jorgeleo

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by jorgeleo 14y ago
Short version: Things stop being hard when I know enough so immediate satisfaction is possible. Then things seem easy. +1 for self awareness progress.
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by jorgeleo 14y ago
I am 44, #16 takes a lot of effort sometimes, still working in #17...
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by jorgeleo 14y ago
Then I guess 7 = 11 because the store 711 puts the together... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism They can put whatever they want in their name, and even mix and match the terms in their propag
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by jorgeleo 14y ago
I stand corrected
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by jorgeleo 14y ago
The blood pay was consequence to the resistance to the methods BECAUSE it was not working. If it had worked, then there would have no need for blood spillage.
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by jorgeleo 14y ago
I don't understand how communism is related to the article. Allende was socialist, not communist. They are different political systems.
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by jorgeleo 14y ago
I am Chilean and there is a minor correction to the article: "He attempted to phone the general of the Air Force and the new commander-in-chief General Pinochet, but they declined to answer" Pinochet was not the commander in chief of the Ai
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by jorgeleo 14y ago
The patent it self is so simple and basic, that mind as well be someone teaching exercise into the patents world. What it is making me "uncomfortable" is that patents from Microsoft (Secure machine counting) and Samsung (transistor substrat
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by jorgeleo 14y ago
Ha. A "blogfomercial", or a blog infomercial.
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by jorgeleo 14y ago
I am going to answer to my self as a way to answer all the comments at the same time. What I am rescuing from the article is the ability to learn beyond looking for what is the minimum that needs to be learned; the attitude of "I need to le
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by jorgeleo 14y ago
"Coding uses a lot of thinking patterns that I hadn't really used since my math and statistics classes in college, and even back then not in this intensity" And "I guess my point is, that if you want to become a programmer, you have to be c
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by jorgeleo 14y ago
Gel Packs! Cool! http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Bio-neural_gel_pack (How nobody has reference this?)
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by jorgeleo 14y ago
Tl;dr
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by jorgeleo 14y ago
Probably a lot of people do. Is a common attitude between hackers to take the world as a place to learn from, and to tinker with. I did a few things too, but then I got hired to design programs that would prevent people from doing what I wa
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by jorgeleo 14y ago
I make a nice living (so far) out of making windows desktop apps, but they are very niche oriented. Mostly statistical analysis of millions of rows. All though it is possible to make them in html, it would be really hard to meet the UI, per
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by jorgeleo 14y ago
agree... the reaction talks more towards emotional maturity than differences between algebra and programming
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by jorgeleo 14y ago
Short version: Some programming languages use the same symbols and notation to mean something different that algebra. Chances are you will get confused if you come from an algebraic background. I Reached to this conclusion based on a single
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by jorgeleo 14y ago
So... Yoda and all the internet kitties are out of luck... sad it is; or . , ;; : one of those
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by jorgeleo 14y ago
Still there: http://www.cc65.org/ What i learned from the 6502 was the use of pointers through the indirect addressing, later when I learned C they became vey easy.
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by jorgeleo 14y ago
But Facebook is not a financial institution, and I would put the responsability in the user if financial data is on the news feed. One size (of engineering practices) fit all mentality is not the correct approach either.
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by jorgeleo 14y ago
Define maintenance... Of your own code? bugs or enhancements?
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by jorgeleo 14y ago
Of course you are special, why would you be any different?
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by jorgeleo 14y ago
But... Did the first officer concurr???
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by jorgeleo 14y ago
For me the UI should be just one example of how the API of the model can be used, the model is the engine, the UI is the tool that the user manipulates to move the engine. I guess there are different schools.
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Show HN: .Net, Column Oriented, Single DLL database: OuterCube(jvaras.com)
2 points by jorgeleo 14y ago|0 comments
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by jorgeleo 14y ago
I like this idea, but I need a better way to separate personal frustrations and rants, from real problems.
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by jorgeleo 14y ago
Thanks for the comment, this has been very illuminating, several ideas popup from here
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by jorgeleo 14y ago
This whole track points to a different thing, how sociable (or not) are we the developers, thanks for the comments. The problem with the IRS is that "they" hold the definition of "reasonable", for a bar, tab? I rather swallow the cost.
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Ask HN: Is there anybody collecting pain?
20 points by jorgeleo 14y ago|19 comments
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by jorgeleo 14y ago
Is not a matter of high or low horses, but a matter of choices. "She's crazier than a bucket of ferrets on meth"... love it. "how much do you think Candice will read?" A bucket of ferrets on meth... none. But that was not the only place the

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