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AbyCodeson Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (February 2015)

SEEKING WORK

Location: Bangalore, India. Remote.

Skills:

  * Specializes in Android Development

Contact: AbyCodes@gmail.com

AbyCodeson Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2015)

SEEKING WORK

Location: Remote. Bangalore.

Skills: Developing Web Apps.

    * Ruby on Rails
    * Javascript/jQuery/Backbone.js

Experience: 3+ years in Software Development. 5+ months in Freelancing.

Rates: 800 USD/Week. 320 USD/Day. 60 USD/Hour.

Contact: AbyCodes@gmail.com

AbyCodeson Take Over The Galaxy with GitHub (DCPU16 support)

no starch press most likely :D

AbyCodeson So You Want To Be a Developer (Part 1)

Direct Link to the Video: http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/so-you-want-to-be-a-dev...

AbyCodeson Podcasts for Hackers

No Podcast list is complete without mentioning Software engineering radio: http://se-radio.net

This compilation of podcasts by Skilldrick has some real good ones: http://skilldrick.co.uk/2011/08/podcasts-i-listen-to/ Especially, The Changelog and FLOSS weekly.

Also another small compilation from infoq: http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/09/archcasts I especially enjoy On Architecture with Grady Booch: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/computingnow/onarchitectu...

Stack Overflow (now stackexchange, you can find the old episodes on itconversations), and techzing podcasts are packed with wit and humor. Listening to Joel, Justin and Jason, brightens any day.

I also subscribe to Compucast: http://computersciencepodcast.com/podcasts.html and Channel9: http://channel9.msdn.com/

Herding Code: http://herdingcode.com/ and radio free python: http://www.radiofreepython.com/ are on my "to listen" list.

AbyCodeson How I Learned to Program

http://bashcookbook.com/

AbyCodeson Google+ Hacker News Circle makes Search plus Your World Amazing

I guess the problem is that you added a bunch of strangers to Google+. That's not what Google+ is for.

Um... Isn't that the reason "circles" in Google+ exist? To draw lines?

It's why we read HN instead of Reddit or Slashdot: mostly to be different.

I don't think anyone only "reads" one community. According to interest, one participates in many?

Personally, I found all this quite confusing (and just when I figured how to "circle"; doh, limit has been reached for adding people. But, you can start adding tomorrow!)... and following the advice of sp332 and betterth, I avoided falling into blunders like Google adding all 1000+ contacts to my Gtalk or notifying each and everything that ever happens in G+ universe.

Moreover, since now people are split inside circles, am I supposed to update the circle manually everyday?

AbyCodeson JQuery UI Bootstrap: A New Bootstrap-inspired Theme For Your Widgets

Project page: http://addyosmani.github.com/jquery-ui-bootstrap/

AbyCodeson Backbone.js Fundamentals

Getting started with Backbone - How to bring model-view-controller structure to Ajax web applications: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/wa-backbonejs/inde...

AbyCodeson Inaugural Kalzumeus Podcast: Japan, Startups, A/B Testing, And More

Best thing after SEO happened!

AbyCodeson I swapped my MacBook for an iPad+Linode

Recursion abuse!

AbyCodeson Don't Call Yourself a Programmer

And "Everything I wanted to know about C.S. graduate school at the beginning but didn't learn until later: http://www.cs.unc.edu/~azuma/hitch4.html

AbyCodeson 4chan's Chris Poole: Facebook & Google Are Doing It Wrong

moot sits like a Nippon girl!

AbyCodeson Ask HN: What programming blogs do you read daily?

There are similar questions in reddit faq: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/faq#Whatprogrammingblogs...

Steve Yegge's archives, http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/ are in my favourites, which are not mentioned here so far.

AbyCodeson Why don't developers dress better?

I think this is what happens when nerdness/geekiness goes mainstream.

AbyCodeson "Algorithm" is not a four letter word

acquainting yourself with theory is acquainting yourself with new concepts. It gives you building blocks and labels that you can build on, and hang later concepts on. Without the scaffolding that theory gives you, you'll miss many opportunities for insight later.

