zealon

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by zealon 11y ago
The weather is rainy. Think of London or Ireland, something like that, but less cold. Insects are not a problem here, in northern Spain. How far the beach is... it depends on the roads, maybe 2h on average but it can take much longer (5h ma
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by zealon 11y ago
I live in Galicia (Spain), near some of these villages. I've been to some of them personally and they are beautiful. Creating a tech community in one of them has crossed my mind several times. Positive: - Calm and beautiful places, sur
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by zealon 12y ago
What about foreign contributors? What laws and rules apply to us?
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by zealon 12y ago
Had some very rough times myself, including the death of a relative, work harassment during 2 years and a very hard divorce... all at the same time. We humans are made to keep on living, your own human nature will give you strength to keep
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by zealon 12y ago
Developing a warehouse management system for one of the biggest companies in the textile industry, world-wide: - project kick-off with a team of 10 junior developers - working under pressure for 3 years in a row - avoiding office politics -
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by zealon 12y ago
The most common feature I've found in successful tech products is ease of use. For this, a product should be intuitive. My definition of "intuitive product": - Simple, but useful: it must possess not too many parts or feature
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by zealon 12y ago
I've felt this way too many times, until I realized that it's better to be relaxed, fail and correct your own mistakes, than never fail. If you try to never fail, you're trying to never be wrong and that's impossible bec
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by zealon 12y ago
Ok, here is mine: Prototyper. - Create a webapp that allows the users to choose their phone model. - Based on that, generate and allow downloading of a custom app (Android, iOS) for that model. - The user should be able to customize the sof
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by zealon 12y ago
Don't think so, but as others pointed, YMMV. A post I just released: http://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/comments/21kz8l/addadhd_no_supe...
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ADD/ADHD: no superpowers, but adaptation skills : ADHD(reddit.com)
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by zealon 12y ago
Test for ADD/ADHD. Seriously. Many people with ADD/ADHD end up in the IT business. Drinking and drug problems, nicotine and caffeine addiction, high-risk behaviours and family issues are very common among ADD/ADHD people. The
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by zealon 13y ago
Awesome, I've looking for something like this for ages! Needs a bit of tuning, though. Fails when reading this article on Chrome 33 for Linux: http://aphyr.com/posts/311-clojure-from-the-ground-up-logist...
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by zealon 13y ago
Math is not my field of expertise, but I think I get your point. My point was based on a social and economics perspective. I think these other causal paths are fundamental, because they are empirically verified (computing power vs health an
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by zealon 13y ago
Maybe a bit off-topic here, but I think there is a cause-effect relationship between number of transistors and life expectancy. More transistors implies more computing power. More computing power leads to better/faster information proc