xefyr

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by xefyr 16y ago
Tapirs accounting for 78% of the world economic output? Pikachus in a blender? I think he's finally lost it.
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Making Life Suck Less (While Building Scalable Systems)(roadtofailure.com)
3 points by xefyr 17y ago|0 comments
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The “Ad Man” Goeth(powzot.com)
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Virtual Windows(gilesbowkett.blogspot.com)
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by xefyr 17y ago
"So our product needs managers and our product is built by developers who need managers and process to organize how the build is managed? All this to support a level of accountability and transparency not respected by the business? Sold."
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Ad Agency of the Future - throw out Mad Men.(powzot.tscreative.com)
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A great new business model(powzot.tscreative.com)
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by xefyr 17y ago
This is my general opinion regarding freelancing as well; I have every intention of building a product company and no interest in "consulting". Would you say, if worse comes to worst, it's better to get a 'day-job' outside of the field than
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by xefyr 17y ago
Thanks Yuri! I appreciate your support, or at least constructive evaluation :) I'm familiar with the book - I'll give it a go. As for my areas, mostly I'm finding people looking for full-time deals related to hadoop/hbase/lucene. Thanks for
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by xefyr 17y ago
You sound confused. This is the better option.
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Ask HN: So I quit my job to focus on my startup...
35 points by xefyr 17y ago|49 comments
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Crowdsourced Creative Manifesto(powzot.tscreative.com)
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by xefyr 17y ago
http://trureputation.com/
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Bill Wasik on Internet-Driven Culture(kuow.org)
1 points by xefyr 17y ago|0 comments
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How To Organize For Social Media(web-strategist.com)
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Social Media Kills the Database(roadtofailure.com)
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Moving gene therapy forward with mobile DNA(scienceblog.com)
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by xefyr 18y ago
Why would you only learn one of them? Learn every language you can. Learn them well enough to love and hate each for 5 different reasons. Learn them well enough to know which should be used when. IMHO: they are very similar languages wit
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by xefyr 18y ago
If you're really concerned about it you can go through an anonymizing proxy service. But, as has been said, if you have the time, spacing out your requests should work fine too.
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by xefyr 18y ago
Thanks! +1
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by xefyr 18y ago
waldrews: I have some freelancing bandwidth if you have an interesting project. My email is in my profile while yours is not; send me a line and we'll chat.
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by xefyr 18y ago
I succeeded in transitioning my workplace out of the dark ages about a year go; I chose Spring. If nothing else, use the IOC container and AOP. While it cannot reduce the xml-sit-ups, the Eclipse plugin does simplify their maintenance. I
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by xefyr 18y ago
Depends. Do you know anyone already using any of these languages? The path to enlightenment is almost always more easily tread when you have someone hiking it with you. If no, choose by documentation. What do you find the easiest read? I
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by xefyr 19y ago
For the curious, I've had the recent misfortune of working with JBOSS at work; this sounds identical to how it provides form-based authentication. For the curious: http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=SecureAWebApplicati...
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Larry Wall on Language Features... and Perl 6(perl.com)
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Ruby IS-A Smalltalk(itc.conversationsnetwork.org)
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by xefyr 19y ago
Because it hasn't yet been mentioned, you might consider an OLPC. They're small screen size is, imo, greatly compensated for by their durability, portability, and mobility. They run debian and can be used in direct sunlight. Did I mentio