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Ask HN: Is that important for a developer to have an impressive personal page?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2407157I am a Python developer with good design background. I am willing to expand my freelance activity in Python web development area now. I have seen tons of visually appealing impressive personal pages of web designers. Those that are more web graphic designers working with HTML/CSS/JS than hardcore programmers. I bet you saw much of them too on the web. They have professional look and feel giving you an image of the person. I tried to find something similar for the programmers to inspire myself for creating my personal page. I searched for 'web developer portfolio', 'web developer personal page' and some other keywords on Google. I didn't find anything as impressive as web designers' pages. All I could see were some boring CVs or something like CVs, sometimes with a small photo of a person and more or less average look. Obviously everyone is the best at what he is the best and programmers sell their technical/analytical skills. They can show perfectly structured code to impress a potentiApr 4, 2011 4:15 PM
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Man Creates Huge Online Museum for Vintage Calculatorshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85dd8d3d714dc1aa0eef2f1e04f7e4&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.wired.com%2f2010%2f08%2fvintage-calculators%2f&c=1057143736412449380&mkt=en-usFive hundred eighty-three calculators, 128 brands and one man who has painstakingly cataloged them all. Emil Dudek, a technology enthusiast who lives in South Wales, U.K., has spent the last eight ...Aug 30, 2010 12:00 AM
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Man Creates Huge Online Museum for Vintage Calculatorshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85e093f2194f3fbebc2002da0500da&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.wired.com%2f2010%2f08%2fvintage-calculators%2f&c=1057143736412449380&mkt=en-usFive hundred eighty-three calculators, 128 brands and one man who has painstakingly cataloged them all. Emil Dudek, a technology enthusiast who lives in South Wales, U.K., has spent the last eight ...Aug 30, 2010 12:00 AM
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Man Creates Huge Online Museum for Vintage Calculatorshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85de84dccd4cd6904986038ea2e4d4&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.wired.com%2f2010%2f08%2fvintage-calculators%2f&c=1057143736412449380&mkt=en-usFive hundred eighty-three calculators, 128 brands and one man who has painstakingly cataloged them all. Emil Dudek, a technology enthusiast who lives in South Wales, U.K., has spent the last eight ...Aug 30, 2010 12:00 AM
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Man Creates Huge Online Museum for Vintage Calculatorshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85d7d0d8284d21a882a7629d294cc3&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.wired.com%2f2010%2f08%2fvintage-calculators%2f&c=1057143736412449380&mkt=en-usFive hundred eighty-three calculators, 128 brands and one man who has painstakingly cataloged them all. Emil Dudek, a technology enthusiast who lives in South Wales, U.K., has spent the last eight ...Aug 30, 2010 12:00 AM
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Man Creates Huge Online Museum for Vintage Calculatorshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85e1d0684a4f28b5da92ad166a91cb&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.wired.com%2f2010%2f08%2fvintage-calculators%2f&c=1057143736412449380&mkt=en-usFive hundred eighty-three calculators, 128 brands and one man who has painstakingly cataloged them all. Emil Dudek, a technology enthusiast who lives in South Wales, U.K., has spent the last eight ...Aug 30, 2010 12:00 AM
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Man Creates Huge Online Museum for Vintage Calculatorshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85d959fe2142f28b62d2dbc69338ee&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.wired.com%2f2010%2f08%2fvintage-calculators%2f&c=1057143736412449380&mkt=en-usFive hundred eighty-three calculators, 128 brands and one man who has painstakingly cataloged them all. Emil Dudek, a technology enthusiast who lives in South Wales, U.K., has spent the last eight ...Aug 30, 2010 12:00 AM
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Man Creates Huge Online Museum for Vintage Calculatorshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85e2c30302453c918710cb0d8cd0ed&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.wired.com%2f2010%2f08%2fvintage-calculators%2f&c=1057143736412449380&mkt=en-usFive hundred eighty-three calculators, 128 brands and one man who has painstakingly cataloged them all. Emil Dudek, a technology enthusiast who lives in South Wales, U.K., has spent the last eight ...Aug 30, 2010 12:00 AM
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Man Creates Huge Online Museum for Vintage Calculatorshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85d75ec97049bcbf637063a0a9aae5&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.wired.com%2f2010%2f08%2fvintage-calculators%2f&c=1057143736412449380&mkt=en-usFive hundred eighty-three calculators, 128 brands and one man who has painstakingly cataloged them all. Emil Dudek, a technology enthusiast who lives in South Wales, U.K., has spent the last eight ...Aug 30, 2010 12:00 AM
