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by phugoid 15y ago
I have founded it important mostly as a confidence builder. To use and program a computer without having at least seen how it all works at a lower level felt wrong to me. I felt like I had no foundation to really understand what I was doin
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by phugoid 15y ago
At the risk of arguing with Robert Pirsig, I have a mechanical engineering degree, and I can assure you that no amount of curiosity could motivate someone to get through that curriculum. For instance, your curiosity about boundary value pro
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by phugoid 15y ago
I can assure you that he's not. The biggest shock I had when I moved into an all-male work environment, being male myself, was that people farted and belched all day long and left half-empty pizza boxes lying around. Needless to say, the ga
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by phugoid 15y ago
Well, since this question dropped below the radar, let me answer it myself for completeness. I emailed ARINC through their contact form, and a gentleman replied within one day that ARINC didn't have a problem if I just state that my product
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by phugoid 15y ago
I had a _great_ experience with 99designs, though I won't say it came cheap. The most useful tip I was given about 99designs is to browse other contests and ask the authors of the best designs you see to join your contest. Give daily feedba
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Ask HN: Permission to mention another company in marketing materials?
1 points by phugoid 15y ago|1 comments
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by phugoid 15y ago
Yes, I mean manually create them. Again, the flowcharts themselves are completely useless when you're finished. It's the process of preparing them that forces you to start digging through that little mountain of code.
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by phugoid 15y ago
I like the execution of your idea, but I'm not so sure about the idea itself. It seems the source code for any tool is not shown. I can't check it to make sure it works correctly, and I can't modify it or extend it. What if there's a bug?
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by phugoid 15y ago
At the risk of sounding uncool, if I was stuck I would flow-chart the gosh-darned thing. I once did this for an engineering subsystem with more than 10,000 lines of FORTRAN. It took me more than a month. We were relocating a flight simula
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by phugoid 15y ago
The turtle wins the race. Startup blogs and gurus often give the sense of false urgency. But if you keep your burn rate low and stay on course, you'll probably get there just as well. Worrying about competitors beating you to market seems
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by phugoid 15y ago
I think there comes a time for any unix user when you reach a break-even point - the added productivity of shell commands is greater than the head-scratching, googling and man page searches. I remember finally 'getting it', and asking mysel
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by phugoid 15y ago
But this wasn't about productive work, just about learning from scratch. In my experience, he's right about starting with a text editor and shell. Anecdote: a complex toolchain that I have worked with for cross-compiling programs for an ARM
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by phugoid 15y ago
I'm looking forward to learning RoR, even more thanks to this article. But please don't get the impression that only Rails works well with jQuery and SASS. I've been using them with django as well. They're not baked into django, but noth
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by phugoid 15y ago
I remember reading that the word courriel is in fact a Quebecois invention.
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by phugoid 15y ago
Something he left out was CRM, and I would love some suggestions. My marketing involves contacting individuals at various companies. I need to capture all the information I know about them, track email conversations, and record meeting min
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by phugoid 15y ago
I used 99designs recently for a logo, and the experience would have been poor except for one huge tip that one of the designers gave me. As the site is very busy, the best designers might be ignoring your contest. What you can do is visit
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by phugoid 15y ago
I've been in a situation similar to yours, and I'm just getting ready to make the jump from big corporate engineering software to my own startup. I keep looking at all these cool startups and all the cool technologies they are allowed to w
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Coupon culture proves successful in India(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by phugoid 15y ago|0 comments
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by phugoid 15y ago
Please drop me an email (see my profile) if you want to get in touch with her.
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by phugoid 15y ago
The best weapon in your arsenal is a designer (human). I built a theme using a palette from colorcombos.com, and thought it was just great. When I suggested the same colours to have a logo created, the designer I worked with tweaked them w
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by phugoid 16y ago
What impressed me is how they overcame their age and the size of their business to compete with the big players, through meticulous hard work and unscrupulous social engineering. With better ethics, I would love to have someone like that on
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by phugoid 16y ago
There's a class of situations where the more you want something, the less likely you are to get it. Desperation puts you at a disadvantage when you're looking for a mate or a job. People who can fake disinterest have the advantage over tho
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by phugoid 16y ago
That seemed awefully smug and discouraging to me. I've been studying up on other people's successes and failures, and it seems there's no simple pattern that fits all. "You are asserting that, despite the presence of 7 billion other people
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by phugoid 16y ago
I followed a very similar pattern. I got stuck at DOS 5 and BASIC. At the time, I had a C book but my 286 couldn't run the compiler. Also, I couldn't run Windows 3.1. So I stopped learning and picked up the electric guitar. Like you, I'
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by phugoid 16y ago
Tor can't anonymize Bittorent traffic when that traffic includes messages showing your IP address in clear text.
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by phugoid 16y ago
I've been doing what amounts to maintenance programming for eleven years now, mostly in C and FORTRAN. Over that time, my attitude has changed greatly. In the early days, all code looked like crap to me. I thought I could do so much bette
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by phugoid 16y ago
I'm not sure what you mean. Have you read Stroustrup's book? It was my first "practical" intro to object oriented programming, and I struggled with it. I would describe it as Byzantine technology explained with an economy of words that ap
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by phugoid 16y ago
I posted something to that effect a while ago, and got some _very_ interesting responses. They opened my eyes to css grid frameworks and other goodies, that underpin much of the new minimalist designs. http://apps.ycombinator.com/item?id=
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by phugoid 16y ago
Though you're being rather flippant, I agree this is the key. When there's a mountain of debt before you, the little spending decisions you make today seem to have no consequence on your fate. The cappuccino and Wired magazine that you buy
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Visualizing countries, wealth and life expectancy (video)(gapminder.org)
1 points by phugoid 16y ago|0 comments

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