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by gedrap 13y ago
Similar here. My favourite part of those postings is 'looks great on CV'. Yeah right.
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by gedrap 13y ago
I like the idea of it, was thinking of something myself not too long ago. It's great because it provides big value, and your (i.e. betatype founder, contractor specialising on prototypes, etc) job is to highlight the value because it&#
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by gedrap 13y ago
Well, following that logic, Facebook owns thousands of web sites because they require FB account to login. It seems obvious to us, but we are an exception. Most of the people just don't care.
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by gedrap 13y ago
I got paywalled at first, accidentally refreshed it, and no paywall. Well, that's odd.
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by gedrap 13y ago
There are people who just love hating. Back in the days, VB6 was an easy thing to pick on. Now it's PHP. And G+. It's not that people hate it for the real name thing or whatever. More likely, they hate it because many other's
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by gedrap 13y ago
>>> Small-to-medium sized business owners, Wall Street traders, quants and very good engineers make that much money with none of the associated risk. Of course it's not a lot. The corner boys are earning less than McDonald&#x2
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by gedrap 13y ago
>>> It's interesting that everyone seems to have the impression that their language is one of the hardest to learn. True that. I believe it's because you study your native language at much greater detail / more advan
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by gedrap 13y ago
>>> most modern day guys could never even imagine. Oh no need for that. Grab a local news paper, check the crime section. 'modern day guys' are not so smart and innocent, are they?
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by gedrap 13y ago
There is a good point in the post that no one seems to mention. Negotiate on the scope. Please, for your own good, do that. It sucks so badly when you a finish a project for a nice amount of money, the client says 'oh I have this proje
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Can I use vodka to clean my keyboard?(superuser.com)
1 points by gedrap 13y ago|1 comments
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by gedrap 13y ago
Creating a whitelist sounds a bit tedious. Because it might look fun at first, you would add a few places, but then forget it forever, don't update them and the feature would slowly die. Blacklist makes more sense. E.g. I don't wa
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by gedrap 13y ago
I remember this feature. I also remember that hardly anyone of my friends used checking in so it was fairly useless :)
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by gedrap 13y ago
It has nothing to do with reserved words, it's about learning resources. >>> And I am fairly sure there are tutorials available in other languages. It depends. If we are talking about Russian, Spanish, Chinese, etc - definitel
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by gedrap 13y ago
But if, in a very unlikely case, something actually happens then no one wants to be pointed out as the person who said 'lol idiots'. >>> 3) can destroy lives of people who should know better Yes. But on other hand, everyo
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by gedrap 13y ago
Well, it kind of evolved into 'programming for everyone!' nowadays. And I believe, that is the wrong direction. Sure, we need to make learning programming more available. There are A LOT of people in non-English speaking countries
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by gedrap 13y ago
I agree with you. Of course, I don't know the full story but given what I have seen in the past I would guess it's the second option. Some of the coders simply can't deal (or, more accurately, their egos) when someone less sk
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by gedrap 13y ago
This. I manage to keep emotions aside most of the time, I am cool working with Win/Linux/OS X. I have preferences but I won't cry if I have to work with something which is not my top preference. And I am a happy user of Win8.
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by gedrap 13y ago
What I don't get is what's with those hundreds of alt coins. Sometimes I get a feeling that people who missed the BTC growth are just trying to make up for it by creating their own coin. I understand that people are passionate abo
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by gedrap 13y ago
I guess the idea is to let a regular Joe to mine some coins too, so that he doesn't have to invest a few grands.
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by gedrap 13y ago
>>> will deliver its users a worse product for the sake of few more dollars. When you are operating in FB scale, few more dollars become millions. Repeat 'few more dollars' several times, you have hundreds of millions&#x2
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by gedrap 13y ago
My favourite kind of hater is the loner hater. Work with other person's code? No Readability? Who needs it Source version control? I will just email you the files Design patterns, agile methods? That's stupid hippies shit Using li
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by gedrap 13y ago
Well, disliking and hating are far apart on my spectrum. And I think I am not alone.
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by gedrap 13y ago
I am finishing my last year at Uni of Manchester (UK), and coming from a poor family in Eastern Europe. On one hand, it really sucks that I can't really afford to focus mainly on education because I have no plan B regarding money and h
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by gedrap 13y ago
Hm, I remember there was a thing called Opera Mini (8-10 years ago?). It worked in a similar way so that you could browse web using old basic cellphones. It was quite popular in Eastern Europe where having computer with Internet access was
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by gedrap 13y ago
The truth is, no (decent) company will reject you because you asked high but reasonably high. For some people it might mean that 'hey he must be good, if can asks that much and has no problem with employment!'. Social proof goes a
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by gedrap 13y ago
I second that. I have met a number of devs who are not idiots, have good analytical thinking, but refuse using frameworks, libraries, etc. The result is unmaintainable code base, which no one wants to maintain, and re-writing is too expensi
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by gedrap 13y ago
Hm, what I expected was a post about red flags in freelance (odesk, elance, etc) job postings. They are (normally) obvious but since treehouse is oriented to beginners [0], might be not obvious to them. Although I try to adjust search well
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Start now, work hard.(medium.com)
2 points by gedrap 13y ago|0 comments
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by gedrap 13y ago
>>> The Satoshi they found sounds like a plausible Satoshi but is it really him? Do you think stupid wannabe-thugs think that much?
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by gedrap 13y ago
From both my own experience and witnessing others, one major factor that sets apart from beginner and expert is working with legacy code. And by legacy I mean legacy from previous developer, previous team, whatever, not necessarily a decade

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