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by walesmd 18y ago
I could definitely see this paying off for the design community, help desk technicians or CS students (their numbers are one the rise).
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by walesmd 18y ago
Absolutely not. The closest thing I have to a degree is a few credits towards my Community College of the Air Force degree (an Associate's). Being involved in the open source community and being a wealth of knowledge surrounding your field
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by walesmd 18y ago
Yeah, I was thinking of some of those but couldn't come up with a comprehensive list... DabbleDB, Zoho DB & Reports, others?
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Ask HN: Examples of Apps with Lots of Data
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by walesmd 18y ago
We recently switched to Python at work (and personally, I have a few projects at home as well). We opted to go with the web2py framework at work but I have been giving Django a long, hard look for some of my personal work.
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by walesmd 18y ago
I find that taking that break to smoke actually increases performance. Coding is a miracle for the smoker, and vice-versa. When working on a specific task within my code, I refuse to go smoke, wanting to stay in the zone and get all of my t
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by walesmd 18y ago
Your number of Twitter followers, compared to that of another user, does not make you more valuable to society. No one cares - you shouldn't either.
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by walesmd 18y ago
It's the orange names :) Yes, I've noticed a lot of slowdown as well, primarily when viewing comments.
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by walesmd 18y ago
I thought it was pretty funny - kind of a novelty item, if the quality was hire (and funnier) you could probably charge for these. Ads would be kind of useless, your ads are going to be for real mapping solutions and I can't imagine people
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by walesmd 18y ago
My primary focus, for the time, has just been to not start talking until there is a breaking point in the conversation. I find that is what drives people up the wall the most - when they can't finish a thought because I am interjecting. As
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by walesmd 18y ago
What an awesome way to depict the game. I looked through it a few times, some of the highlights I noticed: 1. You could tell exactly when the commercials were playing and sometimes, which commercial (Hulu) for instance. 2. After the Cardina
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by walesmd 18y ago
Tagging is what I was looking for! The ability to refer to a branch as 'user-profile' rather than 8973jef8wuefijiw3rf89sd7fhdsf8d9f
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by walesmd 18y ago
I am, admittedly, one of those assholes. I don't characterize myself as rude (I keep my mouth closed when I chew, I stay away from others and doorways when I smoke, I hold doors open for people). But, if you get in a conversation with me, I
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by walesmd 18y ago
That's a really good idea - I may have to look into doing that. I don't place ideas in Backpack to keep them in the "walled garden" - it's just the most web-accessible, easy to use area I have for information of that nature (I keep losing s
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by walesmd 18y ago
Yeah, I guess it really depends on what your product is. I am merely thinking SaaS in my posts, but I could see a lot of other applications (and have purchased some myself) that take a different route. For instance, ExpressionEngine or the
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by walesmd 18y ago
It would be nice if they implemented the naming of commits as well, into their URL scheme. Of course, master would always work, but for instance - if you named a commit 'user-profile-complete' then you could use that within your URL as well
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by walesmd 18y ago
Okay... this isn't digg. We all know what happened, we've seen it everywhere else. This isn't interesting to the HN community unless it tells us how the subversion of the cable system was committed and how Comcast is working to prevent it.
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by walesmd 18y ago
Well, think about Backpack. It made the transition from being a personal data manager to being an "Intranet" platform. If you had charged a lifetime fee to start, and then done all of the work to make it the new Backpack, how do you convinc
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by walesmd 18y ago
1. Do I find it interesting? If it woke me up from my sleep or prevents me from sleeping, because I am so interested in working on it - it's time to work on that idea. 2. If not that extreme - is it worth losing X months of work on my curre
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by walesmd 18y ago
1. Monthly - I like the thought I can cancel whenever I want without a big hassle w/ refunds, pro-rating, etc. 2. Monthly subscriptions are really hitting their popularity peak right now. It seems to be the way to do business now - I've nev
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by walesmd 18y ago
I come from a LAMP background (learning Ruby now). What I have seen - in my experience (25 year old, military making the transition to a NSA contractor) is: LAMP and open-source is where it's at for the true innovators on the web. Your star
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by walesmd 18y ago
It's pronounced scribbed... I've always said it scribed. Odd.
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by walesmd 18y ago
Definitely document your time - very well, I like web-based apps like Freshbooks to handle my time tracking and invoicing. Also, make sure your communication/planning between yourself and the client is fully documented. Often times what the
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by walesmd 18y ago
1170403 - no idea why I remember that, haven't used ICQ since the days of Quake Team Fortress.
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by walesmd 18y ago
My reply to Auston's post: @Auston I appreciate the effort, really, but you just didn’t go about patching this or releasing the patch in the right way at all. First, you made a forum post about it - which is the correct thing to do. Let oth
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by walesmd 18y ago
Same here, I started with QBasic and VB but never really accomplished anything in them. PHP is when I really started to "do stuff." These days though, I would recommend teaching him Python or Ruby.
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by walesmd 18y ago
Yep - I also had to refresh once to grab the stylesheet.
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by walesmd 18y ago
Don't reveal the fact that they are calling today and you have no idea what you are going to tell them.
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by walesmd 18y ago
I have a found using Beanstalk and Basecamp together to be absolutely awesome. It gives us the ability to use todos/milestones as well as establish polices (coding standards, design docs, etc) on Whiteboards. The best part - and what gets t
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by walesmd 18y ago
I use Intype for all of them - used to use Notepad++.

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