Jemaclus

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by Jemaclus 11y ago
Just recently finished "Seveneves" by Neal Stephenson. It's sci-fi, but fantastic. For non-sci-fi, my favorite fantasy book I've read recently was "The Lies of Locke Lamora" (and its sequels) by Scott Lynch. An
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
I love this stuff. I'm currently working on a project where, left to my own devices, I would have come up with some complicated scheme that would reduce an O(n) (or even O(n^2)) task to O(log n). Fortunately, the guidelines I've b
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
My two bits of advice are: 1) always try to be the dumbest person in the room (i.e., surround yourself with smart people from whom you can learn), and 2) remove the phrase "it works for me" from your vocabulary when dealing with o
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
I cross-posted this in another thread, but it's relevant here. Modified slightly: I think an interesting direction is figuring out how to leverage web tech (or just code in general) to interact with the real world. Consider companies l
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
I think an interesting direction is figuring out how to leverage web tech (or just code in general) to interact with the real world. Consider companies like Uber and AirBNB. They've identified a real-world problem and set out to solve
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
Great way to think about it!
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
The only thing I really, really want is paginated diffs for pull requests. C'mon. If I have 300 files, don't show me the first 15 and then say "well, this is too big, you'll just have to imagine what the rest of the diff
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
Interesting. Thanks!
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
How are you calculating the predictions? What do the Reigel and Cameron columns mean? Also, it keeps refreshing the page. How long will it take to calculate a "final" prediction?
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
This has always been one of my favorites. I love it all over again every time I read it! So creative -- and hilarious!
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
Not that the author doesn't have a point, but isn't Amazon Prime totally worth it if you order more than 3-4 times a year? I probably order something from Amazon once a month, if not more. On every other website I order from, I ha
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
Got about halfway through before I realized this guy is using Twitter to write what should be a blog post. While I'm sure his message is solid, I'm not sure how much I respect someone's tech advice when they don't seem t
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
To echo tptacek, take the most boring possible way out. "Opportunities for growth and additional responsibility aren't readily available, and I'm looking for a new challenge."
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
I somewhat disagree with the premise of this post. I don't think someone walking in and being able to code at whatever level I'm expecting them to do is impressive. That's exactly what you should expect them to do before they
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
I've been actively interviewing for the past few weeks, and I've noticed that a very large number of emails from companies and recruiters (mostly recruiters) have been marked as Spam or at least shunted off to a non-Inbox folder.
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
It would have to cleanly and simply manage all of the different needs that small teams have: bug tracking, issue tracking, feature requests, prioritization, code changes, etc. My rule of thumb for switching to new tech is that the new app m
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
The biggest one for me is that bug management tools tend to be "another app" that I have to deal with in addition to issue tracking (not necessarily bugs) and task management (also not necessarily bugs), as well as potentially bei
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
I don't think being an introvert is a problem, necessarily. Some jobs require people skills (managers, etc), but I also consider myself an introvert, albeit one with people skills. There are different kinds of responsibility, though. Y
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
I've been promoted about once every 2-3 years, depending on where I was working, but I've also been pretty vocal about career advancement and aggressive in going after the things I want. I may or may not be an outlier here. Take m
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
> Most of the start-up crowd seems to think that it's worth paying several times more rent to be physically near the big money in SanFran. It's not an unfounded belief, imo. I've been trying to convince several of my frien
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
Well, I think you're making the assumption that the target user of a Macbook is a professional that has a hub and keeps it at her desk. I think the normal usage for a laptop is the mobility, for both professionals and non-professionals
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
Yes, like someone else said, that's not necessarily true or obvious. There's a DMV in every major city in the country, there are veteran services, immigration offices, department of defense, department of human resources, housing
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
I applied and interviewed with the USDS, but the biggest thing was that they wanted me to move to DC for 6+ months. I'm quite happy here on the west coast, engaged to be married, and attempting to buy a house. Moving cross-country is p
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
This is kind of a long story, but bear with me, it's relevant. I went to a book signing by Brandon Sanderson. Not a huge fan of him as a person, but he's a fantastic writer and an incredibly smart man. He started off the signing w
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
In this market, I tend to think of options as incentives, and not as replacements for salary. Salary gets me in the door and work hard, great people and culture make me want to be there and evangelize, and options incentivize me to work my
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Also, "where you're at" is poor grammar. You could simply say "where you are." In general, you should probably avoid contractions (say "you are" instead of "you're"). Good luck!
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I've stopped saying "It works for me," because if it worked for you, you wouldn't be complaining about it. It therefore behooves me to accept your statement at face value and see if we can determine why it is not working
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- Hearing aids - Battery life SUCKS. Someone please make hearing aids that run off body heat (or whose batteries are at least augmented by body heat). Changing batteries is expensive and annoying, especially if it dies while you're far
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Agreed 100%. In my experience, barring servers falling over, everything can wait until tomorrow (or Monday). If you send me an email at 5:15pm, then you can reasonably expect a response tomorrow morning before noon. If you give me a task
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by Jemaclus 11y ago
Indeed, I'd agree with both of you in that I can do a large number of other tasks off the top of my head, but not Tic-Tac-Toe, even though given a fair bit of time to do that "coercing", it's not extremely difficult. How

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