locopati

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by locopati 16y ago
Since you have tech skills, earn some money on short-term contract and take off for 6-12mo travelling. Can get around Europe or Asia for much cheaper than you might think (biggest expense is getting there and even then you can find good dea
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by locopati 16y ago
Moral leadership? You've got to be kidding me.
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by locopati 16y ago
Cite please
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by locopati 16y ago
Sounds like webOS does it much better too - little icon(s) at the bottom of the screen. Tap icon see message. Multiple notifications can stack up. Swipe notification to remove it.
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by locopati 16y ago
Looks cool, but you've also added 4 points of failure (each joint) to what was a straightforward mechanism.
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by locopati 16y ago
Ups the cachet considerably, no? If you're paying that kind of money for a flight, isn't it more fitting to fly out of a Spaceport then Albuquerque International Airport? Plus, given time, we may see a vicious hive of scum and villainy grow
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by locopati 16y ago
shorter version: there is no single solution - problems have context that must be worked with (this may sound familiar to anyone who develops software)
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by locopati 16y ago
Very cool - can you add dates to the lists of articles, be nice to see how old an article is (or maybe color code the list to provide two axes of relevance)?
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by locopati 16y ago
Found on FlowingData http://flowingdata.com/2010/10/13/where-refugees-come-from/ Posted for the slick visualization of data
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Flight & Expulsion(niceone.org)
2 points by locopati 16y ago|1 comments
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by locopati 16y ago
By general forums, do you mean forums that allow anonymous posting (versus requiring an account) or do you mean sites that have a broad topic (versus a narrow focus like HN)?
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Ask HN: Setting up social voting rules?
1 points by locopati 16y ago|3 comments
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by locopati 16y ago
Brilliance in one domain does not equal brilliance in all domains. Often the pride of a programmer regarding his or her work gets carried over into communication with people in other domains, who may be just as brilliant in their own sphere
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by locopati 16y ago
Are you an even or an odd sleeper? I find I can do ok with 4/7/8 hrs of sleep but am off my rhythm w 5/7/9 hrs.
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by locopati 16y ago
If you have an application that has a lifespan of years, developers will come and go. The unit tests provide some provability that is abstracted from the developers. A developer leaves, they've left behind tests that demonstrate that the co
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by locopati 16y ago
Found from Boing Boing's link-filled story http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/14/haystack-is-burning.htm... (I did search for haystack on this site and found no recent references to this, but I won't be surprised if someone points out a du
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Haystack vs How The Internet Works(haystacky.s3.amazonaws.com)
1 points by locopati 16y ago|1 comments
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by locopati 16y ago
Is there an off-the-shelf framework you used to create this kind of voting/comment/social-flagging system? Did you customize it much (beyond CSS)?
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by locopati 16y ago
How is it a slam on the U.S. when corporations are playing on a global field (i.e. it's cheaper to produce in another country) and the workers cannot (i.e. no equivalent freedom of movement or, in many places, freedom of unionizing). While
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by locopati 16y ago
This assumes that the only marker of comparison is your job/salary at a given age.
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by locopati 16y ago
Between this and Oracle, Java has a very interesting year ahead of it. What it has going for it: the major alternative is Microsoft (at least for enterprise); fragmentation in the language space (there's no dominant language, just a growing
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by locopati 16y ago
Second that - there's a definite point of diminishing returns and it's worth knowing when you're reaching that point because after that you're just wasting time, burning out, and throwing off future efforts.
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by locopati 16y ago
Funny because that's one of the things that I've learned - when to let something go as 'that's weird' and just solving the problem without spending days digging into root causes. Sometimes it's worth it, but usually it's taking time from ge
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Throw Away Your Bug Tracking System(wiki.apidesign.org)
27 points by locopati 16y ago|21 comments
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by locopati 16y ago
Haven't read the book (it's on my long list), but the author has a decent blog riffing on API design ideas http://wiki.apidesign.org/wiki/Main_Page http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1430209739
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by locopati 16y ago
I was referring specifically to the tech field. I'm willing to hire someone who doesn't have experience in the technologies we use if they show skill with code, an eagerness to learn, and a flexibility to do things differently than they're
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by locopati 16y ago
Simple - say you already have more things that you want to do than you have time. If it's important enough to them, maybe they'll be willing to make it worth your while.
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by locopati 16y ago
Once upon a time, companies trained competent people to do specifically what they needed.
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by locopati 16y ago
If you feel like things are not going well and you have other offers, jump. It's always easier to find work while you're employed than it is once you're unemployed, especially with the state of the economy. You feel that you owe them someth
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by locopati 16y ago
So what? That's how America has always grown. Tempted to flag this posting just for playing into the ugly anti-immigrant narrative. And, to another comment, while I wouldn't call the NYT right-wing (in the sense of say, the Washington Times

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