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Man Creates Huge Online Museum for Vintage Calculatorshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85e4d8b0684f1ca9a8c86028835c51&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.wired.com%2f2010%2f08%2fvintage-calculators%2f&c=1057143736412449380&mkt=en-usFive hundred eighty-three calculators, 128 brands and one man who has painstakingly cataloged them all. Emil Dudek, a technology enthusiast who lives in South Wales, U.K., has spent the last eight ...Aug 30, 2010 12:00 AM
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Man Creates Huge Online Museum for Vintage Calculatorshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85db6ee0944e1eada92217546bc61a&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.wired.com%2f2010%2f08%2fvintage-calculators%2f&c=1057143736412449380&mkt=en-usFive hundred eighty-three calculators, 128 brands and one man who has painstakingly cataloged them all. Emil Dudek, a technology enthusiast who lives in South Wales, U.K., has spent the last eight ...Aug 30, 2010 12:00 AM
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Man Creates Huge Online Museum for Vintage Calculatorshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85e4dceb6040c2842b2729668e6381&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.wired.com%2f2010%2f08%2fvintage-calculators%2f&c=1057143736412449380&mkt=en-usFive hundred eighty-three calculators, 128 brands and one man who has painstakingly cataloged them all. Emil Dudek, a technology enthusiast who lives in South Wales, U.K., has spent the last eight ...Aug 30, 2010 12:00 AM
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Man Creates Huge Online Museum for Vintage Calculatorshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85d83997c74e8c91f1abbb9a09eb06&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.wired.com%2f2010%2f08%2fvintage-calculators%2f&c=1057143736412449380&mkt=en-usFive hundred eighty-three calculators, 128 brands and one man who has painstakingly cataloged them all. Emil Dudek, a technology enthusiast who lives in South Wales, U.K., has spent the last eight ...Aug 30, 2010 12:00 AM
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Man Creates Huge Online Museum for Vintage Calculatorshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85d83ec589411195e7de7cf8b3ca7f&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.wired.com%2f2010%2f08%2fvintage-calculators%2f&c=1057143736412449380&mkt=en-usFive hundred eighty-three calculators, 128 brands and one man who has painstakingly cataloged them all. Emil Dudek, a technology enthusiast who lives in South Wales, U.K., has spent the last eight ...Aug 30, 2010 12:00 AM
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Man Creates Huge Online Museum for Vintage Calculatorshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85de81fd194ede99e7668b119e78a6&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.wired.com%2f2010%2f08%2fvintage-calculators%2f&c=1057143736412449380&mkt=en-usFive hundred eighty-three calculators, 128 brands and one man who has painstakingly cataloged them all. Emil Dudek, a technology enthusiast who lives in South Wales, U.K., has spent the last eight ...Aug 30, 2010 12:00 AM
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Ask HN: Does changing locales to fix productivity doldrums work for you?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=757407The article about the creative bliss of moving to an attractive, cheaper foreign environment to bootstrap a startup:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=756570... got me thinking on a somewhat tangential question: Does moving around to change your environment actually help you work? Or is it solving the wrong problem the wrong way?From a personal state-of-mind angle that the author is pushing, I guess I'm not entirely sold on the fact that a change of scenery will let a hundred flowers of creativity bloom - in a sustainable way - to an extent that confers upon a startup a meaningful economic advantage. The cost differences might, but I'm not so sure about the aesthetic/spiritual quality.I've moved around a lot in my 23 years. I emigrated from Russia with my parents when I was 6, and moved around the US several times during childhood. Within the last few years spent in Georgia, I've moved several times within the general area I inhabited, including twice within Atlanta. When I was young,Aug 12, 2009 5:53 AM
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Ask HN: Do you think primarily in English?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=387921Rather, do you think primarily in your native language, or more in terms of abstract imagery?I've noticed that rather than forming images in my head to represent ideas, I will instead often think in English. For example, if I'm working through a logic problem, I will repeat the various elements of the problem in my head in English repeatedly until I solve it.I'm unfortunately unilingual. English is the only human language I have ever learned. I've noticed that when I speak phrases in Spanish, I'm actually speaking English in my head. It's like a lookup table. By that I mean, let's say I want to communicate "How are you?". Rather than attempting to reason through this task in Spanish (by trying to communicate the individual elements "how", 'in what way', "are", 'your state of being', and "you" 'the person I am communicating with'), I try to remember the phrase in Spanish that corresponds to the ordered set of words "How are you?". So it is rote memorization -- I'm not thinking in SpanisDec 6, 2008 6:54 AM
