rubentopo

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by rubentopo 15y ago
Maybe doing some time-consuming jobs in C?
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by rubentopo 16y ago
"This kind of thing happens all the time" Perhaps this is why he is standing up against this?, perhaps he thinks that someone's got a put an end to all this and that he must take matters into his own hands?
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by rubentopo 17y ago
If you feel remorseful about self-posting, you can do what jacquesm did in his post about his experience dealing with VC's (great post by the way). He just put the whole thing here.
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by rubentopo 17y ago
I normally try to schedule blocks greater than 4 hours for programming and i do everything else on the remaining block of time. This normally requires a little bit of planning the day before and may be disrupted by peers or emergencies, but
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by rubentopo 17y ago
Just out of curiosity, did you see that Yahoo! Store (previously Viaweb) is part of the small business division?
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by rubentopo 17y ago
Maybe you're right, but upper management knows what are the critical applications and those who deliver fixes and improvements to those apps, will shine. This happens at big companies too (at least it does in AutoZone, my current work place
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by rubentopo 17y ago
I strongly disagree with his "developers need to brag" section...in my experience, those developers that brag the most are those whose code is a negative contribution (pardon the oxymoron). Also, if you're generating a bunch of good code an
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by rubentopo 17y ago
It's such a relief for those of us who share that fear. I stumbled upon this letter yesterday, it's a complaint that a 98 year old lady wrote to her bank's CEO. ( http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art42630.asp ) These two ladies are an ex
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by rubentopo 17y ago
Contrived?,yes, useful?, yes (at least in my experience), do i plan to use that formula in every interaction?, i don't think so, it wouldn't be natural. Thank you for sharing the example of the kid who "rained all over himself", it clearly
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by rubentopo 17y ago
This was shared by a co-worker due to a problem i had at work, the business and engineers speak a very different language...anyway, the article has proven useful many, many times for me, hope you guys like it.
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I'm OK, the bull is dead: Communication skills for engineers(computerworld.com)
96 points by rubentopo 17y ago|25 comments
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by rubentopo 17y ago
I read your blog, and i found the idea behind biz teen interesting, but i think you're targeting a rather small market (the world doesn't have as many young entrepreneurs as it needs). If you don't mind getting an idea from a complete stran
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by rubentopo 17y ago
Well you are an architect in a way, you may not be building things out of trees, but you should be building things out of thoughts. Thoughts may not clean our air, but well directed thoughts may do things just as impressive :D
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by rubentopo 17y ago
My advice is that you leave the information, any serious buyer will search "cherrypeel" and eventually stumble upon this thread, if you change your mind and take it off, it will make a bad impression. I've never sold a web site, but i know
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by rubentopo 17y ago
Stanford's CS Ed library (particularly Nick Parlante's linked list and binary tree problem sets) is a fantastic resource for understanding the C language, it is the way i learned it. http://cslibrary.stanford.edu/
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by rubentopo 17y ago
There's a quote, i don't remember who came up with it but it goes something like this: "Don't worry about people stealing your ideas, if they're any good, you'll have to push it until it sinks in their heads", it's very likely that at first
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by rubentopo 18y ago
In my opinion, convention means nothing. Do what makes sense according to the problem you're solving.
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by rubentopo 18y ago
Works well, i did like it, however i have two comments: -Please be able to get http://www.mywebsite.com , www.mywebsite.com , mywebsite.com , http://mywebsite.com and lastly the good case http://www.mywebsite.com -I believe that you'd
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by rubentopo 18y ago
This is an excellent article on the subject, hope you enjoy it: http://mags.acm.org/communications/200810/?pg=38
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by rubentopo 18y ago
Depends on the language, if I'm reading Java code, then I'll use eclipse (ctrl+h is much better than ctrl+right click, when searching for a methods definition, it's the only way i can follow code that uses interfaces a lot). If you're readi
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by rubentopo 18y ago
I think it's about time...If they decorate their stores half as well as they decorate their offices, they will be neat.
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by rubentopo 18y ago
No one method works all the time, this depends on the paradigm of the target language. At least i can't use one method. One thing that makes it much easier (at least for me) is trying to use dependency injection, otherwise i get lost. Misko
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by rubentopo 18y ago
I don't know how many of you will read this, but i thought of posting this new finding that has helped me. I read Joel's functional spec article some time ago and decided to give it a go. I started writing functional specs for three ideas i
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by rubentopo 18y ago
The playing field is much more leveled, but few schools actually recognize what subjects are valuable to teach (so many go with the latest hype), Joel put it better in his article: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/article/ThePerilsofJavaSchoo
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Ask HN: How do you determine which project you should work on?
18 points by rubentopo 18y ago|18 comments
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by rubentopo 18y ago
Cool (i like the fact that when i searched for duckduckgo the first result was "awesome search engine"). I also searched for google (and it gave me cool results such as it's use as a verb). It worked for technical questions such as NullPoin
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by rubentopo 18y ago
Apparently they are changing (very freaking fast) this so i take back my comment.
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by rubentopo 18y ago
True. What worries me is that the EULA for the spanish version is still the same (and google is FAST about fixing their mistakes, hope they fix the EULA for the non english versions). But what you say is true, my level of hate is misplaced.
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by rubentopo 18y ago
True, but that is not true for other languages other than english. At least the spanish EULA is still the same. So if i build google chrome by myself without any changes whatsoever and use the product of my build do i unbind myself from th
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by rubentopo 18y ago
And everyone's opinion of google with it's evil EULA. I just hate that EULA, it's the most evil thing i've ever seen, it makes look Hitler as a well intentioned fellow [I'm exhagerating greatly here, please take no offense, i just wanted to

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