nekopa

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by nekopa 13y ago
I wouldn't know. It kept crashing my iPad safari browser. I will have to check it out later on my laptop, as judging from the comments here it looks like an interesting story.
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by nekopa 13y ago
Far be it for me to jump right into the fray between you and the 2 highest karma rated people on HN, but here here are my 2 cents: MVP: focus on one aspect of your idea and just do it. From the ideas you gave above, I see winter and summer
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by nekopa 13y ago
What was your book about? Fiction, non-fiction?
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by nekopa 13y ago
Good luck! I signed up for the free chapter, and feel free to contact me if you'd like some feedback.
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by nekopa 13y ago
Great list of tips. I helped a friend self pub his first novel about 3 years ago. Amazing experience, I organized the cover (lucky to kow an extremely talented graphic designer who worked for a small percentage of sales) and I did all the i
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by nekopa 13y ago
Hacking - The next generation. I'm in the middle of developing my first web app, so I'm desperately trying to get up to speed with security. I find that there is a lot of 'I don't know what I don't know' for me
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by nekopa 13y ago
But think about it this way: So, I want to check my diary and see what I need to do today. Anything really important should flash, so I know I need to take care of that. But, I know that my boss is waiting for me to finish that puff piece o
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by nekopa 13y ago
I think that you are not the norm. I feel that I am a pretty smart guy, and I know how to do good, in depth research on the Internet. But I have to say, I got a lot of cringing looks from my girlfriends family when they first saw me using
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by nekopa 13y ago
Off-topic: Can you contact me (email in profile) as I am trying to rebuild my portfolio of work from scratch (as I've been out of the tech world for a decade) and rather than put up files on github scratching my itches, I have been trying t
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by nekopa 13y ago
In response to you and grey-area about news: yes I get news for free, and it is normally good enough. But... Some of the recent reporting from the NYT has really made me reconsider paying for a news subscription, just to be able to fund gre
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by nekopa 13y ago
But how long will this idea of 'fusing thoughts and intellectual processes' remain the sole domain of humans? Besides from some creative leaps, a lot of this has to do with logic: knowing what works where and when. I'm working on an idea ti
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by nekopa 13y ago
I found the django docs to pretty good for starting up. Especially as the app they make for the tutorial is for making simple polls. That good be a nice jumping off point for a social network for the kids, ability to make and vote on things
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by nekopa 13y ago
I use them a lot, both for work and personal stuff. For work I use them for course and lesson design (I'm a business trainer and a english language teacher) sketching out ideas and business strategies (I do a little business model consultin
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by nekopa 13y ago
I think for me this boils down to 'Unknown unknowns' First I need to have a high level overview of all the different areas that are impacted by security. Then, I need to know which ones are 'mission critical' so to say. Once I kind of know
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by nekopa 13y ago
Thanks for replying! Yes, indeed, ideas are cheap. But I have to point out one thing: implementation can also be cheap; get it working first, then think about scale. I know everyone aims for the hockey stick, but before you can get there ,
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by nekopa 13y ago
Great idea, I just have one question, how will you make money? You have a great idea which I could use, and I'd hate to see it go away... As an English teacher (9 years experience) from an IT background (25 odd years, but not all of it acti
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by nekopa 13y ago
There was a story here on HN about a dev who spent a week 'blind' to test his website accessibility. A few blind developers showed up in the thread, maybe try to contact them. (I tried to find the thread but couldn't, will update this if I
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by nekopa 13y ago
I think the type of product he was talking about is an info product - book, series of videos etc. So I think your numbers are a bit off for this particular type of product...
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by nekopa 14y ago
In the article they said the study included 'well to wheels' in their calculations, so it's not just one side of the story, they factored in all you're talking about.
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by nekopa 14y ago
Norvig himself commented on one of those type threads in support of a guy who had taught himself to program in 12 weeks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3271866
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by nekopa 14y ago
Well according to my wrestling with it, that book is out and called "The Art of Computer Programming" by don knuth.
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by nekopa 14y ago
I recommend 'The E-Myth Revisited' by Michael Gerber. An oldie but a goldie.
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by nekopa 14y ago
So what this law says is that by reading the Wikipedia article, I have unknowingly acquired classified information. Therefore, under French law I am now a criminal. Guess I had better cancel my trip to Paris...
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by nekopa 14y ago
On my iPad all the letter 'D's have disappeared. It's quite disconcerting.
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by nekopa 14y ago
One question: how do you go about removing human nature from this interesting idea? As is true with most noble ideas, it always falls over because some person is going to twist it to suit their ends. Communism is a fantastic idea until you
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by nekopa 14y ago
I am applying this methodology to Knuth's TAOCP. So far so good, as I am actually getting through the book this time, because I am just doing the initial read through. TAOCP always used to stump me when I've tried to go through it before be
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by nekopa 14y ago
As a teacher (14+ years) and a tech guy (20+ years)I have researched for a long time the idea that teachers could go away. But students always seem to need the 'human' touch. It's irrational and against all logic, but I feel there will alwa
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by nekopa 14y ago
Slackware 14 64bit. Returning to slack after a hiatus of about 6 years
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by nekopa 14y ago
I find that I am reading too many great programming books at the moment. I never get to the writing better code after part, as I find an even better book to read. the simple metric is meant to only be useful in that it gets me coding. I am
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by nekopa 14y ago
I've been seeing a lot about code golf recently, sounds interesting.

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