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by nadam 15y ago
I am working on a UI lib which is written in Javascript and completely painted on HTML5 canvas. I know, crazy idea... I got rid of the incompatibilities of the browsers, I got rid of DOM: I defined my own event system, component graph, etc.
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by nadam 15y ago
Thanks. I am creating a component-based GUI lib right now which is written in pure Javascript and which is all painted on a HTML5 Canvas. (it is intended as a Flash/Flex killer) (5200 lines is ready currently) I've implemented all the styli
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by nadam 15y ago
I live in Eastern Europe. I have worked at the local branch of several multinational companies. When I applied to a job, I solved the interview problems and then I was offered a slightly more than average salary the same way as my colleauge
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by nadam 15y ago
"you just need to convince the employer you are." Yes, and I think you cannot convince them on a standard job interview. A job interview is like this: you solved the problems we gave you, congratulations, we hired you (for slightly more tha
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by nadam 15y ago
Could you provide an example what such an amazing programmer knows? In my experience beyond a level employers cannot even measure your knowledge, because that would require them to be really good at what you know best. If you are an extreme
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by nadam 15y ago
I think there IS a difference, I just don't know exactly what... So I am just thinking loudly: The diffrence may be that you have to work on a relatively risky product which when executed with extremely high attention to detail can have hug
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by nadam 15y ago
I love speed optimization over what I am mostly payed for at my workplace (usual business applications). I am also better in what I love. Unfortunatelly no one really wants to pay me for optimizing the hell out of an algorithm. They want me
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by nadam 15y ago
I am most fascinated by the topics which are at the borderline between pure and applied. Extremly pure math is a bit depressing to me: mostly extremely high amount of learning is needed to create anything interesting (math is extremely matu
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by nadam 15y ago
Funny how the startup scene changes. Years ago, Paul Graham wrote essays like 'You weren't meant to have a boss'. Nowadays talent aquisitions are seen as huge successes while (money aside) we are celebrating that some former founders found
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by nadam 15y ago
The hard line between hardware and software is also fading in my opinion. I mean hardware is mostly also software in a sense. The difference between 'hardware' and 'software' is smaller nowadays than the difference between 'business softwar
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by nadam 15y ago
Good article, but the title is a bit too sensational for me. I agree that a good teacher and motivation can help you reach your potential very fast. I would say there are two range of domains: - 1. almost only synthetic, axiom system has sm
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by nadam 15y ago
Lots of people say that they prefer libraries over frameworks. I agree in that if possible I try to avoid the overuse of frameworks. But this cannot be decided on an abstract level, it depends on what functionality I want to use the framewo
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by nadam 15y ago
Obfuscation alone is not interesting, but 'code compression' (to achieve something using as few characters as possible) is a very interesting puzzle for the brain I think.
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by nadam 15y ago
With respect to an inertial frame of reference I guess. (A frame rotating relative to an inertial frame is not an inertial frame anymore.) Edit: No, I was wrong. It wobbles with respect to someone viewing it from the the earth looking towar
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by nadam 15y ago
Think about the following scenario: you have a point lightsource in the center of a circle. The radius of the circle is R. You have a point on a concentric circle with radius R/2. This point is moving on the circumference of this small circ
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by nadam 15y ago
For me it is more clear to say that not the absolute probability, but the conditional probability of a word (in its typical contexts) determines word length. Now thinking about it: it is trivial that this is optimal for efficiency. Not a ve
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by nadam 15y ago
Not answering the main thesis of the article, but I found this interesting: I've made some googlefight-s. Turns out that Linus Torvalds has more google results than most of the absolute top pop/rockstars, (much more google results than John
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by nadam 15y ago
" I wonder if people have an innate preference for one strategy or the other based on their personality type" Probably. But what I have learned is that you cannot optimize only for the one side except you are extremely good at that side and
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by nadam 15y ago
You could say also that 'people who make mathematics/science/art their life are doing life wrong'. Almost all the great mathematicians, physicists, etc are doing it wrong? Maybe. At least this is how they get into the field. Programming was
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by nadam 15y ago
This is only part of the story. As far as I can see it, the biggest difference between men and women is that there are less women who don't give a shit about 'social acceptance'. The OP's post is mostly about schools, social issues, etc...
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by nadam 15y ago
I am introverted an geek, but this: "I'd rather shoot myself than hear anything about their children." is borderline anti-social for my taste. Or maybe he just really don't like his coworkers for some reason.
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by nadam 16y ago
I think there is a generic implicit assumption that programmers in less rich countries are lower quality. Of course it is rarely said explicitly but it can be seen from some signs: salaries are so much lower here that I cannot see any other
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by nadam 16y ago
Quite close.:) I've read that book when I was a child.:) I've had some math influence, and I had the luck to be the student of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lajos_P%C3%B3sa_(mathematician) when I was 13 years old.
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by nadam 16y ago
"I don't know the Chinese culture well enough (assuming Yinghai is from China), but I am under the impression that they would emphasize more on results (fix the problem) than on processes (understand why the fix works, in order to be sure w
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by nadam 16y ago
This is a fair point.
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by nadam 16y ago
fixed
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by nadam 16y ago
Right, companies can have a great ROI for the time invested in testing and optimization. That is right. I interpreted patio11's comment as it may be a good idea to shift into the online marketing contractor business instead of being a progr
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by nadam 16y ago
It is quite complicated I think. 1. 60% increase in 'test drive requests' is not 60% increase in sales. 2. There are thousands of other sites which don't have as much money as Hyundai. 3. There are probably other cases where 60% increase ca
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by nadam 16y ago
1. I would definitely live differently if my expected remaining life time would be 35 days than if it would be 35 years. Some preojects are more long-term in nature. 2. This list shows that the author is very young... On my list there would
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by nadam 16y ago
Igen.:)

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