Jemaclus

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by Jemaclus 11y ago
A tool for writers to track word counts, with fancy charts and shit. I built it for myself, but wound up opening it up to anyone who wants to use it. I don't really care if I get users or not, but it's fun to work on: https:&#x2F
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
I guess an obvious question is: what makes you think they haven't already? You have a smartphone, yeah? More realistically, I would say that for most people, the NSA thing is a non-issue. Most of America isn't as privacy-minded as
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I don't really have a lot to say about this article, but I do really love my Pebble watch. 99% of the time, it's just a watch -- who needs all the other fancy crap? But it has the nice features that make it worth it, the best of w
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
My company build something pretty identical to this a few years ago. It's INVALUABLE if you have a QA team or non-tech people who need to test things on different branches. Our workflow basically went like this: 1. Dev pushes branch to
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
I think the biggest thing I want is pagination for extremely large commits. Any ideas if that's gonna happen?
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Thanks for the feedback :)
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I'm building a fancy schmancy word tracker for writers. I love NaNoWriMo's tools, but they limit its use to just the month of November, which doesn't help me for the other eleven months of the year! I originally built a simpl
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
Curious... Why don't you like branches?
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
So here's a potentially dumb question. A lot of commenters are expressing optimism that a company could buy Yahoo and do something good with it. If that's the case, why can't Yahoo do something good with itself? If all it tak
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
I've worked with several companies and the successful ones do code review somehow. Before I go into them, let me preface with we have always required 100% code test coverage. If even one test fails, it doesn't go out. We have also
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
Hearing aids. Hearing aids that sync seamlessly with Bluetooth. It can really transform the way hard-of-hearing people converse on phones. Hearing aids whose battery life is supplemented by body heat (Battery life is currently ~1 week, and
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
As an also-Director of Engineering applicant, I'm at the point where if I get to the onsite and you ask me beginner Javascript questions or give me riddles, I'm inclined to say thanks but no thanks and move on. Not literally, but
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
Totally agree about the phone thing. At my last job, I set up a meeting with HR and explained the situation, and within 24 hours, the entire 2000+ company had a new rule about email vs phone calls. There were still a lot of calls, but none
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
We use a ball, but the same method applies. It works great during small standups, but at all-hands meetings it gets unwieldy, especially if someone cracks a joke and everyone but me is laughing. That kind of sucks. But you're right, it
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
Yes, I agree, to an extent. However, I think the real world is a little bit more complicated than that. Most people, given the opportunity, would brush aside even modest hardship, and you can't blame them for that. Why walk all the way
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
As another deaf developer (severe-to-profound loss), this is absolutely on point. A lot of the traditional techniques that work for most companies don't work for me, especially when it comes to pair programming. I strongly dislike grou
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
Most of the things I can think of are firmware, like for tractors, thermostats, hearing aids, etc. Things that are generally so proprietary that it's hurting the industries.
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Fun app. Tell him to keep up the good work! I made it to stage 4, but it was easy to see how lucky I was!
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I don't think you really can. In my experience, it's in the employer's best interest to hire good people, and it's not in their best interest to be candid with you. Furthermore, even if I as an interviewer worked for a s
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That only works if there can be only one winner. If you spend $250Mto win $292M, that seems like a sure bet. But someone else wins too, then you only won $146 million, so you actually lost $104M. I'm skeptical that the math works out,
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
Hmm. I'm kinda disappointed. I was expecting more of a breakdown into an actual strategy, not what basically amounts to an ad. Personally, tracking expenses has never really been the big problem. Once I've swiped that card, the ac
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
At some point, you go to a senior person and you say to them, "I've been here X [months/years], and I feel like I've learned a lot. Someday I think I could see myself doing what you do. If my career goal is to have your
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I don't. It's spam through and through.
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Great question, and it's good that you're thinking about your career trajectory. School is generally thought to be a fast-track to experience. That is, a degree translates to N years of experience in the real world. In reality (at
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
I really enjoyed this post, partly because I agree with almost everything. The section that jumped out the most for me is the "Hiring for Strength vs Lack of Weakness." The author is absolutely correct. Hiring is not (and should n
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That's alignment, not indentation. There's a semantic difference there.
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Tabs for indentation, hands down. Every editor out there worth its salt can adjust the tab size the way you want. If you want 1 tab = 2 spaces, you can do that. If I want 1 tab = 4 spaces, I can do that. Either way, it's one tab, and w
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
That may be true, but self-reflection is a win/win scenario. You can always make a situation better , even if you can't fix it. OP should definitely leave the job, but the GP is correct in that he shouldn't just say "
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I might point out that it's not in the company's best interest to answer any questions about your performance. If an interviewer gives you feedback, and they say something wrong, it could open the company up to a discrimination la
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The truth of the matter is that most recruiters don't know what they're talking about. They don't know the difference between Java and Javascript, and neither do the HR people who generate those job descriptions. Furthermor

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