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by jventura 10y ago
There are some studies out there (too lazy now to go search for any) that mentions that money is related to hapiness up to a point that it can get you out of poverty and make you stop thinking about it.. Then, the relation is mostly none. S
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by jventura 10y ago
I had a coworker that used to say that when you have more managers than toilets, something's wrong.. To be honest the company we were working on has now laid off more than half the team!
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by jventura 10y ago
I think he's not talking about intelligence, but about muscle control which kind of makes sense..
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by jventura 10y ago
I'm running a one-man show trying to reach profitability on a niche market so that I can later do some serious research in the area. As it is a very small niche, quite uninteresting for investors, it's good for me since I would ne
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by jventura 10y ago
This! In the last years my country, Portugal, has been seing a mass exodus of highly qualified young people (many nurses and medical doctors) mostly to England. If there are many restrictions to move to UK, I don't know if they will st
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by jventura 10y ago
I'm trying to build a 1-person business for quite some time, going back and forth between ideas. Sometimes I think I would like to implement a desktop app, sometimes I feel web apps would be better, sometimes I just want to quit, etc.
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by jventura 10y ago
I have a similar experience.. The thing is that although many of us can work on one or other part of a complete product, it is pretty hard to focus on everything at the same time and build an entire product alone! For me, I have identified
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by jventura 10y ago
Right, and "just get it working for now" never happens in non-academic projects.. :)
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by jventura 10y ago
libui is a very interesting project but I find it still pretty much alpha: good enough for playing around with it, but not quite ready for production. However it is moving fast, so who knows its state in a few months.. Btw, I'm slowly
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by jventura 10y ago
Lisbon fulfills both your criteria: lots of sun and even kids learn English on the first year at school. I can surely bet that we speak better english than British people will ever speak Portuguese! :)
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by jventura 10y ago
I don't know why you are being downvoted, but this reminds me that thing about facebook/google/etc. that if there is no product you are the product. It also came to my mind that they may be after your users data for their own
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by jventura 10y ago
Thanks for the suggestion, I didn't knew about this before! So I've tried it, the lib is small (~9MB on OS X), it renders pretty fast and has python bindings which is quite great. However it lacks in some areas, such as the scroll
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by jventura 10y ago
You are correct. The only serious frameworks nowadays are Qt or Electron if you're targeting the cross-platform desktop. There's also wxwidgets, although its python 3 bindings are still being built. Personally, I'm keeping my
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by jventura 10y ago
Some 120 MB uncompressed, around 40 MB compressed..
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by jventura 10y ago
I'm developing an Electron application and I have to agree with you. Although I do not care much about memory consumption, the startup time on a Windows laptop I have sucks too much. Also, I've been doing web development for the l
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by jventura 10y ago
For Python you just need to do "./configure MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.8".. I'm creating another blog post with all the info I got from this thread, regarding compiling Python from sources. I'm going to put the lin
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by jventura 10y ago
I've managed to compile Python 3.5 from source setting MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.8 on the Makefile (after doing ./configure). But by default it compiles Python to a static library, which is quite ok, but I am having trouble comp
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by jventura 10y ago
I can confirm that the Python dynamic library installed from python.org do not have any reference to LC_VERSION_MIN_MACOSX. So in theory, it would work on any OS X version.. The only catch is that the official binaries are 32/64 bits w
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by jventura 10y ago
Hum, nice catch! Maybe there is a way to change that LC_VERSION_MIN_MACOSX variable, although the compilation generated instructions may be a dead end. I see two possible solutions, either try to work out from the Python provided binaries (
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Creating an embeddable Python distribution on OS X(joaoventura.net)
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by jventura 10y ago
SEEKING WORK - Lisbon, Portugal or Remote Full-stack web developer specialized in Python (Django and Flask) with 10+ years of experience in developing software. I have a PhD and published work in statistical Natural Language Processing, so
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by jventura 10y ago
I specialized in NLP as well (did a PhD and wrote some papers about it), but could not find any job here where I live, so I reinvented myself as full-stack web developer. But web dev is a freaking never-ending never-stable world, so I'
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by jventura 10y ago
I have my blog at http://joaoventura.net/blog . It's made with Flask and rendered to static html files using flask frozen. I write mainly about programming, web development and one or two more personal things..
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by jventura 10y ago
I did the same as you. For instance, when I do webdev I'm mostly unhappy (web frontend sucks big time for me!), but when doing desktop or other, I change my "happiness" numbers.. Don't know if it screws the metrics as we
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by jventura 10y ago
Hi agree somewhat with you (read my opinion on the other comment) and the only solution so far seems to be to go "up the ladder" where it is not so easy for beginners to reach. Maybe it's Machine Learning, maybe dealing with
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by jventura 10y ago
Hi evantai, please don't get me wrong as I'm really glad that you could figure out a better deal for you. My comment should be seen more as a kind-of rant because, in one hand, there's lots of instability on the web dev subfi
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by jventura 10y ago
> Did you actually do that stuff to get a job as a programmer? No, I just climbed the academic ladder as I was very fond of teaching. Unfortunately the academic world has too few jobs.. > I don't think the investing comparison is
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by jventura 10y ago
I just read another article here in HN how someone learned how to program (JS/Ruby/HTML and web things..) and got a job in web development in 5 months. I guess it says all about the current quality of this subfield. Unfortunately
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by jventura 10y ago
I used to teach programming to students and really enjoyed that novice people learn how to program. But when I read things such as how someone got a high paying programming job with only 5 months of learning, I can't stop thinking abou
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by jventura 10y ago
Started pylibui at https://github.com/joaoventura/pylibui . Pretty barebones for now, but hey, it shows a window!

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