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Ask HN: Why does HN's minimalist design work?
8 points by progrocks9 9y ago|10 comments
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by progrocks9 9y ago
Love it. This seems to be the answer to a question that Facebook forgot completely. To help you improve your social life with the people you really care about. Not just distract you with irrelevant information. Keep it up!
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by progrocks9 9y ago
How is this related to programming?
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by progrocks9 9y ago
While I really thought that Venus Project ideas was interesting but a little bit naive, there is something going on with cryptocurrencies. They can save us from eternal deflation of our money as the Zeitgeist documental expose. That means t
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by progrocks9 10y ago
The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond. It's inspiring for embrace Open Source collaboration and also very useful for manage projects. In Guy Kawasaki's quote "The most important book about technology today, with imp
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by progrocks9 10y ago
Interesting. I use AdBlock on this page and the ads keep popping. Have they a way to bypass AdBlock? (maybe with websockets I dunno). I can't really read the article.
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by progrocks9 10y ago
NodeJS works great as a simple web or network container, if you're trying to create a complex enterprise app in Node, basically you're doing it wrong. Simply it's difficult to design complex nested logic or algorithms in a c
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by progrocks9 10y ago
I just removed the tilde and caret of all my dependencies (in my package.json) and maybe that's the way to go. Seal a local version of your packages and don't update unless is completely needed. But I'm still worried about th
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by progrocks9 11y ago
I've done something similar with programming languages, and that comic got me thinking a lot :) By the way if anyone want to check it and have some feedback would be cool. http://nkittsteiner.github.io
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by progrocks9 11y ago
Totally agree. The motivation for learning a tool starts trying to solve a related problem. In me case I want to explore which programing languages are more relevant today so I made a little experiment at nkittsteiner.github.io for measure
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by progrocks9 11y ago
That's right. Also watch Chef's Table at Netflix for a pinch of inspiration.
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by progrocks9 11y ago
I think one of the biggest problems is to find good local developers. I think that the local market is very small and also not many locals are fluent in english. Getonboard is a good place to start but maybe the startup program should look
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by progrocks9 11y ago
Yes, for example this startup is doing something interesting in latam. http://algramo.com/en/
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by progrocks9 11y ago
Packaging is the problem. We should only use goods that can be recharged or refilled. Otherwise, the problem goes on and on.
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by progrocks9 11y ago
In some IoT scenarios you could afford losing a little bit of data. For instance this component does it with MongoDB https://github.com/telefonicaid/fiware-orion
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by progrocks9 11y ago
This type of move can't work now, because Apple is losing its mojo in a very fast pace.
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by progrocks9 11y ago
I was working the last year on a Django app. First I hated it, but slowly I started enjoying programming with it. This year I worked mantaining an app with all of this http://teropa.info/blog/2015/09/10/f
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by progrocks9 11y ago
A stupid question, how this is related to zen?
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by progrocks9 11y ago
I'm wondering if using Apache Kafka and Hadoop Stack, would be a better approach for IoT.
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by progrocks9 11y ago
Why is that bad? Mongodb is great for data ingestion.