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I'm in the process of writing a book also. I'm wondering if an author has no saying in this. Can a publisher just decide: I give your book away for free?

What does this mean for publishing in general? 10 years is not much time for good technical books.

Matter of minutes might never be possible or even desirable. But I do think learning can be done much more efficiently with the right tools. Working on that on my side projects ;) It comes down to good old note taking and expressing what you have learned in your own words or code.

baseball analogy?

This is so awesome. Makes and ruins my day. I'm wondering what that means for authors and writing technical books in general though. Have authors a say in this?

I meant "find something when we need it" and remember it to be the same. I'm not trying to create a photographic memory. Short term memory is limited, and it requires repetition for something to sink into long-term memory.

How often have you looked something up (e.g. "how do I cherry pick in git?") only to forget it and then 2 months later to look up the same information again? For this we take notes.

I'm working on reducing the need to re-do the same process again and again, to making learning and remembering more efficient.

another vote for bitbucket

absolutely agree, in fact, for me I need to look beyond his constant anger to not lose the value of his ideas. I also read "Bed of Procrustes" which I couldn't finish.

I decided to dedicate my free /side-project time to my own biggest itch: how can we improve the way we learn and remember? In particular, I think the way we teach & learn software development could be greatly improved.

As a first step, I created http://www.codingbrain.com. It's a knowledge management app that integrates with your markdown notes.

I too posted on HN without much feedback https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10464525

However, I think codingbrain tries to do too many things at once and I have plenty of sub-ideas which I plan to implement in 2016

I have worked on Windows, Linux, Mac. Nowadays Mac-only:

- least amount of hassle, 95% it works - very good piece of hardware - great number of OS-X only tools

expensive, but it's the tool of my craft so I'm willing to pay for it

Don't forget brainpickings' best-of: https://www.brainpickings.org/tag/best-of/

Start with this: http://winterbe.com/posts/2014/03/16/java-8-tutorial/

I'd like to second this. I had only slight interest in Biology but got completely hooked into the course because the teacher makes things so plausible and exciting. I wish one could do bioinformatics remotely, I'd seriously change careers ;)

SEEKING WORK - Preferably remote (travelling on-site within Europe 1-2x per month perfectly fine) or Madrid

http://goo.gl/1cuZz0

Software engineer (CS master) with 10+ years experience building business backend systems for a variety of clients (based in Germany, UK, US, Spain and remote).

Professionally, I have done mostly Java backend development, but consider myself a generalist, as I'm continuously learning & building things (side projects, open source).

I enjoy exploring new ideas, writing and teaching about software craft.

Looking for challenging work, where the need to find profound solutions is important (in contrast to slashing something together for the sake of speed).

Skillset:

  * Java expert, from J2EE to modern Java development
  * Fluent in Python, intermediate at Clojure, Scala, Go (and C++ though dated) 
  * Experienced in building backend systems using the most suitable framework, database and environment (mostly AWS). 
  * I have done plenty of scalable REST api development the last 5 years. 
  * I'm confident to do front-end development using JS frameworks, CSS, HTML5

I'm based in Madrid, Spain (born in Germany). I speak English, German, Spanish. Looking forward to talk!

More info, github, linkedin, email here: http://goo.gl/1cuZz0

My side project is http://codingbrain.com. I want to make learning & coding more efficient. It's desktop app that integrates with existing markdown editor and browser and serves as a central hub that records what you do, helps to generate new content, enables to search/remember and tries to automate as much as possible to increase productivity.

Fixed, sorry for that

Clickable: http://www.codingbrain.com

P.S: Mac only at this time. As it was developed in JavaFX porting to other OSes not that difficult so expect this to happen soon.

I'd very much appreciate any input or impression you have.

Thanks in advance :)

http://codingbrain.com - a knowledge management app aimed at software devs and technical bloggers.

It's a local search engine, web scraper, note taking, markdown editor, bookmarking, history app. I've been pondering a tool like that for a long time and it's now almost ready for the public.

I'm taking notes for more than 10 years and have a rather big collection. I have tried many apps but after losing data due to proprietary formats I won't use anything else then plain text anymore. Nowadays I write everything down as Markdown files that I have stored on my local disk in hierarchical folders (backed up by Spideroak).

The only part I wasn't happy with was search. So I have built my own local search engine. It treats the first line of a Markdown file as a line of tags that I can search for. It takes advantages of Markdown syntax (e.g. words in headlines get a scoring boost) and it can also open files in my editor, integrating quite well in my daily work flow.

It's on Github if interested: https://github.com/BernhardWenzel/markdown-search

walking home if possible. Some time ago I figured that I need around 45 minutes to completely disconnect and refresh from an intense day of work.

Guess depends on the language, I'm doing Java backend dev since almost 15 years and loving it. I'm developing front-end but only for my own side projects

That looks extremely similar to http://www.notebooksapp.com. Is that the same app sold differently? I use notebooks app and am happy with it, always wanted a simple interface to my text/markdown files. But Quiver seems to have a few more options.

My experience was not that bad but I would do things differently next time. What I realized was that I do enjoy traveling and living in new cultures but I hate being a tourist. I loathed staying in hostels and having to meet new people constantly. Also going from city to city felt routine after a while

Next I'd rather stay in one place and do something there. Eg attending a language school or do some work.

Are you a starter but not a finisher? Are you sure you really want to build a business? Or do you just like the idea of having a business, but not the grinding work? You say you like to read and think a lot - this could be signs that having a business is not really what you want. Where have you spent your 16-18 hours a day? On your website, on your framework, on your code editor? Or on solving business problems, on sales, on talking to people with money? You don't have friends and say you lost your best time. So start living now. Stop "building businesses". Work in business. Talk to business people. Get experience. So yes, I'd say indeed give up. Because it doesn't matter what you tell yourself now. You are going to change your mind anyway. With 25 there is so much more to learn and do.

The first book I can remember was "Basic Computer Games"

http://www.atariarchives.org/basicgames/. Esp. the star trek games brings back so many nice memories

Enterprise Java and the whole convoluted stack around it

What an accurate quote, thanks for posting.

I've been keeping a daily journal for almost ten years now. I think it is important to keep a long term perspective and for that nothing beats plain text. In the beginning I used a note keeping software. After an application crash I lost data. I would not want to have any dependence to a proprietary data format. So now I use plain text + Markdown + local file search . Same goes for knowledge management.

If find this a very good idea. In fact, I want to have a public diary of all my development and learning activities. I don't see how it could backfire, quite the opposite: if you abandon the project at least you blogged about problems you encountered and what you have learned and so on. Instead of nothing (project gone) you have delivered postings