vtanase

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by vtanase 13y ago
Your question is lacking quite a bit of context. You haven't for example mentioned how much experience you have with the language, how much programming experience you have in general and other useful things such as what you are using J
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by vtanase 13y ago
I guess our experiences might vary with what happens to prototypes/first cut implementations. From my experience what starts off as a simple proof of concept/prototype that is done quick and dirty to validate an idea, ends up bein
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by vtanase 13y ago
I will have to disagree on this, this advice is only good if your sole purpose is to make a quick buck. If you want to start a long term solid business than I suggest you treat people like humans and not like cheap interchangeable pieces as
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by vtanase 13y ago
I have to agree here, transparency is key, trust is a very important part of human relations. You build this by starting with a couple of tasks where you pay the subcontractors hourly rate, to feel each other out, but you need to make sure
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by vtanase 13y ago
Very interesting read. I have to admit that I have been guilty of this self handicaping on more than one occasion. The self illusion of being able to achieve great things if you just put in the time is very difficult to overcome. To me I be
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by vtanase 13y ago
As some of the people in this thread have already suggested, the idea of taking a gap year is all about having a plan/purpose. Taking a year off just for the sake of it, is not worth it. From the way your question is phrased it feels l
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by vtanase 14y ago
I am really curious, can you go into a bit more detail as to what each those transitions meant for you, and how you went about doing them? For example what exactly the move from employee to contractor entailed, or the one from contractor to
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by vtanase 14y ago
Hello, as someone who shied away from regular IDEs to use Emacs for programming work, I would recommend that you start setting things up for some very specific need. As it was already pointed out, Emacs is huge and you will never stop learn
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by vtanase 14y ago
I have no intention of stopping. I guess my curiosity was more along the lines of whether it is worth it to dig deeper and learn more Java, or if it would be better to go for some other languages. I'm also pondering about switching jobs for
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by vtanase 14y ago
Excuse my ignorance, but why would learning Android increase market value by more than say something like Ruby?
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Ask HN: Is Java a wise career investment?
14 points by vtanase 14y ago|17 comments
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by vtanase 14y ago
In all honesty I can understand where you're coming from. However, there is a discrepancy as far as I'm concerned between what you're selling and how you're selling it. In this case you are trying to sell quicker updates, better stability a
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by vtanase 14y ago
This is the exact same feeling that I'm getting from this announcement. To me this just feels like a publicity stunt, where Oracle is aiming to get a slice of the CentOS/RHEL market with very little investment. As far as I'm concerned this
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by vtanase 14y ago
Hmm, a good geocoder sounds a bit ambigous to me. As far as I can tell geonames has an API with both XML and JSON for getting longitude and latitude off of city names, so I am not sure what exactly you believe can be improved by crossing da
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by vtanase 14y ago
When you say front end to MongoDB, what exactly are you thinking of? This makes me think of something along the lines of phpMyAdmin, are we on the same page here?
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by vtanase 14y ago
This sounds doable, shoot me an e-mail and we can see how simple is simple for you. :)
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by vtanase 14y ago
This actually sounds pretty interesting and I would really like to fiddle with this idea. The thing is right now it actually feels like biting off a bit more than we can chew. I might just come back to this idea somewhere in the future, sin
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by vtanase 14y ago
While I do agree with what you said as a general statement, I have found quite a few sticking points in applying this to web applications. Firstly, I for one have seen very little interest in the open source-ing of web application code. I m
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Ask HN: Anything that you want built from 2 Java programmers free of charge?
10 points by vtanase 14y ago|15 comments