Jemaclus

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by Jemaclus 11y ago
I don't know that I buy that. Cheaper isn't always better.
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
They say that functional (and by all accounts fantastic) code was delivered for the winning $1 bid, and then they claim that the experiment was a success. But was it really? Is a $1 winning bid in the spirit of this? Couldn't someone w
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
What I'd like to know is what's the best way to gauge a candidate's coding ability when they say they don't have any code samples to share? (They all have excuses.) I dislike giving homework assignments, and while a lot
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
What I don't see here is what I'm most interested in: how effective are robo-advisors? What percentage of the time do they beat the market, if ever? Am I better off simply investing in S&P 500 or a Vanguard target fund? Or doe
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
As lostdog mentioned, if you can't get "VP of Engineering", go for "Director of Engineering", which is basically the same title, but leaves room for them to hire a "real VP" later down the road. As I said,
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
Wirecutter has never steered me wrong. I've loved every purchase I've gotten on their recommendation. I can't speak highly enough about it.
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
If I were opening a book store today, I'd do two things: 1. I'd put Amazon affiliate links everywhere. If you want to buy it from Amazon while browsing my store, go for it. I'll just get a cut of the sale via my affiliate lin
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
Assuming no pay increase, titles are free. If you're already managing the tech teams, then you should be able to get the VP Eng title with little problem. It's a win-win situation for them, too: you're happier with the nicer
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
Yes, this is true, but you're overlooking a few of the things I mentioned earlier. Gofmt is extremely opinionated -- you can't customize it. Most other tools involve customizing to fit your own style conventions. Gofmt doesn'
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
erk, that totally screwed up my code example... sorry. :)
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
You obviously don't work with a team, or you work with a team that also doesn't have opinions about style. That's probably not a great thing. The tab-vs-spaces debate is very real, as well as things like whether hanging com
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
You're right. There are other tools out there. But what I really appreciate about gofmt are a few things: * It's highly opinionated. It's not cluttered with customization options. This means your Go program and my Go program
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
Nailed it. I love Go, but all of the things listed in this article (and more) make me bash my head against the wall more often than I'd like to admit. That said, there are some fantastic things about Go that aren't listed in the a
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
Sort of. It's a long story, but I got transferred into his department. I was happy in my other department and unhappy in his. So in that regard, it was not a favor. But since the transfer was effectively irreversible, it wound up being
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
As a manager, if an employee of mine came to me and said "I'm burning out, what do I do?" I'd do whatever I could to help them rediscover their passion for the job they're doing. But as an employee, I made the mista
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
Do you think a simple edge case is a good reason to challenge the quality of the entire data set? I'm not sure how many just-launched apps have perfect data and are perfectly bug-free, but I'm guessing that number is pretty low. (
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
In that case, a clearer way of doing that might be to separate the rank 0s into its own section on the same page. "For Grandpa:" and something more bland like "Other Exciting Items" or something like that. That way, as I
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
It'd also be cool if the ages actually meant something. I noticed that 90% of the items are the same, whether I picked "son", "father", or "grandfather." Do you really think my grandfather would want a ner
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
Clever. One of the more interesting challenges that I've run into in the last few years is just the sheer amount of raw data out there. It's mind-boggling how many problems can be solved if we could sift through that data quickly,
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
This is pretty clever. The major improvements I'd want to make are some sort of RFID chip that deactivates the magnet when I'm close enough, instead of a fingerprint scanner. It seems like anyone who gets close enough can see the
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
Categorically not true! All investors who put their toilet paper on the roll in the under position have such poor judgment that they're technically just gamblers!
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
Two questions: * Would you consider investing in a company that invents a toilet paper holder where the TP can only be inserted in the OVER position? This is a huge problem world-wide that should be solved immediately. The market is huge! B
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
The obvious reason is that your friends are searching for things. When you talk to your friends and your friend mentions that he's going through a divorce, the odds are great that he's looked up a divorce lawyer online, because yo
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
This is pretty disturbing. I'm not sure I'd want to go to a church -- or any institution, really -- where this kind of Orwellian behavior is acceptable. Yikes.
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
Yep, I already unsubscribed.
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
Ah, that makes sense.
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
Did anyone else get an email from Nylas that they never signed up for? I don't recall ever signing up for newsletters, so I'm curious as to how I heard about this in my inbox instead of on HN. Kind of annoying.
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
Spot on.
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
Same way you learn anything else: repetition. Practice, practice, practice, practice, practice. You'll probably have to make some judgment calls about what's worth keeping in that cognitive space, though. For commands you use all
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
This is pretty well done. I've always been a bit lost on the differences between imperative and declarative programming. Each time I've asked, I've gotten incredulous "You mean you don't KNOW?" And then they st

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