Hacker News: elv

New comment by elv in "Programmer salary in mainland Europe?"

elv — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 11:45:53 +0000

guys, http://www.worldsalaries.org/computerprogrammer.shtml

US has the highest income in the world for programmers. The only european country close to US is UK, everything else is at least 50% less.

Merging Unladen Swallow into CPython

elv — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 14:30:45 +0000

Article URL: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3146/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1983006

Points: 14

# Comments: 5

WARNING: smartctl + Samsung F4 EcoGreen drives = write errors and bad blocks

elv — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 10:49:26 +0000

Article URL: http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1965384

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by elv in "Google Kills Wave"

elv — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:54:47 +0000

I think Wave is a creative and full of effort generalization of a basic idea: adding something to GMail to promote online work coordination and cooperation. They went way too far and they realized it. I would, istread of throwing everything away, rework the concept and see what can come out.

Employers: Look to gaming to motivate staff

elv — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:23:49 +0000

schliz writes "Like in World of Warcraft, students of Indiana University's game design classes start as Level 1 avatars with 0 XP, and progress by completing quests solo, as guilds, or in 'pick up groups.' Course coordinator Lee Sheldon says students are responding with 'far greater enthusiasm,' and many specifics of game design could also be directly applied to the workforce. These included: clearly defining goals for workers; providing incremental rewards; and balancing effort and reward."

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1201355

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by elv in "I need to find out how to finish anything I start. Help me. Please."

elv — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 03:13:11 +0000

1) baby steps

2) read "talent is overrated" to understand why IQ is useless compared to being able to work hard for a long time

New comment by elv in "[dead]"

elv — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:01:49 +0000

Limited point of view...pointless

New comment by elv in "Zawodny: Database Abstraction Layers Must Die (at least for PHP)"

elv — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:33:07 +0000

He starts saying DB abstraction layers are useless and he seem to conclude saying every abstraction and every library not written by you is pointless

this seem to me like "I'm paranoid about unknown code but I can't accept the truth SO I reinvent the wheel over and over again putting my code in my library and I say everyone this is cool cause it's faster and performance and bla bla blah"

the truth: abstraction -> helps think about the logic that matters in your program library -> helps not to reinvent the wheel and use code tested by everyone

his logic: abstraction -> ZOMG unknown stuff HEEELP, let's think about every algorithm in my program from scratch and let's justify this to me by saying I'm saving 3-4 intermediate function calls

New comment by elv in "Ron Garret: How knowing Lisp destroyed my programming career."

elv — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 01:45:00 +0000

funny story :) python ftw

New comment by elv in "Google Forms $100 Million Venture Fund"

elv — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:42:25 +0000

where the fuck is the "dont be evil" thing? i dont think financial results as the first focus is ethical

New comment by elv in "Google is Evil, Worse than PayPal: Don't use Google Checkout for your business"

elv — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:54:25 +0000

holy shit "let us be evil"

and what if they delist you to claim your rights? time to turn to yahoo?

New comment by elv in "Google's top designer quits, blames engineers"

elv — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:18:37 +0000

"ahhh those fu*n management guys never understand meh" :)

anyway debating over 3, 4 or 5 pixels and 41 shades of blue sounds SICK

New comment by elv in "Django 1.1 beta released"

elv — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:19:32 +0000

I hope they keep focus on simplicity and usability that proxy model thing seems complex and bugmaker to me

New comment by elv in "Players of Entropia Universe are getting real-world banking"

elv — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:28:25 +0000

whoa cool a bank management software connected with an online game :> the first that spots a bug will buy a REAL island and retire on it

New comment by elv in "Failure is overrated, a redux"

elv — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:32:01 +0000

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. Sir Winston Churchill

New comment by elv in "Startup Conversations With Myself: What Should I Work On?"

elv — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:44:05 +0000

imo the only thing you should work on is THAT thing that keep you up all nights and that you cant get it out of your head: your passion

New comment by elv in "Python Web Framework Advice"

elv — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:41:57 +0000

django is on the way to conquer the world http://code.google.com/p/google-app-engine-django/ one of the project owners: gvanrossum

New comment by elv in "Ask HN: So, you have a million dollars. Now what?"

elv — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:49:32 +0000

aim for 5% annual return, leave 2,5% for inflaction, and you'll be forever free with 25K/year yea you should carefully pick up your bank or your freedom could vanish in the next credit crunch :)

New comment by elv in "Why even IT pros are demanding Macs"

elv — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:44:33 +0000

high attention to details from hardware to OS features: OSX just works and it's simple too and if you need unix tools just install macports and you are ready to go...sounds obvious: it works and it's simple

New comment by elv in "Programmer from Finland has lost finger replaced with USB drive"

elv — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:28:51 +0000

he should carefully check the electrical design of every motherboard he puts his "finger" into :>

and what if the USB port is UNDER THE DESK? hihihi