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bertomartin

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rails,jquery,java...journeyman programmer.
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bertomartin··on Investing for Geeks
I believe you can make money in trying to "time" the market, given you have good risk management in place. Nobody can predict the future all the time perfectly, but some educated predictions do come true sometimes. If the aim is to make money and not just trying to hold on to what you've got, you must take risks and that invariably comes down to "timing" the market.
bertomartin··on Talk of a Split from Docker
Agreed! If the issue is Google and other tech giants feel their orchestration tools is being threatened by swarm, too bad. I fully agree with Docker Inc here. Innovation involves risks, and if you don't appreciate that, then don't use it. However, I do agree that more attention and more thorough testing should be performed before something is stated as being "production ready". Keep innovating Docker!
bertomartin··on Theano Implementation of Tree Recursive Neural Networks
Parsers are pretty good and getting better, have you seen: https://research.googleblog.com/2016/05/announcing-syntaxnet...

This is a very successful application of recursive NNs in Question/Answering domain: https://cs.umd.edu/~miyyer/qblearn/

bertomartin··on A Case That Has Microsoft, Apple and Amazon Agreeing
Then, we need a good service to store keys, with a key to get to your key
bertomartin··on Building a Movie Recommendation Service with Apache Spark and Flask
cool,thanks
bertomartin··on Building a Movie Recommendation Service with Apache Spark and Flask
@minimaxir, which class?
bertomartin··on Think – Fast mobile whiteboarding
Nothing beats working with a nice energel pen (http://www.amazon.com/Pentel-EnerGel-Millimeter-Assorted-BL7...) and simple notebooks from muji (http://www.muji.us/store/stationery/notebooks.html)
bertomartin··on Ask HN: Best NoSQL methods for Rails
Recently investigating this myself. Mongoid is an Rails ODM for MongoDB. It seems like a nice one to start with as the interface is very close to ActiveRecord. I haven't looked at the rest you mentioned, but I've used the relational aspects of postgres; it's a great db, but if you're thinking about going NoSQL, why not go the whole way? Many serious companies are using these technologies for their businesses, and they seem to have matured over the past few years. A good place to get more information on MongoDB is: https://university.mongodb.com/courses/catalog. BTW, one thing to be careful of when working with nosql is that you still need to model your data and you can definitely model relationships (just that they usually don't support joins at the db level). So, you could go through pretty much the same steps that you would when modeling data for a SQL db, but in the nosql case, it's easier to change the schema as you go. So you can imagine an Author entity, with a bunch of Book entities embedded in a single document (MongoDB or other document oriented stores). If later, you wanna add Book to another document, then you can separate Book into it's own document and add a relation. The difference with SQL is that you don't do joins in the db, but with Mongoid, you don't even see this as the relationships are defined in the models, and they're pretty much the same as ActiveRecord. Enjoy.
bertomartin··on South Africa's Nelson Mandela dies
Great man
bertomartin··on The Well Deserved Fortune of Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin creator
good answer and thank you. I was thinking of it more as an accepted currency. Because if it's seen as being such, then it would be worth it to mine as much as possible. And what happens when they run out? It's pretty confusing to me...
bertomartin··on The Well Deserved Fortune of Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin creator
What's stopping someone with a really fast computer from corner the bitcoin market? I'm probably being naive here as I don't know the details of bitcoin, just that it's a digital currency that can only be mined to come into being. Anyways, a good explanation from the HN community would be really helpful. thnx.
bertomartin··on AT&T Announces Intent to Build 1 Gigabit Fiber Network in Austin
Keep slapping 'em into shape Google. Good job. Come to NY!!
bertomartin··on AFP: N. Korea approves nuclear strike on US
April fool's day is past...come on people.
bertomartin··on Linus Torvalds To Join Microsoft To Head Windows 9 Project
April fools jokes should be less obvious ;)
bertomartin··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2013)
SEEKING WORK. Full Stack web development. Ruby/Rails, Sinatra, HTML5 apis, pro JavaScript(module patterns, rivets, etc...). My website: http://bootstrapprs.com
bertomartin··on Google Rumored To Be Making A Smartwatch, Too
Was there any official statement from Apple that they're working on a smart watch? I don't know, but I just think this is a head-fake from them...Like a few other posters, I just don't see the big deal about a 'smart' watch. I want a simple watch.
bertomartin··on Google Rumored To Be Making A Smartwatch, Too
Interesting how the 'competition' isn't in smart glasses ala google glasses. Guess there's not much competition when real innovation is involved.
bertomartin··on The Summly deal makes no sense
I'd say Thought process, vision AND execution. He's obviously executed well, so what's left is his vision and thought process behind that vision.
bertomartin··on Show HN: Heap is a new approach to analytics. Just capture everything
Great technology, but you guys will know a lot about my business and my users and I'd like to be convinced that you won't do ill with this data...not that I don't trust you, but it would be more comforting if you made your policy towards the information you collect more up-front and clear. But great job.
bertomartin··on Why do engineers shake their legs behind a desk??
I thought everyone did this, nuh? -_-
bertomartin··on Superhero.js: articles and videos on building large JavaScript apps
Also, looking at requirejs as a possibility in helping me to modularize my front end app. I don't want to use emberjs/backbone or any of those frontend frameworks. Nothing against them, but they just don't fit my current projects.
bertomartin··on Superhero.js: articles and videos on building large JavaScript apps
I've been trying to come up with a javascript module pattern for my rails apps. Right now, I use the Foundations javascript libraries, however those are very generic. I'd like to do something like Foundation does: have separate js files for accordians, sliders, tooltips, etc...I've been looking at the module patterns, however, as a new-comer to js (I'm ruby backend dev), there seems to be so many ways (http://www.adequatelygood.com/2010/3/JavaScript-Module-Patte...), to do the same thing, and I'm at a loss trying to figure out which one to start out with.

Anyone facing this issue? How have you gone about starting out? Thanks.

bertomartin··on JavaScript Patterns Collection
What's the best pattern to use for a rails app? I've been name-spacing my js so that objects get instantiated based on controller/action using the Garber-Irish Technique. I've found this a great technique, however, I still need a way to organize my js objects into modules/submodules for example. have anyone looked into this?
bertomartin··on Show HN: RubyBeats - A Tweets Aggregator for Ruby
Interesting, are you just doing a search using the twitter api for hash tag #ruby using jquery or a ruby gem? I see I can login to your site with twitter, but that seems to be down at the moment. I guess I'd just like to know generally how this functions as I'm thinking of doing something like this for a personal project.
bertomartin··on Google Shows Off Glass in New Video, Puts Out Call for New Buyers
Imagine what happens when they integrate glass with their upcoming x-phone. Win!
bertomartin··on Apple cuts orders for iPhone 5 parts on weak demand
That's the first time I'm hearing anyone complain about wifi issues. Everyone I know that have an iPhone5 have had no such complaints.
bertomartin··on Apple cuts orders for iPhone 5 parts on weak demand
Long or Short, would you put your money on your prognostications?
bertomartin··on Browse Amazon, Randomly
Another thing, make an obvious link to the amazon page. something like "see it on amazon.com"
bertomartin··on Browse Amazon, Randomly
duckduckgo? Anyways, I actually found this useful. What might be a good addition is current ratings (if Amazon expose such information). Another thing, put the "back" button next to the "next" button; improves usability
bertomartin··on CES 2013: Large format tablets
Is this some kind of joke?
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