jll29

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   by jll29 6y ago

   LinkedIn has its advantages and disadvantages. I would characterise it as a net positive for me, but it depends who you are, how you use it and what for. Why net positive? For my second start-up, I found our first customer through LinkedIn.
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   by jll29 6y ago

   Niklas Luhmann collected 90,000 note cards and popularised "Zettelkasten" note-taking as a knowledge management method with paper-based hyperlinks: https://niklas-luhmann-archiv.de/projekt/beschreibung (archi
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   by jll29 6y ago

   Further to the practical/technical issue of being blocked, there is a legal issue: this way of coding it (= not using an API key) violates Google's Terms and Conditions.
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   by jll29 6y ago

   Here's a trick (that I haven't tried personally): say you're looking for 3 (paid) internships, say you don't care about money, you only want them to improve your resume. Ask if they want to be one of the three companies
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   by jll29 6y ago

   +1
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   by jll29 6y ago

   I recommend these two free online/e-books by Niklaus Wirth: Compiler Construction https://inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/CompilerConstruction/inde... How to build a compiler from scractch (if you read German
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   by jll29 6y ago

   Programming before the internet required tenacy/grit. You had not Stack Exchange sites and no Google to find solutions to known problems, you had to solve everything yourself. You could visit a friend and show your code, usually as pri
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   by jll29 6y ago

   altavista.com now redirects to Verizon (Yahoo!). Is there a Web search engine that only indexes non-commercial content?
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   by jll29 6y ago

   I wrote a thesis on place name ambiguity [1], so not surprised. There are tons of people flying to the wrong place with the same name all the time - they only told me when I mentioned my thesis topic. There's even a book about a guy wh
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    by jll29 7y ago

    recursion.
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    by jll29 7y ago

    The smartest approach is to be able to run anywhere, which is increasingly practical due to VMs, Docker etc. (At least funded) startups should start with the cloud as speed to completion is key, but can later optimize for cost. Elasticity o
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    by jll29 7y ago

    You can read more than one book at a time. Just keep track where you are with a post-it note. It's OKAY. Take notes online or offline or both. Just write down what you learned in prose and store it in plain text files. Don't worry
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    by jll29 7y ago

    SAP had or has a blind developer at their Walldorf, Germany headquarters. As of 2000, he was using a Braille line. Perhaps back-end work is easier without vision, in particular databases. I hope you get to travel a bit whilst you can still
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    by jll29 7y ago

    Google BigQuery is your friend.
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    by jll29 7y ago

    The only sound advice one can give is: there are two elements to consider: 1) ethics is different from law 1.1) the ethical way: respect robots.txt protocol 2) consult a lawyer 2.1) prior written consent, they will say, prevents you f
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    by jll29 7y ago

    Sounds a bit like entrepreneur-in-residence.
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    by jll29 7y ago

    Agree with all posted before. Adding Clifford Stoll, Cuckoo's Egg; white it's not so much a history of computing as a personal history of a geek astronomer catching a hacker, it represents a lot of early computing culture, and I e
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    by jll29 7y ago

    I recommend getting a CS degree. Don't be afraid of serious change if it moves you forward. You won't regret it.