jventura

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The chart diet, or a sedentary life as software developer(joaoventura.net)
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by jventura 10y ago
Agree, it's so irritating that I stopped reading the article and came back to hacker news to read the comments..
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by jventura 11y ago
I don't know if mine can be considered a "good resume" but I've lost considerable time reading things on the web and polishing it. I tried to convey an image of simplicity and minimalism, which are things I appreciate wh
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by jventura 11y ago
Ah, conference papers.. I had my share of rejections, got a paper rejected in 4/5 conferences, but in the end it got accepted in a good-enough conference! In retrospective, I think every single paper I wrote was rejected at least once,
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by jventura 11y ago
Give it a few years doing the same thing, and it'll probably get boring as hell..
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by jventura 11y ago
Tabulate is also a good alternative, and more recent: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/tabulate
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by jventura 11y ago
And of those who was a real inventor or innovator? I'm not talking about business innovation, but real and durable innovations.. After 100+ years of being invented, I still ride my bike every week, but I highly doubt that Amazon as sho
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I would say that the inventor's age is undoubtedly related to the "quality" or impact of the invention and you give the response on your last sentence. They have iterated and "invented" more..
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Agree! In my opinion your 20's should be for studying and exploring things on a higher level (university, etc.), your 30's for starting building your "systems" and master something so that in your 40's you should be
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by jventura 11y ago
You ask for something very complex and subjective. For instance, I have a set of libraries written in Python, and I use them in a web app, on a desktop app and in Android (using python 3.5 provided by crystaxNDK - https://www.cry
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Portugal! :)
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by jventura 11y ago
I do agree quite a lot with your argument. However, as a former researcher, I would say that you can be creative a lot if you have margin for that. But if you only work for enterprises, I agree it is mostly grunt work. I should know, as I&#
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by jventura 11y ago
Yes, but older experienced developers will not need that much free time to relearn how to do an if or a for loop in that new language. The older you get, the more you go to the point, so your argument is not quite good..
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by jventura 11y ago
I agree with your comment in the sense that 80% is not, as it seems to be, a very large number. One has to understand that in statistics the baseline technique is the "random". In the case of genders for USA, a random technique wo
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by jventura 11y ago
My previous company had what I think was a good hiring process: they required about 500 lines of Python code (it was a mainly django shop), and if your code was good, they'd ask you to go there one morning/afternoon and implement
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by jventura 11y ago
SEEKING WORK (Freelance or Consulting) - Remote or on-site Location: Portugal, near Lisbon About me: I'm an experienced (10+ years) fullstack web developer interested in clean code and minimalist user interfaces. Services: Web developm
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by jventura 11y ago
Yeap, and I would say that the opposite would have much better chance of succeeding: I would prefer to travel, get accomodation, earn some money while teaching..
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by jventura 11y ago
Flatangle reports: http://flatangle.com/products/reports/ It's a web application that generates the astrological interpretation of a person's chart using traditional astrology methods. I hope next week t
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SEEKING WORK / based in Portugal / remote or on-site (Europe/US preferred) I'm a software developer with 10 years of professional experience with an interest in clean code and getting things done. Lately I have been work
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by jventura 11y ago
Couldn't make the PR with the Super Mario theme play on my Macbook. It played only the first two notes than it got stuck there.
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by jventura 11y ago
No federal regulations or 3 hours to backup the DB, but in my previous job we had to build a deb package on a build server, then copy the package to the repo server, and finally ssh into the test/preprod/prod server to do the depl
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by jventura 11y ago
For those that do not have a Mac or AM radio, I made a small video for you: https://youtu.be/oXAeGZaka7o It's a Macbook Pro late 2013 and a pretty stock FM/AM radio.
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by jventura 11y ago
Not true for Portugal too. For my PhD I got a scholarship of 980€/month (too much below standard market rates for software engineers around here) and was not considered full time worker, so I had no benefits, no insurance, nada, zip. A
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I personally found that hobbies are great for socializing. You get to do something interesting outside work and to socialize at the same time, for hobbies that include other people (outdoor sports, soccer, playing chess with other humans, e
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I've been working remote for quite some time. And in my current company I'm now working remote after 6 months of having to be in the office. Since I had 3 hour daily commutes I said to them that I would be leaving someday! Too muc
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When I started working in Information Retrieval this was something that I enjoyed right away. It was quite easy to come up with a metric that could give more value to some things instead of others.. A few years later I did a PhD in Informat