jventura

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   by jventura 6y ago

   > It was being taught by a substitute teacher from the art department who knew some programming. The class was 5 assignments (...) I guess you were unlucky! Teacher from the art department, and a class with only 5 assignments?! Didn&#x27
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   by jventura 6y ago

   When I say that the quality of the degree is not good, it is somewhat implied that the quality of the work of the person who did the degree is also questionable.. :/
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   by jventura 6y ago

   While I praise the author's effort, as a professor myself (I teach CS in a local polytechnic school - something like the US community colleges) I really doubt the quality of either the WGU and of the knowledge retention. As an example,
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   by jventura 6y ago

   Hi author, cool game, you got me hooked! One thing I could suggest for now (I'm still in the Latch level) is that you could go a bit below and start from the transistor itself, like build the nand gate from the transistors..
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   by jventura 6y ago

   Yes, internet has been boring for me as well in the last couple of years! I think SEO is to blame as well.. For instance, if I search something like “avoid pressure to succeed”, search engines return lots of blog posts like “why millenials
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   by jventura 6y ago

   They made me two proposals! On one of them, they would build the course themselves from my materials (30% cut for me, 70% cut for them). On the other I would have to build it and handle all the marketing myself. (70% for me, 30% for them).
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   by jventura 6y ago

   I do have a Python course at educative.io [1] which nets me around 100€/month. I was approached by one of the founders because of an ebook I did and shown here on HN [2]. I do have a personal blog [3] where I have some articles on Pyth
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   by jventura 6y ago

   > You don’t have to get a job directly related to NLP after you complete your degree. This! I did a PhD in NLP and then worked as backend web developer at a startup and now I'm teaching Operating Systems and Distributed Computing cl
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   Introduction to Computer Programming with Flowcharts(joaoventura.net)

   4 points by jventura 6y ago|0 comments
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    Introduction to Computer Programming with Flowcharts(fullspeedpython.com)

    2 points by jventura 6y ago|0 comments
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    by jventura 6y ago

    I asked a similar question about 4 years ago [1], I’m also curious.. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11658873
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    by jventura 6y ago

    > I'm doing quite fine now. You got my curiosity! Can I ask you in which field are you working on?
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    by jventura 6y ago

    I do about 5€/month on an astrology app on the Play Store [1], and I did 50€ once on my SaaS astrology web app [2]. The rest of my web apps [3][4][5] give me 0 (zero) per month.. I'm now planning on starting a python development b
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    by jventura 6y ago

    Typical.. while (1) { company_does_something_stupid(); gets_caught(); apologize(); makes_promises(); if (bankrupt) break; }
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    by jventura 6y ago

    Maybe it's because Rust is backed by Mozilla, which is a bigger player than Zig's creator?
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    by jventura 6y ago

    Read your kayaking journey on the Sea of Cortez. Unfortunately lots of pictures are missing, but I kept reading! These kind of reports are some of the things that I miss on the new internet. I did have a site of my own where I also wrote li
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    by jventura 6y ago

    Clickable link: https://www.forbes.com/real-time-billionaires/#24e872c63d78
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    All billionaires under 35 inherited their wealth (except in tech)

    3 points by jventura 6y ago|1 comments
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    by jventura 6y ago

    > Maybe the overall vision of becoming financially free is the wrong approach. Maybe it's a matter of focusing on something you really enjoy. You may have a point here, or at least you have made me think about it.. :) As with many p
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    by jventura 6y ago

    Anyone knows if it's possible to export a house plan in FreeCAD to use on AutoCAD? I need to draw the 2D floors of my house and send to a professional architect who is using AutoCAD..
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    by jventura 6y ago

    Do you know if it's possible to export a house plan in FreeCAD to use on AutoCAD? I need to draw the 2D floors of my house and send to an architect who is using AutoCAD..
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    by jventura 6y ago

    Accordingly to the book (and research), yes! Just stop consuming so much of the typical short content on the internet, dwelve back into books or what else makes you think more deeply (house projects, hobbies, writing, whatever), and the sam
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    by jventura 6y ago

    That is only on the frontpage, they send an email each friday with that week’s posts..
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    by jventura 6y ago

    I was on a similar situation until last month or so. I read this book called The Shallows by Nicholas Carr which references a lot of research that consuming lots of internet modifies your neural paths and makes you more distractable and har
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    by jventura 6y ago

    I’m replying to you on a iPhone 5S (2013 model) running iOS 12 (the last supported version), and it runs perfectly fine for me.. Maybe it’s slow as hell comparing to the latest model, but it allows me to do everything I need it to do for me
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    by jventura 6y ago

    Thanks for the reply! Do you have any practical tips you may want to share? Maybe how did you grow your audience, how you wrote your book (technologies, etc.)?
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    by jventura 6y ago

    I'm curious about your book, as it seems small enough for the kind of things I write as well [1]. Can I ask if it earns you enough for anything? Sorry for coming out of nowhere, but I have lots of small tutorials I could use (I teach i
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    by jventura 6y ago

    LibreOffice interface feels familiar (to me, at least), and I fell productive with it. My only complain is that the application itself is quite heavy and takes quite some time to start in my Macboook (late 2013)..
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    by jventura 6y ago

    This article is from 2017, and the author refers a previous discussion here at HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14440507
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    by jventura 6y ago

    These are some of the lab exercises that I give to my students to get them up to speed with Python on my Distributed Systems course: https://github.com/joaoventura/full-speed-python They are 2nd year students which are