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   by swanson 15y ago

   I thought I had a pretty nice hack to solve #1 - I opened the matrix in a new tab of the browser, used Ctrl+F to see for 'P'. This highlighted all the P's with a different color and then just visually found the biggest looking rectangle. To
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   by swanson 15y ago

   Thanks for taking the time to write that up Mike. It is a new perspective that I hadn't considered. Reading it made me realize something: On most of my projects, I am more concerned with how others will view it. I see developers with severa
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   by swanson 15y ago

   So I used to have problems starting projects - I would plan/read/design etc and then never actually get around to doing anything concrete; I have overcome that issue. But now I find myself not being able to finish anything. I end up with li
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   by swanson 15y ago

   There are a few details (and a theoretical example) in this article: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1964843
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   by swanson 15y ago

   For all the criticisms that DiP gets, it is still the best formatted online book I've come across. The line number/hover over highlight thing is awesome. The code examples are interesting. The explanations are in-depth without spending 10 p
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   by swanson 15y ago

   Picked up the new CoffeeScript book, the Cucumber book, and the New Programmer's Survival Guide. With the coupon, they were just over $10 a pop - in the 'Sure, why not?' price range for me.
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   by swanson 15y ago

   Think it's going to be tough to compete on price with: http://markedapp.com/
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   by swanson 15y ago

   Thanks, I didn't actually read the TC post all the way though (I just went to your site directly) so I missed the part where you addressed this in the article. Glad to see you understand my perspective.
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   by swanson 15y ago

   I get frustrated because I am pretty horrible (in my mind) at these kind of math puzzles ("Given N numbers , [N<=10^5] we need to count the total pairs of numbers that have a difference of K. [K>0 and K<1e9]..."). My frustration
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    by swanson 15y ago

    I don't know anything about "chess theory" but are there some squares that only certain pieces can get to? I don't think it's possible for a Knight to ever be on some squares, so maybe you could use logic like that to narrow down the piece
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    by swanson 15y ago

    https://github.com/mitsuhiko/flask https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests Both are 'small to medium' size projects, both are active and well-known in the Python community, both have friendly maintainers (Armin and Kenneth) that are re
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    by swanson 15y ago

    I wish there were some links to some of the tools used in the screenshots, particularly the one showing package dependencies and the autocomplete editor. Anyone happen to know?
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    by swanson 15y ago

    While it doesn't handle every case, using a database migration framework with Up/Down style methods as part of your deploy process can work pretty effectively. Another option is to use a VM for your database and do a snapshot before deployi
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    by swanson 15y ago

    http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2682750
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    Making a commit with the Github API(swanson.github.com)

    17 points by swanson 15y ago|2 comments
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    by swanson 15y ago

    I prefer viewing and searching for code on github to any other site I've found, so I got a micro account to support the site (and keep a few repos private until I am ready to make them public). Plus github hosts my blog for free and without
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    by swanson 15y ago

    http://www.meetup.com/raleighrb/ http://www.meetup.com/trizpug/ Seems like there is a bunch of stuff in Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill. It may be a bit of a drive for you - not sure how far away from that area you are - but if you are rea
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    by swanson 15y ago

    Go to Meetup.com, find a local user group for whatever language/technique/framework you like working in and go to the meetings. When you are at the meetings actually get involved and introduce yourself and ask people about what they are wor
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    by swanson 15y ago

    There is a portion of Episode 136 of TechZing [1] that addresses some of these issues as Justin (one of the hosts) is also trying to follow Rob's outsourcing advice for his SaaS product. Rob Walling himself also left some advice in the comm
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    by swanson 15y ago

    I think you are confusing your disagreement with the original article (which I did not write) and my comment. My comment [mainly] addresses the point about that cletus brought up about people that don't have enough time to do open source or
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    by swanson 15y ago

    I agree with you that it is another facet. The point I was trying to make is that there is a pretty low barrier to entry to get yourself into that facet. An attitude I see online a lot is that "If I don't do it, it's not valuable" - though
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    by swanson 15y ago

    I don't want to turn this into a game of forum post logical proofs. I don't advocate "don't hire if no OSS". I work with smart people that get stuff done and don't have a Github account. That's fine, it's a personal choice how you use your
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    by swanson 15y ago

    Do you hire a developer based on their resume alone? Probably not. The article is saying that Github is the new resume, not that you should only hire people based on what they do on Github. I have no problem if you want me to demonstrate ex
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    by swanson 15y ago

    Regarding different VCSs, the point is that code is the new resume and Github happens to be the most popular place to find it. Links to bitbucket, sourceforge, google code, etc etc are all equally valuable and would have the same impact. Pe
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    by swanson 15y ago

    And I just recommended this to a family member about a week ago :( This scenario happens on family vacations all the time. If you've ever gone on vacation and rented a big house for 3-4 families, you end up having to split the grocery bill,
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    by swanson 15y ago

    Ya that nav bar is slick!
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    by swanson 15y ago

    Might want to collaborate with these guys: http://www.weekendhacker.net/
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    by swanson 15y ago

    The `git.js` project I mention in the post seems to be heading that direction. It's only a few months old so it's missing some important features, but it looks to be on the right track and works with any repo.
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    by swanson 15y ago

    Thanks for the tip Scott, some examples would be awesome and much appreciated. I feel like I can make it work by stumbling around for a while, but in the end I'm more interested in building something that makes commits, not the actual git i
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    by swanson 15y ago

    Oh, whoops...brain fart. I was making things more complicated than they needed to be. Thanks!