jlmendezbonini

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   by jlmendezbonini 15y ago

   Taking over your laziness I found the 2010 budget. It doesn't really provide an accurate personnel versus hardware comparison but it looks like this: Maintenance and operations 41.35% Military personnel 22.5% Procurement 20.45% Research, De
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   by jlmendezbonini 15y ago

   There are many areas of technology other than software. Tech companies != software companies.
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   by jlmendezbonini 15y ago

   I have no psychology experience but after reading the wikipedia page of Impostor Syndrome, Dunning-Kruger effect, and skimming through Dunning and Kruger's Nobel Prize paper[1] there is a third effect/syndrome that seems to be involved: Fal
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   by jlmendezbonini 15y ago

   For those as curious as me: "The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which unskilled people make poor decisions and reach erroneous conclusions, but their incompetence denies them the metacognitive ability to appreciate their mista
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   by jlmendezbonini 15y ago

   I really like your approach, obvious but it didn't cross my mind before. Using the freelancing sites to bootstrap yourself but aiming towards long-term relationships and referrals. Two questions though: 1. Can you share what you do as a
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   by jlmendezbonini 16y ago

   What are you working on nowadays?
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   by jlmendezbonini 16y ago

   Seems like indians will not be able to access colors.xxx. I'd guess that other conservative countries, like Indonesia, plan to block .xxx.
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   by jlmendezbonini 16y ago

   Would you mind telling us what has happened since?
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   by jlmendezbonini 16y ago

   The screenshot displays C code.
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    by jlmendezbonini 16y ago

    For those who would like to watch a great talk, Learning to Program DNA, by Dr. Drew Endy (one of the main guys behind BioBricks)[1] at UW: http://uwtv.org/programs/displayevent.aspx?rid=25856 [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drew_Endy
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    by jlmendezbonini 16y ago

    Agree with you but is not whether there's a good reason or not, it's about Apple protecting their brand. They probably won't sue him, at least that's what I'm hoping for a young entrepreneur, but he is definitely not going to be able to ke
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    by jlmendezbonini 16y ago

    Can you share what kind of businesses you run now?
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    by jlmendezbonini 16y ago

    Thanks for the tip but browsing through the site I found a post stating that the maintainer is thinking on starting from scratch: "...I am currently thinking of starting a completely new text editor that will not be a fork anymore, but a pr
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    by jlmendezbonini 16y ago

    A Macromates employee? I was under the impression that Allan Odgaard _was_ Macromates.
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    by jlmendezbonini 16y ago

    Initially you needed a .edu email to register. Then they opened facebook to everyone (any email). Now you don't you need an email address to register? Or did your brother used a throw-away email (gmail?) account?
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    by jlmendezbonini 16y ago

    Not exactly. He was a bit smarter. He is mainly using free blog services (blogger, etc) so he avoids the annual domain and hosting costs. He also notes that by using blogger he automatically gets more weight from Google searches (I'm not
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    by jlmendezbonini 16y ago

    No joke, I know a girl who signed her dog into facebook.
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    by jlmendezbonini 16y ago

    Can you elaborate? You develop for which platforms (iOS, Android, Symbian, etc)? What type of software (games, utilities, etc)? Thanks
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    by jlmendezbonini 16y ago

    Someone knows about a similar site offering (or someone willing to offer through codelesson.com) a good software engineering course? I'll be up for that.
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    by jlmendezbonini 16y ago

    >I'd start with something considerably lighter than that, but I do agree that reading code is a really important part of really learning how to program (well). I am interested in well written code that falls into the light to read categ
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    by jlmendezbonini 16y ago

    Agree. Also, in the case of chocolate there are other important reasons (chocolate slavery) to refuse buying from industry giants. http://vision.ucsd.edu/~kbranson/stopchocolateslavery/
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    by jlmendezbonini 16y ago

    Good find. Note that the Fall2005 offering includes solutions to the assignments and in-class problems while Spring2005, the one linked, does not. http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...
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    by jlmendezbonini 16y ago

    Maybe Jobs needed to hold the iPhone4 differently during the keynote instead of telling everyone to turn off their MiFi, laptops, etc.
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    by jlmendezbonini 16y ago

    http://www.watchcartoononline.com/the-simpsons-episode-310-f... Minute: 14:50 Original Airdate: 11/21/91 I couldn't resist the temptation to check the episode out, great memory!
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    by jlmendezbonini 16y ago

    I once saw a TED conference[1] about a project called Patients Like Me ( http://www.patientslikeme.com/ ) From their website: "Our goal is to enable people to share information that can improve the lives of patients diagnosed with life-cha
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    by jlmendezbonini 16y ago

    Switching to an open source OS? OSX is a mix between open and closed source software where quite a bit of its open source code is not updated frequently. Google can't patch Preview, Quicktime, Safari or any other closed source program deve
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    by jlmendezbonini 16y ago

    "Every online community has its biases." Agree but I have yet to see a pro-MS online community. Maybe in gaming?