sAuronas

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by sAuronas 10y ago
There is no such less NIMBYism in Oakland. The stakeholders are just different. There is also a racism problem: I sat at a round table forum where the most successful developer in the city (he's building that Brooklyn Basin project) sa
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by sAuronas 10y ago
Be like Malcolm X and read every programming book he can get. Send him PDF copies. I'm self-taught. I obviously had a computer but I spent a ton of time just reading and studying other people's code. There was a time as a kid when
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by sAuronas 10y ago
I was thinking the same thing. What of black swan events? They (the authors of this study) might be right for the next ten years then, BSE... we gain another 30 years on average.
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by sAuronas 10y ago
This is a very good reply. Someone trying to grab a foothold in front end development should keep it simple and add tools as they require them (if applicable). I used to develop for the web until I found iOS development to be more enjoyable
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by sAuronas 10y ago
It's not unreasonable for someone who works in SF (1000/sf+) or Oakland (500/sf+) to expect to be able to afford a home. I'm currently in Tampa for the weekend and it's not a replacement for Oakland - in any way. Th
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by sAuronas 10y ago
If you have the ability to borrow $1M, I'd argue you're already there. I know people who can't open a fucking checking account.
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by sAuronas 10y ago
Edit: I guess with the premise being "startup [in a] weekend", I shouldn't have expected my idea to win even with the team I picked up. Perhaps a startup month would work?
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by sAuronas 10y ago
My idea for a startup weekend was such a hard-tech/software problem that lost out to a couple of social weekend apps. While a lot of people got behind my idea and we put together a strong presentation, the lack of a finished app sank u
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by sAuronas 10y ago
Every time I hear him talk about Mars (placing it before curing cancer), I think "if only he had grown up wanting to eradicate poverty." Still...rather than think ill of his idea - and work - we should celebrate his innovation and
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by sAuronas 10y ago
Thanks. I got into the industry with the expectation that I would launch a startup. Yet, I starting really writing code and decided that I wanted to do something really novel and killed my original real estate domain related ideas. Once you
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by sAuronas 10y ago
Old (40) geek here. I think I have two pennies-worth to share here. I came to the industry at 38. I left real estate development when I couldn't overcome the unemployment history gap in my resume, despite working for KB Home, Toll Brot
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by sAuronas 11y ago
I am trying to appreciate your position on this: the problem is, we ought to know what's right 'in the thick of it' using the two C's - choice and consent. Like discriminate-against minorities (disclosure: I am black), g
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by sAuronas 11y ago
I thought the point of the analysis was to think of a city as a whole (I.e., MSA) and not just a downtown with surrounding neighborhoods... Chicago, for example, is very low density compared to CA cities despite having a downtown that could
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by sAuronas 12y ago
Perhaps the reason most people don't think memorization is important is because they don't realize they already did it through practice outside of school. Usually (if you will), the kids who are more successful in math and science
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by sAuronas 12y ago
Funny because companies are still doing these things: just been asked to fizz/buzz...code with someone watching my screen, etc (as someone who was told he was inferior to whites by a HS teacher before a test, the anxiety is terrifying)
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by sAuronas 12y ago
I think this is a great point. In Oakland, places that could use six stories for a project to pencil out are hampered by 35-foot height restrictions. Reading zoning code is so depressing because it has not changed much (despite updates) in
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by sAuronas 12y ago
Haven't gotten into diffy-q but that's next up after I grock Swift and finish my Angular app.
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by sAuronas 12y ago
I thought I was imagining the static class problem...the documentation, while well-written, leaves much to be desired, especially for the above-mentioned. I've enjoyed writing in Swift so far but the playground crashes often. Xcode has
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by sAuronas 12y ago
I would fall into your latter camp, being self-taugh. I started with the interpreted languages JS, Ruby and Python and, in the end, I didn't feel like I understood what I was doing until I got into C and even Objective-C. Therefore, it
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by sAuronas 12y ago
They removed the need for main by making global scope the entry point.
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by sAuronas 12y ago
Look into a small place downtown or downtown/Uptown Oakland which is a lot closer on Bart than many places in the city. It might be 10 mins driving but there's a lot to consider. Always visit the city and spend time getting a fee
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by sAuronas 12y ago
That's because you're way out on the edge of the city in a commuter ghetto and by the looks of it you'd still be paying more than $2/SF to live in squalor (that unit is a dump, sorry). I apologize for the negativity but
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by sAuronas 12y ago
The solution won't come from the region (i.e., more Bart station apartments in Dublin will not solve The SF problem). Now Oakland...that's a different story since the Bart ride between the two downtowns is a mere 12 mins or so. No
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by sAuronas 13y ago
I'm in the same boat: 30-plus... bleeding edge tech in an industry dying to be disrupted...high capital requirements. Unlike the author (yet to be named), I've been working on being a good programmer -- first -- so that I can prov
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by sAuronas 13y ago
And semicolon insertion.
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by sAuronas 13y ago
I'm sure it would be easier if I had a mentor or at least a friend...but I'm a loner so I'm taking my lumps the "hard way". It's been cool I love learning this even at my advanced age.
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by sAuronas 13y ago
That was one year and 3 months... I don't do much else!
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by sAuronas 13y ago
Playing Wayne Gretzky: 30 years we will (ought to) have cars that repel over the surface by a bioether [sic], possible emitted from the street - which have become (replaced as) linear parks that vehicles float over and never crash. Because
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by sAuronas 13y ago
I am 3,000 hours into the DIY phase myself, so I appreciate your list. I think Effective Objective-C and Effective JavaScript (as well as the "Good Parts" and "Secrets of a JS Ninja") were good books. Also, the C book, s
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by sAuronas 13y ago
This is a interesting post to me because I also started programming a year and two months ago. I took a much different approach because I wanted to be considered an engineer not just a "coder". I can say that I did not feel like o

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