jsmartonly

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by jsmartonly 14y ago
It depends what you want. A) If you want to make more money or look for career change, then you have to listen to market and learn whatever it needs or pays well. B) If your goal is to do long term career investment, then keep learning Java
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by jsmartonly 14y ago
Instead of book, how about look at source code of some open source projects?
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Ask HN: What are appropriate ways to find out how much I should be making?
6 points by jsmartonly 14y ago|2 comments
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by jsmartonly 14y ago
Each language has been created in different context, trying to solve problem by using different approach. Sure, they all need basic IF-ELSE, WHILE... But it is really helpful not to focus on too detail of technical side at the beginning. At
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Ask HN: Missing functionalities in social network sites
1 points by jsmartonly 14y ago|0 comments
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by jsmartonly 14y ago
I will not use it. If I need truth about something, I will do research to find out. I do not need app and I do not trust an app for that.
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by jsmartonly 14y ago
I read that article before and totally agree with the point. But that situation is different from the one we discuss here. I do not know more information about ohmygord's project, but I basically want to point out to consider non-technical
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by jsmartonly 14y ago
* Situation like this is not only technical issue any more. Your solution needs to reflect that. * This is not best situation to be in, but if you learn to deal with this and emerge from it. This experience will make you so much stronger. S
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by jsmartonly 14y ago
Nothing wrong with checking account. When you think about "return on capital", do not forget "return of capital".
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by jsmartonly 14y ago
* Rewrite. * NEVER modify existing one. Once you change one line of comment, you own all the code and problem from that point. * If rewrite is not allowed, then ask huge pay raise for this work. Basically it is not about money, it is about
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by jsmartonly 14y ago
Steve Jobs mentioned this. For enterprise software, user and buyer are not the same person.
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Ask HN: Books written by successful entrepreneur
1 points by jsmartonly 14y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: I want to write a book. Need help for some information.
2 points by jsmartonly 14y ago|2 comments
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by jsmartonly 14y ago
Learn -- Learn to know how existing things work. Think -- Think independently. Think as outsider. Apply -- Apply what you created by independent thinking to what you learn about existing things in the real world. Repeat -- Repeat the above
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by jsmartonly 14y ago
Thanks! Amazon Payment looks good.
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Ask HN: Simple Solution to Receive Payment for a Web App
2 points by jsmartonly 14y ago|3 comments
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by jsmartonly 14y ago
One at a time. There are only 24 hours per day. It takes a lot of work to make one work.
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Ask HN: How to get value evaluation of a domain name
2 points by jsmartonly 15y ago|3 comments
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by jsmartonly 15y ago
Few thoughts. 1) A real genius can figure out things, including how to get cash. If he can not get cash/investment, he is not genius enough. 2) PhD from top school gives a person good foundation to be a professor or some positions that requ
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by jsmartonly 15y ago
IMHO 1) Time to jump As long as you ask question "when should I do it", you are not ready. From my own experience,when you feel it, you know it is right time. That "feel" is a natural conclusion of a lot thinking, researching, preparing and
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by jsmartonly 15y ago
steventruong, thanks! pinboard.in is a good one too.
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by jsmartonly 15y ago
sixQuarks, I am just looking for some successful stories for inspiration.
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by jsmartonly 15y ago
drwerv, thanks!
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by jsmartonly 15y ago
dangrossman, that is true. I thought it would be nice to have a place putting them together.
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by jsmartonly 15y ago
GFischer: duckduckgo is a good example, and I like his blog http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/
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Ask HN: Self-Funded One-Person Business (Website or Software)
8 points by jsmartonly 15y ago|10 comments
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by jsmartonly 15y ago
good one -- I need this too.
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by jsmartonly 15y ago
Hope this helps (from another point of view) http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....
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by jsmartonly 15y ago
For Autocomplete, there are two usage cases 1) Partial Data, but fast 2) Complete List of data for user to select interactively Google search belongs to 1) -- they simply can not display ALL matches to you. I guess they just show a few of t
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by jsmartonly 15y ago
IMHO. I believe that master the ability of learn on-the-fly is the most important thing. We simply do not have enough time to learn all knowledge. Whatever you are working on, if you ask deeper and deeper questions, you will be able to cont

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