ricardo_ramirez

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by ricardo_ramirez 7y ago
I have worked with some people that are self-taught that ended up being incredibly good. However, I still bias myself a bit to people coming from a CS background because of other non-knowledge related reasons. Examples. They are more ok wit
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by ricardo_ramirez 8y ago
I like this idea a lot. It goes away from the regular though that you get a friend that is forever that is there for you for good and bad, and puts you into the driver seat. I also liked that it is in general a framework for being a good pe
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by ricardo_ramirez 8y ago
"The performance appraisal nourishes short-term performance, annihilates long-term planning, builds fear, demolishes teamwork, nourishes rivalry and politics… it leaves people bitter, crushed, bruised, battered, desolate, despondent, d
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by ricardo_ramirez 9y ago
If you want to go all conspiracy theory on this, you can go with the "There is no such thing as bad publicity", and this amount of coverage ironically could even get some sales on the product, or some attention on the company at t
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by ricardo_ramirez 10y ago
Take this as user feedback. I downloaded the app and it asked me for a forced login using Facebook, with no other choices. I was expecting to at least be able to bypass the login screen, browse the app a little, and login once I have someth
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by ricardo_ramirez 11y ago
Your links lead to the article again ... These ones lead to the comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8147008 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9015160
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by ricardo_ramirez 12y ago
This is personal, but I taught myself how to code, before the internet, and with barely any books. One thing that made, for example, the PHP documentation a lot easier to read vs. Perl was: examples On an API level, don't just explain
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Blizzard officially cancels MMO Titan after seven years in development(polygon.com)
17 points by ricardo_ramirez 12y ago|5 comments
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San Francisco's class war by the numbers(medium.com)
8 points by ricardo_ramirez 12y ago|0 comments
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Corporate Open Source Anti-Patterns(youtube.com)
2 points by ricardo_ramirez 13y ago|0 comments
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by ricardo_ramirez 13y ago
The % model would indeed work better with a low volume sales. So, if I wanted to distribute a file just once or twice, then this would work, since I end up paying just 50c (if the price of the digital goods were $10) instead of a fixed pric
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by ricardo_ramirez 13y ago
The % transaction fee is a turndown. I have been looking for a solution to distribute digital goods, and I try to stay away from anything that is a percentage, it does not scale once you have hundreds of sales. They are not absorbing the Pa
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Cleaning up the Bozo Explosion at Yahoo(thestreet.com)
3 points by ricardo_ramirez 14y ago|0 comments
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by ricardo_ramirez 14y ago
This is a good article for the differences: http://nikic.github.com/2012/07/10/What-PHP-5-5-might-look-l... * New finally keyword * Support For list In foreach Construct * Password Hashing API * Generators * Scalar typehinting * Getters a