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by lucasvo 5y ago
It makes me happy and sentimental to see this post show up on hackernews. I was a contributor to the Ronja project in my teens. Karel (`clock`) taught me so much about open source and truly believed in pushing open technology forward. I was
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by lucasvo 8y ago
Ethereum EIP-999 ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16843991 and https://github.com/5chdn/EIPs/blob/master/EIPS/eip-999.md ) is exactly that, a discussion of patching Ethereum to
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by lucasvo 12y ago
We have had some success with hiring out of General Assembly. Last summer we hired 3 interns out of GA who each first started off with a simple throwaway project and then proceeded on to some easy tasks learning our stack (Java/Groovy)
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by lucasvo 13y ago
Your second example though exists in exact the same way in python and ruby. Some people prefer to hunt for missing comma's and brackets, others for spaces. I think that's a matter of taste. Coming from python, I've quite enjo
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Follow the Money: Why the European Funding Ecosystem Needs to Mature(lucasvo.com)
2 points by lucasvo 13y ago|0 comments
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by lucasvo 13y ago
I think you don't get the humour behind it. They're making glowing plants because, come on, who doesn't like to have a glowing plant?! I know some of the guys behind it. And making growing plants is only a way to show off, what they're work
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by lucasvo 13y ago
I can agree with what you're saying though I want to share an anecdote from Moscow where there is pretty much no regulation and pricing varies by car company. Instead of having a meter you negotiate the price in the beginning. To help users
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Instant Email Productivity Boost – Gmail Shortcuts(lucasvo.com)
1 points by lucasvo 14y ago|0 comments
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by lucasvo 14y ago
We built this in less than 24hours at angelhack. It's using mechanical turk to present real humans both versions and ask them to answer the question asked by selecting one of the images. It should be a good second opinion but obviously it's
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Improve Backbone.Events with marionette’s EventBinder(lucasvo.com)
2 points by lucasvo 14y ago|0 comments
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by lucasvo 14y ago
What most people don't know about this clock design is, that the Swiss Railways are licensing it to a watch manufacturer who sells them in retail. The watch with the exact same design is available commercially. Therefore suing Apple and mak
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by lucasvo 14y ago
I think the focus is not enough, though I have to say it also took me some time to get used to the pink. We could actually make that into a pretty easy setting... Maybe I'll do it sometime when the pink pisses me off too much.
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by lucasvo 14y ago
That's pretty cool. How have you worked around issues such as breaking keyboard shortcuts for Gmail? Why do you like this approach better than what vimium does? that was already to complicated for me. Also: I love the way you demo the funct
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Automatically activate your python virtualenvs(lucasvo.com)
7 points by lucasvo 14y ago|1 comments
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by lucasvo 14y ago
The problem is, that this only works because it's so completely different from all the other ads and because of that reason escapes some of the banner blindness. We've had similar results when we modified our logo and added mistakes. For ex
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by lucasvo 16y ago
You mention product managers here, while I certainly agree with you that this isn't a technical job per se, most job ads mention a CS-related degree as a requirement. I'm always looking at PM positions in the valley, but I can hardly find a
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by lucasvo 17y ago
I agree with you. Though I would still say, the average consumer doesn't need a tablet. The UPS guy could use a tablet, you could use a tablet for grocery shopping at the super market, a mechanic could use it to diagnose a car... but for re
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by lucasvo 17y ago
I think it is a very valid point. A tablet makes sense for the medical application but they have been around for years on the consumer side and nobody really used them. Why not? Surfing hacker news is cool on a tablet in my bed, but writing
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by lucasvo 17y ago
One of the success stories of this business model is probably cyberduck ( http://cyberduck.ch ) I have heard from friends that the guy makes decent money with his "donation"-business model. Though it's more like shareware than actually just
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by lucasvo 17y ago
I just tried out the service. As someone who isn't a full time coder it's great to have someone with years of experience on the back to share some tricks with me. Plus I regularly hire freelancers and while making it simply into a freelance
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by lucasvo 17y ago
It looks more like you're asking from a providers point of view... I'm usually a buyer so I'll tell you about my experiences as a buyer: I've been working with numerous freelancers for quite a while. It took me a long time to figure out how
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by lucasvo 17y ago
Same combination here. The Economist is without doubt one of the most interesting magazines and even though I usually agree very much with them, it's not boring at all. Big plus: they have podcasts (word for word read by a professional spea
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by lucasvo 17y ago
Check this out: http://github.com/atebits/SimFinger I have used SimFinger and SnapzPro to record the screencast. I didn't have access to Adobe Premiere, so I used Keynote to add the titles. I created a slideshow the way I wanted it and th
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by lucasvo 17y ago
Most of you miss the point. I grew up in Switzerland and have a U.S. passport because my father is american. I know countless other people who have U.S. passports but haven't been in the U.S. for years. They will never be in need of medicar
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by lucasvo 18y ago
Django useses this Approach: app/ ---- models.py ---- views.py ---- urls.py ---- admin.py etc. etc. I think it does indeed make more sense. Though the difference is not that big except for one case: Reusability of the code, that way you ca
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by lucasvo 18y ago
I have just graduated high school last week! Transforming from student to full time hacker!
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by lucasvo 18y ago
No distraction is nice. I wonder though what impressions my customers have if they get emails from me at 5am... My problem with going to bed at 4am-6am is that it's usually quite hard to get a good midnight snack. At least where I live and
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by lucasvo 18y ago
How did you manage that, how many times per day do you sleep? How did you change your diet? I like the side-effects :)
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Which ISP do you use in SF?
4 points by lucasvo 18y ago|0 comments
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by lucasvo 18y ago
You can't really expect to see a page with 28 links that are 100% relevant to you. Just ignore the stuff you're not interested in and don't waste your time on completely useless comments such as the above.

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