sctechie

7 ms·

1.
by sctechie 12y ago
Can we at least agree here that complexity implies a larger cognitive burden? I think that's a pretty benign statement to begin from regardless of the domain (programming, cooking, games, etc). A complex recipe rewards a chef with exc
2.
by sctechie 12y ago
For various meanings of 'learn'. My point is that you can be writing useful programs in c in a weekend. Obviously said person would not be an expert, but I've watched competent programmers try to learn complex languages like
3.
by sctechie 12y ago
The 'magic' that you seem to pine for like is found in lets say Ruby, places a far larger mental burden on the programmer than a language like c or go. Sure, language like Haskell or Rust have a ton of great features and automagic
4.
by sctechie 12y ago
'Industry Best Practice' in this case amounts to 'we will hand all of your data over to the government' if required. Abdicating responsibility for personal security to ANY 3rd party makes one less secure, period. Now, wh
5.
by sctechie 13y ago
Stop charging for your time and start charging for the value you are providing to the business. If you implement a system that will increase revenues, you should be charging based on that value. Just because you're implementing some b
6.
by sctechie 13y ago
How is this even possible? All it takes is a clogged router buffer 'somewhere' along your network path and that <30ms web request is gonna get blown away. Am I missing something here? I'm probably just being ignorant lol. Can you poi
7.
by sctechie 13y ago
I recommend buying a piece-of-shit Dell and putting an aftermarket SSD + memory in there. Personally, I develop on cheap Dell slammed full of RAM running a Linux VM inside of Windows. I know the 'cool' kids aren't into Dell and Windows an
8.
by sctechie 13y ago
Look well-made. I've never seen that brand in any US stores unfortunately. There were a few US distributors listed but most were tiny shops.
9.
by sctechie 13y ago
Let me just get this in before the cries of JUST INSTALL OPENWRT come raining down. Your mother / father / grandmother / etc are not installing openWRT on their routers. Installing one of these CISCO home routers is pretty much hacking you
10.
by sctechie 13y ago
I'm old enough to remember DHTML, it was terrible. It's quite remarkable how far front and back-end JS development has come since then.
11.
by sctechie 13y ago
Great post. People should stop and read this.
12.
by sctechie 13y ago
Your lack of ability to google or search on your own is a bit worrisome, but I spent a few minutes doing your work for you. =) There 18k+ open source repos on github for c#: https://github.com/search?l=C%23&q=c&type=Repositori...
13.
by sctechie 14y ago
I haven't installed Reddit from scratch in quite some time. I just looked at the reddit github source. You can get to it from www.reddit.com/r/redditdev There appears to be an installer script now along with upstart scripts to launch the s
14.
by sctechie 14y ago
True shame. Regardless of your opinion of his actions concerning JSTOR, it's undeniable he made a positive contribution to the web.
15.
by sctechie 14y ago
You should learn to program FIRST. It will take you 6 weeks to learn how to programming, let alone trying to build a website while doing it. There are a ton of resources online these days. I'd suggest you mainly stick to MIT OCW but many
16.
by sctechie 14y ago
I didn't want to let your comment stand as it suggests the fault was mine due to using an incorrect link. So, I followed the link you posted. I clicked on the navigation items, rapidly but not unreasonably so, it took me 2 seconds for it
17.
by sctechie 14y ago
Looks great! I've been using yeoman for a while now and this looks like a fantastic replacement / alternative. Are you looking for contributions or just releasing this for people to use?
18.
by sctechie 14y ago
Links to it are plastered all over this thread claiming to point to the current demo. No, I didn't share anything. For instance, here is one: https://demo2.openerp.com/#action=114 that was posted a few comments up. I've tried pretty muc
19.
by sctechie 14y ago
Technically, you got more than I did. =)
20.
by sctechie 14y ago
Hey there. I get that you seem to like this product. I'm not even knocking it. I'm just telling HN what I experienced with the demo they posted. As far as the product not being released... The guy is advertising a huge "SUCK IT SAP" webs
21.
by sctechie 14y ago
Hi. I'm on HN. I'm running the latest google chrome. I'm not going to go back and open up the developer tools to see which part of the buggy javascript UI crashed. I will say again though that the UI was throwing 'unhandled exceptions'.
22.
by sctechie 14y ago
Hi there, took a look at the site, here's some feedback: I liked the overall look, it's a fairly clean design. The #1 issue I have is that the boxes around each deal are scaling in size with the number of lines of text in the item descript
23.
by sctechie 14y ago
Are you serious? Sorry, I work for a company with actual revenue and profit. We make actual products, not 'social engagement'. Yes, if I brought that product demo to my management and shareholders (because they're the ones that okayed ou
24.
by sctechie 14y ago
Took me all of 30 seconds to break your demo website. Started throwing unhandled 'get_title' javascript exceptions at me non-stop. You honestly expect me to make a professional recommendation for software I can't even show the demo for? S
25.
by sctechie 14y ago
I got a 'real' job. =) My first startup was back in 2002 or so. We were doing a sort-of ebay for contractors. Today, you have similar services like Angie's List but we were creating a marketplace for contractors and sub-contractors to bi
26.
by sctechie 14y ago
Well, that will teach me to argue with an Econ professor! And I also find myself hungry after staring at pictures of bread on google for the past 10 minutes. Thanks for the interesting discussion. =)
27.
by sctechie 14y ago
My apologies, I'm only an amateur statistician. I'll defer to your knowledge in that area. =) (and I'm joking here, I'm decent with the stats, just wanted to focus on the broader issue). I don't want to get bogged down in the stats discu
28.
by sctechie 14y ago
I posted this comment to your blog as well: "I've had positive and negative experiences with pair programming. Your blog post only contains the positives. What are some of the negatives that braintree has experienced with your heavy empha
29.
by sctechie 14y ago
I'm sorry but I have to interact with non-technical managers on a regular basis. I consider it part of my job responsibilities to ensure that we are communicating using the same terminology. When I tell a client his conversions are up 35%
30.
by sctechie 14y ago
"Data science" is a hot thing right now. If your technical / design abilities match your stats knowledge, you could pull 6 figures easily depending on the market you're in. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_science

More ›