almata

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by almata 4y ago
Maybe the button with the phone icon could be green and much larger than the other buttons. I think that would make it easier for users of this app to understand and remember where they need to tap to call the person on the screen.
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by almata 6y ago
There is a link on the About section: https://interactive-pathfinding.netlify.com
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by almata 7y ago
Any chance you still have that article around? I would like to read it if possible.
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by almata 8y ago
> Simply bookmarking the article itself to read later [...] I actually send the HN discussion itself to my Reading List. So when I find some time I start with the comments here and then decide whether or not I should read the article.
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by almata 8y ago
Thanks for sharing this video. I had no idea who he was.
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by almata 8y ago
Did you explain your thoughts about the ideal mattress some time ago maybe? I'd say I already read those same arguments before and found them extremely interesting.
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by almata 8y ago
It's usually easier to just look for the paper somewhere else once you've decided you want to read it your own way. In this case, you can find it here [0]. As they often show kind-of-classic papers, many of them are publicly avail
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by almata 9y ago
Many thanks, I'll do.
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by almata 9y ago
After using several different blogging platforms/tools, I finally decided to use instead a GitHub repo for my notes. Something really simple that lets me 1) create a note in plain Markdown, and 2) run a publi.sh script. That's all
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by almata 9y ago
Many thanks for taking the time to write such a lovely text.
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by almata 9y ago
Not exactly what you're looking for, but maybe you or someone else might be interested on this: http://fermatslibrary.com
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by almata 10y ago
Thanks Steeeve, really informative answer.
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by almata 10y ago
Many thanks for all these answers (I've upvoted all of them). Super useful. Really.
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by almata 10y ago
If you were a developer with 10 yoe looking for something new to get into, what would you choose at this moment and thinking about the near future: Haskell, Scala or F#?
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by almata 10y ago
:)))
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by almata 10y ago
Any advice on how to reorient your career into this maybe? :)
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by almata 10y ago
I actually think Ballmer really was the perfect finance-oriented CEO between tech-oriented Gates and Nadella. Except instead of 14 years it'd probably have been better a 5-8 years period or so. Sadly, 14 years was a too long period and
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by almata 10y ago
Location: Barcelona Remote: YES Willing to relocate: Nope, although I can be onsite 3 days a week (main European cities) Technologies: iOS LinkedIn: https://ie.linkedin.com/in/almata Email: mata.albert (Gmail)
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by almata 10y ago
> I make sure to preface my suggestions to the team with, "Now, this is probably another terrible manager-idea, but how about we…". Does this work for you? I mean, do you get more constructive criticism using this? I tend to th
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by almata 10y ago
Nah. It was just a (bad) joke. Should have added a :p
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by almata 10y ago
"The service is unavailable." It seems no algorithm there taught you more useful things though.
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by almata 10y ago
It's not that I worry. It's just that I don't think it's correct. Same way as I don't have anything to hide in my email inbox but I don't like the idea of NSA (or anyone) having reading access to it.
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by almata 10y ago
Even when I don't agree with you (I may receive a mail notification with some private content) the system is totally useless as I can have an iPad next to my main computer and use it to spend all the time I want doing other stuff. Or j
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by almata 10y ago
From the Upwork FAQ: "You'll need to download and use the Upwork Team App—this tool includes the Work Diary, which ensures you are guaranteed payment. By taking work-in-progress screenshots every 10 minutes, it provides proof to y
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by almata 10y ago
Just to mention one that's usually quite ignored, I love the simplicity and usefulness of the Levenshtein distance: https://xlinux.nist.gov/dads/HTML/Levenshtein.html I once implemented it in typical scenario
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by almata 10y ago
I'm reading the book Good Charts ( https://hbr.org/product/good-charts-the-hbr-guide-to-making-... ) and it talked about (and linked) your paper. I found it quite interesting, so I submitted it here in case others d
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Ranking Visualizations of Correlation Using Weber’s Law [pdf](cs.tufts.edu)
46 points by almata 10y ago|4 comments
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by almata 10y ago
> Just keep on going. Lesson: Be persistent, don’t give up. All lessons are interesting and all ideas can be valuable, but in this kind of articles I always find that the most valuable advice is just this: be persistent, don't give
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by almata 10y ago
Totally. Being 38 myself this is one of the things I've liked the most from this case.
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by almata 10y ago
Isn't a short comment a much quicker method to get why something has been done that way instead of having to check git log? Also, if you rely on git log for that, don't commit messages become unnecessarily long and detailed?

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