phektus

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by phektus 15y ago
I'm from the Philippines too (Taguig), and when I was just starting I was paying for 2 connections. Right now I just maintain one (dsl), and during outages and other emergencies I go to cafes with wifi. Generally I try to work on a cafe onc
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by phektus 15y ago
just build something yo' it will come to you eventually
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by phektus 15y ago
like this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAEi3SMVE60
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by phektus 15y ago
Uhmmm, ruby on rails is a framework. You should be asking whether to learn Python or Ruby. Why not learn both so you can expand your vocabulary and narrow down once the situation demands it?
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by phektus 15y ago
Try Twitter (create an account for your product and follow people with related interests). Post relevant content and hopefully followers will come by.
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by phektus 15y ago
1. Disable your Facebook account. ASAP. 2. Stop comparing yourself to other people, especially your high school friends. They also have problems, probably just as unhappy as you, and dislike the smell of their farts. To conclude their level
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Emacs cheat sheet (from the beginner's tutorial)(arbiesamong.com)
2 points by phektus 15y ago|0 comments
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by phektus 15y ago
Local saying: Daig ang masipag ng maswerteng tamad (a lucky sloth is usually better off than a hard worker). Must be a terrible joke, but ultimately I believe hard work + opportunity = success.
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by phektus 15y ago
People would say that he's more of an entertainer than a musician. This sort of debate also occurs in musician circles.
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by phektus 15y ago
Don't be. There are still barriers to entry in the profession. Sure one can cook up simple apps and google everything else after just weeks of learning, but if you sit down with somebody for a while you'll know and feel the difference. Whic
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by phektus 15y ago
Very nice. When I first learned Django this year (after a year in Python and several years doing web development) I saw myself as an all-encompassing guru of awesomeness. A few months later I realized how big my knowledge gap is of the fram
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by phektus 15y ago
This particularly works well with web development gigs. You get to work from home, with Internet connectivity providing the communication to the client. This way you can work on several part time projects simultaneously. Do this with a focu
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by phektus 15y ago
Try http://www.djangogigs.com , I get contacted frequently through that site. Also you may want to post you resume online, like http://www.cvstash.com . The best way to demonstrate your python and django expertise is to create a web app u
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by phektus 15y ago
Nice to see another resume app out in the wild. Mine is http://www.cvstash.com . I think yours have a more minimalism feel.
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by phektus 15y ago
"It’s beautiful simple..." I might just be painfully slow, but the implementation he described didn't sound anything remotely simple to me (though I believe it really is beautiful).
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by phektus 15y ago
achievement unlocked
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by phektus 15y ago
I think the author just explained what's wrong with all those lines of code.
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by phektus 15y ago
Please do
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by phektus 15y ago
corpus = """ yellow tooth """ for line in corpus.splitlines(): for letter in line: if line.count(letter) == 1: print letter break
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by phektus 15y ago
"Uploaded the web app on a shared hosting account free of cost (courtesy: my friend). " mmmmkay
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by phektus 15y ago
http://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/eohrr/to_everyone_who_... So head to khanacademy.org, start with algebra and work on all exercises. Then go to the other subjects. I highly suggest you pick one particular graduate level math subjects
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by phektus 15y ago
or ctrl-click then comment on most browsers
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by phektus 15y ago
Us Filipinos are not very entrepreneurial. Talk to any random middle-class student here and you'll be told that the first thing that motivates them to study is so they can get a good job in a multi-national company. Most local tech startups
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by phektus 15y ago
Cool visuals (colors and high contrast) plus instant feedback. Kinda like khan academy. Also a specific subject focus would be great.
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by phektus 15y ago
Get your remaining funds and start a saas website using any of the Python web frameworks available. Just spend some time finding which problem to actually address, and require your users to pay you on a monthly subscription (strictly no fre
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by phektus 15y ago
I tend to read the new page more frequently than the default landing page.
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Better Python virtual environments with virtualenvrapper(arbiesamong.com)
1 points by phektus 15y ago|0 comments
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by phektus 15y ago
Dude it's hard to read the formatting here. Maybe you can use my resume site for better readability: http://www.cvstash.com
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by phektus 15y ago
Try to name at least two inventions by women in under 5 seconds.
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AppEngine is hiring(googleappengine.blogspot.com)
40 points by phektus 15y ago|11 comments

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