jventura

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by jventura 5y ago
> I am a consulting mentalist.. You got me curious, what does a consulting mentalist do? Also, what is your book? Unless you want to keep yourself anonymous here on HN..
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by jventura 5y ago
The first iPad Air (2013)? I’m replying to you in my iPad Air 2013 and it’s working perfectly fine, almost no keyboard lag..
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by jventura 5y ago
Western sanctions = Russia cannot spend money on western products Russian sanctions = Russia does not get any money from other countries That is good, right?
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by jventura 5y ago
You are right, I was only playing with the numbers, hence my smiley on the end of the sentence. Every case is different, violence should be avoided if possible!
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Political representation of a country. Should have been more explicit..
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Parent poster here: it seems I should have been more explicit by saying that your government represents russian people in the political sense . I still say that I’m really sorry for the mess russian government has dragged all russian peopl
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Portugal has 10M people, Russia has 146M, so 4x14,6=58,4.. A similar coup would result only in 58 deaths.. ;)
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by jventura 5y ago
Either you care or not, your government represents the russian people for all the world. I know that individual people should not be blamed, and I'm really sorry that you guys are in the middle of this shit, but the rest of the world h
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by jventura 5y ago
> Overthrowing a dictator is an incredibly bloody undertaking. Doesn’t have to be. We did it in Portugal some 50 years ago [1]! I think just four people died.. We have been living in democracy since then, joined the European Union, etc..
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by jventura 5y ago
I have this ebook on github [1] which I use to teach Python to my CS 2nd year students. It is quite short on information and has lots of exercises for them to practice and get up to speed with the language, fast. [1] https://gith
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by jventura 5y ago
> Deleted Facebook in 2013 and lost access to my Quora account, with no possible way to recover it. Did the same but lost my Spotify account. Needless to say, but I haven’t used Spotify since then..
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by jventura 5y ago
Although your reply is buried beneath a lot other comments, I do think you are right on this! People that prefer book learning and listening (passively) to a teacher have an advantage with the current teaching methodologies than people that
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by jventura 5y ago
Last year me and my wife started talking about moving to a new, bigger, house. She then started to see some websites and prices, and I started to feel pressured because it would mean I would have to work much harder than what I do now. That
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> I'd teach Fibonacci for kids if I were teaching them Excel, because you can see the whole sequence. Excel is a very powerful tool and is a gateway to programing. Not a kid myself, but I've never thought about implementing the
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by jventura 5y ago
Saw your response just now, sorry! Yeah, something's not working with emails.. I'll check it out, thanks!
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by jventura 5y ago
Yeah, could not sell a single copy of the software I was doing back then.. I’m still trying to come up with something. Tried web apps but hadn’t much success there as well.
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by jventura 5y ago
I think it syncs the data between instances of the app (on the cloud - 10GB or something like that..).
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This kind of small tools is what I've been thinking of doing lately. It should not consume much of your time after you deploy it and there's not need to have a server and dealing with people's data.. Small question: how do yo
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by jventura 5y ago
Ok, but what kind of business niche would that be? You can also touch a lot of files on a webserver, although it would be a pain to upload them.
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by jventura 5y ago
> I would look for a niche that can't be done in browser What kind of niches would that be, beside audio/video and other cpu intensive things?
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Ask HN: Anyone making a living building desktop applications?
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by jventura 5y ago
I had a similar idea 2 years ago [1] but haven't been pushing it forward because I thought nobody would need something like this, since it's easy to implement a cronjob in a backend server. Maybe I should revisit this! :) [1] htt
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by jventura 5y ago
It’s just a regular “r” for us pt-pt natives... :)
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by jventura 5y ago
> Getting jobs as a US based employee with several years experience isn't too difficult. I'm not based on the US unfortunately, so I tend to ignore those job posts.. > I'm looking for low meeting culture jobs that fit m
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by jventura 5y ago
Lots of replies here are against what you do, but I, on the other hand, think you're living (the/a) dream! I don't know about legal consequences or background checks, but would just like to ask you how do you get those jobs,
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by jventura 5y ago
Hi there, sent you a message through the feedback box on the website, hope it reaches you! :)
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by jventura 5y ago
Note that the post you reply to is talking about 80% effort and not 80% of the time. At least it is my interpretation since a (normal) person cannot usually have 80% of the day for fun activities and only 20% for work.
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Python - been using it for more than 10 years and every time I get the change, I teach it to my students (Python, flask, Django..). I started recently a website to share some articles, micro-courses and ebooks on Python programming [0]. T
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by jventura 5y ago
I did the same thing, but in Python, some years ago [1]. Never understood how it works, but it's easy to implement.. [1] https://joaoventura.net/blog/2016/sierpinski-triangle/
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by jventura 5y ago
You can check this course I made recently [0]. It has lots of exercises you can use to practise as you go along. In the resources [1] you can also find my full-speed python ebook. I use it to teach python to 2nd year CS students so they sta

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