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by oacgnol 14y ago
I'm a (mostly) self taught developer but I have taken some software related courses (assembly, C, data structures), so I have some semblance of a foundation. Still, I constantly feel 'behind' in my foundational knowledge compared to my peer
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by oacgnol 14y ago
That's quite interesting, did you ever end up attending college at all? What are you doing now, and what did your parents do?
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by oacgnol 14y ago
Huge kudos for the design of the site - it definitely gives off a Tron-like feel. I can't imagine the attention to detail to what amounts to just a game.
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by oacgnol 14y ago
I wouldn't consider it one. Lifehacker isn't always about lifehacks and they also have good tutorials for things that some people aren't aware of. Many people I know think the only way to make coffee is with a drip coffee maker.
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by oacgnol 14y ago
Hey Sandeep! Try the pourover method for coffee: http://lifehacker.com/5907612/make-your-own-pour+over-coffee... You might have to buy some filters and a holder for it: http://www.amazon.com/Cilio-Porcelain-Coffee-Filter-Holder/d... If
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by oacgnol 14y ago
Sure, the depth of the content is not as good as other forums, but a peripheral point I think the article was trying to make was that the accessibility of such resources is what makes it so revolutionary. I'm an avid reader of r/fitness and
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by oacgnol 14y ago
In my current meal plan, on my workout days I minimalize fat intake and maximize carbs/protein in a 40/60 split - the calculator suggests Greek yogurt or fish chowder for nearly every meal. Obviously, this is more on the extreme end of diet
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by oacgnol 14y ago
For context, this is the next iteration of http://swole.me/ . It's a neat tool for getting a starting meal plan going, but some people have complained that the food variety is lacking. I can't eat only Greek yogurt for every meal.
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by oacgnol 14y ago
Something I'd like to see is also the personal setup of the interviewee(s), for example, coding environment or Mac/PC preference.
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by oacgnol 14y ago
As with any dotfile repo, I wouldn't recommend installing the entire thing at once. Instead, try and take the time to read through it and select settings that you want piecemeal. You'll end up knowing what everything does, especially in the
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by oacgnol 14y ago
Judging from what you said about your past individualistic and highly niche projects, would you say that working at Google is a big reason why you moved away from your lone wolf attitude? If so, what advice would you have for a person who i
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by oacgnol 14y ago
There's no doubting the legality of Padmapper scraping Craigslist data, so I think now would be a good time for him to innovate and really push his other product, PadLister. If Eric were to write another blog post, I'd make PadLister the fo
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by oacgnol 14y ago
I think this calls for a public shaming. Be sure to blog about it and post it to HN.
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by oacgnol 14y ago
It's particularly insidious when you see that a large part of tech-friendly Austin is under the district as well. We are but a drop amongst the sea. Off-topic: I can't help but to note how meta your username is right now.
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by oacgnol 14y ago
A bit of a meta question: As someone who feels like a 'B' or even 'C' at times, what would it take to become an 'A' player? Is it predicated on pure talent alone, hard work, or experience? Even though I know I'm still a junior developer (~1
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by oacgnol 14y ago
In general, however, if you know you need Java and how to install Java as a dependency then in all likelihood you're savvy enough to avoid being infected.
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by oacgnol 14y ago
http://www.openvim.com is also a good web-based tutorial that I used when learning vim.
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by oacgnol 14y ago
Those are different divisions of Samsung. IIRC, Samsung's semiconductor and mobile corporate arms are separate entities. I think it's a weird legal arrangement that allows them to do business with direct competitors without hurting their bo
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by oacgnol 14y ago
Very interesting. Since it implements Blueprints, does it also have support for Furnace (graph algorithms)? If so, does this imply that graph processing is done on disk rather than in-memory? I am rather unfamiliar with Blueprints but I'm w
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by oacgnol 14y ago
That's awesome, I was planning on using Play 2 to build a purely RESTful service for a weekend project but I wasn't aware of either Smoke or play2-mini. I'll be looking into the three of them now to see which one I would use. Personally, I'
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by oacgnol 14y ago
This looks cool. What's the use-case for it versus using something like Play! 2.0 + Akka for async HTTP? As far as my limited knowledge of Play (learning it right now, so I could be far off), Play can do async HTTP and already makes use of
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by oacgnol 14y ago
Doomed to fail; they never mentioned scalability. How do they expect to grow to millions of users without web scale technologies?
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by oacgnol 14y ago
Explore looks more and more like a killer feature and foursquare seems to be touting it up front nowadays. I really like the direction they're going with it combined with tips. There's something to be said about reading what are essentially
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by oacgnol 14y ago
You could say the same about D2's economy - it became about MFing (magic finding) for loot that you could trade in for the equivalent market value in item currencies: Stone of Jordan rings, or later, charms and points on a 3rd party forum (
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by oacgnol 14y ago
Finish it, and please post/announce it to HN when you can! I'm looking forward to reading both books.
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by oacgnol 14y ago
I typically just list things I've worked with, no matter the experience level. I like to do so because then the interviewer has to ask about them in an interview, where I'd then get a chance to (subtly) showcase my knowledge and enthusiasm.
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by oacgnol 14y ago
My prediction is that interactive graphics will be the trend in coming years - the things you can do with d3.js, Protovis, and related JS libraries is way deeper than a simple static image. The New York Times already has some great interact
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by oacgnol 14y ago
Yes, it does seem kind of low when you look at the activity compared to other sites like Stack Exchange sites. However, something I've noticed is the higher percentage of well known people answering questions on Quora. I could see them maki
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by oacgnol 14y ago
What's also remarkable is that Minecraft isn't entirely a new play concept - I always thought of it as infinitely scaling sandbox of Legos that allowed you to 'live' in the world you create. My first play of Minecraft triggered nostalgia of
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by oacgnol 14y ago
This almost seems unreal. What kind of latency would you be dealing with when your application(s) deal with many concurrent connections? For example, say a cross-platform multiplayer game with a persistent, shared world?

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