lss456

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by lss456 12y ago
I have to disagree. Something motivates you. If you're highly productive, something is motivating that. The question is what?
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by lss456 14y ago
As a programmer who has gone the MBA route (will be done in the Fall), I have to say it's been positive for me. Not because I can point to it on my resume and say "look what I have!" or "look what I'm getting!", it's been positive for the
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by lss456 14y ago
I'm trying it myself and love it. You can get real far in 5 whys. Speaking or writing it in a stream-of-consciousness fashion (first thing that comes to your mind) is quite insightful.
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by lss456 14y ago
I used to work at a developer job where it was taboo to leave before 5:30 (even if you came in at 8:30). Management often scheduled meetings (that lasted at least an hour, sometimes more) at 5:30 on a Friday. If you wanted a personal life
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by lss456 15y ago
Thanks everyone!
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Ask HN: Physical Magazines About Programming?
6 points by lss456 15y ago|7 comments
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by lss456 15y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by binary divide, but the reason why some is introverted versus extroverted fascinate me. It's a pretty basic question - learned behavior versus instinctual/genetic behavior. Maybe it's somewhere in the middle?
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by lss456 15y ago
Haha. As a white guy, I perfectly understand how black guys think. For years I tried to become more black, only to discover at a certain point that it's a dysfunctional path that leads to a superficial, seemingly fulfilling but unfocused
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by lss456 15y ago
The project proposals are often incomplete, so my strategy is to make a bid, and in the comments ask intelligent questions about the project and design to show I'm serious and experienced. So far no takers on that. It could be that the pro
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Ask HN: Do Americans stand a chance on freelance sites?
122 points by lss456 15y ago|50 comments
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by lss456 15y ago
The reason I would not choose a spreadsheet for this idea is for a cleaner layout. I think a basic form with boxes and labels, where the other data is hidden, would be more user-friendly. A spreadsheet has data all over, and that can be d
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by lss456 15y ago
Yeah Access was the closest think I could think of. But for what I'm picturing, that's too complicated - I don't want the end-user to see or think about the database at all. The end-user should basically drop and drag things, then click a
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by lss456 15y ago
Somewhat, but easier to use than Access. I was thinking that after learning the tool, the end-user should be able to create a basic CRUD application with one or more workflows/screens in a few hours, tops. Do you have any information about
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by lss456 15y ago
I was thinking about basic CRUD applications to start. I think it would be valuable for a business to be able to build a small, basic CRUD application to manage certain processes like QA, or any other basic data-keeping that's needed - in
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Ask HN: Is there software for building software?
15 points by lss456 15y ago|29 comments
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by lss456 16y ago
I was fascinated by the out-of-box Wordpress installation. The author didn't even get rid of the "hello world" post or the tagline that says "just another wordpress blog". That's what made this article so eerie - it's a first blog post on
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Top-Down Design: A Life Lesson(savalliworks.com)
3 points by lss456 16y ago|0 comments