really get boost or anything. Nor do I feel tired or anything else that could be called withdrawal during the weekends, when I don't drink it. For me, making a cup of coffee is just a... ritual of
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by gedrap 9y ago
Absolutely. I'm a backend/infrastructure guy and spent a lot of time creating internal tools with web interfaces over the past 3 years. Thanks to Bootstrap, they look decent, modern, took very little time and people were happy to
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by gedrap 9y ago
Out of curiosity, what percent of companies just outright refused to consider remote work? And of those that considered you, how many had no remote engineers or didn't really have the processes in place to support remote work? Because,
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by gedrap 9y ago
I know that applying on jobs pages is not popular here on HN but, well, sometimes it works. In my opinion, having some projects on GitHub certainly helps, even if they are just hobby projects with no use in real world. So it doesn't me
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by gedrap 9y ago
I think it really depends on the use cases. For example, if you are in a team of 5 engineers, all working on mostly unrelated areas, then no problem. In this case, you might go a long way without having an actual need to learn something mor
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by gedrap 9y ago
A lot of news consumption is driven by Facebook, and Facebook is pushing videos rather aggressively lately. It's very likely that these are related.
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by gedrap 9y ago
Nice feature of stud.io is that it shows prices of all bricks, so you can cost-optimize your model in case you decide to build it.
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by gedrap 9y ago
Extremely disappointed in this post to the point where I believe that the only reason people upvote this is because it's written by Kent. A lot of it reads just like motivational instagram posts. For example: > Call your shot. Befor
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by gedrap 9y ago
Personally, I don't think that it's even a right format for questions which are not part of a larger discussion (e.g. deciding on details of some issue or PR). I have never seen link to gitter in google search results, and answers
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by gedrap 9y ago
Money and income are more complex than that. It is related to ones sense of self-worth, fairness, etc. Ideally, one should try to detach money & income from these senses, as it is a pretty much lose-lose situation. But it's not eas
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by gedrap 9y ago
Personally, I found that TDD works very well for small modules / classes, etc, when there's little design to be done. In this case, you can focus on writing down the spec (test cases) and be fairly confident that it works by the t
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by gedrap 9y ago
Excuse my ignorance but how is it better than googling the symptoms and eventually getting to cancer for pretty much any symptom? That's a serious question, though. It's not suddenly you will be able to cure yourself and save trip
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by gedrap 9y ago
> incredibly hand-wavy and he essentially admits to making them up whole cloth I get what you are saying, and I agree to some extent. But I think the key in this post was that the 'average' game (from the very middle of indie
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by gedrap 9y ago
> One of my favorite things about the stock market is you know exactly how good you are at all times. Your bank roll is your track record and its very black and white In the very long run, yes. But if you apply this to a short term (a we
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by gedrap 9y ago
This is a noble effort but your post is missing one key answer: is this person motivated enough to do it? Or just needs some money right now and maybe for the next month or two? Coding is hard, and takes a lot of hours (like, a thousand or
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by gedrap 9y ago
This book has similar ideas about basic practical applications of python https://automatetheboringstuff.com/
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by gedrap 9y ago
>> industries where it's very difficult for new blood to break into What are examples of such industries?
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by gedrap 9y ago
I think that one of the reasons why awareness is still relatively low, is that it is often hard to imagine the implications of this for the casual internet user as HN is quite a bubble in this regard. And by implications I mean something mo
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by gedrap 9y ago
>>> people trying to raise awareness for this issue, are harmful Harmful for who? If, let's say, they make people actually aware of this, that might lead to change towards privacy. But if people are unaware, and they remain un
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by gedrap 9y ago
I think that Slack (or any other IM client for work, really) is just a tool, not a solution. Meaning that it requires some organization and thought, rather than installing and hoping for the best. At least to some extent (i.e. have no idea
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by gedrap 9y ago
Even the 'good' metrics you listed are not that good and can be easily gamed if they are important enough, e.g. can influence salary, etc. Happy customers is the only exception, but it's essentially impossible to attribute
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by gedrap 9y ago
I had experience with this kind of employers in my very young days, when time and time again 'probably something wrong with the bank' or dozen of other bs excuses. If you are inexperienced, very short on money (e.g. a student), an
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by gedrap 9y ago
Sounds more like a design decision - don't exclude documents, where there is a low probability of relevance. For various reasons it might be better to have more results with some irrelevant ones, instead of 7 highly relevant ones.
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by gedrap 9y ago
I was reading "Building Microservices" by Sam Newman, he mentioned that some of his clients moved from monolith to 300+ microservices without going into details, so yeah, that made me wonder about it as well. (it was a decent book
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by gedrap 9y ago
Yeah. Although personally, I think that it's still not as bad as the "James from FoobarSaaS" for the technical products (you know, CI, etc). It was new and cool a few years ago, and maybe non-technical users find it more trus
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by gedrap 9y ago
Define fun. If rewarded, taking a team with shitty development processes, poor software, etc and taking it to the next level can be a great fun. But only if it is reward, i.e. is considered valuable.
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by gedrap 9y ago
But does it solve any actual problems other than 'XML is not cool', problems big enough to deserve a new format? It's true that JSON is easier to deal with than XML. But that's relative, there are plenty of decent tools
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by gedrap 9y ago
To be honest, I am fairly surprised at the reaction here on HN. It's not really surprising to see such system, it would be more surprising if such system did not exist because offline ads is a huge business and the technology is here.

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