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by jventura 8y ago
Has anyone tried to use Nim on an Android or iOS app? If yes, how's the workflow, is it straightforward?
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by jventura 8y ago
I can walk and talk at the same time, two tasks. Maybe we could say that humans can't do many cognitively hard tasks at the same time..
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by jventura 8y ago
I’ve been using the Sleep Cycle app for iPhone. I got the recommendation here on hacker news. Still not certain whether it works or not. Sometimes it tells me I’ve slept with a 90% quality but I still wake up feeling a little bit tired..
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by jventura 8y ago
In Portugal we call them "mata-velhos" (old-people killer) as most drivers are usually old people without driving licenses..
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by jventura 8y ago
I don't know who the target audience was, but I found the lecture very confusing and the message really badly passed (he keeps talking what is already written in the slides, etc.). I had to play it at 1.6x the regular speed so I could
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by jventura 8y ago
I have an iPhone 5s still working fine, released in 2013..
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by jventura 8y ago
I see that most people here (and people I know) would like to keep the "summer time" all year, because they like to get out early from work. But why not start working at 7am instead of 8am, while keeping the "true" solar
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by jventura 8y ago
> Is it typical to be able to look at a company's code before signing up? I guess it is not typical, but at one company I interviewed for I had a day for implementing something (a small feature and some unittests) which allowed me t
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by jventura 8y ago
If your health problems do not prevent you from working, it’s not a problem.. But keep in mind that even non-engineers and poor people have those benefits.
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by jventura 8y ago
Like other posters, I suggest to test the market before writting your own software. A client of mine is using https://shopk.it for the store front, and it seems quite ok at 10€/month. It allows you to have your own domain a
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by jventura 8y ago
Someone already posted below, but you can find a pretty good list at https://github.com/leereilly/swot/tree/master/lib/domains or on the Jetbrains fork at https://github.com/JetBrain
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by jventura 8y ago
Classical music in loop, such as this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzeRSsNHtsQ
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by jventura 8y ago
I'm maintaining the python bindings at https://github.com/joaoventura/pylibui/ . Happy to accept pull requests for it..
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by jventura 8y ago
Shameless plug to let you all know that there's the python bindings for libui at https://github.com/joaoventura/pylibui/ if someone wants to help on those..
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by jventura 8y ago
It happens to me as well. I fixed it with earplugs (silicone type such as these: https://www.ebay.com/p/10-Pairs-Blue-Soft-Silicone-Earplugs-... )
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by jventura 8y ago
Check this other thread that someone posted above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16671944 It talks exactly about what you are saying in your 2nd paragraph. Similarly, sometimes it works for me, sometimes I focus too
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by jventura 9y ago
If you delete your facebook account and had your spotify account associated with facebook, now you cannot login into spotify anymore with your email account. It happened to me, it's a very stupid thing, and as it seems, they (spotify)
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by jventura 9y ago
Great, thanks!
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by jventura 9y ago
Changed the book title to "Getting up to speed with Python" which is a more accurate title for what I wanted to write. Made a new release with a few corrections and the new title at https://github.com/joaoventura&#
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by jventura 9y ago
Yes, that's it! Thanks! (Changed the book title to match..)
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by jventura 9y ago
Something like https://hn.algolia.com ?
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Could someone suggest which title sounds better: "at full speed with python" vs "up to speed with python"? I would like to convey the idea that this is a fast way for people to learn the basic concepts of python. But I&#
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by jventura 9y ago
Could you provide a screenshot? You can open a github issue if you want...
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I've just confirmed on a virtualbox installation of windows 7 and it is working fine on Acrobat Reader. It may be a crazy suggestion, but can you reset your computer? I've also made available an epub, so maybe you can use it inste
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by jventura 9y ago
I've included a pandoc generated epub at https://github.com/joaoventura/full-speed-python/releases/
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Yes, the focus is on Python 3, definitely..
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Oh, you're right, I've edited my answer because "entire chapter" seems a very big thing considering the size of the document, and it probably makes me be seen as quite arrogant. To my defense, I'm not a native Engli
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> are there plans to extend the book to include the design of the distributed Client-Server Application? I do not know how I could integrate that in this book specifically, because it is not something that a regular user would need to kn
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> This applies almost equally to most language reference material I've come across but I'm asking politely, please spend more time on the toolchain. I have a chapter about the python installation in this book but in the documen
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by jventura 9y ago
I've just checked your pull-request, but the resulting pdf is on article form instead of book. I'm talking about the latex document class: \documentclass[12pt, a4paper, oneside]{book} It has to be ran with pdflatex..

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