So very true. The difference between the me one year back and the me now is that I know how and why certain things are the way they are. Understanding is enlightening.

Ultimately, it is that resistance you need to seek out. Look for things that will challenge you consistely (sic). Work at them until the resistance goes away, and then look for something new. That's how you'll grow your craft. That's what will make you better than you are today.

Amen.

AbyCodeson AVOS’ Delicious Disaster: Lessons from a Complete Failure

"We know - we know - they are not going to take the time to find the bits that made it sing and hum and make those parts better. We know that on a basic animal level that they don’t get it."

"Delicious is a bitter lesson for everyone. It’s the difference between how people actually use a product versus how rich, out-of-touch knuckleheads think people should be using that product, all to further their own self-interests."

Well said.

AbyCodeson Facebook is scaring me

No, because the people you know are there and use it.

AbyCodeson New Boston Globe website design

Check the site with http://quirktools.com/screenfly/

Admiration guaranteed.

AbyCodeson Miguel de Icaza: Learning Unix

Why am I belaboring the tuning thing? Because learning how to tune your guitar properly is basically a tools issue. Many guitarists are perfectly happy to get by with poor tuning, but then they sound bad even if they're playing well. Developers are often content to use whatever tools they've got, without digging in and figuring out how to "tune" the tools for maximum efficiency. Mastering the tools of the trade is an important part of every professional's ability to be effective. - Steve Yegge

http://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/practicing-programm...

AbyCodeson Dive Into Python 3 (online book)

*MIT Intro to CS and Programming

AbyCodeson The demise of the low level programmer

http://x86asm.net/

AbyCodeson [dead]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1109356/www-or-not-www-wh...

AbyCodeson Cobra effect

The term 'Cobra effect' stems from an anecdote set at the time of British rule of colonial India. The British government was concerned about the number of venomous cobra snakes. The Government therefore offered a reward for every dead snake. Initially this was a successful strategy as large numbers of snakes were killed for the reward. Eventually however the Indians began to breed cobras for the income.
When this was realized the reward was canceled, but the cobra breeders set the snakes free and the wild cobras consequently multiplied. The apparent solution for the problem made the situation even worse.

A similar incident occurred in Hanoi, under French colonial rule, where a program paying people a bounty for each rat pelt handed in was intended to exterminate rats. Instead, it led to the farming of rats.

If the intention was to decrease the incidents of Cobras/rats causing problems to humans, then isn't Cobra effect a success?

AbyCodeson Top500 Supercomputers - June 2011

What is the reason behind Linux's dominance (91%) over other UNIX-like operating systems; and especially BSD's lack of presence?

AbyCodeson All these Brilliant People at Facebook Make Me Sad

quote :"There are many reasons why engineers want to work for Facebook, from the potential windfall to learning just how they are able to ship so much technology so fast. It is an engineering dreamland."

What kinda innovations and technology is facebook shipping out so fast? To me, facebook is a streamlined and polished way to keep in touch with people and share information, which the internet already offered and was made for. Whats more to it than that?

Google, IBM, Intel, Research and development, etc would be some of the places which I would be interested in working, as I see them as innovators. Facebook, twitter etc are just "apps" for me

AbyCodeson The Only Way to Get Important Things Done

<quote> Also, but "this" I mean simply accepting that will power is limited and learning to focus it on the things you truly want out of life instead of the things you tell yourself that you want. </quote>

Spot on

AbyCodeson Clean Up Your Mess - A Guide to Visual Design for Everybody

"If you're like most people, you feel like a baby when it comes to visual design. You sometimes have a vague sense of what you want, but can't articulate it or make it come about. All you can do is point and cry." A very nice introduction!

Thanks a lot. Brief, to the point, good examples to supplement the text, with pointers for further reference to good books as well. Love it.

AbyCodeson Web development is just broken

|"By your logic there is a problem with the automotive industry (people keep making new cars)"

But you don't see infinite procedures to make the same car. Web frameworks aren't solving new problems. They are competing with other frameworks which does the exact same thing.