dclara

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by dclara 12y ago
I think backend freelancing is harder than front end which needs some graphics design skills and HTML/css/javascript implementation. Most of the in-house systems are outsourced to contract/consultant companies instead of usin
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by dclara 12y ago
GoDaddy gives you one email box with your domain name so that when you reply the email, it is sent from the real email account.
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by dclara 12y ago
Good. You are very capable, so don't worry about the next job. One thing I'd like to mention is: as a software engineer, we are looking for more than programming. Online courses may teach you a lot of knowledge with examples, but
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by dclara 12y ago
Sure. There is a video demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1y_J-_Wrb4
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by dclara 12y ago
If you have programming skills, you can look for another job since you are pretty new on the job market. Otherwise, you may learn a lot from the code you are copying and pasting from other people. You need to have more experience before you
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by dclara 12y ago
Currently, I'm running a free summer camp online to help college students to learn the professional skills as a software engineer according to the industrial standard. There are various options you can pick and choose to be hands-on. T
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by dclara 13y ago
What? DDG does not own Stack Overflow but it can run Stack Overflow's algorithm locally? Do you mean that Stack Overflow has it's search algorithm open sourced? I'm sorry, I don't quite get it. Usually, the router search
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by dclara 13y ago
Good idea. I think it's better than infinite scroll, but cache one page before and one page after to improve the page loading more smoothly using AJAX, just don't push me to the next page until I hit the "next" button.
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by dclara 13y ago
I'm also concerned about the footer menu, may it be sticky or keep it on the bottom not shown. Looks like most of the sites have the latter. Maybe the footer is not that important, just to embed more links.
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by dclara 13y ago
They do have a page list on the bottom and show which page you are on.
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by dclara 13y ago
You're so funny. I guess they will make a fix number of items in the memory for the DOM.
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by dclara 13y ago
The memory issue is solved, but the browser and CPU are so busy because when you want to get back to page 3 from page 10, page 3 has to be reloaded.
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by dclara 13y ago
I guess not, although the page number is shown for you to see which page you are on, but you may forget where you were after you visit a particular link. It's improved to resolve the memory issue, I think. So when you browsed to page 1
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by dclara 13y ago
Yes, I agree with you on using a 2-tier search which will increase the relevancy to optimize the quality of search. And Google's search quality is not unbeatable. I also agree with you by using distributed sites to optimize the results
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by dclara 13y ago
Upvoted you. We need more insights like this than the document itself. The concept of state machine, PIM (processing in memory) and parallelization is the core, looks like Micro has some implementation now. That's why they call it an A
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by dclara 13y ago
Because to my understanding, 2-tiered search means that the routing search engine scrapes data from the second level search engines and return it to the users. The second level search engines, e.g., Stack Overflow, are usually running by se
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by dclara 13y ago
I'm not sure how powerful it is which cannot tell from the looking. If it's the same powerful as the existing PC, I found All-in-one PC now is less than $500. So why do we need to have this nice-looking but still heavy machine? If
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by dclara 13y ago
Thank you for your explanation. Now I understand better. But a distributed system is usually defined in the second meaning of what you said inside the search engine, instead of across different websites. I'm very interested in this top
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by dclara 13y ago
It's interesting that you are talking about "two-tiered search would decentralize efforts to improve algorithms". But you mentioned that "this solution does not need to be distributed: sites can share their local indexes
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by dclara 13y ago
Yes, budgeting for days instead of budgeting for months. When we well manage the task list, usually a feature implementation takes 1-3 days, a project may take 3-4 weeks to reach a milestone. So no feature can take more than a week to finis
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by dclara 13y ago
You reminded me in some cases I did, but I don't feel well about that. But I've already spent too much time on one item, if I didn't quit, it would delay the rest of the tasks. Most of the time, I have to do extra hours of wo
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by dclara 13y ago
Thank you. Agreed.
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by dclara 13y ago
I know. That's why I only embed URLs when it's relevant to the topic and provide my input to the topic first. I usually got negative points up to -4 which made me so frustrated.
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by dclara 13y ago
Good for you to have such high response rate. I learned the first two tactics from other people and applied it to my project. My blog posts usually have some hits everyday without prospects. I think my blogs did help some people and brings
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by dclara 13y ago
Me too. I tried hard here, but I dare not to attaché the URL with every post. I got 0 conversations too, even though part of my target users/customers are here.
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by dclara 13y ago
Oh, thank you both for your quick responses. So he really did a good job to solve the pains of his potential customers. Now the question becomes: how WP got so many consultants in the first place? But that's out of the scope of the par
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by dclara 13y ago
Very good point on "identifying my problem", maybe it's better to be "identifying my specific problem" that nobody else can resolve for me. Thank you. I'm sort of learning this point from others and trying to a
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by dclara 13y ago
You have a very good example for shooting against the target niche where you have your best audience to listen to you. But the question is: "when he was building WPEngine", there are already 40 folks "who were Wordpress consu
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by dclara 13y ago
Yes, on top of the 40 hours of intensive work including design, coding, learn a new technology with intensive reading, or even tackling business/marketing strategies and tactics, etc., the rest hours are on lighter work related things,
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by dclara 13y ago
"My most personally productive run was on a job that I had 4 hours in the morning to program and was doing something completely different in the afternoon." I totally agree with you. If you super concentrated on solving one hard p

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