japherwocky

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   by japherwocky 16y ago

   So much of what this guy rambles about is so moot to anyone who's ever actually worked in the building industry. Why is he even qualified to have this opinion? The premise that buildings "nowadays" are universally cheap and inferior is stup
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   by japherwocky 16y ago

   are those binlogs timestamped? what wonderful graphs you could make!
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   by japherwocky 16y ago

   So I have actually been teaching a class to a dozen beginners, taking them from HTML/CSS -> python/javascript and deploying apps on the web. What seems to work best, is to get them building anything , and then critiquing as we go. So,
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   by japherwocky 16y ago

   Definitely this, for me. Does someone talk about doing things or do things? Also wanted to say: talking about meeting for coffee went delightfully meta there, considering your username.
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   by japherwocky 16y ago

   Just to quibble a bit.. really, if you're looking to hire a professional contractor, you don't want fresh or creative. You want someone who can deliver to a spec on time and on budget. A joke among architects is to call plumbers|electricia
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   by japherwocky 16y ago

   Hot dogs and peanut butter burritos.
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   by japherwocky 16y ago

   The official python tutorials are pretty good actually: http://docs.python.org/tutorial/
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   by japherwocky 16y ago

   I read this guy's story a year ago, and thought it was interesting. He worked really really hard at something, without any particular skill or talent, and made a bunch of money! A year ago, he was launching a social network for models: ht
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   by japherwocky 16y ago

   You're correct, but you misunderstood me: I'm not saying it's bleeding edge because they're developing in parallel, I'm saying they're developing in parallel because it's bleeding edge. It's bleeding edge because the developers explicitly r
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    by japherwocky 16y ago

    yeah.. in Python world it's still pretty bleeding edge. There's a reason they kept going with 2.7 in parallel with 3
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    by japherwocky 16y ago

    You can get a pretty big, random chunk of the public timeline with statuses/firehose or statuses/sample http://dev.twitter.com/pages/streaming_api_methods
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    by japherwocky 16y ago

    hm, actually I might be wrong. Shame on me for trusting my memory. :) Double flame then! Someone give us some real statistics!
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    by japherwocky 16y ago

    I think it would be constructive if one of you downvoters left some sort of comment on why you've downvoted poor nozepas into graydom. :( I, for one, think if you were persistent and started with a ruby tutorial, you could indeed make an MV
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    by japherwocky 16y ago

    I'm teaching a dozen people or so how to build "websites" with HTML/CSS/Javascript/python. There's four intro lessons that take about an hour-ish, and then we review code once a week or so. The idea is to give you the absolute minimum expo
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    by japherwocky 16y ago

    +1 for the concrete thing. Spolsky was using real numbers from real experience with real applicants, but this article seems to be pure speculation and anecdote. The author is saying, "Well, my personal experience doesn't match up with thi
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    by japherwocky 16y ago

    Why do you run redmine in VirtualBox? Isn't it ruby?
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    by japherwocky 16y ago

    it does one thing very well
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    by japherwocky 16y ago

    http://simplemailer.pearachute.com/ - latest incarnation of a mailing list engine that has had subscribers since 2006. Pays for it's server! (I feel like we just got Mechanical Turked to an SEO farm, but hey- $GOOG juice!)
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    by japherwocky 16y ago

    architects also have every line and inch of their work inspected by people who get paid to find flaws. engineers would get sued into infinity if they built unsound structures. it's a real slippery slope into pretentiousness, when as a profe
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    by japherwocky 16y ago

    like what? There's no mention in the article, and I don't see anyone linking to anything?
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    by japherwocky 16y ago

    aka "cross that bridge when you come to it"
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    by japherwocky 16y ago

    So I don't suppose anyone knows what the outcome was? Did he get an interview at least? Post-GOOG Edit: http://twitter.com/#!/onyxfish says, "Happy you all are enjoying it--even more happy it got me the job!"
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    by japherwocky 16y ago

    I'd rather see ads for the FBI than for political parties!
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    by japherwocky 16y ago

    Take it one step further and let people specify what their money goes to. Automate the politicians!
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    by japherwocky 16y ago

    Perhaps better suited for the redditors?
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    Geolocated photo / tweet mashup(telepathicwitness.com)

    1 points by japherwocky 16y ago|1 comments
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    by japherwocky 16y ago

    I'm really rooting for the guy, but it's hard to be optimistic after they let the API be so awful for so long.
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    by japherwocky 16y ago

    Fair enough, maybe the investors told them not to generate cash flow. In which case, the investors are twits and deserve to lose their investment. My point is, whoever made that decision has been hitting the silicon valley kool-aid way to
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    by japherwocky 16y ago

    I'm a big boy on the internet, I don't mind a flame at all, especially in response to a provocative post. If you spend years, and millions of dollars, and don't make _any_ attempt to bring _any_ money in the door, I think you are making a m
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    by japherwocky 16y ago

    I cannot comprehend how they aren't even going to TRY to charge for ANYTHING. How the fuck do they think this whole cash flow thing works? 2 million users, and they don't even put out a god damn paypal donation widget? Show ads? Freemium