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I love programming; through programming I like to create things.
If you need more take a look at: http://samikc.scoopspot.com
Free basic internet may include Google search, Wikipedia, email of choice, access to all pages that Google suggests in first two pages. But I think Facebook should not be part of basic internet.
Writing this from Kolkata (India). We were asked to evacuate the office building, as it was shaking. Just got an all clear to get back in.
God bless everyone.
Mihai, we will remember you by what you have done and accomplished.
RIP
Agree to what you say. Facebook is great in some cases, like finding your old buddy from college or school. I use FB to find them, but after that I get their email ids and from then on its email communication. So for me FB is the place to find people.
But FB is not for getting news about the topics I like; because, IMHO like the OP, Facebook news feed is broken for this purpose. Yes it is broken if you like to get news and information related to your interests. The prime reason, which I have discovered over the years of using FB, is I like things which my friends do not like a lot and vice-versa. I cannot blame Facebook for this. So when they like something which I do not, I still get the news in the feed. The same thing is happening in Twitter.
I felt that it would be better if we can follow information we like rather than the people we like. This way we will be able to get the information that we want/like rather than the noise. A critical step towards this is tags and if we can follow a tag it would be better [1].
[1] Disclaimer: I have created a website to do just that. Link is https://www.scoopspot.com/ .
The web design needs a re-thinking from all points mentioned in OP. +1 for the counter, these are not only worthless information but also sometimes takes so much time to load the web sites.
We have created a project to access GDrive, Dropbox, SkyDrive and Box from web browser. We have some plans to open up the API in the future. If you guys think that's useful.
Excellent map and railway timing integration. very nice
Looks nice and neat. It would be great if you could expand the examples a bit more. One more thing, could you please provide some examples with form validation.
This looks interesting.
We built ScoopSpot[1] to make microblog better, one of the core proposition was to allow the application developers work with the statuses more openly. However, it didn't caught attention of the people. One interesting aspect of ScoopSpot was to allow user follow a tag or topic.
The possibility of application built on what users' interests are limitless (at least that's what I think). I will look into the protocol of OStatus to see how can we make our API's open. [1]https://www.scoopspot.com
People at Twitter must realize that when developers talk about your API's tos rather than the API, you must have broken something. It reminds me Facebook episode of network feed and privacy. At the end of it, Mark understood what the users were talking about and took action to correct it.
The problem seems like an issue of making profit by showing promotional tweets, which will not happen in the clients. It, to me, looks like the problem of management which could not come up with better revenue model.
Just one word... wow. This worked more than any tutorial on HTML 5 I have ever read. Very good job.
A part of any investing activity requires risk taking (truer now than ever as sovereign debts are defaulting or on verge of that), the other part is making profit based on risk. In case of startup seed funding the risk are much higher but profits are high too (like 1000x). Now an investor can make profit by selling their share to other (future) investors. The point to note here is: the first investor sells thinking that the venture’s value has reached a reasonable price which was expected or it’s now overpriced.
The point is, profit has to be booked to be realized.My question to PG is how does YC decide when to sell?
Good point. It's already in our todo list will do it.
Thanks for the suggestion. It is done in two weeks by of us. So a lot can be improved. This is an app that came from a personal need. The need was to see where my files are in one view. Also, we were seeing that just for backing up we are uploading same file twice in two different storage (like Dropbox and GDrive).
Thanks for your comment here is what the app does:
addfs.com is inspired by the mount command in Unix OS. Just as mount command enables the ability of accessing multiple external devices using the same API i.e. Unix File System, addfs.com enables users to access multiple cloud storage (Box, Dropbox and Google Drive) through the same interface (HTML and Rest).
Thanks for sharing that we would fix it
addfs.com is inspired by the mount command in Unix OS. Just as mount command enables the ability of accessing multiple external devices using the same API i.e. Unix File System, addfs.com enables users to access multiple cloud storage (Box, Dropbox and Google Drive) through the same interface (HTML and Rest).
Anonymous hack has stopped facebook access also.
If this is Lambda Calculus Tarpit like Turing Tarpit[1]? It seems like that to me.
[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric_programming_language#T...
yes I have checked the one that's shared in the HN profile. But still no email to me.
+1 the not yet rejected part
I have not got anything yet be it rejection or acceptance for interview. Checked all my mailboxs (spam & inbox).
Is it all over and out? Any one who haven't got anything yet?
It has very valid points. It reminds me a classic Plato's Gorgias[1], where Socrates has described in length "the art of oratory".
It's near impossible job to predict any trend in technology with a time frame of 5 years or so. You may find a programming language that might pickup two years from now and that might rule the world in five years. So I take it easy with current situation in hand.
A good way to find trend in books about a programming language and github/google code like sites. So going for Scala now may to give you any advantage in the next 5 years or so.
As soon as you talk about jobs and statically typed language, my preference goes to Java. Though there is a great market in .NET and C# but you are limited to MS platform (unless mono picks up in a big way.).
The short answer is: You can’t. But you can try.
Try doing the following to reduce bugs:
1.Write a lot of unit test cases covering all know scenarios that you have in your spec or mind. This only assures that there are no bugs in your set of test cases, however there could be bugs lying out side your test case set.
2.Before changing your code check if you have test cases written for the code. If not do step 1.
3.Have good logging for your code in action. If a bug is found later it will help you to root cause it.
4.If you are in object oriented programming try to replace if else codes with polymorphism. Its difficult but if you can it will either reduce logical bugs or help you find them quickly as they unfold.
5.Test for all if and else conditions. All if condition with complex logical arguments (using AND / OR) must be checked for all conditions.
6.Learn from your mistakes in coding and try not to repeat them.
That said, its easier said than done. I would follow this thread how other suggests and learn.
Companies are supporting the legislation in hopes of helping their bottom line.
Although, I do not see any harm behind the idea of improving your balance sheet. However I feel very strongly that SOPA will do more harm than good. My main concern is - SOPA has potential to change the fundamental way we interact with the Internet. Many have pointed out that, the change will put constrain on how we build and use the internet. This might have a negative impact. If it happens it will impact the companies also. The long tail will be threatened if not vanished and that will impact the bottom line one day.
This post is an eye opener, true and engaging. You can co-relate to the maths example with anything hard. You have give it time. I had a math book in school where it said, "If you love mathematics it will love you back." Actually if you look at it, for competency in any topic you have to work with it. You will eventually get it, if you are ready to work hard.
It may take some time but what the hell if you really want to understand something you got a give everything to it.
Halfway in your writing I was thinking this guy must be from India. But no you are from Egypt. Okay its the same story there also. Let me share my story here. I am at the same level of experience as you are 6 and half years into software.
I started in a big software service shop in India. Worked for amazing clients (I cannot name them here). Some of the technology that I have worked on - Java, Lisp (yep got paid for working in common lisp), C/C++, Hadoop, JavaScript, etc. After working for 4 years I decided to move on. But I got Job in one of the news companies. Worked there for more that 1.5 years in (C# and Java). Now working in a banking product based company.
After all these years (not that much though), I have come to the conclusion that - you need to be a techie to survive software industry. I have defined growth as: learn a new language every 6 months. Do something extra like open source. I know, I may not get hefty pay packets like the managers in India but I have chosen this path. I am happy with that.
For you I believe you have identified your areas for improvement. You just need to think deep why the schedule failed? Find and read some books Mythical Man Month and Peopleware. Chances are that people have already been there and done that - so learn from them and try to adapt and apply in your case.
Moreover, before you do anything else just ask yourself what do you really want to be - a manager or a techie. Once you have the answer get going with that flow.