ze_dude

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by ze_dude 12y ago
Leanpub.com lets you keep roughly 90% and the publishing process is quite painless
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by ze_dude 12y ago
I'm running Ubuntu on a Samsung Ativ Book 9 Plus ( http://www.samsung.com/global/ativ/ativbook9plus.html ) with no issues and battery life is good. Nearly all media keys worked out of the box, as well as wifi.
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by ze_dude 16y ago
Joel Spolsky wrote about this exact subject (with graphs, etc. as requested). very worthwhile read: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberDuckie...
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by ze_dude 16y ago
(Given your mention of a career, I'm going to assume he is at the stage where he can write programs to do stuff, but wants to move to the next level.) To get better at programming, you need to do more than learn to program (languages, seman
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by ze_dude 16y ago
"What's wrong, honey? They had fresh eggs!"
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by ze_dude 16y ago
However, Facebook uses HipHop ( http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/358 ) to make PHP faster (so it's not the plain-vanilla PHP). From the linked article: HipHop programmatically transforms your PHP source code into highly optimized C+
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by ze_dude 16y ago
Mint's pre-launch pitch deck can be found here: http://www.slideshare.net/hnshah/mintcom-prelaunch-pitch-dec...
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by ze_dude 16y ago
This says it much better than I can: How to Build a Web Site from Scratch with No Experience ( http://lifehacker.com/5336113/how-to-build-a-web-site-from-s... ) It details how the author built mixtape.me starting with basically zero experie
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by ze_dude 16y ago
http://www.twilio.com/ I haven't used them in production, but I've started playing around with their voice API and it's pretty neat. Also, you get $30 credit (for free) when signing up for a test account, so that should be more than enoug
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by ze_dude 16y ago
I've been using a Dell XPS 1530 with an SSD, and couldn't be happier. All the stuff I've tried worked out of the box (built-in wireless, webcam, sound, graphics card w/ NVidia driver, etc). It's a great laptop and the SSD and 4 Ggis of RAM
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by ze_dude 16y ago
Not quite what you're looking for, yet still relevant: the UBS bank provides a (free) worldwide analysis of wages, purchasing power, benefits and the like - 2009 study http://www.ubs.com/1/ShowMedia/wealthmanagement/wealth_manag... - 2010