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by jventura 9y ago
> My one and only point is that lying to your employer, to set yourself up so that you can somehow get through your low-points, means you are either in the wrong job or in the wrong profession. Not everybody is still young in this field.
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True, some people just have other goals in life than being defined by what they do to make a living (aka "career")..
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It doesn't have necessarily to be burnout! For instance, I would also rather do an hundred million things than working.. It may be just a part of "growing" (as in moving along)
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by jventura 10y ago
My suggestion for beginners: - If you want to do simple apps that do not touch the DB, or any kind of persistence, you can start with Flask. Much simpler to start. - For a more integrated experience on web development, including DBs, use Dj
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Similarly, I've only added my email account to the desktop app (which should only act as a email client), and somehow they grabbed my email account and start spamming me.
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> Meaning isn't something physical in the universe. Meaning is an emotion. It's what you feel when you're working towards something that you believe has some greater importance. With all opportunity to work towards anythin
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Because I already had a lot of code doing a lot of things in Python ( https://github.com/flatangle/flatlib/ )..
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by jventura 10y ago
I was in a similar situation some years ago, where I needed wikipedia documents for building a corpus of documents for text-mining. Eventually had to build a solution myself from wikipedia's XML dump files. Here's the link to it,
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by jventura 10y ago
Some years ago I tried to use python-for-android, but found it too much of a burden to do what I wanted, which was just to simply integrate existing python code in native android apps (with Java). Don't know how much has changed since
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by jventura 10y ago
> I'm burnt out, thanks to being an Android developer. (Don't do it!) Curious by your answer: something about bad apis on Android, or you got burned by deadlines or boring work?
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This is a good way to show how a PhD can be relevant to one's career outside academia, contrary to what is usually discussed here on HN..
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My experience as well! Once I was contacted by a friend who works on the QA department of a factory (belonging to a multinational company) to implement a system to keep track of the building process (what was soldered, who did it, what tole
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For Portugal, check https://landing.jobs/ . But not sure if there's many QA jobs around here, and even then, the payment is not what you usually see in places like Silicon Valley..
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> Will YOU be my mentor? Sorry, not knowledgeable enough. But if "written" music is your thing, you can check https://musescore.org/ and try to ask someone on their forums?
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> would it be worth it? Nobody can tell at this point in time.. Nevertheless, regarding Python in the browser, there's Brython [0] which works, although I don't know how's using it in production.. [0] https://br
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> Do you have any better approach to JNI calls other than Djinni, SafeJNI, SWIG, RPC-like with bulk of work on Java side? I use this homegrown solution on an Android app of mine which integrates with the CPython interpreter: https:&#x2F
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This is what you can find on the wikipedia entry on engineers [0]: > The foundation education of an engineer is typically a 4-year bachelor's degree or in some countries, a master's degree in an engineering discipline.. I would
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I thought about that yes, but I dismissed under the assumption that to even reach 90€ of profits in 8 months I would have to reach thousands of users. But then I would have to provide some kind of support for more users, the UX of my app wo
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An android app to create astrology charts. It's in the Play Store since Aug 2016 but could only make some 90€ of it.. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flatangle....
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Maybe planet.com only sell their imagery datasets to companies?! That's what came to my mind with GP asking "who are you?" probably meaning something like "who do you represent?"..
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Will check them out, thanks!
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I use the Pomodoro technique with this app: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tomato-one-free-focus-timer/... I do tasks in 30 minute chunks with 5 minutes to go to the bathroom, get up, stretch, etc.. On my be
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Ask HN: Any good books on developing cocoa macos apps with swift 3?
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by jventura 10y ago
One more data point: last year I managed to lose some weight (82Kg -> ~75Kg) mostly by reducing sugar intake. I did not increase exercise (I kept doing the same 3Km daily walks as before). Wrote something about it on my blog: http:&#x2F
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> What if a company offered to pay you a day's wages, or something reasonable still (if it's less than that)? I did an assignment like that for a company once, I'm still waiting for the money for more than one year...
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I had a coworker that used to say that when you have more managers than toilets, something is clearly wrong. It was a rule of thumb in his experience..
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Oh, definitely you don't need much more than vanilla Python for playing around and test things. The only thing that you may need is a good tokenizer (i.e., to know where you should break the words), but the regex in [0] was good enough
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by jventura 10y ago
I would suggest to start simple and manually to get some feeling for the problems in the field. No frameworks, no tools, just you and Python! Do a simple experiment: get some texts, split words between spaces (e.g line.split(" "))
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Maybe brython can help with that! https://brython.info/
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I just replied above with a similar comment. I also learn better by following a practical example like the "guessing_game" tutorial. Didn't read the rest of the book, so I don't know if there are more tutorials, but I le

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