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by nekopa 14y ago
I don't think it should be any different for coding . I probably wasn't too clear in my question. I spend a lot of time designing and putting together systems, but I just don't write code any more. As in actually opening up an editor and j
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by nekopa 14y ago
Thanks for the input. I like this idea, but it's hard to measure output. For example, if I put aside an hour a day, some of the time I will be thinking about code, maybe design, but what would be a good measure of how much code I write? LOC
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Ask HN: Coder version of 1000 words a day
1 points by nekopa 14y ago|11 comments
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by nekopa 14y ago
The nook format is usually ePub.
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by nekopa 14y ago
Maybe you didn't read them all, but I believe that someone finding you and killing you with a gun is a fairly big deal to most people.
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by nekopa 14y ago
English as a second language teacher here. Spend most of my time teaching lawyers and board members English. Cargo cult programmer (since 1980) and about to launch a website where I kill my inner cargo cultist and embrace the light of Knuth
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by nekopa 14y ago
Three must have apps: Goodreader: PDF reader which also plays audio and video, it's like having a proper file system on the iPad. I use this endlessly Awesome note: great note taking app with todo features, link to calendar and great organi
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by nekopa 14y ago
Maybe these start-ups will be something extraordinary. I am sure most of us here have looked at a particular start-up and thought 'No way in hell that will fly!'. For me it was Facebook. I am not sure of which ones you were talking about,
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by nekopa 14y ago
Maybe the first thing on the wiki should be a simple form of what to do before HedWIGS ( my suggestion for the name :) similar to the old web page on how to ask good questions: show that you've done at least a minimal amount of research on
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by nekopa 14y ago
Yep. I moved to the Czech republic 8 years ago, and those ads are still live and kicking out here.
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by nekopa 14y ago
Get someone to kick your ass. I did it for a friend of mine who had been trying to write a novel for 20 years. Same kind of problem, lots of ideas, no execution. So I worked with him, set-up deadlines and deliverables (one 10 page chapter e
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by nekopa 14y ago
I thought airbnb meant "air bed 'n breakfast" which makes complete sense for their product.
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by nekopa 14y ago
So really this boils down to one question: what is the purpose of universities? Put simply, is it- A: to make prepared members of society B: to make prepared members of a work force Now this is not as simplistic as it seems. Some may argu
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by nekopa 14y ago
That is what might happen if a human mind were stuck in a machine. But what would happen if it had an IQ of 3000 but the mentality of a fungus? Or it could have (be engineered with?) something similar to Williams Syndrome. I additional, w
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by nekopa 14y ago
I think that emotions and even more so, ethics, will be important in ways that we don't quite see or understand yet as AI becomes a bigger part of society. I see them as playing an important role in making decisions for autonomous robots, o
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by nekopa 14y ago
Also check out the book "The Art of Woo" Goofy title, but a very interesting book on selling ideas.
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by nekopa 14y ago
Thanks, I made the mistake of just searching on HN search.
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Ask HN: Can't find a specific date/time discussion
4 points by nekopa 14y ago|2 comments
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by nekopa 14y ago
This may seem strange, but I have to recommend the baroque trilogy by Neal Stephenson. It made me imagine how scifi would have looked like in the 1600s.
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by nekopa 14y ago
I've been to a lot of gay bars over the years, and I have never had a problem once I've made it clear I'm not gay. This may be in part that I've grown up having a lot of gay friends, plus I'm quite a confident and friendly person. I know qu
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by nekopa 14y ago
Who knows, snuggies (I think that's the name, the backwards bathrobe/blanket looking thing) have made lots of money...
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Ask HN: Good books on building a team?
1 points by nekopa 14y ago|0 comments
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by nekopa 14y ago
This reminds of of two things: Toyota's '5 Whys' root cause analysis, don't just fix the manifestation of the problem, but keep asking why it happened until you get to the real cause. The NASA space shuttle programmers http://www.fastcompa
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by nekopa 14y ago
For people thinking about international expansion as just translation: beware, here be dragons. When I moved (back) to Europe 8 years ago, I used my web skills to help make some extra money on the side (I'm an English language teacher becau
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by nekopa 14y ago
HN seems to focus a lot on execution. I want to say that I think it would have been better received if they had just taken the wikipedia full content download, taken a small subset of the data and actually just built the redesign as a liv
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by nekopa 16y ago
Well it allows you to test your theories of what is important to people, (and maybe how you judge them based on sex, race, nationality) to what people actually say. For start-ups, it would be nice to be able to parse all of the things peopl
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by nekopa 16y ago
I haven't tried google maps. But, neither would any locals out here. Google is number 3 out here for searches. And as to how the semantic web would help, I think your suggestion gives the evidence. Google is automatically extracting info ba
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by nekopa 16y ago
Or, (and I say this living in the Czech Rep, and I just did a search on this country's top search site which is not google) if she put up a web page, nobody would find it, unless they wade through 30 pages of results. Unless she is a SEO wi
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by nekopa 16y ago
I have to point out that the author's essay was from 2001. (About 7 months after wikipedia registered its domain name) So on the one hand, the author's insights are a little outdated. On the other hand, sad to say, most of what he points ou
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by nekopa 16y ago
Just one thing about the email you send out. It has a fairly boiler-plate message about "how's the gardening going?" Then you sign off. After this is the list of what I should be planting. If you put the list into the main body of the email

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