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by tferris 14y ago
Great starting position. Important is that you stay always active. 1.) Never worry. You have enough money to pay your rent for years 2.) Do anything to get quick experiences and success (important for your state and self-believe). Coding is
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by tferris 14y ago
If your app runs on HTML/CSS/JS where's the point to make locally installed app out of it? One reason might be a better hardware accessibility (at the moment) but with the pace Chrome, WebGL, etc. are evolving there shouldn't be any reason
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by tferris 14y ago
So is SE the better Quora?
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by tferris 14y ago
> 41 different SE sites Wow, didn't know that there are so many different SE sites, thought there's just one. Anyway SE, its Q&A system and the community are just incredible.
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Ask HN: How to get productive with the JVM in 48h?
23 points by tferris 14y ago|20 comments
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by tferris 14y ago
WTF
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by tferris 14y ago
Another silly generalization of developers and business people (here called sales men). Maybe the drawn stereotype matches many folks out there but this view is aged and not valid anymore. Both the pure biz guy will die soon in the woods wi
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by tferris 14y ago
Yes, easily. Take day rates for average/good Java, Ruby on Rails are at around 700+ EUR in Europe and in the US around 900 USD => 900 day rate x 20 days a month x 11 months (one month off for vacation etc) = 198 K and demand for good Ja
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by tferris 14y ago
> ... have lost almost nothing whereas I have lost months of intense work Well observed. The problem with good developers these days is that they have too high opportunity costs: a good developer earns as contracter easily between 130K
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by tferris 14y ago
Thanks for the clarification. Assumed I use this ImageIO package. Will it be nonblocking, concurrent and spread to all my cores automagically with Vert.x??
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by tferris 14y ago
> It does this by forcing the entire ecosystem to be async too (including things like database drivers). Yes, that's exactly Node's main selling proposition everybody forgets when presenting their next Node.js
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by tferris 14y ago
Very good point. V8 does heavy code optimization and Node.js http sever code should be well optimized as well. And maybe the load balancer for the multicore Node test isn't optimized enough. Thus, these results feel a little shady. Anyway,
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Speed and Memory Use of Different Image Libraries (vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk)
1 points by tferris 14y ago|0 comments
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by tferris 14y ago
When I saw this on HN I directly voted up the post. When I saw the Github repository without any readme or info I regretted.
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All 11 Node.Philly 2012 Conference Presentation Videos (about Node.js) (youtube.com)
1 points by tferris 14y ago|0 comments
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by tferris 14y ago
The sample PDF gives some good thoughts on the HN title but this submission feels overall more like an advertisement. I'm interested why they recommend HipChat and not Campfire i.e.
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by tferris 14y ago
After reading all the posts in this thread I found another thing that is fascinating with node: The community It feels like Rails in its beginning—so many talented folks providing great solutions. Just check Express and related npms like
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by tferris 14y ago
as spyder posted there are npms providing this functionality. there are 8,000 packages for all your needs. But the point is another: the npm world is much more modular than the Rails mononblock, there is much less magic involved. You setu
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by tferris 14y ago
Couldn't upvote this more. And regarding Node: it rocks, just try it and you see what eye opener you missed before.
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by tferris 14y ago
I have to disagree. I understand that you can get quickly the feeling that you have to do a lot of stuff manually with node because node packages (gems in node) are more kind of atomic and not full-blown like rails. You can quickly setup a
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by tferris 14y ago
Instragram is the modern fairy tale showing that any "2 product guys" "with no real backend experience" are able to rise from rags to riches.
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Scaling Instragram(speakerdeck.com)
112 points by tferris 14y ago|35 comments
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by tferris 14y ago
"We can make the same exact software we are making today with dramatically simpler stuff—dramatically simpler languages, tools, techniques, approaches. Like really radically simpler—radically simpler than Ruby which seems simple. Why aren't
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by tferris 14y ago
"If you want everything to be familiar you'll never learn anything new—you have to break out of that."
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by tferris 14y ago
I do the same (inverting colors) on my 4" smartphone and page-turning is more often than with a book but it doesn't annoy me at all. And I can hold a very light device with one hand lying on the side or reading in the subway. You misunderst
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by tferris 14y ago
Even if you do a startup for 'wrong' reasons like chasing money and fame at least you did something , hell you learned something and made mistakes. That's what's all about! What's the alternative? Staying employed and missing all your life
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by tferris 14y ago
I agree in most of your points but your uses case could be done with other devices better: - Taking notes => smartphone, always with you and small - reading books => ok but you could read them as well with your smartphone (4" displa
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by tferris 14y ago
> iPad probably isn't the place to rant against an iPad. It's no rant against the iPad or tablets and sorry that I disagree but I see a strong relation to this kickstarter project which proves that tablets haven't got the perfect form f
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by tferris 14y ago
I know I gonna be downvoted for this, maybe I am wrong but I dare to say: The success of this kickstarter project shows that there's no real use case for tablets except surfing/reading/consuming/procrastinating on the sofa and thus, people
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by tferris 14y ago
Libin chose this topic in order to provoke, to get press and attention for Evernote.

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