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by semerda 13y ago
Remote work works great in the early days when everyone has their head buried deep in code and most of the team is scattered around the globe. But let's not forget how we homosapiens evolved - via collaborative face to face group inter
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by semerda 13y ago
Nice insights. Thank you for sharing. This is simple. If you are hiring an engineer you should be one too. This way you can hire faster and fire faster. No bullshit. Outsourcing work overseas is 5x cheaper than local try-and-see-how-it-goes
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by semerda 13y ago
Without knowing what lies beneath the mess.. isn't $90m in maintenance fees extremely excessive? Or have they factored in a full rewrite? What are the typical gov tech maintenance fees?
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by semerda 13y ago
You still need private insurance to get around the quirks and delays of the public system. Saying that private insurance in AU wont cost you an arm and a leg like in the USA.
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by semerda 13y ago
Very interesting perspective. I like it. Our brains are also made to forget. People with hyperthymesia (autobiographical memory) are not better off remembering everything. So nature has fine tuned this system of engage and forget.
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by semerda 13y ago
Interesting article. Cheers for sharing! A brain reset (power nap) should today be accepted / common knowledge as eating healthy food to stay healthy. For power naps stay within your REM sleep. The duration varies from person to person
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by semerda 13y ago
Skipping few pages always helps. Sometimes some concepts are hard to chew through. Black Swan in my opinion is a great book!
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by semerda 13y ago
Aussie Aussie Aussie, Oi Oi Oi!!! Congrats to John Papandriopoulos! Very impressive work.. also the amount of work that went into it is wow!! .. "The final implementation comprises nearly 10,000 lines of hand-tuned assembly code, and o
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by semerda 13y ago
The big problem here is too many "overnight learn to code in 24 hours" developers choose PHP to develop by "cut & shut approach" using code they acquired online from a dingy website. This yields insecure implementati
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by semerda 13y ago
Nice step forward. This really needs to be all around Australia not just Western Australia. With the majority of the population on the East coast, something like it or even an app like California has "Shark Net" would be super.
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by semerda 13y ago
This wont work for tech focused startups. Google could never exist without writing a single line of code. Nor could Dropbox. etc... Yeah maybe a retail/ecommerce website sticky taped using off the shelf parts with glue, but definitely
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by semerda 13y ago
Focus cannot be maintained for long hours without some sort of intervention from stimulants like Caffeine. There is a limit to our biology. I like to use Yerba Mate ( http://www.theroadtosiliconvalley.com/personal-development
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by semerda 13y ago
Tell em to Build something. Best form of learning. Practice makes perfect. Theory will be used along the way.
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by semerda 13y ago
As I see it PG was saying: 1. Hacker != CS degree nor a Learn to Code in 24hrs book, 2. Focus on teaching software engineering in schools vs colleague to instill a hacking culture early on, not during the gold rush years. What is wrong with
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by semerda 13y ago
Those people you mention may be great (skilled) at their job (profession) but they are no hacker. Are they enthusiastic enough to do it outside their standard hours? Maybe some.. and those will be the ones that grew up doing this since chil
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by semerda 13y ago
Agreed! Great book.
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by semerda 13y ago
Nailed it. The sea of bad habits has bred an ocean of bad code.
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by semerda 13y ago
Have you thought about using Varnish in front of your web servers? That would do nice static content caching. Unless the mess of code under the bonnet of Wordpress is a concern and you want more flexibility in controlling it then I see your
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by semerda 13y ago
Hard to compare a naturally aspirated motor to a turbo like your friend's M3. When a turbo in a 4 cyl spools up (x rpm) it will drain a lot of fuel.. maybe like a V8. However it still can be driven like a standard naturally aspirated 4
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by semerda 13y ago
The magic bullet is the Turbo. Turbo helps push ridiculous amounts of pressure (psi) via compression into the motor (increasing compression ratio) to create a nice big bang to spin it really fast. But like anything that burns brighter, the
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by semerda 13y ago
Awesome work guys! I'm curious how you guys decided on a 4-day week? Was it a group decision or founder laying down the new way of getting stuff done?
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by semerda 13y ago
There is a tendency to slap together a suite of freebie tools form various providers and hope it all sticks. However this doesn't scale. Multiple logins. Different UIs. Flaky integration between the tools.. Nightmare. I went through th
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by semerda 13y ago
Nice round up and insights from Evernote. However security should be baked into everything one does. Also using a good modern framework to enforce security and good practices is a quick win. Password encryption & SQL injection in 2013 s
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by semerda 13y ago
"It's based on how much money the company's expected to make over its lifetime." - So guess work right. Because a company that isn't generating revenue yet without a model yet is nothing more than speculation. Like
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by semerda 13y ago
So true. Great lens with a big aperture strapped facing a 35mm sensor blows away every point and shoot inc phone cameras. Try taking great pics indoor with a phone camera. Even if technology improves on the lens & sensor side you will s
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by semerda 13y ago
Nail down on the corruption. I bet the winners have back doors into gov incentivising the decision makers in some way. We need a YELP for work-for-hire gov shops to create transparency especially when tax dollars are involved.
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by semerda 13y ago
For an MVP this is a great start. Front-end code is clean, concise and the flow far better than the gov version. If the gov is looking for solutions to their problems these guys just showed what local talent can do vs outsourcing an importa
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by semerda 13y ago
Isn't this a bait tactic for them to scrape data on startups?
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by semerda 13y ago
Softlayer - yikes! Was with them once and never again. AWS is far more flexible and cheaper (based on my experience). Not to mention the full suite of services available under the 1 umbrella from AWS where Softlater just cannot compete.
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by semerda 13y ago
Having moved from Windows to Linux to OS X for desktop I've found that nothing beats OS X for stability and uptime. Linux esp the Kubuntu was never stable. Windows same. OS X is bloody amazing esp when under load. I guess it all depend

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