Deestan

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by Deestan 18y ago
A bit, now that you mention it.
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by Deestan 18y ago
Careerwise, I answer "programmer, for TV news systems". That seems to work pretty well. When explaining my hobby, "programming" seems to generate strong associations to Excel for some reason, so I usually answer "mathematics" instead.
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by Deestan 18y ago
That only really works if your application crashes very rarely to begin with. Unfortunately, that excludes the stuff I'm working on. I really like the "dead tab" icon, but if it showed up 5 times per day, I'd grow to loathe it in a week.
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by Deestan 18y ago
He is annoyed that critics take DHH's "Fuck" words out of context, but he's not really helping the cause with that blog post title.
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by Deestan 18y ago
It is a database. Not a relational database, though. But the Tree objects (1) make a hierarchical database. (1) http://book.git-scm.com/1_the_git_object_model.html
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by Deestan 18y ago
Wow! I've heard YAML mentioned before, but this is the first actual example I've seen. I'm very embarrassed that this beautiful standard has been around for ~5 years without me noticing it. /me goes off to read http://yaml.org/spec/1.2/
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by Deestan 18y ago
What does "REALLY" really mean here? Should I count office face time only? Should I add hours if I check company email from home? Should I subtract hours when I slack off during office hours? Should I subtract hours I spend doing paid stuff
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by Deestan 18y ago
I never meant I didn't like that kind of riddle - I really do enjoy most of them. But I don't think they have any use in an interview setting, since they too often just test if the interviewee is up to date on the latest list of interview q
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by Deestan 18y ago
Just curious here; I'm a developer who has to write messages like this from time to time. What specifically is bad about it? Do you have any suggestions to what it should be instead?
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by Deestan 18y ago
The first question annoys me - are they really still using trick questions like this?
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by Deestan 18y ago
I skimmed through a few. There are a lot of platitudes in there, but a few of them are useful reminders or elaborations of things we know "in the bone", like #18 and #24.
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by Deestan 18y ago
File "<stdin>", line 1 GR : COLOR=1 : PLOT 20,20 ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax
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by Deestan 18y ago
> The density of WTF's in this file is huge. Who can make sense of the following lines without any explanation? format([$M|T], {{_,M,_},_}=Dt, Acc) -> format(T, Dt, [smonth(M)|Acc]); I assume you mean "Who with zero pr