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by scardine 8y ago
People feel intimidated on SO, specially if they have low self-stem. This is a real problem but not because veterans there are bad people - after all they are helping strangers on the Internet for free. I'm one of them[1]. Moderators t
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by scardine 8y ago
I will not debate whether "web apps" are ported version of desktop bloatware but I don't see why you can't write offline-first, mobile-first progressive web applications using Javascript and HTML (except Apple's lac
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by scardine 9y ago
> I'm OK with that. Web apps are clunkier and provide a worse experience. That Google makes this easier speaks to the sort of UX you get with Android. Chicken and eggs argument here: web apps are clunkier and provide a worse experie
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by scardine 9y ago
Because Google does no evil? /S
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by scardine 9y ago
Ok, credit card knows what you buy but not the last time you talked to your friends and what you said to them.
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by scardine 9y ago
Python applications are second class citizens at HostGator and other cheap hosting services. Most people using Python applications are using VPS, containers or PaaS because deploying Python applications is a lot harder than just "drop
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by scardine 9y ago
A prepaid international debt card is a good option to fly under the radar while you are not making enough to justify hiring an account.
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by scardine 9y ago
They have a closed beta program for an "Enterprise" version that is supposed to have an API. Seems like a good way to monetize.
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by scardine 9y ago
tl,dr; it was a flawed psychology study claiming higher expectations lead to increased performance. The idea that success may be a matter of self-fulfilling prophecy is so seductive that it spreaded like fire and influenced public policy de
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by scardine 9y ago
In Brazil it is the main defense of former president "Lula" da Silva: * Lula didn't took bribes. * And if he did, it was peanuts. * And even if he took a lot of cash it is way less then the other politicians. * And if it is,
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by scardine 9y ago
I was interviewed by Xavier a couple months ago and it was a pleasant experience. I really appreciate this kind of interview because the time investment is symmetrical. Take-home assignments are really awful in this aspect.
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by scardine 9y ago
Honest question for someone more knowledgeable about the subject than myself: if you are not decentralized (in the authority sense), why would you pick a blockchain-based solution instead of a more traditional distributed database? Sometime
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by scardine 9y ago
I've made a similar app at a local hackathon sponsored by Sabre: it would search your playlists on Spotify in order to identify your favorite artists. Then it would match the artist presentation schedule and find the best place in the
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by scardine 9y ago
Perhaps you are remembering the famous quote from Jeffrey Hammerbacher[1] who left Facebook to found Cloudera[2]: “The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads" (at a Business Week interview in 2011 [
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by scardine 9y ago
I just deleted LinkedIn as well, they flash this "All this people will miss you" and then show all the "endorsements" messages, things like: "Paulo is among the best engineers I've worked with".
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by scardine 9y ago
It is a bad example because when you use git, your local copy is a full repo with the whole history so it not like your code is lost forever if github cancels your account.
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by scardine 9y ago
Bye FB, and while I'm at it, so long LinkedIn. Good riddance. For too many years I kept a page at popular social networks even if they added negative value for me. I don't know, what if someone place a page there impersonating me?
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by scardine 9y ago
Excellent question! No, I live in Brazil where prostitution is not illegal but profiting from prostitutes is. So brothels and pimping are illegal - although there are plenty brothels, you only see pimping on very high level escorts and I ne
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by scardine 9y ago
I think it is more like cigarettes, you are free to smoke your lungs off but tobacco companies are forbidden to advertise. Fair enough, I don't want my daughters watching ads about amazing returns for beautiful girls in the prostitutio
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by scardine 9y ago
For small projects I like to start with something flat-fee like Linode or DigitalOcean - having to worry about variable costs is a distraction. I just registered a wildcard SSL certificate using the DO plugin from LetsEncrypt and it worked
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by scardine 9y ago
Oh, poor Mark! Such a patsy is the perfect scapegoat. /s The company he founded reflects his work ethics. Personally I don't care that much when the bully starts being bullied. You reap what you sow.
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by scardine 9y ago
Answering job board ads is a numbers game - I can't get better than 20:1 even being very selective.
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by scardine 9y ago
What works best for me: 1) Local meetups and conferences linked to my niche For example: I like to give talks at the local Python meetups. The sponsors tend to be companies that use or have some interest in Python. First advice I give for n
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by scardine 9y ago
Does it even make sense to talk about "superior" or "ideal traits" in humans? People who like to talk about eugenics tend to end up wearing funny little hats and red arm bands (only half joking here). :-) I used to care
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by scardine 9y ago
There is no evolutionary pressure. Evolution is not an endless race to a superior form: mother nature is content with "good enough". Many modern sharks arrived 100 million years ago while modern humans are believed to be 70,000 ye
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by scardine 9y ago
Hell, not that long ago lobotomies were accepted by the medical community. This is the problem with conditions that place a heavy burden on the parents, there is an incentive to act against the best interests of the children.
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by scardine 9y ago
Honest question, what make you think we are still evolving?
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by scardine 9y ago
We are talking about lifetime medication here so there is a huge incentive for drug companies to campaign for chemical solutions. Not so long doctors prescribed lobotomies for trouble-makers. Parent is correct here.
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by scardine 9y ago
It is complex indeed, specially for borderline cases. Looks like my son is landing on the functional side of the spectrum but it is always a coin toss. He will be 5 in May and is doing great attending a regular school although he is fortuna
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by scardine 9y ago
This is a myth. Authism is a spectrum disorder and you don't meet the more disfunctional cases very often. A few percent are also savants but not everyone in the spectrum has some superpower. The severe cases are very crippling and pla

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