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devgutt··on Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them (2009)
We are very good rationalizing fail, so I think this "incentive" is not enough. Actually, now you have to explain yourself for a bunch of people.
devgutt··on The Erlang Shell
An interesting example of Erlang hot code reloading in embedded system: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96UzSHyp0F8
devgutt··on Why Stack Overflow in Portuguese?
Joe Armstrong
devgutt··on Why Stack Overflow in Portuguese?
The question writer. The user still has to have some ability to understand the standard language of the site.
devgutt··on Why Stack Overflow in Portuguese?
I think this is not the correct way to tackle the problem. Build a website in Portuguese will only divide instead of stimulate the participation of users which doesn't have English as native.

I'd like to propose a different approach:

For the users that speak Portuguese natively, make the questions, answers and comments all written in Portuguese FIRST, and, a English version MANDATORY afterwards (which would be the standard language).

The Portuguese-spoken users would see all this items also in Portuguese, and the remains in English.

The same for users of other languages. For those who speak only English, it would be no difference.

This approach has several advantages:

* It makes the user think in their native language, giving much better answers.

* The user is forced to make a second review in the answer when it was translated to English.

* The user will identify their language peers easily.

* The user will be more comfortable to participate, because the barrier to write in English is tremendous (much bigger than a lot of people think).

This way, I think you are able to keep a single website for ALL developers, stimulating participation.

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Same comment in Portuguese (my native language, just for illustration)

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Acho que isso não é uma forma adequada de tratar o problema. Criar um site em português irá dividir ao invés de estimular a participação destes usuários que não tem inglês nativo.

Gostaria de propôr uma solução, que no meu ponto-de-vista, seria bem melhor:

Para os usuários que falam Português nativamente, façam que todas as perguntas, respostas e comentários no site sejam escritos em Português, primeiramente, e adicionada, OBRIGATORIAMENTE, uma versão em inglês (que seria a língua comum).

Os usuários que falam Português nativo veriam automaticamente estes itens também em português, e o restante em inglês.

O mesmo para usuários de outras línguas. Para aqueles que falam apenas inglês, não teria nenhuma diferença.

Essa abordagem tem várias vantagens:

* Estimular que o usuário pense em sua língua nativa, fornecendo respostas muito mais precisas.

* Força o usuário fazer uma segunda revisão na resposta quando for traduzir para o inglês.

* O usuário nativo vai identificar os seus pares rapidamente.

* O usuário vai ficar mais confortável em participar, pois a barreira de escrever em inglês é enorme (maior do que muitos pensam)

Acho que desta forma poderia fazer um único site para TODOS os desenvolvedores, estimulando a participação.

devgutt··on Why Stack Overflow in Portuguese?
Would you mind to share what is your process?
devgutt··on Show HN: JS library to make your website instant
Amazon have done this to improve the performance of dropdown menu. http://bjk5.com/post/44698559168/breaking-down-amazons-mega-...
devgutt··on What if successful startups are just lucky?
I think that it is some misunderstanding between be successful and have money. Money is the consequence, but the objective of a business should be create real value. In this sense, if you have only a few customers but you are delivering real value, you are successful. Take youtube, for example. They were a very successful company in the beginning, delivering a delightful experience. Now, if you consider money as objective, they are still successful, but they are not. They now deliver a awful experience, with Ads in the beginning, middle and the end of each video. For me, no matter how much money they are making, they just not successful anymore.
devgutt··on 75-year study on what men require to live a happy life.
and this is really sad
devgutt··on WTF is happening? - Digital attack map -
and also related with Google Ideas (http://www.google.com/ideas/)
devgutt··on Seven-Planet System Detected
Kepler 62 seems interesting
devgutt··on Why this European never wants to live in America
All points in my opinion are cheap shots. With over 300 million people, over generalization is silly.
devgutt··on Reset your life
Probably hardship is the exact thing that he wants to experience.
devgutt··on Sword
$ watch
devgutt··on See Your Folks
I read in a book a long time ago and I still remember clearly when the protagonist said everytime that he was shaving early morning: "minus one".
devgutt··on G.K. Chesterton: The fallacy of success (1909)
sorry about that, but it appears in italic for me. with quotes: "The days of idealism and superstition are over. We live in a time of science and hard common sense..."
devgutt··on G.K. Chesterton: The fallacy of success (1909)
The days of idealism and superstition are over. We live in a time of science and hard common sense...

Unfortunately, it wasn't true in 1909, and still not true at all today

devgutt··on Is the government open?
I first thought It was some kind of map of open governments around the world...nope, just a meme. Isn't The Facebook the place for this type of material? (maybe the code was written using Butterflies, so that would be interesting).
devgutt··on [dead]
AFAIK this is not an official HN account
devgutt··on How I thought I wanted to become a digital nomad
I always wonder if there is a website to organize this. I have my own house but would like to stay here only 3 months a year and move for other 3 places elsewhere (fixed places). It would be a good idea for a startup.
devgutt··on English has been my pain for 15 years
besides, I feel that I'm wasting too much time. I know that is important, but still, it is just a tool. Not even a challenging one. It's just a boring tool to learn.
devgutt··on Hacker News Web App for Mobile
nice works. The first of this type that I liked, but I'd like to see the actual page of the news.
devgutt··on Here's the Most Idiotic and Brilliant App Ever
This app should sell a kit with a parachute...This would be the new Toy Parachute Men.
devgutt··on One Second on the Internet
also

   elinks -source http://onesecond.designly.com/ | grep "\/\w*\.gif\"\ data-count='[0-9]*'" -o
devgutt··on The idea maze
yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method
devgutt··on The idea maze
This is not a meme, if can't back up EVERYTHING you claim, please, keep for yourself. Evidence is mandatory always, in any situation, no exception.
devgutt··on The idea maze
> The benefits of learning about the maze generally far outweigh the risks of having your idea stolen.

Any evidence for that? Stealth mode seems to work pretty well in big companies

devgutt··on Hacker News in the Terminal
I used to use elinks with a filter (words.txt) by topic

  elinks -dump news.ycombinator.com | sed -n -e 's/\([0-9]\+\)\.\ \+\(\[.\+\]\)\+\(.*\)/\1: \3/p' | grep -f words.txt -i
devgutt··on The Pixar Theory
Monsters vs Aliens is not a pixar movie but fit well between Bug's Life and Monster Uni...maybe something bigger...I hope anyone try to put this as the "new bible" :p
devgutt··on I'm learning to code by building 180 websites in 180 days. Today is day 115
I wish I had time to do similar approach solely to learn new things using HN: Hacker News University.
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