gustavo_duarte

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by gustavo_duarte 6y ago
This is an interesting argument, and it's hard to say anything without data, which would be hard to measure imo. As a counter, my intuition is that masks also remind people of the risks and actually encourage safe behavior. I feel this
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The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Market(academic.oup.com)
1 points by gustavo_duarte 9y ago|0 comments
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Goto and the folly of dogma(manybutfinite.com)
4 points by gustavo_duarte 9y ago|2 comments
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by gustavo_duarte 10y ago
Hi brw, Your code remains living in its original repo. To keep things easy, it'll support only GitHub repos at first, then any Git repo, then potentially other source control software.
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Show HN: Grokbit, a better way to search and browse code(grokbit.com)
13 points by gustavo_duarte 10y ago|3 comments
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by gustavo_duarte 12y ago
Here's what Shapiro says: "The word "hacker" in its well-known computing sense has a first citation of 1971 (contributed by me) in the Historical Dictionary of American Slang. Here is an earlier citation, not precise
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by gustavo_duarte 13y ago
Further down the article there are other examples: The “sources of material” included many people the Nazis sentenced to death for minor crimes, such as looting, and many convicted for political crimes that particularly incensed
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by gustavo_duarte 13y ago
I agree with you that the post is soft on Obama, and personally I'm disappointed with the Administration in general. However, I think the main point of the article still holds and is important in our fight towards a stronger rule of la
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Why we spy(economist.com)
2 points by gustavo_duarte 13y ago|0 comments
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by gustavo_duarte 13y ago
I think the Economist did a great job on this in their recent piece: http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2013/06/wh... Think about the incentives to the _President_ (whoever that is) to NOT
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by gustavo_duarte 13y ago
I agree completely on the GH slow down / fail whale type of problems. I use GH for about 12 hours a day almost every day, between open source and client projects. I face slow downs in the issue tracker, the git repos themselves (I only use
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by gustavo_duarte 13y ago
I understand the frustration with GH limitations (no burn charts and hardly any reporting). For us, the minimalism ended up working in harmony with our process, but I can see situations where it wouldn't. The UI and milestones, though, I t
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by gustavo_duarte 13y ago
This is a great point. We have ~10 repos as part of our product, so we faced the same issue. After toying with different solutions, we settled on using two dedicated issues-only repositories. One of them handles software development (all bu
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by gustavo_duarte 13y ago
Agreed, email is clunky. Have you used the GitHub mobile apps though? I find it's a decent way to keep tabs on issues, add comments, etc., when one is away from a bigger computer. I see that as a big plus for GH.
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by gustavo_duarte 13y ago
I respectfully disagree regarding Fogbugz vs. GitHub issues. I used FogBugz for about 6 years in a major client project (a successful SaaS product). We used FogCreek's hosted solution and were pretty heavy users: different projects, milesto
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by gustavo_duarte 14y ago
My experiences with hiring and paying overseas devs have been pretty easy (I'm in the US). We have paid using SWIFT transfers, which sometimes require a bit of work to set up, but nothing too onerous - it's like doing any complicated transa
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by gustavo_duarte 14y ago
It is a much better set up if the overseas worker can set up their own company, especially in the case of Brazil. Then the US company does not need to worry about any of this, they simply wire (via SWIFT) payments monthly, for example, and
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by gustavo_duarte 14y ago
Hi speeder, I have hired a number of devs in Brazil for telecommuting work in the past. We've done a fair amount of mobile dev, but mostly it's HTML / JS single load apps, not usually native iOS, and mostly apps, not games. I'm not sure if
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by gustavo_duarte 15y ago
But why can't Dropbox become the main provider for this fully cloud-hosted architecture? So I keep my cloud files in Dropbox, and grant my cloud apps access to subsets of those files. Then they would truly be the "filesystem of the web" and
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by gustavo_duarte 15y ago
The two top-rated entries in the HN comments for PG's essay are disagreements, both stating that the essay is flawed. I'm not so sure the groupthink is really that bad here on HN.
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by gustavo_duarte 15y ago
Agreed, but the charity bit was a special touch: In the spirit of the season, you might consider donating it to the charity of your choice Beats a standard "you keep it" corporate letter.
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by gustavo_duarte 15y ago
Very cool. Had it been Paypal, they'd want a picture of a burned X-Box surrounded by crying children to prove authenticity. MS has been controversial commercially, but socially I think they've done a decent job of "Don't Be Evil", for examp
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by gustavo_duarte 17y ago
Gates is rumored to have scored a perfect 800 on the math portion or his SAT. He was studying Math at Harvard and published a paper in 'Discrete Mathematics' despite having dropped out before finishing undergrad: http://www.sciencedirect.c
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by gustavo_duarte 17y ago
Try reading A Journey Through Genius : http://www.amazon.com/Journey-through-Genius-Theorems-Mathem... The read part is _great_, and it gets you to do math in a way that flows pretty easily from the reading.
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by gustavo_duarte 17y ago
gpg can do symmetric encryption: http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg/Operational... There are a few algorithms to choose from.
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by gustavo_duarte 17y ago
But only for a very small value of impact. What percentage of Google queries do you think might eventually become WA queries? I'd say easily < 1%. I see the two as very complementary, not really competing.
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by gustavo_duarte 17y ago
I think you underestimate his ego. What you describe is true, but it's not all. For example, he's also smarter than all physicists: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=690 Oy! For relief, I suggest his epic spanking in the Linux Kernel Mailing Lis
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by gustavo_duarte 17y ago
Historically, our job security beats the Papacy hands down. Even excluding the early Popes who were martyred in quick succession, the average papal tenure is under 8 years, with a fair number of murders and alleged murders. Check it out: h
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by gustavo_duarte 17y ago
I wouldn't make personal assumptions like this. I might be a DJ myself. ;) Regarding the study, the results are in line with my expectations. Several of my friends are DJs and other art-loving people, who all download and buy massive amount
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by gustavo_duarte 17y ago
I also have hope for more independent creation, especially since I prefer indie / weird art to blockbuster stuff. But as much as I like your scenario, copyright still plays an important role in it to enable creators to live doing this. I wo

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