jventura

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by jventura 2y ago
> I just dream of spending a life of slow breakfasts, hiking on Monday mornings to celebrate a new week, reading books, slow traveling, and spending more time close to my aging parents. What is really stopping you from leaving the US and
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by jventura 2y ago
I use a toothpick to clean the ligthning port of my iPhones. Toothpicks are cheap as well..
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by jventura 2y ago
Professor here (not UK-based nor K12)! I try my best to engage students with the material I create, but students must also have an inner motivation to learn (be it to have a better future, to create more opportunities for themselves, etc.).
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by jventura 2y ago
Why don’t you try to use chatGPT to help you? Ask it how you can start with your idea and keep iterating your questions until it gives you a good way for you to start..
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by jventura 2y ago
At a previous job, we did use postgres. On my personal projects I use sqlite3, no need to configure a RDBMS, and backups are just a file copy away..
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by jventura 2y ago
Look for ThreadPools or ThreadPoolExecutors in Python. What you need is listed on the ThreadPoolExecutor documentation [1]. [1] https://docs.python.org/3.12/library/concurrent.futures.html...
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by jventura 2y ago
Yeah sorry, I didn't want to convey with was a ChatGPT prompt, but that it sounded like one, and therefore wouldn't be appealing to many people. Compare, for instance, with this other thread in the Ask HN [1]. The guy tells a lot
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by jventura 2y ago
This looks like a ChatGPT prompt, especially as you ask for pros and cons! I guess for the way you ask the question, you won't get many answers back.. But I'll answer it with another question. What do you need more now, money or t
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by jventura 3y ago
What is it so interesting in Porto for you to ask? Just curious as I live some 400 km south of it.. :)
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by jventura 3y ago
> Ultimately I left tech and started working with people more directly which is way more fulfilling. What do you do now, if you don't mind me asking?
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by jventura 3y ago
> If what I'm doing requires extreme care, such as pushing configuration updates to production, I will mentally say out loud what I'm planning to do (probably something similar to [0]), but calling that voice is a conscious eff
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by jventura 3y ago
And I am fascinated by people _not_ having inner monologues, as I do have a very active inner voice. For me having inner voice is like one part of me does the talking, the other does the listening. If other people could listen, they would p
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by jventura 3y ago
> Thus: English may be the lingua franca of programming in North America and some European countries, but clearly not worldwide. So, you don't have "for" or "while" loops where you live? Not even a "main&quo
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by jventura 3y ago
My dumb LG freezer plays a “ping ping ping” tune whenever the door is not properly closed after a few seconds. No need to send a smartphone notification!
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by jventura 3y ago
I don't have any significant recommendations. With my students I usually build three applications with sockets: a chat server/client, an HTTP webserver and an HTTP webserver serving JSON. Here's an example of an HTTP server u
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by jventura 3y ago
If you're learning Python, and know other programming languages, I have this online ebook [1] that I use with my students so that they learn Python fast enough so that I can teach them about socket programming. Basically, in each chapt
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by jventura 3y ago
The competition is similar to Upwork and other freelancing websites. The few times I bid for a mentorship, it was me and a dozen other guys.. I've given up on websites like these and focus instead on local connections. I've tried
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by jventura 3y ago
As a bass player and follower of Scott's channel, I always thought that it was because of extreme sweating, or something like that. I had a colleague (non-musician) who had to use gloves because of that issue, hence my reasoning.. Than
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Understanding Numeric Data Types in Python(fullspeedpython.com)
2 points by jventura 3y ago|1 comments
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by jventura 3y ago
This is my first article on my new website (fullspeedpython.com) which, as the name implies, is a website about Python. It's an introduction to numeric data types in Python (int, float, complex), but I also explore a little bit of deta
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by jventura 3y ago
Depending on the level of your students, if you get the chance to talk a little bit about sockets, you can always guide them to build a very simple HTTP Server. In reality, you don't need to go much deep on sockets, just talk about se
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by jventura 3y ago
It's not anymore, it's just another job board as many others out there..
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by jventura 3y ago
IPhone 5S for the last 8 years. This model was launched in 2013 (10 years ago). It’s working perfectly fine for what I need from a phone (calls, occasional email, youtube, gps, and web browsing - typing this on my iPhone). I like this form
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by jventura 3y ago
> On top of that, would you earn your usual rate for that time? This is the key! I do these kind of things on my spare time! On my spare time I could (1) do nothing; (2) try to cram more screen time into my life, and give the money earne
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by jventura 3y ago
> I once wasted my whole holiday on painting the house. And it wasn't well done, because it was my first time. I'll probably not do it again, unless I don't have other work. If you would have to do it again, would you do t
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by jventura 3y ago
> (...) and it also took several hours of my time, which probably cost me more than a new generator. I do a lot of repairs and maintenance at my own house. Last year I built a terrace and an extra room, and only had to pay someone to hel
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by jventura 3y ago
> how do you expect to learn anything if you won't read or watch a tutorial? I wanted to follow a tutorial (or another guide) to learn about Pharo, but couldn't find any, at least in the official docs. That's the point I&#
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by jventura 3y ago
I got curious, downloaded and installed it on my computer. Checked the docs, and the next step was to download a stable image. Downloaded 11 (stable) and started it. Then blank stare to screen! What should I do? Lots of things to click on,
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by jventura 3y ago
> (... I have become allergic to corporate life.) Reading your post it reminded me of a dark year that I had some years ago, where I couldn't do any work at all, and similar to you, there's a before and after for me as well. I
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by jventura 3y ago
> How do you escape the trap? How do you make yourself happier without worrying about happiness? I think part of the answer is in the quotation you quote: "the happiest people are probably those who are content and don't spend

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