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by kellros 13y ago
I don't know enough about current 3d printing to really know when this is possible, but I'm pretty sure it won't be tomorrow. If you could combine Soylent Green with 3d printing, you'd have a recipe for Star Trek food :)
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by kellros 13y ago
I'm waiting on the day that 3d printers can print hardware (ex. CPU's, RAM chips) and the designs/models become available for sale or become FOS.
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by kellros 13y ago
Hi, I'd suggest that you read The Lean Startup if you haven't, it should put you on the right track to determine priorities. Web development is a beast and very different from traditional thick clients as you often have to cater for multipl
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by kellros 13y ago
My opinion is that gamification is like cooking - you don't just to cook - you learn to cook specific things. I'd suggest you follow the Lean path in applying gamification: 1. Determine what behavior you want to enforce (Measure) 2. Determi
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A case of mistaken identity(programmersbreadth.blogspot.com)
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by kellros 13y ago
Perhaps, but house advantage ensures you will keep losing in the long run. The only thing keeping you from a guaranteed win in the long run is the table limit. I ran some simulations a couple of years ago to test some strategies - it was qu
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by kellros 13y ago
The obvious thing that is being missed is that manual 'scaling' would most probably result in higher quality data. I would consider this critical for data sensitive businesses. One of my clients I do some consultation work for from time to
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by kellros 13y ago
I tend to agree. I would only consider partnering up if the partners would need to work at least as hard as me and the concept was already validated and making money already. It really comes down to risk/reward since no matter how much you
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by kellros 14y ago
Am I the only one finding it hilarious that non-hardware specific software is being blamed for the lack of hardware sales? There are a couple of reasons why PC sales are declining: 1. Speed per CORE isn't dramatically improving and most use
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by kellros 14y ago
It really depends on the area. I would classify my current salary as low-end for middle class. For your (low-end) basics (travel, food, accommodation, health insurance) it's around $24K a year in the slightly more expensive areas. Gasoline
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by kellros 14y ago
This made me cry a little inside. I make slightly less than a third monetary wise of the lowest Average Salary by Speciality with 4 1/2 years commercial dev. Most of the 'high' paying jobs in South Africa is around the $66K a year mark.
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by kellros 14y ago
Will do, thanks.
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by kellros 14y ago
I mostly do ASP.NET MVC development, so I use Visual Studio 2010 + 2012 with a bunch of plugins daily. I also bought a bunch of other IDE's on JetBrains' end of of the world sale including Intellij Idea, WebStorm, RubyMine and PyCharm. I ha
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by kellros 14y ago
The 'shades of white' reminds me very much of most of the websites on the internet :)
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by kellros 14y ago
Pretty good article and I'm looking forward to watching your course on pluralsight. My wifes' friend works as an IT recruiter and we discussed in depth what myself as a developer looks for in recruiters (mixed interests - recruiters favorin
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by kellros 14y ago
Great article :)
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by kellros 14y ago
I'd argue that before one can become a 'specialist' that you should first become a 'generalist'. I would consider myself a generalist - I'm primarily a C# - ASP.NET MVC developer. But that doesn't stop me from writing WCF services, web serv
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by kellros 14y ago
I rather dislike recursion, I find it to be the remedial hammer of software development. Sure there are some use cases, but most problems are solvable in a more efficient manner, such as the use of formulas. Even if a formula is not viable,
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by kellros 14y ago
I second this motion. Bootstrap is a great place to start. There are a couple of other things such as background images, fonts, balance, icons (ex. FontAwesome) and some other minor changes you can make to make your website look even better
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by kellros 14y ago
I find that design patterns prove more useful (more of the time) in web development in comparison to implementing algorithms and data structures from scratch. High level web development languages (ex. C#/Ruby/Python/Scala/Groovy/PHP etc.) a
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by kellros 14y ago
Have you considered a specific nieche or industry where this app would be viable? Unfortunately although your app is sending email instantly, receivers usually don't read their e-mails instantly - most people I know dislike looking at their
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by kellros 14y ago
I mainly do .NET development and must admit Visual Studio is the best IDE around (especially with Resharper and other plugins/extensions). I would rate the jetbrains IDE's best in their class (IntelliJ idea, pycharm, rubymine, webstorm etc
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by kellros 14y ago
If you can afford to, get as close to the action as possible (I take it in this case it would be to join a startup). In my personal opinion, startups aren't really a viable business strategy. The general idea of a startup is to attract inve
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by kellros 14y ago
Would this be to monetize HN or a HN like website?
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by kellros 14y ago
So the fnid is essentially a caching mechanism for pre-rendered web pages linked to a point in time? That's pretty neat and simple fitting in perfectly with the simplistic design of HN (not confusing simplistic with basic, instead a referen
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by kellros 14y ago
I'd say it would really depend on your level of education. When learning any tooling, you spend more time in the documentation at the beginning and need to refer to it less and less as you gain experience. The next steps are specific to the
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by kellros 14y ago
I agree charging for it is a good way to go. If your potential customers are shopping around, it might be because that they fail to see how you will deliver the same value at the rate you are charging. I personally try to advise customers t
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by kellros 14y ago
“We have two designers, two front-end developers, 2 back-end developers, and a tester.” I'd say there's a difference between a label and a job specification. If you get to choose your own title, it's meaningless. You tend to specialize in t
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by kellros 14y ago
Unfortunately, freelancing is a service. Your main goal should be to go out there and sacrifice yourself so others can make money out of your work. If the work you produce doesn't make money, then you should consider who is at fault. If it'
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by kellros 14y ago
The real trick is to validate the feasibility of said product via market testing upfront. It certainly depends on the time it will take to develop the product, but early validation is very important (and every step of the way).

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