Jemaclus

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by Jemaclus 8y ago
It's possible that's more due to the HN audience, which probably trends toward people who want to better themselves. I also imagine that self-help books are more universal (who doesn't want to Make Friends And Influence Peopl
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by Jemaclus 8y ago
True, and Lovett is generally pretty hilarious, but... then the ad breaks are 5 minutes long... If I'm able (i.e., not driving), I tend to just skip them.
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by Jemaclus 8y ago
Sort of a dumb question. I'm hearing impaired (profoundly deaf), but I enjoy music. I play guitar, albeit very badly, and I can't sing to carry a tune. Am I going to be wasting my time learning piano, or should I just do it and en
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by Jemaclus 8y ago
I'm building a Tradewars (old BBS game) clone in Go. It's fun trying to reverse engineer how certain things worked.
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by Jemaclus 8y ago
Yes, that's the conclusion I generally draw as well. It's an interview, and they think I expect them to write code. Personally, I'd answer with "I'd ask Google what they think, but if you want me to actually do it m
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by Jemaclus 8y ago
Yep, exactly. :)
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by Jemaclus 8y ago
Not the person you're replying to, but I'll share one of my favorites: Given an address such as "123 Main St, Boston, MA 00215", break it up into its component parts of: street number, street name, city, state, zip. (Not
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by Jemaclus 8y ago
My interview was in June 2015. Maybe you had left by then. It did seem disorganized. I did really enjoy that coding challenge, though. Good job with it. It is the one thing I did like about the whole experience, and I still share it with pe
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by Jemaclus 8y ago
It wasn't necessarily six consecutive rounds with "these sorts of problems", it was six consecutive rounds of _the same problem_ just worded differently. And the actual questions were less the terrible part as the fact that i
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by Jemaclus 8y ago
I have no idea if you were directly involved, unfortunately, which was part of the problem. I described my experience in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17795308
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by Jemaclus 8y ago
I was a Senior Software Engineer at the time. I thought the coding challenge was fun. They basically give you a URL, and the URL contains a list of numbers, which you append to the URL. Visiting each URL+number returns either a list of othe
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by Jemaclus 8y ago
This happened to me years ago when I was offered a position at EasyPost. I tried to counter politely and modestly, and the CEO (I can't remember his name) got mad at me, told me I should be grateful that I even got an offer, and then r
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by Jemaclus 8y ago
The CSPA thing is interesting to me because the founder/CEO was formerly the head of engineering at Crunchyroll, and interviewing at Crunchyroll was one of the worst interviewing experiences I've ever had. Let's just say I&#x
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by Jemaclus 8y ago
As a profoundly deaf person, I encourage you to speak to an audiologist and get hearing aids. They make some that are practically invisible, and the newfangled ones have Bluetooth technology, which streams music and phone calls and stuff di
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by Jemaclus 8y ago
Excellent. Thanks. (Have you considered using unladen swallows instead?)
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by Jemaclus 8y ago
I like the approach, and I've been considering building something similar. Nice writeup. Is this used only for BI or is it used for real-time queries? The reason I ask is because goodreads.com is slow AF, and performance is a concern f
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by Jemaclus 8y ago
There are five things I wish developers with whom I work understood: 1) At the end of the way, we're a business. The purpose of the business is to make money. Not work on cool things, not release a cool product, but to make money. It&#
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by Jemaclus 8y ago
I highly recommend "I Will Teach You to be Rich" by Ramit Sethi, which I thought was a great way to get the fundamentals in place. I've bought copies for several of my friends who had no idea what to do with their money. If y
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by Jemaclus 8y ago
I'm no good at picking names. I'm better at "code names", where I basically just find a pop culture reference that makes me laugh, like for an RSS feed reader, I might name it "Seymour" after the character from
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by Jemaclus 8y ago
I don't have anything interesting to say about this, except I loved reading it. I tend to follow a lot of tech stuff, so I don't get outside my tech bubble as far as reading different things goes. I just really liked it.
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by Jemaclus 8y ago
Background: I've been writing code for about 25 years, and I consider myself to be pretty good at what I do. Depending on the language, I'd say a couple of weeks of full-time work. I tend to dabble with new languages, so the calen
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by Jemaclus 9y ago
Well, at my high school the only choices were Spanish and French. I grew up in the South. There aren't a lot of Francophiles there. I figured Spanish was a more useful language (and it turns out, I like it a lot). I did wind up taking
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by Jemaclus 9y ago
I don't have kids, but there are three things I really wish my parents had done: 1) Require that I take piano / guitar lessons for at least a few years. I know I'd hate it as a kid, but as an adult, the ability to read music
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by Jemaclus 9y ago
He explains in the comments that it's wages that count toward Medicare via the SSA website. So not total compensation...
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by Jemaclus 9y ago
I tried to update my personal macbook, and it almost bricked it. (Took about 4 hours to recover because it kept booting up with a white disabled icon.) I updated my work macbook and it worked fine. Can't explain that. That said, I don&
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by Jemaclus 9y ago
I don't use it in production, but I do have front-end teams that need to develop against services, so it's nice to be able to have them use Docker to serve those APIs locally. That's probably the biggest productivity win in m
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by Jemaclus 9y ago
You're in luck! https://golang-for-python-programmers.readthedocs.io/en/late...
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by Jemaclus 9y ago
I've turned down a few. One was an early stage YC company that lowballed me, offered me 90K + 10,000 options (or something equally worthless). I attempted to negotiate (I was making 115K + vested stock in public company at the time) an
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by Jemaclus 9y ago
My emoji turned out fine, but full access to keyboard data is a non-starter for me. Sorry.
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by Jemaclus 9y ago
My wife works on this project! This is so cool to see real-life stories of this. Awesome.

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