JCDenton2052

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by JCDenton2052 10y ago
Sounds very interesting. Can I please ask what sort of games you play and what FPS you're getting?
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by JCDenton2052 10y ago
I think we have all been guilty of negatively-named booleans at some point or other.
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by JCDenton2052 10y ago
One word, my friend: VPN.
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by JCDenton2052 10y ago
The most "demanding" dev jobs I am aware of are in the big four (or five) tech companies and as far as I know Ivy League credentials are not a priority for them when looking at a CV.
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Inside the hunt for Russia's most notorious hacker(wired.com)
3 points by JCDenton2052 10y ago|0 comments
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by JCDenton2052 10y ago
" (This also applies to the DRY principle. Don't worry about it so much. Feel free to duplicate.)" The sort of advice followed by programmers when building systems that will accumulate heavy technical debt that someone else w
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by JCDenton2052 10y ago
Is everything other than programming, "bullshitting"? Far from it. I am referring to a multifaceted spectrum of skills, no different than one every other non-technical professional has to contend with. Linguistic skills, logical f
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by JCDenton2052 10y ago
That unless you are in a pure code monkey position, programming is at most, 30% of the job and there is an array of skills that have nothing to do with programming that when mastered, will give the impression that you are an expert programm
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by JCDenton2052 10y ago
After reading Blood Meridian, I needed to read a book to explain to me what Blood Meridian was really all about.
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by JCDenton2052 10y ago
Was he hired?
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by JCDenton2052 10y ago
"This is where engineering sense comes into play. I'd personally rather not pay for things I don't need, particularly if an undue focus on performance, etc. means my cost overruns my budget. Perfect is the enemy of the good,
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by JCDenton2052 10y ago
You can learn what constitutes good code by reading bad code- it is safe to assume that there is a lot more bad around than good! Some flags: -God objects (they do everything!) and their opposites, freeloaders -1000-line methods -No unit t
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by JCDenton2052 10y ago
Some of the blogs from my RSS feed, mainly but not exclusively .NET: Scott Hanselman Martin Fowler Coding horror Fabulous adventures in coding (Eric Lippert) Zed Shaw (still on my list even though he seems to have largely abandoned tech) Ay
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by JCDenton2052 10y ago
YAGNI. Not being an abstraction freak. Not implementing hundreds of features in the hope that they may be useful one day. I have been going through the code of a well-known document database... I am horrified to discover over 400 classes in
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by JCDenton2052 10y ago
Freelancers do no tech interviews?
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by JCDenton2052 10y ago
The prevalent thinking is that algorithmic skills transfer very well to other problem-solving skills. This is especially the case in Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Amazon who ask a lot of these questions. I do not necessarily agree with it
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by JCDenton2052 10y ago
What problem does it solve that is not solved already? What does it do better than it is done today?
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by JCDenton2052 10y ago
I haven't worked with any, they probably don't make it past the HR/recruiter filter. As an engineer who has had to assess other engineers as part of the hiring process, I wouldn't turn down someone if they didn't ha
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by JCDenton2052 10y ago
I disagree. I have worked in software teams that employed people with non-CompSi degrees, such as maths, physics and mechanical engineering.
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by JCDenton2052 10y ago
Excellent, thank you.
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by JCDenton2052 10y ago
No, every engineer should not blog. It is hard enough to find the right information when you have to shift through clickbait and the signal-to-noise ratio is abysmal. If I was interested in assessing someone's caliber, I'd rather
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by JCDenton2052 10y ago
When you're going through hell, keep going.
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by JCDenton2052 10y ago
I have been using PasswordSafe and am very happy with both security and usability. It was designed by Bruce Schneier and has been extensively peer reviewed. When I was looking to adopt a password manager I did some research and came across
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Ask HN: What is an efficient strategy to retain skills with minimum investment?
16 points by JCDenton2052 10y ago|10 comments
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by JCDenton2052 10y ago
For me it used to be the fact that everyone required at least 1 year's worth of work experience. They would hardly grant you an interview without it with all open source projects in the world. Recruiters don't even know what open
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by JCDenton2052 10y ago
This is great news. Quality of conversation is abysmal on those boards.
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by JCDenton2052 11y ago
A FTSE 100 company I was working for has outsourced all their back end operations and is not stopping any time soon. 90% offshore, 10% onshore (legacy employees).