krmboya

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by krmboya 14y ago
If I may digress a bit, I've always wondered why one is more inclined to say 'systems programmer' rather than 'systems developer'.
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by krmboya 14y ago
Jamie Zawinski (jwz), one of my heroes, is a well accomplished software engineer/hacker, as we would all agree. One fact is that he didn't go to college. I am in my final year of college myself, and I believe there's no one right way of suc
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by krmboya 14y ago
Nairobi down
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by krmboya 14y ago
Nairobi down.
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by krmboya 14y ago
"no real technical explanation" The article may not necessarily have been geared for technical readers. Instead the author chose to emphasize the ease of use. Also, I don't get the impression that alternatives were demonized.
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Calling all Open Source Hardware Engineers(esr.ibiblio.org)
2 points by krmboya 15y ago|0 comments
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by krmboya 15y ago
Ycombinator must really be an wonderful place to be in, with all these smart people around. I wish I knew how to get there from halfway around the world.
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by krmboya 15y ago
"Instead, he says, firms and government should look at the kinds of graduates that are coming out of the country's universities and offer services based on their skills." Speaking as a Kenyan software developer, this is a better approach th
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Ask HN: Ideas for algorithmically-challenging autonomous web-based apps
1 points by krmboya 15y ago|1 comments
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by krmboya 15y ago
Great article even if it was '97'. And I found emacs easy to use after: C-h t
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by krmboya 16y ago
Thanks guys, guess i better get to work
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Ask HN: How to get started in Computer Security?
2 points by krmboya 16y ago|3 comments
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by krmboya 16y ago
It is for this reason I suppose Software Engineering was formed, as a separate discipline from Computer Science. Unfortunately, for most people I've come across, Software Engineering is the other name for Java.
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by krmboya 16y ago
In short, hackers build things, crackers break them.
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Ask HN: How do you cope with loneliness?
158 points by krmboya 16y ago|77 comments
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Ask HN: Can a successful company founder still hack?
4 points by krmboya 16y ago|1 comments
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by krmboya 16y ago
Maybe then, they can focus on 'real' problems like global warming and green energy.
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by krmboya 16y ago
'Speed wasn't that important: Python made up 20% of the top 100.' In the article, speedy execution can be taken to mean the speed/ease with which you translate you idea into code and not the speed at which the resulting code runs
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by krmboya 16y ago
I second you on the school time schedule killing your creativity. Having to memorize methodologies and stuff when you'd rather be building something cool
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by krmboya 16y ago
Then it's the 'thing' that makes you drink killing your creativity, not the beer itself
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Ask HN: Hackers - mediocre programmers?
2 points by krmboya 16y ago|3 comments
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Ask HN: How low is too low-level programming?
1 points by krmboya 16y ago|3 comments
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Ask HN: The Hacker skillset
5 points by krmboya 16y ago|6 comments
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by krmboya 16y ago
I got -5 for saying 'cool'. I understand your post has to be informative, as opposed to mere trolling
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by krmboya 16y ago
There is this one: http://www.paulgraham.com/college.html
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by krmboya 16y ago
Cool
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by krmboya 16y ago
I don't know if I'm being naive, but I thought the main reason Diaspora is open source is so that other hackers can improve on it. Failure of an open source project is a failure of all hackers interested in it.