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UI Adventures – Time Limits & Finger Flipping in A Scramble With Friends Cheat(hanginghyena.com)
1 points by sixtypoundhound 15y ago|0 comments
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by sixtypoundhound 15y ago
This is natural for an ambitious person at your level. You're also doing the right thing by staying where you are until you find a compelling reason to walk away. The side projects are good and will get your name out there. Go do some tech
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by sixtypoundhound 15y ago
And you're looking for....
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by sixtypoundhound 15y ago
Don't worry about it. Learn Python well and you will be future proof, at least as a developer. I've got active projects in both code bases right now - although I prefer Python 2.7 because it has taken a while for the libraries and framework
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by sixtypoundhound 15y ago
At the risk getting flamed to a crisp for even suggesting the language or the title, I'd recommend PHP for Dummies and the companion book, everyday projects in PHP, as a starting point for a completely new web developer. It's highly digesti
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Rethinking Blog Spam: Why Does It Really Annoy Us? Some Disturbing Implications(marginhound.com)
2 points by sixtypoundhound 15y ago|0 comments
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by sixtypoundhound 15y ago
Sharing some additional context: Latest installment of something I've been hacking on for fun. Best viewed using a regular computer with a modern browser. Enter a boggle grid and it gives you a list of words and shows you the path through t
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Show HN: Weekend Project - Scramble With Friends Solver (Python, plumb.js)(hanginghyena.com)
2 points by sixtypoundhound 15y ago|1 comments
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by sixtypoundhound 15y ago
Ah... but I'm trying to lure them into the fold, so they will become... programmers? :)
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Why Every Analyst Should Learn To Code(marginhound.com)
5 points by sixtypoundhound 15y ago|3 comments
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by sixtypoundhound 15y ago
This is painfully simple. You and your friends own 95% of the company, with what sounds like little or no outside investment. Any advisor with 5% of the company who proceeded to displace a founder with a member of his own family should be i
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by sixtypoundhound 15y ago
He's joking right - I almost spit out my diet coke... (oh yeah...I'm sure THAT will accelerate my group's upgrade from 2.66....)
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by sixtypoundhound 15y ago
This is basically a manifestation of the "LISP Curse" - high level functional languages are sufficiently powerful that small teams of really smart people (like us) can crank out amazing applications with relatively low effort. However, to m
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by sixtypoundhound 15y ago
Uh...making myself essential at my day job and working on my technology based startup concept at night. Unless it's TEOTWAKI, not seeing those fundamental needs being reduced. Candidly, if it is the TEOTWAKI in the US, what makes you think
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by sixtypoundhound 15y ago
The puppet theater continues. However, one thing caught my eye: "10-year Treasury notes declined 15 basis points to 2.79 percent." That's one of the lowest real interest rates for the public debt for a major country in long term economic hi
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by sixtypoundhound 15y ago
From a social perspective, isn't this counter productive? China has a ton of people they need to transition from rural economies into urban employement - building robot factories does nothing to address this issue, which is a big deal in a
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by sixtypoundhound 15y ago
Agree with the above and would like to build on it a bit - my background is similar to yours (math undergrad, got the equivalent of a MS-stats via industry training programs, active Python hacker who developes in other languages). First - d
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by sixtypoundhound 15y ago
Hah! Don't discount it that quickly - MS Access can be surprisingly useful, particularly for RAD work at a large company where you need to push stuff out to a bunch of MS Office users. I've delivered a bunch of "light" Access/VBA applicatio
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by sixtypoundhound 15y ago
Awesome!!! Not going to critique the technical quality of the work (particularly since I'm not a front-end web guy), but as a hiring manager, I'd be frigging floored if someone spent an evening (maybe more? Although I suspect you're pretty
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by sixtypoundhound 16y ago
This is depressing, but I've personally worked with at least two VP level (200K+ salary roles, heavy hitters) individuals with diploma mill degrees. Noticed one on linkedin after he was dismissed for other reasons - the college sounded unfa
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by sixtypoundhound 16y ago
There is no single answer to this question - it's totally dependant on the relative value of your contributions to the company's success. Where is the secret sauce going to be? If you're building a mass-market offering (eg. facebook or SAAS
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by sixtypoundhound 16y ago
Brilliant satire....reminds me of my pet peeve - "analysts" who are unwilling to pull and QA data.... when I started in analytics 15 years ago that WAS the path ... you either pulled data or got a job in PR. The irony is that most of these
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by sixtypoundhound 16y ago
Being a multi-thread newbie (my wife says I have a one track mind), I actually enjoyed the article. However, it's pretty clear that there this is only one member of a larger class of algorithms related to multi-processing. Is anyone aware o
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by sixtypoundhound 16y ago
And in other news, someone on Hacker News commented that someone who sold out to AOL in 2010 should, perhaps, think a bit before taking a swipe at someone who sold out to Yahoo in the late 90's...