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by mping 14y ago
You don't want a job for job's sake. You want it to earn money to spend it somewhere else. Here's an heuristic for you: imagine you are old and are dying. What things would you like to say on your deathbed? "I had a great job, great career,
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by mping 14y ago
Although wikipedia is great, I think if you are going to link to a site about Karma, there's alot of better stuff on the internet explaining Karma. I personally prefer the Buddhist view: http://cttbusa.org/buddhism_brief_introduction/chapt
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by mping 14y ago
Barfi! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2082197/ Indian movie with a minor twist. Great movie.
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by mping 14y ago
Dude, you're the sh !! You sleep avg of 5h/night? That's good. For me, what works is ditching what's irrelevant like TV and the likes.
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by mping 14y ago
Backbone is not as much opinionated as other frameworks, although you have a point here. What I find most funny is that we're slowly evolving to full-fledged frameworks on the client. I wonder when the Spring for javascript will appear...
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by mping 14y ago
Depends on your skills. Heroku is cheap, but when you start using addons price goes up, in comparison with a vps. I'm a happy Linode user but then again my infrastructure is simple. Spent a few hours configuring everything, but now deploy o
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by mping 14y ago
I second rock climbing. One thing that's great, specially at the beginning, is that it plays with your survival instincts (everyone's afraid to fall and die), so you really don't have time to think about work or whatever. Just give it a try
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by mping 14y ago
Agreed. I'm going to be blunt, with a site looking like this, most people won't bother creating an account. Just use bootstrap if you're out of money. Heck, I didnt sign up because of this!
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by mping 14y ago
It also mentions that "asynchronous UIs" (ie, optimistic save: server callbacks don't block, if something bad happens you'll solve it in a callback) need some sort of operational transformation (think google wave), but I think this only app
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by mping 14y ago
You can have both: there's a Backbone/knockout lib called Knockback, which supposedly brings the best of both worlds, although it seems a little intrusive.
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by mping 14y ago
For me, Groovy always have this feeling that's quite the opposite of Scala: it seems that it was a language that wasn't very thoroughly implemented and has all of these bolt-on stuff on top of it. Scala seems more solid to me because of t
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by mping 14y ago
Although I see your point, I'm not sure that most of the hackers here would agree with you. It's almost like there was a different universe where this universe's physics laws would not apply. People cannot grasp physics in this new universe
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by mping 14y ago
Interesting remark. Although I really can't see any other good alternative at the moment.
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by mping 14y ago
Heh, I emailed you directly some time ago :) We both agreed that blogs are my best bet. But maybe I have to face that my MVP idea sucks :\
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by mping 14y ago
I strongly disagree with this. I'm consulting for a project where I cannot discuss technical decisions about database modelling; sometimes we need to query 20/30 tables or more in a tx, with very complicated mappings 5+ levels deep. If I wa
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by mping 14y ago
I tried to reach several bloggers, most of them don't respond. I'm having a hard time finding the good blogg(ers) that would write about my app. Maybe I suck at marketing...
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by mping 14y ago
You can do standard REST, or whatever you want with GWT. IMHO what really sucks with GWT is the language; Java really sucks sometimes and its full of ceremony. Also, I think they made the same mistake that the Swing guys did: they provided
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by mping 14y ago
GWT doesn't get the fair share of respect it deserves. It's not enterprise java (j2ee and such), it's a toolkit that (amongst other things) lets you write and debug java, that gets compiled to javascript in the end. GWT is not modular in th
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by mping 14y ago
I didn't like it that much when I spinned 3 dynos and was hoping that when the 750hrs would be consumed, the service would be disabled. Worse, heroku asked for credit card info for account validation, and I never expected that I would be bi
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by mping 14y ago
I'm working on my personal tracking app, RoutineTap. http://routinetap.com I'm having a hard time getting visitors; right now I'm also learning backbone.js and writing a mobile app.
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by mping 14y ago
This is my friend's weekend project, but I find the idea interesting. It was originally made because of his elderly relative.
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Show HN: SeniorTracer - passive monitoring for elderly people(seniortracer.com)
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by mping 15y ago
This has been done before: http://mattt.github.com/Chroma-Hash/ Just make sure that the color thing is not reversible.
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by mping 15y ago
Looks good; but I would put more fancy samples, specially for the web page. Everyone hates Comic Sans! I would also group the left menu tools by functionality: text, image, etc. Overall, I think you need to polish it up a little; have a mor
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by mping 15y ago
What's your primary goal? Having a MVP fast, or play with newer technologies? Unless your MVP requires very specific tech (let's say heavy analytics, websockets or whatever) JFDIt. It's hard enough to build something, nevermind the tech.
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by mping 15y ago
Learned Ruby/Rails, dived deeper onto JS but still a n00b. Next year will be either Scala or Clojure.
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by mping 15y ago
You tell me who they are, I'll be sending my CV right away. I'm guessing half of the recruiting work is getting in the right networks...
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by mping 15y ago
I second this, make sure you DO understand the underlying business and its needs; also if you want to be friends with the devs, make sure you provide the most helpful info about failing tests, not just "it is failing".
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by mping 15y ago
Besides all the historical reasons cited, there's a simple reason: economics. The bulk of enterprise software are CRUD apps that maybe chat with an ESB or whatever; the quality is mediocre/ok, and whoever pays the bills just want to get the
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by mping 15y ago
thanks for your input. you (and the others as well) gave me alot of food for thought; It seems my current major headache is the flow of the questionnaire creation; also multiple active questionnaires seem indeed essential. The scoring aspee

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